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But Lord of the rings is a modern movie?

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I think by modern, they mean post-2010

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Is a movie that came out 23 years ago still modern?

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229 points

Hey, fuck you

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The perfect comment doesn’t exi…

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We’ve got a turd in the punch bowl

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Yes, the word we are searching for is contemporary. Technically all films are modern, but not contemporary. Though modern has expanded definition to include it generally as well but I like to explore language :)

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I guess it’s time for me to find a nice, cool porch to die under.

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It came out after ~1800, so yes.

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I saw it on the classic movie channel yesterday.

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I mean it was filmed 25 years ago, I guess it depends on your definition of ‘modern’

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Made in the current millennium.

Oh fuck.

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Quarter of a century ago

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Filmed 25 years ago

I don’t want to believe this…

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Can confirm. I was an extra in these movies and now I’m on first name terms with all the local osteopaths.

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What do you mean? Of course it isn’t a modern movie, it was filmed during the Third Age.

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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.

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Tbh you could argue the techniques created for the lotr films set the standard for the current era of filmmaking

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Props and makeup instead of full cgi?

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This is how I felt when I tried to watch Rogue One. It’s 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.

It’s maddening.

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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.

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I actually did enjoy Andor a lot. That was why I tried watching Rogue One again, since I thought I might like it better with the added context, but I still just got bored

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Moana is also really good

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anitnal

What was this supposed to say? I can’t figure it out.

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And it all maybe?

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I don’t know but it looks weird and I know vaguely what they meant so I’m okay using this as shorthand from now on, and we really need new words.

In favor/opposed?

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Doesn’t help that you know all the characters die in the end

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That’s why it was so great. It wasn’t 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 don’t expect anyone to, as none of them expected to see the light of day.

It was one of the most humanist movies I’ve seen in a long time, universe be damned.

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Oddly? I gave more of a shit about most of the characters in rogue one than all the characters in the sequels combined.

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I wasn’t 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

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I felt like the first one wasn’t impressive, but suggested at least some sort of plan. I felt like there were characters to get to know?

And then there weren’t.

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Howard Shore is the answer

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This is an answer I’m not seeing here enough. The score for LotR just FORCES you to feel the feelings. Don’t wanna be happy? Too bad, we’re in the Shire bitch.

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Don’t want to experience evil metalworking industry? Welcome to Orthanc, maggot, we makin’ swords today.

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Good acting.

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good writing. :|

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And good acting.

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And good direction.

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and good screenplay.

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Cinematography was sick too. Really set the mood for a warm happy place.

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