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She looks like Winston from Jackie Brown in a bad wig and with about a hundred extra pounds.
Thread: Amazon's LOTR Series Name - "Rings of Power"
I made it to the 10 second mark in that video.
Calcium
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Yep, I saw the main Lord of the Rings subreddit dragging it yesterday. Of course you have the occasional SJW keyboard warrior popping up, but for the most part they hate this shit.
I sincerely hope the dipshit that organized that video gets fired. I sincerely doubt any of those people have read a Tolkien book, let alone being "superfans".
DiVeRsItY!
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Whats the point of that video? Is it to show that diverse people approve and if you don't your a white supremacist?
I thought the pendulum was supposed to swing back but it seems worse than ever!
I thought the pendulum was supposed to swing back but it seems worse than ever!
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i swear these goombas/koopa troopas always come up with the weirdest biggest words in the dictionary like who has even heard the word chauvinism or latinx until they started saying it? I also find it really funny this goombas twitter is in lockdown mode.Oy vey. As if you needed more reasons to think this series will suck balls:
All you have to know about New LOTR TV series producer:
As it turned out, Amazon fired Thomas Alan Shippey. English professor of literature, philology and writer. He worked and taught at Oxford, Leeds and St. Louis Universities, where he studied medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy. He is one of the most authoritative researchers of Tolkien's work on the planet. Mariana Rios Maldonado was chosen to take his place as Tolkien's "chief consultant". Not at all a specialist in Tolkien's work, but a student at the University of Glasgow where she writes a doctoral thesis on "Ethics, Femininity and other issues in the stories of J.R.R. Middle-earth". Tolkien". She also serves as overseer of the Diversity and Equality student committee. She publicly states that she considers Tolkien's works "problematic", that they glorify racial inequality, sexism and chauvinism. And his works are loved by people adhering to neo-fascist views. She considers herself morally and intellectually superior to Tolkien, and therefore works tirelessly to turn the Myths of Arda into a modern, adapted and corrected version that will appeal to everyone.
Her twitter: https://twitter.com/MarianaRiosMal1
Calcium
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People keep saying the pendulum will swing back, but as slow as that fucker is moving they'll destroy every major franchise before we get there.
lock2k
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It won't swing back. We're doomed.
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Ironically the only thing I can think of that hasn't been horrible tainted is Nintendo despite some minor woke consesions, they remain same as ever
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Good Lord. I only watched a supercut of that video on Nerdrotic's coverage and I was already gagging at how cringy it is.
Tolkien was a one of kind literary talent who deserves serious analysis from literary experts! Not some fucking SJWs looking for feminism and LGTBQ representation in his work! Fuck you Amazon.
GreyHorace
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Nintendo is helmed by old Japanese men who used to work with the Yakuza. That makes them automatically based and wouldn't give a fuck about social justice.
Bit of a bump, but I saw this dude's video on my Youtube Feed, and he is so on point with what he is saying about how Amazon is mishandling things.
We need more of this, actual PoC calling out this BS for what it is and the reasons why.
We need more of this, actual PoC calling out this BS for what it is and the reasons why.
The trailer video on the Amazon Prime YT channel now has over 1.5 million dislikes and a mere 112k likes. Whoof.
Calcium
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Bots. From Russia. All of them.
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But of course. Tolkien fandom is one of the most rabid and nitpicky fanbases on the planet. They don't give a fuck if you call them racist/sexist/transphobe whatever. Dare to desecrate the Professor's work and you will feel their wrath.
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You can view the dislikes using this addon to Firefox:
Return YouTube Dislike
An extension that returns dislike statistics to YouTube using a combination of scraped dislike stats and estimates extrapolated from extension user data.
cryptoadam
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NGL, he might be nutty as a fruitcake but I love that track and the actual video is pretty dope.
cryptoadam
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No doubt song is a banger.
Everytime i see this thread thats all that pops in my head lol. And the video does have this lord of the rings if it was black kind of feeling....
Grisham
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lock2k
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Rangs of Powah, dolla dolla bill yall
Calcium
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Nothing in the teaser looked like it had that kind of money behind it. The hell did they spend all the money on? Overpaying the mandatory diverse hires behind the scenes? 3 million dollar catering, but it's a minority owned business. Huzzah.
The rights alone to make a series set with the Tolkien IP set them back 250 Million.
They'd honestly have been better off making their own original IP for way less money because no one likes what they are seeing outside of Amazon Studios Diversity Team. It's going to be an absolute shitshow.
And, of course, they'll have the wrong takeaway when it fails.
^ These are the two numbnuts responsible
6 Things To Know About the Writers of Amazon's Lord of the Rings Series
JD Payne and Patrick McKay are running the show, but you probably haven't heard of them. Here's what we found out - and what it could mean for the series.
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Look at their Quality CV to date:
It's going to be glorious
Calcium
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I love it when all this money is thrown at a project, but they hire fucking nobodies to write or be a showrunner.
JJ Abrams's entire career has basically been Mystery Box + Remix with a twist + Memberberries and Studios have fallen over themselves to get him to make his derivative knock offs with reckless abandon.
So is that $57M per episode figure basically saying ($250M for licensing / Total number of episodes) + $XM per episode of actual filming = $57M per episode?
Because that's an annoying way to word it. Can't wait for the shitshow to go down in flames, though lol
Because that's an annoying way to word it. Can't wait for the shitshow to go down in flames, though lol
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September can't get soon enough. This deserves to be shit on like Wheel of Time.
Trailers often come out way ahead of time before serious polished vfx work is finished. Usually they have their own separate schedule and it's just a shite fight to get it done in time when the pipeline is still in flux and rigs and models are still being developed. Then comp have to mash together the elements. I've worked on shows where shots shown in the trailer had a completely different look in the final film.
Havjng said all that, it doesn't mean this won't look terrible, just the trailer is not necessarily an indication.
Very curious about the reception of that series. Looks like an absolute trainwreck, but at this point in time, I'm not confident in predicting anything tbh.
Let the shilling commence
For shame Sean, for shame.
For shame Sean, for shame.
All the more satisfying to watch it slowly sink into the lava.