Even as an animated film this may be my most anticipated for the year. Anyone else planning to see it? 
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Iāll watch it eventually. Is this a Netflix movie or coming to a theater? If the latter, Iāll wait for streaming.
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HBO Max, I think.
Rings of Power fans will enjoy it.
Lord of the Rings fans will wonder who Hera Hammerhand even is.
Tolkien fans will just sigh and roll their eyes.
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Itās in theaters Dec 13th. Technically the 12th on Regalās website.
PG-13 with a 2hr 14min runtime.
OP, Iām looking forward to it as America has been quite lacking in the animated movies department for the last couple of years. And itās 2D animated. When was the last time we had a 2D movie on the big screen?
Itās also best to ignore the āpuristā crybabies. Theyāre almost as bad as Star Wars fans when it comes to new content and material being added.
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I just found out that it was going to be in theaters. I honestly had no idea. I thought this was another direct to stream project. Wow. Just wow.
Yeah. Ignore the folks that are most passionate about the projects. Really working wonders for Disney.
Ignoring the people that expect an adaptation to be 1:1 to the source material. The very process of adapting a book to film is a shift in the medium, which result in changes needing to be made.
Example: the people still grumbling about Tom Bombadil not being in Fellowship.
Yeah, but there is a difference between ignoring obvious trolls, and people who have legitimate criticism.
Ah, I see The Hobbit movies have entered the chat.
yikes big
Though to be fair RoP makes them look good in comparison.
https://collider.com/lord-of-the-rings-cancelled-movie/#:~:text=Though%20Tolkien%20himself%20was%20interested,feathers%20added%20to%20the%20Orcs. shows that Tolkien had better expectations than his son did.
Ironically the Son objected to taking away the fairytale feel for the sake of action while the Writer himself didnāt want the story becoming a fairytale.
Saw this tonight and thought it was great. 9/10 easily.
Iām not a āpuristā other than I think anything Middle Earth should follow Tolkienās stories and worldview. So following that rule, the Amazon series is utter trash.
I didnāt know this story before seeing the movie, so I donāt know how well it fits his works, but it fit the worldview wonderfully. Seeing as Peter Jackson and a few other āfaithfulsā were involved in the production it made sense.
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its not doing so great at the box office.