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Post by lexw on Feb 15, 2022 16:51:44 GMT
I haven’t watched any of this, but your post reminds me of The Mythbusters “doing” arrow catching. They hired a twitchy-as-fuck American ninja, who literally calls himself “Arrow Catcher”, and he definitely couldn’t do it I think they proved via robots and so on that it really isn’t possible. That's mostly right. What they found was that the ninja could sometimes catch a partial-draw arrow fired from about 30ft, but he couldn't catch full-draw arrows from a similar distance (i.e. extremely short range when the arrow is going max speed). Thus an elf - with much better/faster reflexes than a human, catching an arrow seems pretty reasonable fantasy stuff (esp. as it seemed to be at the end of its flight). Interestingly they did confirm that said ninja could fairly reliably deflect a full-draw arrow with his sword and cross the distance to the shooter before they could draw, nock and fire another arrow. I love Mythbusters - pretty much the whole thing is (was?) on Prime and I rewatched it over the pandemic. This all looks "okay" in the teaser. Elf arrow catch is probably the best bit of VFX - some of the other stuff looks a bit too shiny or game-CGI - particularly the person hanging from a dagger, who looks entirely CGI (like they've texture mapped someone onto a model or something, it's weird). Can't judge anything about the show from this except that they seem to be going for a very LotR/Hobbit look, maybe leaning a little Hobbit (not ideal but the look wasn't the problem, it was the script and the action scenes - with Jackson doing to the Hobbit exactly what we'd all been unfairly afraid he'd do to LotR). |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2022 17:04:03 GMT
How about stopping an arrow mid air with force powers. Anyone looked into that?
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Post by lexw on Feb 15, 2022 17:14:05 GMT
How about stopping an arrow mid air with force powers. Anyone looked into that? I believe Mythbusters position is that something has to happen in a show/movie or at least be an urban legend before they can do it, and so far we've only had blaster bolts stopped with Force powers (IIRC) so sadly that's outside scope. That's the nerdiest possible answer I can give you here  They did do a Star Wars episode, but it was like "Could Luke have swung across that gap with Leia?" (plausible), would the Ewok log trap have actually wrecked the AT-ST? (plausible), would shoving someone in a Tauntaun actually help them to survive etc? (plausible). |
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Post by mrpon on Feb 15, 2022 17:19:42 GMT
We got a live one.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 15, 2022 22:47:14 GMT
So basically everything in Star Wars is realistic?
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Post by Nanocrystal on Feb 15, 2022 22:52:10 GMT
So what's a goblin?
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Post by askew on Feb 15, 2022 23:08:08 GMT
I'm a-gobblin'.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jul 14, 2022 22:01:54 GMT
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Post by Danno on Jul 14, 2022 22:32:44 GMT
Mmm. Not sure about that, feels very based on the movies fan servicey. Some overacting thrown in there too. I'll watch the shit out of it anyway. |
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Post by suicida on Jul 14, 2022 22:34:58 GMT
Yeah that just looks like people cosplaying the LotR movies to me. Bleh.
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Post by Danno on Jul 14, 2022 22:37:34 GMT
Yeah that just looks like people cosplaying the LotR movies to me. Bleh. I'm hoping that this is promo stuff and they're definitely hitting The Simarillion *hard* in the substance of the show |
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Post by simple on Jul 14, 2022 23:11:09 GMT
I think its more the idea of the Silmarillon than actually adapting it.
I’m surprised how close it looks to the original movies
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Post by Danno on Jul 14, 2022 23:30:06 GMT
I’m surprised how close it looks to the original movies (nicely)Really? It's just astute marketing and you strike me as someone that recognises that a mile off |
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Post by Vandelay on Jul 15, 2022 9:04:54 GMT
It really is hammering home that it wants to be like the films. That isn't too much of a problem though, is it? I seem to recall quite a few people liked those films.
More bleh was the dialogue, which all sounded fairly generic standard fantasy epic pronouncements. Hopefully those lines were just written to sound good in a trailer because it would get grating if the actual show was like that all the time.
