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[“Amazon studios executives had to send Bezos regular updates on the projects in development that included spreadsheets describing how each show had each story element; and if one element was missing, they had to explain why.” ] (https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1392111119511216132)
[“After more debate, Bezos boiled it down: “Look, I know what it takes to make a great show. This should not be hard”] (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1HA48QWQAEmcDA?format=jpg&name=large)
> The Rings of Power is set to take place after the defeat of the evil god Morgoth and the disappearance of his loyal general and apprentice, Sauron, who disappeared in the wake of a war that nearly destroyed everything.
Looks more like The Hobbit than The Lord of the Rings
I just want it to be good
Over time I have changed my view on things like this (creating content not based on a completed book/series) to the following:
If it’s good I am glad they made it and if it’s not then it won’t take anything from what I enjoy about the “original” LOTR. So ya make the series and lets hope for the best
EDIT:
It would be unfair not to assume any large following of people did not have people like you talk about. In fact, even a part of myself feels the same way about things, the want to keep things the way they were for me when they made me feel in some way special. Whether that be a person or a thing like LOTR. But people change and so does the view of wanting to do something different with what is already there.
A big part of being an adult is how do you handle change. At the end of the day, it’s going to happen and it may hurt sometimes but sometimes change needs to happen and sometimes it does not but things change anyway. I am quitting my job and traveling to Europe and maybe Asia for who knows how long because I have changed and I will continue to do so in some way till I die.
Lets roll the dice and see what happens, no matter if the roll ends up good or bad don’t give up.
Well it certainly LOOKS like they spent literally hundreds of millions of dollars on it. Obviously will need to wait and see whether the show is good or not, but visually it looks pretty great.
Looks exactly as I feared. Expensive and cheap at the same time. Not nearly as bad as Wheel of Time, but it’s there.
I mean it looks like a fantasy setting. But does not feel like LOTR at all. Just generic stuff.
Am I taking crazy pills? It looks awful. Are people just that okay with over saturated CG everything now?
Peter Jackson really did capture lightning in a bottle. This just looks like some generic fantasy show.
The cheap expensive look strikes again.
meh
One of the best parts of Jackson’s trilogy, to me at least, was just how *lived in* the world felt. I know it’s only a 60 second clip, and I want this to be good as much as anyone, but I’m getting massive Netflix original/sterile/filmed in a clean room vibes from this….
I did not like the look of that preview. Maybe I’m in the minority but I thought it looked cheap and cartoonish for the most part, some scenes looked good.
Looks like they seen the Hobbit and thought fuck it, we will copy that over CGI’d style. I don’t get why they use CGI on areas that don’t need CGI like that waterfall and mountains? you are filming in New Zealand for fuck sake just get a drone. It will look 10x more authentic. No wonder it cost a fortune if people make silly decisions like that. Not sure why there is an elf with a skinfade? or why Hobbits are now in the 2nd age. Just pissing off Tolkien fans for the sake of it.
Looks awful. My dad who loved the original 3 movies said “what the hell was that?”
Thats yet another beloved franchise being destroyed by the big wigs dad. That’s what it is.
I’m very surprised how optimistic everyone seems to be. I feel like I got a glimpse of my worst fears coming true
Am I crazy? I don’t want to be negative but I disagree so much that this looks excellent visually. Maybe if it was an original it’d be great but I’m getting major Wheel of Fortune vibes from this (albeit obviously higher budget) and LOTR needs a grittier, more lived in look to work imo. Hope I’m wrong and obviously if the characters and storytelling are good this won’t matter as much but my hopes are lower than before after this..
welp that’s what you get when you get a generic creative team that have barely any experience behind the production to make a high budget fantasy epic series
Hopefully they can make a good show. A big budget helps, but they need to spin a good plot line.
yeah… looks like cgi mass ware… boring
Idk looks like a generic fantasy show no lotr vibes something seems of with the characters.
Actually blows my mind that a 20y old trilogy can look so much better then the stuff made today.
Galadriel spy, warrior, princess, general. Hmm…
Reminds me of The Hobbit, on a bad way
Welcome to Narnia
There is something uncanny about the visuals in the trailer, everything looks sort of… plasticky? Digital? Not sure if that’s the right word. Too clean?
The ice climbing segment looks like it was a videogame cutscene.
Getting “YA fantasy” vibes from this.
You’d think Amazon would be more willing to take risks given how much money they can throw at this thing with the only metric for success because how many people with Prime watch it…
I mean there is no box office here yet this looks like a focus-tested mess. Why bother doing that when there is no direct cash flow from this like a film!?!
Those comments on YouTube are gold
I had* such hopes for wheel of time, then the 1st two episodes crushed that hope.
I don’t trust Amazon to right by Tolkien’s lore.
But we shall see.
I am underwhelmed.
That buzz cut elf is still looks fucking dumb. How can you cut a hair like that without an electric razor??
Weird casting choices, none of them look LOTR-y. Silky smooth faces and modern haircuts. This is gonna flop so hard
Amazon really sucks at this fantasy thing.
$1bil and they couldn’t afford a decent cinematographer? It looks like a perfume ad
Look at those two guys with the hornwings. They are also in the promo shoots and they are in costume, so not CGI. Then you watch this trailer and they look like Project 36 in a Udemy Adobe After Effects Tutorial. Like wheel of Time main theme said:
Aaaaahhhh ahhhh, ahh ahh ahhh ahhhhhh.
All over again.
“Underwhelming” is the word for this one.
Know what, I’ll just watch LOTR extended edition again instead. Films aged so well.
Why did they even go to New Zealand if even the mountains and waterfalls are CGI lol
The more I see of this, the more I come to the conclusion that there is only one network that ever would have worked right for a show like this, and that’s HBO. No matter how much money all the other networks and services spend, they clearly don’t have whatever makes the HBO magic work.
This show has what, four times the budget of Wheel of Time or something ridiculous like that, and it has the same cheap look and feel (maybe not *as* bad, but still). Things look fake. It all feels plastic-y and corporate in a way that is reminiscent of all the other wannabe prestige shows, though I think Amazon are particularly bad with this (The Boys also had the same issues visually, in my opinion, but relatively good writing and acting and such saved it from having the same fate as all the other Prime Originals).
On the other end you have House of the Dragon, which even just in its teaser immediately looks so much better. The lighting is right, the props are lived-in, the shots are carefully planned to not stretch the VFX team’s budget and ability beyond what they can manage, the actors fit and don’t look like a YA adaptation.
There are exceptions to this rule, other networks have managed to have great-looking shows, but none have gotten even close to matching HBO’s consistency. I don’t know what it is, if it is their history in prestige television, their connections to the best talent available, maybe just a cascading effect of their great reputation among creators, but nothing compares, not yet at least.
And now I am very sad Amazon outbid them on the rights for this, because I worry instead of potentially having an incredible team behind a series in as beloved a world as Middle Earth, we will have, at best, yet another mediocre Prime product, run by people with no experience, no creativity, and no passion, picked not because they pitched a great idea, but because they were easy to control and were ready to cover all of Amazon’s requirements and build a show according to their formula that has so far lead to only mediocrity. ^(Cowabummer, dude.)
Very underwhelming. Is this the best they have to offer and get viewership up?
Wow, this looks so bad 🙁 and with bad trailers usually come even worse movies/series
I was really trying to remain optimistic.
Okay I really don’t want to be a hater but the landscape… It screams CG. I can’t say why but it felt uncanny.
Trailer looks like a generic korean MMO trailer.
Oh! Look, it’s another YA themed fantasy show with bland but super expensive CGI. It’s a coming of age story for people who according to the books are 1000 – 3000 years old.