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It is not our fight (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/lotrmemes@midwest.social
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(This one seems a little familiar, but I can't recall if I've seen it here. Sorry if repost)

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[–] 108 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I have been rewatching some franchise media that got bad receptions (new star trek movies, matrix reloaded, The Phantom Menace) and I have been feeling a lot more charitable to these works than I was the first time.

In this spirit I watched The Hobbit again and it is truly awful.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I seem to recall there being a pretty good fan edit that condensed it down into one long movie and cut out all the unnecessary love triangle stuff.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can wouch for this one. Very well done. I wish they cut out more Alfrid time though.

    Alfrid makes me understand why people hate Jar Jar so much.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    You like Jar Jar?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Like is a strong word I think. I don't mind him. But I was a kid when Phantom Menace came out, I didn't really fully experience the original trilogy before I saw it. So that's why - for a kid it's a fun goofy comic relief. So might have liked him back then, which moved my tolerance for him in adulthood. Didn't see the movie in years though.

    LotR is sacred to me on a similar level like the SW original trilogy was sacred to the die hard SW fans back then, probably. I can't say I hated the Hobbit movies (though they are clearly inferior - the edit really saved them), but I hate Alfrid with everlasting passion.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is this the same edit made by Tolkien Editor or is it another cut?

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  • [+] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Reloaded was well liked. Revolutions was widely panned. I also rewatched them both recently (all four plus the Animatrix in order, actually) and I found that I liked them more on rewatch, a couple decades later, than I did initially.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I recommend giving the X Man Series another try. I recently did and it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. The original timeline just feel like perfect cheap action movies from the 2000s. Brought me back to my childhood. Same with the "Unbreakable Trilogy"

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