john_constantine
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I expected the Rings of Power would be ineptly written, pretentious, hollow and soulless. Which it turned out to be. But it is also outright foul, smearing filth all over Tolkiens work.
Bad writing, Nonsensical story design wooden acting and silly choreography compete for worst part of the show. All while great CG, beautiful landscapes, the best costumes I have seen in ages and amazing sets desperately try to hide the bad story.
Morfydd Clark playing angry Galadriel would struggle to carry a small town talent show, let alone this show. Her portrayal of Galadriel is constantly angry, berating, impatient, self-centered and lacking the grace and warmth one might expect from a noble elf. Characters make nonsense decisions or ones the audience can't understand for lack of context. They are given dialogue that aims to be grand, deep and epic but turns out only to be pretentious. The story crawl slowly and ineptly through the most beautiful set pieces.
Casting ethnically diverse actors has been talked about enough and I will not enter that discussion here, short for saying that if one wishes to include such actors, one would at least strife to not constantly imply that characters are related by blood who look like they are clearly not, creating a farce.
What was Amazon thinking? Picking two showrunners and writers all with nothing to their name to carry a billion dollar show failed to no surprise.
Should be 1/10 but added one bonus point for beautiful views.
Bad writing, Nonsensical story design wooden acting and silly choreography compete for worst part of the show. All while great CG, beautiful landscapes, the best costumes I have seen in ages and amazing sets desperately try to hide the bad story.
Morfydd Clark playing angry Galadriel would struggle to carry a small town talent show, let alone this show. Her portrayal of Galadriel is constantly angry, berating, impatient, self-centered and lacking the grace and warmth one might expect from a noble elf. Characters make nonsense decisions or ones the audience can't understand for lack of context. They are given dialogue that aims to be grand, deep and epic but turns out only to be pretentious. The story crawl slowly and ineptly through the most beautiful set pieces.
Casting ethnically diverse actors has been talked about enough and I will not enter that discussion here, short for saying that if one wishes to include such actors, one would at least strife to not constantly imply that characters are related by blood who look like they are clearly not, creating a farce.
What was Amazon thinking? Picking two showrunners and writers all with nothing to their name to carry a billion dollar show failed to no surprise.
Should be 1/10 but added one bonus point for beautiful views.
Here we go again. It looks amazing. The production quality is among the best there is. The action design is outstanding.
But all this can't hide the fact that it is a nonsense story, inept lazy writing combined with a main cast as suitable to this role as a panda bear would be. Nothing in this movie means anything.
But all this can't hide the fact that it is a nonsense story, inept lazy writing combined with a main cast as suitable to this role as a panda bear would be. Nothing in this movie means anything.
It looks amazing. The production budget must be huge. The writing budget however was not. The writing is quite bad and the story is simplistic given the premise of the books. The idea to cast a totally inexperienced girl who has barely acted before as lead backfired big time. The romance elements feel very out of place. It is preachy in the worst ways. I haven't read the novels, but this feel very different from the summaries and commentaries I have seen.