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The Lord of the Rings trilogy is apparently a hard watch for modernity (archive.ph)
posted 236 days ago by Mpetey123 236 days ago by Mpetey123 +81 / -0
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– Kaarous 59 points 236 days ago +59 / -0

Written by "Ajay Aravind".

And that's where I stopped.

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– AnAmishWithATude 43 points 236 days ago +43 / -0

Tolkien created middle earth as a new mythology for the English man. A haradrim poostain wouldnt understand.

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– LastRights 11 points 236 days ago +11 / -0

This got him the 'job' at CBR. No other credentials needed.

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– Skywise 6 points 236 days ago +6 / -0

I need eye bleach now...

And I know what he means about "Moral Clarity" now. No moral clarity for you, perfect clarity for me.

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– deleted 6 points 236 days ago +6 / -0
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– alucard13mmfmj 5 points 236 days ago +5 / -0

gonna assume its a jeet. hmmm, i wonder how much "diversity" is in a jeet movie or show.

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– theaustrianpainter 3 points 235 days ago +3 / -0

None. And the Indian subcontinent has loads of diversity but jeet movies all have the same jeets.

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– stalememes 53 points 236 days ago +53 / -0

The Movies Excluded Many Important Elements of the Story

Okay, fair.

CGI Was Increasingly Overused in the LOTR trilogy

What. There's only a handful of scenes, where the CGI actually comes off as dated. Gollum still holds up today.

Female Characters Have Little Agency and Less Screentime

Kill yourself.

Monoculturalism and Race Stereotypes Make LOTR Feel Ancient

Again, kill yourself.

The Extended Cut Isn't as Accessible as the Theatrical Version

Don't watch streaming then, like a troglodyte. Buy physical media.

Years of Cultural Saturation Have Left Fans Numb

No???

Today's Fantasy Is a Lot More Subversive Than LOTR

Imagine thinking that's a good thing. And the fucking picture is of GoT.

lol

lmao even

Fears of a Remake Have Put Pressure on the Nostalgia

You know what, fair point again.

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– lapalapa 36 points 236 days ago +36 / -0

Thank you for writing that. Now I don't feel the slightest interest in clicking the link.

That being said, you don't have to subject yourself to it for our sakes, you know?

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– undecidedmask2 2 points 236 days ago +2 / -0

Just use AI to skim it lol.

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 27 points 236 days ago +27 / -0

I'm genuinely surprised it took till point #4 for "too many white people"

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– ApexVeritas 22 points 236 days ago +22 / -0

You don't even need to wait for that point. It's become such a common argument nowadays that it's beyond cliche, any time a non-white discusses White anything, they'll always make it about White = bad. So, just look at the author's name, and make an extremely safe assumption that's what they'll argue.

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– Webspawner3 7 points 236 days ago +7 / -0

Sometimes when they write stuff like this they know exactly what they are doing

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– OmegaBird 2 points 236 days ago +2 / -0

All on point

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– Skywise 35 points 236 days ago +35 / -0

Meanwhile, there's far too much moral clarity in The Lord of the Rings for the story to feel authentic and relatable.

MY GOD, THE UTTER STUPIDITY.

This stupid mind numbed communist filled twat has no concept of what he’s even talking about.

Moral clarity is the pinnacle of human achievement. That’s the point of objective reality. Moron here, is a product of DEI enshittification.

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– AgnosticTemplar 27 points 236 days ago +27 / -0

Meanwhile, if someone made a WW2 movie from the German's perspective and didn't depict Germany as ontologically evil this faggot would lose his mind.

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 7 points 236 days ago +7 / -0

You mean Cross of Iron or Das Boot?

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– SendTomBoys 5 points 236 days ago +5 / -0

I'm sure if you had him watch them and write an article over it the shrieking would commence.

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– theaustrianpainter 2 points 235 days ago +2 / -0

Both those movies come from the Golden Age of free speech. A time that we will never see again.

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 1 point 235 days ago +1 / -0

They weren't even "sympathetic" to the German side. Just portrayed Germans as human instead of cartoon villains.

