Title text: No, we actually do have a woman who’s basically part of our fellowship. She lives in Rivendell, you wouldn’t know her.

  • Historical_General@lemmy.worldOPM
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    1 year ago

    It took me an awfully long time to realise that Legolas was played by Orlando Bloom, that Bloom was the name of that guy from Pirates of the Caribbean, and that that guy and Legolas were the same. In my defence I was around toddler age when the LotR films came out. It must have been a great time having LotR and Harry Potter plus other fantasy being put out.

    • solstice@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The 2000s were a pretty great era for film and tv. LOTR and HP as you said, plus the first couple of Spider-Man movies with Toby McGuire, X Men, and the Star Wars prequels were very exciting, albeit disappointing. TV was great then with Lost, Jack Bauer, and House in full stride. And the Matrix! Holy fucking shit man, you’ll never understand being in the theater opening weekend and seeing Trinity beat up those cops with bullet timing for the first time. Whole theater lost its shit, we’d never seen anything like it.

      I feel like that was the end of the era where there were some core anchor shows and movies that EVERYONE saw. Now there’s just so much content on so many platforms, and big budget movies and tv shows are intentionally bad (google fan baiting) so the culture is changing. Who knows where it’ll go from here.

      • Historical_General@lemmy.worldOPM
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m hearing a lot about cancellations. The growth of AI doesn’t bode well for quality. But I’m hoping the pay-dispute is settled favourably between workers and companies.

        Did you hear about the Eragon series that’s supposed to be due? It was confirmed some time ago.

        • solstice@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I hadn’t heard, no. I don’t really pay much attention anymore because everything I used to love has been systematically destroyed. SW, Star Trek, LOTR, the matrix, you name it.

          Seriously though, google fan baiting. Here’s the first article on it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-hollywood-uses-fan-baiting-pr-marketing-strategy-biresh-vrajlal/

          Hollywood knows it is dying and their work is no longer culturally relevant. So of course instead of changing strategy or making better content or whatever, they decide to intentionally piss people off with shitty rage bait content to drive engagement up.

          With all that in mind, I’m simply not interested in 99% of their content. I’ll catch barbie and oppenheimer when they get released on whatever streaming platform, and I’ll go see Dune in imax later this year, other than that I’m friggin done with their shit.