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Is this what we do now? Remake things that are still in the majority of our living memories? Have the original LOTR movies stopped holding up? Are we playing the long game and intending to have an Into The Smiegalverse?
Although I suspect this will not be a popular comment, I hope the Amazon series will remain faithful to the Catholic/Christian sense that Tolkien deliberately infused into these novels. Peter Jackson did a notably good job with that, all things considered. To be clear, I don't think that you should have to be a Christian to like Lord of the Rings -- quite the contrary. But given the lack of compelling Christian art i…
I’m not sure we can ascribe religious purpose to works that borrow from popular stories that happen to be religious. The books/movies are also profoundly pagan, and lay out their own religious system for eg the elves which is not especially Christian. As I understand it there is a whole pantheon of god-like figures in the LOTR universe. If the author says it’s not an allegory, and it doesn’t work as an allegory, mayb…
The budget for the first three movies in total was 281 million. They filmed on location and had pretty good CGI, minus a few scenes that would look better today. Why are costs going up here? Tech is commoditized easily (ease of use and availability of talent), so I expect CG work to have gotten better and cheaper.
Well for a start just the rights for this TV show cost about as much as all three movies did. Back then the Lord of the Rings was not something at the front of people's cultural minds. Now it is.
It's staggering to think that this TV show might cost well over $2 billion. We are approaching numbers typically used only of events like the Manhattan Project or Apollo. Considering that movies and shows still get made about those and the apparently exponential growth of budgets, it seems likely that at some point, there will have been more money spent cumulatively on shows about the MP or Apollo than on the actual…
If more money is spent making a show about Apollo than the actual Apollo missions - why not film them on location?
It's staggering to think that this TV show might cost well over $2 billion. We are approaching numbers typically used only of events like the Manhattan Project or Apollo. Considering that movies and shows still get made about those and the apparently exponential growth of budgets, it seems likely that at some point, there will have been more money spent cumulatively on shows about the MP or Apollo than on the actual…
Although I suspect this will not be a popular comment, I hope the Amazon series will remain faithful to the Catholic/Christian sense that Tolkien deliberately infused into these novels. Peter Jackson did a notably good job with that, all things considered. To be clear, I don't think that you should have to be a Christian to like Lord of the Rings -- quite the contrary. But given the lack of compelling Christian art i…
I’m not sure we can ascribe religious purpose to works that borrow from popular stories that happen to be religious. The books/movies are also profoundly pagan, and lay out their own religious system for eg the elves which is not especially Christian. As I understand it there is a whole pantheon of god-like figures in the LOTR universe. If the author says it’s not an allegory, and it doesn’t work as an allegory, mayb…
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #142
Although I suspect this will not be a popular comment, I hope the Amazon series will remain faithful to the Catholic/Christian sense that Tolkien deliberately infused into these novels. Peter Jackson did a notably good job with that, all things considered. To be clear, I don't think that you should have to be a Christian to like Lord of the Rings -- quite the contrary. But given the lack of compelling Christian art i…
The budget for the first three movies in total was 281 million. They filmed on location and had pretty good CGI, minus a few scenes that would look better today. Why are costs going up here? Tech is commoditized easily (ease of use and availability of talent), so I expect CG work to have gotten better and cheaper.
There’s been a lot of inflation in the past 20 years.
Curious if I'm the only one here who thinks that LotR is overrated. Let them spend the money on a better story.
Yet here we are, still stuck with orcs, vampires, zombies and wizards (don't mean to demean it, I love all of it). Just wish they would use some new kind of universe with its own unique mechanics. They do drip out once in a while, but they're mostly rare.
Although I suspect this will not be a popular comment, I hope the Amazon series will remain faithful to the Catholic/Christian sense that Tolkien deliberately infused into these novels. Peter Jackson did a notably good job with that, all things considered. To be clear, I don't think that you should have to be a Christian to like Lord of the Rings -- quite the contrary. But given the lack of compelling Christian art i…
I’m not sure we can ascribe religious purpose to works that borrow from popular stories that happen to be religious. The books/movies are also profoundly pagan, and lay out their own religious system for eg the elves which is not especially Christian. As I understand it there is a whole pantheon of god-like figures in the LOTR universe. If the author says it’s not an allegory, and it doesn’t work as an allegory, mayb…