Well, it’s Magic ✨
Howard Shore is the answer
This is an answer I’m not seeing here enough. The score for LotR just FORCES you to feel the feelings. Don’t wanna be happy? Too bad, we’re in the Shire bitch.
Don’t want to experience evil metalworking industry? Welcome to Orthanc, maggot, we makin’ swords today.
One thing LotR does very well: lets men show emotions that aren’t anger. Frodo smiles, shouts Gandalf’s name excitedly, cracks a joke with him, and gives him a hug. That’s how you know they’re old friends.
Yeah, if made in last 10 years, they might have turned Aragorn into some kind of Conan the Barbarian ripoff. Not necessarily, for example, RDJ’s Iron Man has a lot of complex emotions and nice arc. But, they could. I mean, look at Galadriel in Rings of Power.
look at Galadriel in Rings of Power
I’d rather not.
Iron man came out it 2008!
By “Rings of Power” you mean the tumblr fanfic that Amazon decided to adapt? I’d rather not.
Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone.
Of course you are. And I’m coming with you!It always makes me tear up. Fantastic films.
Conversely, the worst film I’ve seen in recent years must be the third(?) fantastic beasts film. I still have no clue what actually happened or what it was trying to tell. It was such a jumbled mess, and them changing out the actor of the main villain for the third time didn’t help much.
I can only tell if men are friends if they share a bicep-flexed hand clasp.
You son of a bitch! 🤝💪
They need to shoulder bump too, otherwise they could just be former colleagues or perhaps two men who met for the first time yesterday.
Maybe an ass-tap just to be certain. A chest smooch couldn’t hurt either.
And a solemn nod that sums up everything they both experienced in the 10 years since they last saw each other.
“My man.” “My man.” (In unison) “Hurrah”
“What are we doing today?”
“We’re going hunting. Because we’re men. Because we like to do it. Stop being a bitch”
good writing. :|
And good acting.
And good direction.
and good screenplay.
And my axe
You know what pals, I think it might just have been a good movie
But how did they do it?
A cast and crew all sharing the same vision and camraderie often translates well to the screen. People just sense it
Cinematography was sick too. Really set the mood for a warm happy place.
Don’t forget the epic music!
This is how I felt when I tried to watch Rogue One. It’s part of one of my favorite franchises yet it is also an entire feature length film without one single character in it who I give a shit about.
It’s maddening.
Rogue One was better than most of the drivel Disney has put out. Thank god there were finally some new characters. anitnal revolves around the same 3 fucking families.
I actually did enjoy Andor a lot. That was why I tried watching Rogue One again, since I thought I might like it better with the added context, but I still just got bored
Moana is also really good
anitnal
What was this supposed to say? I can’t figure it out.
And it all maybe?
I don’t know but it looks weird and I know vaguely what they meant so I’m okay using this as shorthand from now on, and we really need new words.
In favor/opposed?
It didn’t obfuscate the meaning at all, I just like trying to decrypt typos.
Lemmy anitnal is full of Linux and Star Trek.
Neologism now, not typo.
Well, it’s not capitalized properly like the rest of the post, so there’s at least some typo in there.
Oh it wasnt a neologism when it was written. That’s our job, cmon.
Doesn’t help that you know all the characters die in the end
That’s why it was so great. It wasn’t about the hero punching people in the face whilst an army of troopers consistently fail to shoot them, or destiny babies failing upwards towards success.
This was a movie about normal people. Nameless people who were all parts of a whole, an orchestra of concerted effort to overcome the insurmountable. Some of them were in it for the ideal, but most of them were just in it to keep the person next to them alive. No one will sing their praises, and they don’t expect anyone to, as none of them expected to see the light of day.
It was one of the most humanist movies I’ve seen in a long time, universe be damned.
Oddly? I gave more of a shit about most of the characters in rogue one than all the characters in the sequels combined.
I wasn’t a huge fan of the sequels either lol the first one was ok but after that they were pretty awful. I at least felt like I kind of knew the characters by the end though
I felt like the first one wasn’t impressive, but suggested at least some sort of plan. I felt like there were characters to get to know?
And then there weren’t.
Yeah, we all miss that kind of film-making. LotR trilogy is one of a kind.
Why don’t they make more masterpieces for which so stars happened to align by skill, chance and good fortune?
Good acting.
“Modern movies”
Ancient Roman movies were better. Western society has collapsed.
I prefer clay etchings
They did a damn good job with Spartacus
“Contemporary” would have been better.
They’re all basically just talkies
It helps that Sir Ian McKellen is a huge teddy bear with a heart of gold and he would hug anyone that sincerely, whether he knew them or not.
But Lord of the rings is a modern movie?
I mean it was filmed 25 years ago, I guess it depends on your definition of ‘modern’
Filmed 25 years ago
I don’t want to believe this…
Quarter of a century ago
Can confirm. I was an extra in these movies and now I’m on first name terms with all the local osteopaths.
Made in the current millennium.
Oh fuck.
