Lord Of The Rings is your Grandad's fantasy franchise and it shows as it's so boring with its very long story about walking, even the trees walked in it! It needs to evolve to avoid becoming a fossil like look at metal, Black Sabbath are tame compared to today's bands like Bring Me The Horizon or Parkway Drive. Lords Of The Rings can learn a few things from the superior cutting edge Game Of Thrones and have lots of boobies to make it more modern, put boobies on the dragons, put boobies on the giant spider, put boobies on the walking tress and hey presto it's now a much better show!
@Maxenmus
Oh no, I was talking in a general sense, it wasn't aimed at you specifically.
Probably shouldn't have used the word "you" but rather "they". Force of habit and language barrier I'm afraid.
About Angry Joe, if he claimed he read all the books he'd know they were called Harfoots during the second age, not Hobbits. The trailer even calls them Harfoots. I stopped watching after that.
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Lol, I think I'm beginning to understand your sense of humour.
@jump I never bothered with GoT either (didn't it suck after season 4 because it did its own thing because George R.R. Martin writes as slow as me times ten?). Medieval shows tend to bore me easily. It's just trees, dirt, fairies and elves. Same with space settings with space, stars, and humanoid aliens (looking at you, MCU's Guardians of the Human-Shaped Aliens).
About Angry Joe, if he claimed he read all the books he'd know they were called Harfoots during the second age, not Hobbits. The trailer even calls them Harfoots. I stopped watching after that.
It's actually Alex, Joe's friend, rather than Joe Vargas himself technically, who made the disparaging remarks. In my opinion... Joe's criticisms aren't really reliable as they lack research and are filled with biasness. I only bother to watch his videos for Alex's comments as he seems to be the saner of the trio. Disagree with him or not, he does know his geek material more than Joe, for what it's worth. Joe just seems to go with whatever the most popular opinions tend to be nowadays rather than the more blunt criticisms in his older videos decades ago.
It's not a mediaeval setting - it's a fantasy setting.
Yes, it's a imagined history for the British Isles, but instead of thinking it's mediaeval, think of it as classical Greek or Roman.
It really doesn't make much difference to me. lol No offense. It's the aesthetic of it that looks boring to me. Elves, dragons, dwarves; I just don't find fantasy stories like these that interesting.
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I'm sure somewhere in the depths of my brain, harfoot is a type of hobbit. Smeagol and Deagol, for example, are a different type of hobbit to Frodo, Sam, etc
Yes, that's right. I said they were "called" Harfoots. It's only during the second millennium of the Third Age that the moniker Hobbit came into existence when the Harfoots came to live and interbreed with their counterparts the Fallohides and the Stoors. Think of them as common ancestors to the Hobbits.
I was, and still am, initially hostile to The Rings of Power, but @seaboyluca's comment of "wait and see" made me backtrack a little mentally. One thing we can all agree on though, it looks the part. My God.
I think it's just that we're all in such a rush these days that if you're not inherently attached to the fandom like me, you just move on to the next thing if you don't like what you see in the trailer. There's like five or six streaming services out there with thousands of programs released every year I barely have the time or attention span to care about all the latest big releases. Doesn't help that I already have a cynical view towards modern entertainment's slipping quality.
If anything, I prefer to look towards the classics, the older titles I never had a chance to explore before. A lot of quality black and white films I never got to see. A lot of Hitchcock works I never got to experience. There's a whole goldmine of old movies and TV shows I still need to catch up on, including The Wire, The Sopranos, and Breaking Bad - the big three kings of television. Then of course, there's the dark horse titles that received better acclaim over time like Mad Men. Don't forget HBO's other classics like Deadwood and Westworld.
HBO - simply the best! lol Quite a few TV shows I'm looking forward to watching for the first time were produced by this awesome network.
Takeru is a first year high schooler excited to enroll in Tenbi Academy, a historically all girls school which just went co-ed. In his mind this gives him the chance to hit it off with lots of babes (including childhood friend Haruko, all grown up), but gets more than he bargained for when he learns it's a combat school of sorts, where everyone is required to train with magical weapons called "Maken", and most of the girls would sooner kick his butt than go out with him.
One quick look would tell anyone this is a fan service centric harem series, but when I watched it years ago I thought it balanced that well with the more action oriented battle stuff. Upon rewatch, it's a lot more harem fan service fluff than I remembered (in comparison to the action, which while present wasn't nearly as involved as I had remembered). It's certainly serviceable for the fan service aspect (it even does that thing where the female characters' features are often visible through their clothes), but it won't appeal to anyone who isn't already into fan service anime.
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Anyone remember this show? It's a weirdly cheesy and obscure show that aired on my local Singapore kids channel. I could barely remember the plot, but the song has been stuck in my head since day one.
To be fair though, they've practically spelled out the plot for you in the theme song's lyrics:
A little boy named Presley found a secret out this year That he was once a Pharaoh when Egyptians ruled the world And now some sorcerer named Scarab tries to get him day and night But Presley has four guardians to protect his very life!
He has the Mummies! From 1525 BC! He has the Mummies! Protection for the new Rapses! He has the Mummies! They're hanging by the 'Frisco Bay! He has the Mummies! Protectors of the world today! (Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!) He has the Mummies! From 1525 BC! He has the Mummies! Protection for the Pharaoh teen! He has the Mummies! They're hanging by the Western Gate! He has the Mummies! They're gonna save the world today The Egyptian way They're Mummies Alive!
God, I remember singing to that song many times as a kid. This was a time when the Pokémon theme song was popular too. And it's so cheesy, the way they dump plot exposition in the theme song, but the opening verses feel like one of those hilarious lyrics where you would recite as a meme, just for the laugh of it.
I love my childhood cartoon theme songs. Always a blast revisiting them.
@Maxenmus It's his first PG movie... His wife is even in one of the lead roles... The budget was 40mil... Nah he couldn't be making this movie so his friends could have a huge paycheck... Maybe
@Maxenmus, now that I've seen it, that trailer looks sooo familiar, but I don't think I've actually seen the show.
It totally has that late 90's/early 00's look of a western cartoon trying to capitalize on the anime boom in terms of style (kinda like Teen Titans or Jackie Chan Adventures), so I should have been just the right age for it if I'm right about the timeframe. Must have been on at a time/channel I couldn't catch it (similar to MedaBots, which I only saw one or two episodes of back in the day), or it was on up against something I was more into.
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