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Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by konfusinomicon »

Lacerda69 wrote: post #64
WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #20

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>the show is not faithful to the source material. I think it actually is pretty faithful to it. There is not a lot of sources for the 2nd age from Tolkien and they did a great job with what was there. Most of the bad reviews are just trolls screeching about some political agenda that is completely ubrelated to the show.

not sure if accurate because i know nothong beyond basic LOTR story but saw something that said if they were faithful to the source material nothing of interest would have happened until the middle of the 5th season

Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by hunter-gatherer »

BrainVirus wrote: post #67
pseudo0 wrote: post #38

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It seems kind of weird to characterize Tolkien fans being interested in a new, high-profile Lord of the Rings show as "brigading". Of course the people with the biggest emotional connection and interest in a franchise will be the ones most active in reviewing, creating YouTube videos, and discussing it online. I think the better question is why so many established sci-fi and franchises seem to be alienating their cor…

This is a very astute comment. We are living in some kind of Twilight Zone environment right now. Corporations purchase IP for decades-long, popular franchises, then deliberately alienate their core audience. Then they act as if all these people they just deliberately pissed off aren't real people. Words like "brigading" are a clever way to dehumanize your critics.

I think it just comes down to a money making tactic of making the movie/show available to the widest audience available to increase revenue. In my view it is sad, and basically creates more dull and less interesting cinema. I've been wanting a good HALO movie since the game was released... but I doubt I'll ever get it.

Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by aikinai »

lallysingh wrote: post #113
MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #105

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Name a „woke“ movie with likable characters. One. Its a contradiction in terms - you cannot be a spiritual scold or schoolmarm and mold a set of likable characters from this essence.

Black Panther had a few good ones, like BP's sister Shuri.

Unfortunately she went on to become that exact sort of insufferable character in her followup appearances.

Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by subsistence234 »

stingraycharles wrote: post #102
sofixa wrote: post #91

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> Didn’t know IMDB was owned by Amazon Yep. That's what enables Prime Video's X-Ray where you can see details about the actors and music of a particular scene while watching, and what also makes it impossible for competitors such as Netflix to have a similar feature. If IMDB were separate, the data would probably be accessible to anyone.

IMDB is the only provider of this type of data?

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Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by narag »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #87
narag wrote: post #74

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I agree. The first two episodes of The Rings of Power are unbearably boring. But let's wait. Anyway, IMDb ratings are getting totally unreliable to me. I wasted hours of my life that won't come back, watching some show called The Terminal List that scored a solid eight. Carnage of Asimov's Foundation is 7.4 and that... thing, The Wheel of Time 7.1. I wonder if there's a way to see evolution of rating, for me Star Tre…

> Carnage of Asimov's Foundation is 7.4 The show is not faithful to the book but it has good production value, a fairly interesting story and is overall very watchable. The passing is sometimes questionable but 7.4 seems like a fair rating to me.

Not faithful? More like it presents exactly the opposite ideas. Why choose Foundation if you hate every concept that the books stand for?

Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by spywaregorilla »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #133
spywaregorilla wrote: post #122

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Woke seems to purposefully imply a bungled attempt at progressive characters so it's kind of tautological. But if we just mean progressive, then Zootopia.

Interesting. I did not perceive Zootopia as progressive ( tbh, I don't remember much of it except for the DMV skit ). Could you elaborate on that interpretation?

The entire plot of the movie is about predator animals going savage and the rabbit cop and fox conman working together to understand why.

Act 1 is rabbit cop overcoming assumptions that she cannot be a cop because she is a rabbit.

Act 2 is they catch a savage predator and then, when prompted on the news, rabbit cop suggests it may be due to predators having savage behaviors "in their genetics"

Act 3 is realizing that this was an unwarranted bias, working together, and finding the real culprit.

It's a great progressive film because one of the big racial conflict moments is the rabbit cop, a kind and well intentioned protagonist, grappling with her own subconscious biases.

Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by drexlspivey »

farleykr wrote: post #61

My issue with the show has nothing to do with the “woke” stuff mentioned here. I don’t like it because none of the heroes are likable. All of them have some form of sticking it to the man and doing what they want as their story line. True heroes are self-sacrificial and reluctant. Contrast Galadriel who acts like a self righteous dickhead with Aragorn who was reluctant to accept his calling spent and three movies pro…

I went over 2 pages of 1star reviews in rottentomatos and not one mentioned the woke stuff. Not sure where this notion that it’s been brigaded by the anti-woke crowd comes from. Most bad reviews mentioned bland characters, mediocre acting, bad dialogue/writing etc.

Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by farleykr »

chrisseaton wrote: post #126
zppln wrote: post #121

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My beef is that there isn't much in terms of character development. The first episode was an atrocious formulaic mess that tried to stack as many memorable LotR style moments on top of each other as possible. So far they haven't taken the opportunity to use the format to their advantage at all. Visually appealing, but bland is how I'd summarize things so far.

> My beef is that there isn't much in terms of character development. In just two episodes? Yeah there won’t be.

Story tellers need to do their job to give us compelling characters. We don’t owe them watching an unspecified number of episodes - hours of screen time - to give them a chance to give us something to like about the characters. I liked every character in the LotR trilogy within five minutes of their introduction.

Re: IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power

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Post by pjc50 »

glogla wrote: post #22

I have not seen it myself, but every criticism I've read so far was complaining about "mandatory woke". Some reviews also mentioned other things they don't like, like costumes not being good or fights being cinematic instead of subdued or characters appearing where they shouldn't be if you take Silmarillion into accord ... but I have not read even one review that didn't include some version of "I hate it because it h…

This is also a problem on Steam reviews.
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