Quote (tommyd323 @ Apr 26 2019 12:57am)
Must not have liked Lord of the Rings
The LotR movie trilogy is an odd case.
It's illogical to criticize the story for being "stereotypical" given that it is the source of many of those stereotypes. But if you disregard the source material and judge the movies as their own entity by 2001 standards, then the story and characters were completely bland.
Now, if you look them in a different framework, the production of the movie (the budget and the effort put into the sets/costumes) was actually a cinematic triumph. It did those things better than they had been previously been done.
LotR movies performing well is kinda like the Golden State Warriors winning championships. You better do something great if you are going to adapt a source material with an established following and back it with a huge budget. No one can deny their accomplishments. But it's less impressive than that one year Lebron won in the middle of their run.
This post was edited by Kayeto on Apr 26 2019 12:49am