To me, modern says more about the techniques and methods used. In that respect, not much has changed even though 25 years has passed. Even stylistically it is more similar to a current film than one filmed 25 years before its release, i.e. mid 1970s. As someone else said, contemporary is a better word for describing its age than modern.
Tbh you could argue the techniques created for the lotr films set the standard for the current era of filmmaking
Props and makeup instead of full cgi?
Actually funnily enough the CGI is one of the biggest areas they innovated in, in addition to the great practical effects
Look up Peter Jackson’s Weta workshop & digital, a lot of the stuff that’s commonplace in cinema today has its origins there for the LotR films
What do you mean? Of course it isn’t a modern movie, it was filmed during the Third Age.
I think by modern, they mean post-2010
Is a movie that came out 23 years ago still modern?
It came out after ~1800, so yes.
We’ve got a turd in the punch bowl
Hey, fuck you
The perfect comment doesn’t exi…
…t a room without shouting "I‘ll remember y‘all in therapy!“
I guess it’s time for me to find a nice, cool porch to die under.
I saw it on the classic movie channel yesterday.
Yes, the word we are searching for is contemporary. Technically all films are modern, but not contemporary. Though modern has expanded definition to include it generally as well but I like to explore language :)
Gandalf’s actor really helps.
Sir Ian Mckellen is great, I love that him and Patrick Stewart and good friends as well.
But they’re the same guy
I really liked the part where he went
Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ia… YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian
Really spoke to me on an emotional level, you know?
the problem is that a lot of modern shows/movies spend 2 hours explaining a characters backstory before you give a shit. there’s also a lot of “tell, don’t show” going on
Execs thinking everyone’s as vacant as they are.
They’d rather have the protagonist run around screaming like a moron for 20 minutes for comedic effect instead instead of putting any effort into developing characters
a lot more care was taken with movie production in general in prior years than now and it shows
Eh, I think it’s more related to survivorship bias of the movies we remember. Most movies from decades ago were utter trash then too, we mostly remember the good ones while most of the rubbish fades away and is forgotten.
While it’s definitely a partial survivors bias, I can’t really name any recent movies that stand out as timeless classics. Avengers Onfinity War/Endgame was a massive point in time, but hardly something to watch endlessly even now. Star Wars is still clinging to movies made nearly 50 years ago. Spider man had a moment being the first post covid movie, but the film isn’t memorable. Kingsman has been a great revival of the spy movie genre, but it’s not masterpiece level. You could make a case for The Dark Knight, but it’s easily just as memorable due to Ledger’s death than the film’s quality.
Star Wars is still clinging to movies made nearly 50 years ago.
RotS was released in 2005.
Spider man had a moment being the first post covid movie […]
Spiderverse was released in 2018 and became an instant classic, influencing animated movies throughout the whole world.
Kingsman has been a great revival of the spy movie genre, but it’s not masterpiece level.
Because the spy movie genre is largely a poor and uninteresting concept. The fact Bond was so successful still makes me confused.
RotS is the best Prequel movie, but calling it classic is a bit of a stretch. Spidervese is probably the best thing recently.
The first Dune movie was pretty good imo
Don’t know if we’re counting animated movies but I feel like the Spiderverse movies will be a timeless classic.
Id say it has a chance, I’m not sure it stands up to peak Pixar levels, but it does a great job telling a story while honoring comics in general.
They already are, and heavily influenced animation studios everywhere. Even in Japan, the land of god-tier animation, some studios learned a lot from Spiderverse.
Lighthouse, Good Time, Hereditary, The Vvitch to name a few.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
I only watched it due to internet hype making me curious enough to check it out. If anyone reading this still hasn’t seen it: Just do it. Trust an internet stranger and just jump blindly into it. Do it. You will not regret it.
The Vvitch
Wait was it actually really good? I saw its advertising everywhere, but I don’t think I ever heard anyone actually see it and want to talk about it.
I agree, helps when VVitch and Lighthouse are same director though
I’d say most of the time it’s an age thing the younger we are the easier impressed/amazed we are. growing older makes us sometimes cynical sometimes overloaded with imagery. The more you’ve seen the harder it gets to be impressed by stuff, cause you have seen so much. And we keep fond memories of the things we liked as kids and teenagers.
That’s also why it feels like the older you are the faster time passes. Life gets monotonous for you so all the days just blend in together and time feels like it’s flying. You’ve seen a lot you’ve done a lot and stuff just sorta stops being as impressive as it was when you were a child.
Oh yeah, when you’re younger there’s so many firsts: first day of school, first crush, first kiss, first bf/gf, first dance, etc etc etc… the older you get, the fewer and further these benchmarks get. Still stuff like marriage, kids, career moves, house (lol maybe), but most of the time you grind work and fall deep into a routine.
Gotta keep shaking it up with travel and trying new things so it’s not a hot boring blur. I’m hitting mid 30’s but I swear I was mid 20’s like a minute ago.
Yea I’m 30 and I’m feeling it. I thought my 20s were lasting a long time but here we are, they ended and I’m almost 31 now.
