Watching it with wife and son. Havenāt seen it in 20 years. Read books as kid.
Only 45 minutes in and we could barely make ourselves stop (bed time).
That said, I never bothered to finish the 3rd book and I donāt remember the 3rd movie. Turned into a typical war film/book from what I recall. Little interest to me.
I hope my memory is wrong.
Turned into a typical war film/book from what I recall. Little interest to me.
What? Iām honestly doubting you ever read Tolkien at all.
But Lord of the rings is a modern movie?
To me, modern says more about the techniques and methods used. In that respect, not much has changed even though 25 years has passed. Even stylistically it is more similar to a current film than one filmed 25 years before its release, i.e. mid 1970s. As someone else said, contemporary is a better word for describing its age than modern.
Tbh you could argue the techniques created for the lotr films set the standard for the current era of filmmaking
I mean it was filmed 25 years ago, I guess it depends on your definition of āmodernā
Iād say most of the time itās an age thing the younger we are the easier impressed/amazed we are. growing older makes us sometimes cynical sometimes overloaded with imagery. The more youāve seen the harder it gets to be impressed by stuff, cause you have seen so much. And we keep fond memories of the things we liked as kids and teenagers.
Thatās also why it feels like the older you are the faster time passes. Life gets monotonous for you so all the days just blend in together and time feels like itās flying. Youāve seen a lot youāve done a lot and stuff just sorta stops being as impressive as it was when you were a child.
Oh yeah, when youāre younger thereās so many firsts: first day of school, first crush, first kiss, first bf/gf, first dance, etc etc etcā¦ the older you get, the fewer and further these benchmarks get. Still stuff like marriage, kids, career moves, house (lol maybe), but most of the time you grind work and fall deep into a routine.
Gotta keep shaking it up with travel and trying new things so itās not a hot boring blur. Iām hitting mid 30ās but I swear I was mid 20ās like a minute ago.
āModern moviesā
This is how I felt when I tried to watch Rogue One. Itās part of one of my favorite franchises yet it is also an entire feature length film without one single character in it who I give a shit about.
Itās maddening.
Thatās why it was so great. It wasnāt about the hero punching people in the face whilst an army of troopers consistently fail to shoot them, or destiny babies failing upwards towards success.
This was a movie about normal people. Nameless people who were all parts of a whole, an orchestra of concerted effort to overcome the insurmountable. Some of them were in it for the ideal, but most of them were just in it to keep the person next to them alive. No one will sing their praises, and they donāt expect anyone to, as none of them expected to see the light of day.
It was one of the most humanist movies Iāve seen in a long time, universe be damned.
Rogue One was better than most of the drivel Disney has put out. Thank god there were finally some new characters. anitnal revolves around the same 3 fucking families.
I donāt know but it looks weird and I know vaguely what they meant so Iām okay using this as shorthand from now on, and we really need new words.
In favor/opposed?
Oddly? I gave more of a shit about most of the characters in rogue one than all the characters in the sequels combined.
I wasnāt a huge fan of the sequels either lol the first one was ok but after that they were pretty awful. I at least felt like I kind of knew the characters by the end though