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What is your unpopular flim opinion (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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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[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com -2 points 10 months ago

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 :-)

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

You seem to be confusing the two trilogies, I don't think many LOTR fans will defend The Hobbit movies for anything but the performances. Also with regards to "it's all too American," the LOTR films were written and directed by a New Zealander based on a story by a Brit

[-] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not only that, but looking at the cast, it looks like LOTR is New Zealanders, Australians, or Brits.

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_the_Lord_of_the_Rings_film_trilogy_characters_and_cast_members

I mean, if there was a single internationally-popular movie or series that you could choose to take issue with as being "too American", this doesn't seem like it'd be the one I'd choose.

[-] ofk12@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

For American audiences though, that's where the money is. And who produced it too. Not saying you're wrong, just to anyone outside the US it has the feel of it.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

and who produced it too

From Wikipedia:

Produced by

Barrie M. Osborne (United States) Peter Jackson (New Zealand) Fran Walsh (New Zealand) Tim Sanders (New Zealand)

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 10 months ago

I didn't say it was an American movie, just that it is "too American". Too dumbed down. Too "bad person bad, because ugly", "good person good looking and will win", graphic battles etc.

[-] ofk12@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 10 months ago

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

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