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 14 points 236 days ago +14 / -0

Without bullshit like postmodernism you can't convince yourself that things like sex change operations on preschoolers and gunning down conservative debaters in cold blood are anything but unforgivable evil.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 8 points 236 days ago +8 / -0

Yet objective unforgivable evil still somehow exists, it's just things like wanting a decent girlfriend.

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 8 points 236 days ago +8 / -0

Should have just been 2 hours of Arwen castrating incels with her sword and also she's trans. 0/10 do better

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– Theacefospades 4 points 236 days ago +4 / -0

Without the logic of ideologies, this is the part that to me makes me most sure of myself.

I know people personally who outright cheered at.Charlie Kirk's death. Not "political violence is wrong but he was evil and the world is better now" I'm saying "ding dong the witch is dead. Good job shooter!"

I can see the logical thread of delusion as valid. If you truly believe that Charlie kirk was the Harbinger of genocide, I can see thinking killing him was a moral good.

That's fucking retarded, but it's logically valid at least.

But these same sorts will claim IN ABSOLUTE. That say, calling something "gay" is morally indefensible.

When your worldview has words thay are unforgivable evil, but out and out murder depends on context. Thats not coherent. It just can't be

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– RondoOBlongo 7 points 236 days ago +7 / -0

Meanwhile, there's far too much moral clarity in The Lord of the Rings for the story to feel authentic and relatable

Then he writes this without a hint of self-awareness

Monoculturalism and Race Stereotypes Make LOTR Feel Ancient

Female Characters Have Little Agency and Less Screentime

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– 83671R18 6 points 236 days ago +6 / -0

Meanwhile, there's far too much moral clarity

Jeets have no moral clarity, it is evident in witnessing their home country.

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– SendTomBoys 4 points 236 days ago +4 / -0

They don't believe in moral clarity, or objective reality.

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– Amosis1862 1 point 235 days ago +1 / -0

They are like kikes but who smell much more foul then even Hasidic kikes do

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– SocraticMethod1 24 points 236 days ago +24 / -0

Written by someone who hates western culture.

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– deleted 16 points 236 days ago +16 / -0
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– Kumatei 15 points 236 days ago +15 / -0

I'll admit a horrible guilty pleasure: I like watching reaction videos. One topic in particular is the LotR trilogy. People much younger and seemingly right in the strike for the apparently miniscule zoomer attention span can nonetheless pay pretty good attention and enjoy the entirety of the trilogy without any real issues. It's almost like the longer content they'd be expected to put up with usually is a bloated incoherent mess, and they just needed to see a well written story for "TikTok brain" to vanish.

None of these points were an obstacle to any of them.

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– current_horror 9 points 236 days ago +9 / -0

React content is just comfortable ego reinforcement. It’s meant to affirm your preferences or beliefs by convincing you that other people - especially those from a different demographic - also support the things you like. It’s a black person supporting conservatism! It’s a teenager who likes my boomer music! It’s a guy who is scared by the same part of the movie that also scared me! The product is the feeling you get from someone agreeing with you, and the value of that product correlates with the value of the presenter.

Meanwhile, in reality, black people hate conservatism, teenagers don’t like your music, and virtually none of the emotional reactions you see on the internet are genuine. You’re being lulled into a warm stupor by curated, filtered content that has evolved to target you.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 2 points 236 days ago +2 / -0

Good point. It's mostly creators that have failed us. And ultimately the people who fund and distribute, of course.

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– Smith1980 4 points 235 days ago +4 / -0

Honestly do they exist to crap on what came before?

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– Losferwords 3 points 235 days ago +3 / -0

"...and Amazon's Rings of Power is so much better..."

Troons.

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– hilboggins 2 points 236 days ago +2 / -0

Oh... I thought it was a hard watch cuz that is long and drags on by today's standards 😆

My wife be zooming I don't think she can sit through it, hell even I struggle with it now a days.

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– FN15DMRII 2 points 235 days ago +2 / -0

And yet this trilogy has remained some of the best films ever produced over 2 decades later.

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