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I'll go first. Mine is that I can't stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It's like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I don't like the lord of the rings series.

It's not bad bad but with that budget, actors etc it could have been so much better :-/

The hobbit: kind of the same feeling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

What would you have changed from the movies as they were?

I mean, I can't think of that many deviations from the books off-the-top-of-my-head. Tom Bombadil got cut, but he had a very different flavor from most of the rest of the series. Legolas "shield surfing" was an addition to the movies and was kind of obnoxious, IMHO, but it wasn't that much of an ongoing thing. There were some changes around Aragorn going through the Paths of the Dead, but nothing there really bugged me.

EDIT: I'm pretty sure that nothing in the books said that the charge of the reinforcements at Helm's Deep was down that steep of a slope -- that's probably just not practical.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Just the beginning with the party, with dwarves in a sort of dance-cleaning party was absurd IMO.

They're there to fight or die, only Gandalf (IIRC) managed them to even consider taking a hobbit with them. It should have been grim, but with a take making it possible, not a song and dance performance.

In all it's too "American" (IMO) ; simplistic plot with easy to understand graphic battles. Then Win!

I also hated the painful play of Frodon and Sam, like some sort of painful master/slave idiocy. Not naming a totally overplayed Gollum.

Well well, I remember the end of the Hobbit was plaisant, and it was a long time ago I saw them so maybe I should rewatch them :-)

[–] ofk12 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Frodo/Sam dynamic comes from Tolkien's experiences in WW1. A fair example of this dynamic would be the Blackadder/Baldrick dynamic in Blackadder Goes Forth.

Apparently it was a thing where higher class soldiers had a bloke supporting him. Not sure if it was solely based on rank or social status

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, bug the book isn't cringy like that though.

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