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Before you get mad at me, when was the last time you watched it?
The best thing I can say about this movie trilogy is that it is kinda comfy
LotR trilogy is an adaptation of an already classic tale, specifically stylized after legends and folk stories. It's seeming naivity and lack of newer approaches is intentional and suggested by it's source material. It is a compelling journey into the Middle-Earth, where said tone is complimented by thosands of competent people in it's production, together creating an extraordinary piece that can hardly be reproduced anytime soon or matched in it's own league of fantasy-aligned stuff.
While LotR wasn't shy of looking older (to buy some ale, eh?), every one of your favorite movie is characterised by explicit use of newest post-modern tropes or approaches.
RD is Tarantino's first mixtape of what he liked in movies with some layers of abstraction and purely staged interactions, The Shining is a theme park of moments where Stanley can go full Kubrik, Memento is an intentional Nolan's sabotage of a plot structure to create a new experience, and EEAaO is an impressive patchwork of gags, drama and trope reversals fit so tightly in it I thought I'm scrolling bits on tiktok. All ace at something they are meant to.
It's not to say that one is easily better than the other, but they are hardly comparable because they don't strive to do the same thing, and if you are into movies that play with your expectations and try hard to keep your engaged and puzzled, you'd obviously have a hard time with movies that paint their own picture for you to observe and vibe with.
That's, like, your taste, lemming.
Wow, are you a professional writer? (I'm not being sarcastic here, because that can be hard to tell sometimes). That was really well written and I don't really have anything of value to add to that.
Not even a native speaker, but a random someone who got interested in the thread you started (:
P.S.: Thanks for a comfy pepe gif, I'm taking it.
Du bist nicht zufällig deutsch, oder?
Nein. Out of the sizeable community of nations once promoted themselves to be the Third Rome, I reside in the one that actively bombs their neighbor as we speak. It's probably disappointing to you.
Hey, none of that is your fault. Don't worry, I know to separate the people from the state. Don't let people talk you down.
Thank you.
And I won't let amateurs touch what I consider one of my finest crafts.
That's the spirit.
also all stories are simple if you break them down enough,
"The hero beats the bad guy"
or break them down too much and they all become complicated
"Spot the dog is compelled to sprint after a red ball as a symbol of the pursuit of personal goals by external factors. His name evokes the temporary nature of fleeting desire and functions as a fulcrum for the irony of pursuing mere frippery..."