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comment by Jodjuya
Jodjuya  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cut to Dwarves: The Decline of Big Budget Cinema

Double amen to your comment too. In addition to all of your observations: the tone for this movie has been set by Jackson's LotR films.

So it has to be this epic action movie, with lots of swordplay and scary brutal monsters, and an overall 'gritty' tone. So instead of cutesy little goblins being petty and irritating, they get upgraded to savage LotR Orcs. And there was that annoying sub-plot with The Great White Orc chasing the party down because fuck dwarves.





littlebirdie  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right! I know! Goblins replaced by dripping, creeping, smelly, dingbat Orcs. Really, it was LOTR part 4. Or Part Zero, I guess, coming before the rest of it.

JTHipster  ·  4355 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Part 0 Part 1. Remember, its a trilogy. Even though the content in the book is enough for maybe 2 movies if you put all of it in.