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Old 09-04-2022, 05:48 AM   #574
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Originally Posted by timebug View Post
'Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power'. Pretty strange TV series. Looks great, the cinematography and sets are excellent. The acting mostly very poor level am-dram, script seems to be computer generated, and the story(!) so far has very little to do with the source material it claims in the end credits ( The LOTR Appendices & The Silmarillion)
Don't get me sarted on the accents used. Cod-Irish to Cod-Mummerzet and back again. Will probably stick with it, as a dedicated Tolkien fan, but this short series looks like it may end up equalling 'The Hobbit' films for awfulness!
D'you know that Amazon has stopped all reviews? Of their show? Into which they have sunk the EARTH in terms of cashola? The reviews were so pervasively bad that they just pulled the reviewing plug.

As a dedicated Tolkien fan--I mean, c'mon, who wasn't way back when?--I'm not sure I will stick with it. If it's bad, it's bad and let's face it, while Amazon has had some good luck with shows (the Reacher one is, well...better than the movies, at least), most of them are pretty lousy. Or they start out great (like that Billy Bob Thornton lawyer thing) and then go straight to hell, and so on.

It's a shocking idea, I know, but perhaps--just perhaps--Amazon should try listening to its customers tell it what they want to watch, rather than Amazon informing them what they should watch.

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I watched Hellbender last night and it wasn't good.
I wasn't sure if you meant that 2021 film or the older one, Hellbenders, which is awful in a rank, corny kind of way. Either way, though..."wasn't good" is probably about right.

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Tonight I might watch Carpenter's Vampires, or I might continue with NCIS.
You know, I'm very fond of that movie and that's funny, because it's nothing, NOTHING like the book from whence Carpenter got the idea. He licensed it and the author allowed that basically one--one--single line of dialogue had entered the movie from the book and that was that. The concept--a Vatican-funded Vamp Fighting Order--that was in the book. But after that, it was pretty much night-n-day.

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