Bizar to think a movie thats 23 years old is still being talked about on a regular basis to this day

i like the change in faramir. he had lived in the shadow of boromir who was crazy about getting his hands on the ring, so it makes sense that faramir would want it too, if only to be a little more like his brother and maybe have their father like him a little for once

Rey's movie will solve all these problems 😂

You made the last jedi sound like the most Lucas like movie of the sequels than the other 2 and now I'm questioning my existence lmao

He wasn't on the list because people voted for ones with redeemable qualities. Ones they swooned over. Palps was too evil for a list of villains. There's a reason the HISHE crew made him the leader of all movie villains.

Thank you for taking the time to put this together, throughly enjoyed every bit! Just wanted to say that, and that God loves you/everyone here very much. He sent His Only Son Jesus to die on a cross and rise again for us, because the Bible teaches that we're all sinners who have broken His Laws (the Ten Commandments) that we deserve hell as eternal punishment, but if we repent of our sins and surrender to Jesus Lordship, we will be saved and forever forgiven!

3:10 is one of my favourite moments from the films. So poignant when you imagine these are the same sort of words of comfort men would tell one another whilst in the trenches of Europe. A vision of heaven, or at least of a life without war.

While Frodo was indeed beyond heroic to the story, Sam was the true hero. Always was, always will be.

Well done 👍

I suffered through the first one sort of of the sequels - hard not to look at your phone but i wasn't in a theatre. I had to stop your video because 1) I don't want to know what happens in sequels 2+ 3 + everything you said about the first one is spot on and you could feel it when watching it. I get that Lucas's stuff in the prequels could be criticized(and i think alot of those criticisms are valid and they aren't as good as the originals with the best being episode 1 i think even with jar jar), but yes, they pushed way too hard in the other direction and the result is for sure what you get in the first one. It was enough i don't really want to watch the rest. I wasn't aware that lucas wasn't involved, but it makes perfect sense he wasn't when you look at what came out.

Love this video.

There should be no complaints about Peter Jackson's adaptation of LOTR. It is fantastically done. The Hobbit, on the other hand, doesn't get enough ridicule.

Am I the only one that likes the politics of the prequel’s? Politics is the summarization of experiences that develop reason. It’s cool seeing the galaxy fall apart and be able to puzzle it together. Than just “here’s and empire who took over the galaxy” Yea but why? It allows more empathy/ dislike of certain characters knowing why they do things they do.

JJ got Star Trek and turned it into Star Wars, then ditched that to get the actual job of making Star Wars. In the process he made bad Star treks, bad Star Wars, while somehow making Star treks that are better Star Warses than his Star Wars’ses are.

Hehehehehehehe GOOOOOOOOOOD 👹😈 stand with Palpatine 😂 the empire was right 😈

I would gladly dedicate my life to erasing the sequels/remaking the sequels

Coincidentally I was watching extended Return of the King tonight and thinking "why are they putting Tom Bombadil scenes in Gangorn forest?". And just a few days ago I commented on a video saying I wish they left out nonsense like Arwen appearing at Weather top and Legolas climbing Oliphaunts and used the time to put in The Scouring of the Shire which is a critical part of the story IMO

The only major grievance I have is Merry telling Pippin how the ents came to be, via "something in the water," like, c'mon. But other than that I don't think anyone could have gotten a better version of the movie than Jackson

The same weakness - showing that Aragorn can acknowledge his own demons even fear them, that is kingly.

the biggest things that were lost to me personally was Theoden (reduced to rambling rotten oldman, instead of an annoyed and depressed one, Denethor - reduced to a blabbering suicidal fool on fire, instead of a powerful and tragic figure.. and the whole of the Pellenor battle, where the 'dead' cheat-killed everyone reducing the heroism of all other parties that overcame overwhelming odds by themselves.. to senseless nothing winning only due to instakill plotarmor.) All of that was lost in the movies. Still, they are a masterpiece. (Especially the first move, directors cut)

I always liked Jar-Jar. Now finally the world is starting to appreciate him too.

where did Lucas move on to?

Lucas directed 1 great Star Wars movie, 1 good Star Wars movie, didn't direct the best Star Wars movie and direct 3 bad Star Wars movies. Lucas is NOT Star Wars.

Prequels are good, fight me

Shoutout to JJ Abrams for bridging the nerd gap and ruining both Star Wars and Star Trek

It never feels like Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings is about philology.

This is one of my favorite KZbin videos. Thank. You!

The force awakens wasn’t that bad. What came after was unspeakable 🤦

One of my favorite quotes in the trilogy by far is Sams message to Frodo in 2 Towers, "That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.", I adapted the quote to read, "Theres a lot of good left in the world, and its worth fighting for", and made 2 shirts with the quote on them, gave the spare to my Step father who introduced me to the films as a kid.

I think the most important thing they got right was Hobbiton and the Shire. It FEELs absolutely right. The moment I knew I was in safe hands for this adaptation was the moment between Gandalf and Bilbo smoking and Gandalf blows the ship of smoke through Bilbo's smoke ring.

I never really understood the racist thing. Ahim what black person talks like JarJar? But more importantly the spitting thing they do. What black person does that? Also but only 1 black I've heard make this case. The stupid ass black man argument. But really? Do people think blacks are that dopy? What? Why?