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Post by Danno on Jul 15, 2022 9:13:00 GMT
It really is hammering home that it wants to be like the films. That isn't too much of a problem though, is it? I seem to recall quite a few people liked those films. More bleh was the dialogue, which all sounded fairly generic standard fantasy epic pronouncements. Hopefully those lines were just written to sound good in a trailer because it would get grating if the actual show was like that all the time. Now you mention it, maybe it was the juxtaposition between the great visuals and appalling dialogue/delivery that made me recoil a bit. Also, i may be either misremembering the book, or missed what the show's aim is, but I don't recall any halflings in the Silmarillion |
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Post by beastmaster on Jul 15, 2022 9:39:42 GMT
"Based on the works of..."
They can pretty much do anything they want regardless.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 15, 2022 9:42:16 GMT
What the fuck is going on with that Oirish accent...
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Post by simple on Jul 15, 2022 17:06:53 GMT
I’m surprised how close it looks to the original movies (nicely)Really? It's just astute marketing and you strike me as someone that recognises that a mile off I just didn’t think the visual design would be this close. It looks more like LOTR than the Hobbit did. |
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Post by neilch on Jul 15, 2022 17:16:06 GMT
Also, i may be either misremembering the book, or missed what the show's aim is, but I don't recall any halflings in the Silmarillion From memory, I think they might be taking that from the LotRs appendix, think that’s the only place that has hobbits outside the third age. A lot of the reviews talk about that as a source, not sure if that’s come from production team or just ignorance of Silmarillion and book of unfinished tales etc etc |
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 15, 2022 17:39:54 GMT
What the fuck is going on with that Oirish accent... You’ve got dead ears mate. |
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Post by Rich on Jul 15, 2022 18:09:19 GMT
I thought it looked good. Much better than The Hobbit films.
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Post by H-alphaFox on Jul 15, 2022 18:12:07 GMT
I can´t wait.
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Post by Danno on Jul 15, 2022 18:16:47 GMT
I thought it looked good. Much better than The Hobbit films. Low bar. But yes, it looks gorgeous |
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Post by simple on Jul 15, 2022 18:17:41 GMT
I thought it looked good. Much better than The Hobbit films. Looking like real human beings on actual locations is a big improvement visually at least |
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Jul 15, 2022 20:20:58 GMT
(nicely)Really? It's just astute marketing and you strike me as someone that recognises that a mile off I just didn’t think the visual design would be this close. It looks more like LOTR than the Hobbit did. |
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Jul 17, 2022 8:03:26 GMT
I think it looks like a train wreck. The casting is atrocious, Squish face as Elrond? In fact all the Elves look wrong. They're supposed to posses an ethreal beauty not look like they work at LIDL.
The dwarves rather than being fierce and powerful have followed the comedy bumpkin style of the Hobbit films and the Halflings are going to be painfully hammy in the brief glimpse.
The backgrounds and CGI look good, though you'd expect that with the budget but the wardrobe department have made the same mistake as they did with Wheel of Time, the characters don;t look like they actually live in the environment. It looks manufactured.
Extremely low expectations for this.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 20, 2022 5:14:59 GMT
Looked better than I expected (especially after reading the comments here).
Not sure about the super-young casting though.
Are Elrond and Galadriel going to be the main characters? Not sure about that idea.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jul 21, 2022 22:30:45 GMT
Just saw the new trailer and other than Elrond’s ridiculous face, that looks pretty sweet. Excitement is back.
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Post by Danno on Jul 21, 2022 23:45:29 GMT
Ads are everywhere on the underground and it's not out for another 7 weeks. Gonna have fatigue by the time I can watch it
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jul 23, 2022 14:34:35 GMT
Just saw the new trailer and other than Elrond’s ridiculous face, that looks pretty sweet. Excitement is back. Yeah, much better trailer - fewer pretty backgrounds and more story based. Nice bit of fan service right at the end too. |
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