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[–] I_Has_A_Hat 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Exec 1: "What did people like about Lord of the Rings? Can we capitalize on it?"

Exec 2: "Well, people seemed to really like meming this Gollum character, so that was probably the big draw and the reason everyone liked the films"

Exec 1: "PERFECT! We'll make a product entirely around this one character. Everyone is sure to buy it!"

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

This is a post about some new movie...why are you referencing that God awful gollum game they released a while back?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am forever mystified by the internets inability to link simple concepts together.

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

It's a human thing... pattern recognition is one of our strong suits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Re-read my comment and re-think your own.

[–] Alexstarfire 19 points 7 months ago

They really need to stop.

[–] Nosavingthrow 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now this looks like a nice piece of shit.

[–] Pronell 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can't be based on the books so it's probably the based on the game, LOTR: Gollum.

[–] morphballganon 10 points 7 months ago

I'm guessing they took Gandalf's line "I looked everywhere for the creature Gollum, but the enemy found him first" and are extrapolating that into a 3-hour movie.

[–] MrNesser 11 points 7 months ago

Just let it go already

[–] Lemming421 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Producer: “Gareth Edwards made an amazing original sci-fi film for £79m, everyone complains about Hollywood being nothing but sequels, prequels, reboots and remakes. What have you got for me?

Screenwriter: “Let’s make another Lord of the Rings”

Producer: “You’re a genius!”

Me: *headdesk

[–] Psaldorn 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I could dig some more middle earth.

But a prequel about a character I know the ending of? How do they not understand that kneecaps a lot of the tension and desire to watch?

Show me numenorians or the beginning of the world. Not a bit in between two other movies..

[–] wildcardology 2 points 7 months ago

I tried to read The Silmarillion but couldn't really get into it. So lores in movie or tv show forms is most welcome for me.

[–] jordanlund 1 points 7 months ago

Is it a prequel though? Based on the title, it sounds more like what happened between the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

[–] jordanlund 3 points 7 months ago

This "amazing original sci-fi film"?

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_creator_2023

"There is the slightly conspiratorial sense that the team behind this trip down movie-memory lane simply fed the scripts of various canonized sci-fi epics into an AI program and waited to see what sort of composite it spit out."

Which would be on brand for Gareth Edwards:

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movies/rogue-ones-editors-reveal-scenes-added-in-the-star-wars-standalone-reshoots-exclusive-110124381.html

"Colin Goudie: I’d worked with Gareth [Edwards] previously. I cut his movie ‘Monsters’ so we’d already got a relationship and I’d actually done a couple of projects with him before that as well. So he got me on board in September of 2014 and asked me to do a story reel for ‘Rogue One’.

There was no screenplay, there was just a story breakdown at that point, scene by scene. He got me to rip hundreds of movies and basically make ‘Rogue One’ using other films so that they could work out how much dialogue they actually needed in the film.

It’s very simple to have a line [in the script] that reads “Krennic’s shuttle descends to the planet”, now that takes maybe 2-3 seconds in other films, but if you look at any other ‘Star Wars’ film you realise that takes 45 seconds or a minute of screen time. So by making the whole film that way – I used a lot of the ‘Star Wars’ films – but also hundreds of other films too, it gave us a good idea of the timing.

For example the sequence of them breaking into the vault I was ripping the big door closing in ‘Wargames’ to work out how long does a vault door take to close.

So that’s what I did and that was three months work to do that and that had captions at the bottom which explained the action that was going to be taking place, and two thirds of the screen was filled with the concept art that had already been done and one quarter, the bottom corner, was the little movie clip to give you how long that scene would actually take.

Then I used dialogue from other movies to give you a sense of how long it would take in other films for someone to be interrogated. So for instance, when Jyn gets interrogated at the beginning of the film by the Rebel council, I used the scene where Ripley gets interrogated in ‘Aliens’.

So you get an idea of what movies usually do."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Eh, I'm gonna be calling it "Good Gollum Hunting"

[–] morphballganon 5 points 7 months ago

The amount of Gollum we got in Fellowship of the Ring and An Unexpected Journey was the right amount. The amount we got in The Two Towers and Return of the King was a bit much.

Hopefully the new movie is more Hunt and less Gollum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I absolutely hate it

[–] Beetschnapps 3 points 7 months ago

Worked for video games…

[–] jordanlund 1 points 7 months ago