Before you get mad at me, when was the last time you watched it?
- Dialogue is mediocre
- story left me indifferent
- characters are one dimensional
- there are no surprises
- the world is cool tho
- and my god are they crying a lot while carrying that MF to that Volcano 🌋
The best thing I can say about this movie trilogy is that it is kinda comfy
Yeh it was the audiobooks that I tries out, I gave it a good 10 hours or so, so I think I gave it a fair go but fuck me the singing was like nails on a chalk board for me.
I started skipping through the songs after the first couple but then as time went on I realised just how often it was going to happen and I couldn’t stand it.
I thought I was getting into an epic fantasy adventure and instead I got a wanky musical about walking!
There is a lot of it in the beginning. It is an epic adventure though.
That’s how medieval people perceived their epic fantasy adventures. It’s correct. And authentic. And very cool, when you think about the distances they went, the scenery they saw and that they had no Google Maps, GPS and mobile phones for connectivity. It’s between a very long hiking trip and a one-way ticket sleeper ship to Alpha Centauri.
BTW, another wrong thing from the movies - it feels there as if it all were happening in one world. As if they had regular trains between Minas Tirith and Fornost. As if they had TV. I dunno, something like that, because they behave there as if immune to distractions, one can imagine that in Forgotten Realms setting, where magic does everything that mobile phones and GPS can do, and “adventurers” roam everywhere, but not in Middle-Earth.