That’s hilarious in light of the Director’s Special Extended Director’s Extended Director’s Cut Anniversary Edition Bonus Cut.
live action Resident Evil movies are S-Tier. 
Quoted for truth.
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Jackson basically made it a dnd movie ( heavy influence from Bakshi, of course), legolas skateboarding on a shield…… throwing gimli by the beard, long panoramic cinematic old style rpg shots, it was kinda just a good time movie. However if y’all wanna pick apart everything then yes he also took liberties to the movies.
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Anyone who says The Silmarillion is fun is the kind of person who reads history books in Latin to their children.
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100000%
This is exactly what has been happening.
People are sick of it.
You know, in a different thread someone complained about Orc females. That’s actually something Tolkien discussed as being true, because he didn’t like the idea of evil creating life. He sometimes went back and forth and never made a final decision before he died…like a lot of Silmarillion.
Ntm on the Silmarillion. It’s a masterpiece.
Again, Peter Jackson tried staying loyal to the source material.
Rings of Power 
all over the material, even going out of their way to invent proto-Hobbits.
What derails me is all the names and relationships. Since I could not keep that straight it was really hard to follow what I was trying to read. I’ve tried a couple of times but I just can’t ….
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Yeah Star Wars is dead, never been bad before The Acolyte.
I was also just born last year and I don’t know what these “prequels” or “holiday special” people keep talking about are.
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I disagree with your opinion, but give it another go! def try some youtubers, it def helped me with the house names and descendants. The Silmarillion is honestly an amazing piece of literature.
Most of the important elves in the Silmarillion were basically superheroes.
I mean one elf took on like eight balrogs or something at one point. A single one of those fought Gandalf to a standstill and it wasn’t even like a commander or anything.
Elves in past ages were overpowered monsters.
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So it sounds like for LOTR, people didn’t read the histories and just want their Legolas and Gimli, screw the First or Second ages.
And for Star Wars, people did read the legends and refuse to acknowledge that’s not canon and can’t stand anything done for Old or High Republic eras.
People are wild.
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Everyone who loves LoTR desperately needs a copy of the “Fotonovel.”
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Did he though? What purpose is there to elves at Helm’s Deep & ghosts at Minas Tirith? What purpose was there to marching Frodo back to Osgiliath? Or a worg attack on the way to Helm’s Deep? Or Treebeard needing to be convinced to attack Saruman by seeing the fallen forest firsthand? I think the answer is it looked cool and he could show off some CGI, like Legolas going superhero on an olyphant, when the time not having such things could’ve been used on the Scouring of the Shire, what Tolkien said was the most important part of the book. Just my two cents. Still good movies…
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That’s kind of undermining the most basic message of Tolkien’s work, that evil is evil. You’ll notice that none of the evil characters are sympathetic in his works. Is it less complex? Sure, but it feels like defacing his work to start introducing muh moral grey, in a universe that was very much good vs evil.
It’s an inappropriate setting to make that type of story, which just goes back to my belief that it’s vandalism.
Did… did you miss Gollum’s entire character arc?
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It’s one of those books that you tell your friends you loved so that they are intimidated by your ability to read history textbooks from the 1930s.
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I mean, Mandalorian is good, Rogue One was good and Andor, I hear, is good. Kenobi was okay.
I don’t think Star Wars as a whole is dead just because Acolyte wasn’t great (not my opinion, haven’t watched it, but seems to be the overwhelming majority opinion)