One can not fully adapt such epic to a movie without changing stuff. Main reason for that is the story's pace itself. Like in the books, the first part starts at a slower pace, but once you're in book 2 / part 2, things accelerate a lot. Once you're in book 3 / part 3, there's a lot of stuff happening at the same time. I've read the books and do it every second year or so, but I also like Jackson's movies (well LotR, the Hobbit has lost some of its spirit), because it's the closest thing of a faithful adaption we can get. Sure, we could include the Scouring of the Shire, but I would consider it just an extended epilogue, instead of part of the whole thing. Perhaps Tolkien wanted to show us two things here: evil comes in all sizes and forms, and destroying the Shire is based un sheer pettyness of Saruman, while Sauron operated on a grand scale for his plans. And no matter how peaceful your part in the world may appear, war and evil will find their way and destroy it. Jackson took away that lesson, yes, but not without adding a different one here: despite all the deeds they have done, when Frodo & co return to their home, everyone is oblivious of the War of the Rings. To them they're just odd, adventerous Hobbits, like Bilbo. Unnatural. Not like any normal Hobbit. And it's the very idea why Frodo needs to move on, as he doesn't feel like he belongs to the Shire anymore. It also shows on the faces of the other Hobbits, but they do react differently. Sam finally has the guts to talk to Rosie. And from the books I know he'll be Mayor of the Shire one day, while Pippin and Merry became leading figures of their families until they moved back to Gondor (Pippin) and Rohan (Merry). One thing I did not miss, is Tom Bombadil. As you said in the clip, it's a detour from the main story. While Tom does contribute some important lore (like why he's not affected by the Ring), it's more or less a silly sequence in an otherwise serious book. That part simply feels closer to something straight from "The Hobbit" and would not have worked in the movies. Overall I think it's next to impossible to ever adapt Lord of the Rings another time without either being a homage to Jackson's adaption, or without being worse in every aspect. I think it was Christopher Lee who knew Tolkien in person and who also read the books every year, so Jackson had an expert on set. I'm sure the reason why his adaption works is because not only did Jackson tried to take as much lore from the books as possible into the movies, but he also TRIED to understand all of that. Rings of Power don't work because the makers don't even try to understand the lore. They take a lot of queues from all of Tolkiens books - but they're blind people talking about color. They have no idea how to properly use what they have to make a decent series. It's just sad.

What I love about Luke is that, even if it is said more than once that the emperor sees him as a potential threat if not taken care of (so in a way he is the destined hero), he's always focused on other goals : "I have to save my friends", "I have to avoid being killed" "i have to become a good jedi" "I have to face my father and try to save him from the dark side". He never considers himself as the great hero who saved the galaxy of the only one who can save the world. Most of the time the Rebellion lets him do his jedi stuff while they focus on their combat. He keeps to himself and does what he feels he sould do.

It also helps that the movie opens with a paragraph of text explaining everything but sure

The first trilogy was framed on Joseph Campbell’s mono myth. Man of a Thousand Faces. Like all mythical stories from antiquity. It followed a familiar pattern that makes people feel like they’re in the story. We connect almost at the level of soul. Disney just turned them into standard action films and that gets boring very fast. They didn’t see the mono myth pattern nor did they follow it.

I feel like Faramirs arc works well in redeeming himself and Boromir in a way. He was stronger than his brother and finally became his own man

Laugh now, but people of the future will see Binks as a religious figure.

What Christopher never came to terms is that to make a successful mainstream film, you have to make some minor concessions. The core message still got out there. The passion was still behind that, and that's why those films still endure to this day. Not because they were the first. But because you could tell everyone involved actually cared. RoP is obviously a much less refined product, with much more of an agenda of its own which dilutes it into something barely resembling Tolkien. And that's the difference.

Technically Disney CAN bring Luke back and say he didn't really die yet. Phased in the inner caves or something in the force sanctuary he was at. They stretched out the writing so bad, they can stretch it out a little further to fix it

wtf why did george’s speech at the end actually have me tearing up. that was super powerful

wtf why did george’s speech at the end actually have me tearing up. that was super powerful

Anyone who thinks that the LOTR trilogy was not a good adaptation is just dead in the head

Aside from writing dialog, George Lucas is actually a director of many great talents. If only he had someone rewrite the dialog lines from his story outline for him.

The perfect King wouldn't want to be king, they'd see it as a burden and only accept it so they could do good.

Regarding Faramir's change in attitude towards the ring in the film; it was either Fran or Philipa who said that him dismissing the Ring out of hand would've robbed it of all it's agency and lustful draw that had been built up to that point. Numerous characters had explicitly said no one can resist or control the influence of the Ring. This is a big part of what makes Frodo unique and essential to the quest.

The way I see it, things were changed in the LOTR trilogy so the viewer didn't need 10 hours of exposition on screen to explain this that and the other. Rings of Power was changed dramatically to subvert expectations the Rian Johnson way and to tick every ridiculous diversity checkbox known to man, the Amazon pandering studio's way. There is a huge difference.

Anti - Fan Movie

bro dropped a hard ass edit at the end

0:51 Perfect.

5 and 8 are speaking to me