Mentions (19)
"We need to show men more examples of positive masculinity like lord of the rings, look, they're crying! Aragorn is so cool :)"
"Been watching the extended trilogy on Blu-ray and it's really incredible how much of those movies are living and breathing, only using CGI when nessesary, or to supplant exisiting sets. It's a really perfect mix of the two. Now the entire trilogy costs less than 1 generic movie that Amazon makes and"
"yeah our company is named after the evil powerful weapon from lord of the rings and we do "mass data analysis" and we're run by peter thiel."
"I just heard one of my male coworkers say to another guy 'bro you look like golem from lord of the rings'. If a woman or a man casually said to me 'yo, you look like an unfuckable, pale, impish freak' I would cry and dwell on that every night for the rest of my life"
"I forget why he said the engagement didn't work out but I do remember that he told me in Ukraine there was a dude whos nickname was Golum and he asked him if he knew of Lord of the rings but he didn't, and he showed this dude a replica of the ring that his dad had got him as a present and he held it"
"I saw four legit orcs from lord of the rings looking monsters get off their electric bikes by a lake with a beautiful view and pull out bags of processed food and they were LITTERING in a national park"
""I also liked doing nerdy stuff like reading lord of the rings so other than that high school was pretty quiet" And he just talked to me about Lord of the Rings for an hour or so."
"Why these niggas keep singing? Is this how it was in the lord of the rings times?"
"Rings of Power S1, Budget $465 mil. The first LotR film's budget was 93. Looks like a student film costumed by etsy, the economy is gonna go tits up soon."
"So I recently watched the first episode of the Amazon LotR series. Had low expectations, but was really just blown away by the laziness of the writing. Toward the end of the episode (spoilers) there's an absolutely inexplicable scene in which one of the main characters (girlboss warrior elf Galadrie"
"All of them spoke with this artificial dwarvish inflection that was clearly inspired by Gimli in the LOTR movies. The word 'dwarf' always had an especially rehearsed pronounciation."
"Don't give me ass about how I would prefer to watch Lord of the Rings than this."
"I just saw an Amazon tweet about Lord of the Rings talking about how they're going to do very exciting things with the 'IP'. I've also seen it elsewhere with Marvel fans talking about the Spiderman IP because of its complications with Sony and Disney both owning a share of the pie. Future projects a"
"Like idk I LOVE wicked but I feel like it got made during the worst times for movies 😭😭 it should've been made during the LOTR/Harry Potter times."
"every new bit of slop they churn out has like a trillion dollar budget and spirit halloween costumes. tv shows are especailly bad but movies arent much better - new lord of the rings was the worst example i think."
"Amazon is spending over a billion dollars for their Lord of The Rings series and it looks like every other Netflix/Marvel TV show. This is just how things are going to look now isn't it?"
"Don't give me ass about how I would prefer to watch Lord of the Rings than this"
"When Lord of the Rings is preferred over Goethe in this sub"
"These last 2 films have had the through-line that no one should have the world controlling power of 'the entity,' so much so that when the Grace character suggests Ethan Hunt is the only one who could be trusted with it, I assumed it was some Boromir Lord of the Rings corruption plot. Then the film "