Lord of the Rings trilogy has not aged well. amirite?

I know, I can't fathom how someone could think those masterpieces have aged poorly. If anything, they have aged like a fine Scottish whisky.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I literally just watched the extended versions last weekend and couldn't fathom how good they still are. This guy is brain dead .

by labadiesalvador 1 week ago

The non-cgi baddies look so good and better than any of of those cgi baddies everywhere today.

by Smart-Guard-4938 1 week ago

At least he's smart enough to know the first film is the best

by PresentBuilding1129 1 week ago

This scene is so hilarious. Especially Bob Sagets(RIP) bit. Lol.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

They did that, literally all the stuff was update the texture to 4k, it's wonderful.

by binsdominique 1 week ago

I wish a thousand years of mild inconveniences upon your bloodline.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Let me bring toilet papers along

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Have one back precious.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I just rewatched the matrix yesterday. It's almost better the longer it sits. It's like the perfect capture of 2000s cool, never repeated or matched, with great but campy effects and masterful pacing. So no argument about lotr but it's definitely not the only one.

by Jeffereyferry 1 week ago

This is not an unpopular opinion, this is rage bait

by ObviousImagination52 1 week ago

Most unpopular opinion, well done

by Famous_Molasses 1 week ago

You would think they would remaster them and rerelease them. Seems like an easy way to make a killing

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's actually a great idea. I don't usually approve of remasters these days, but LotR would definitely benefit a ton.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't really like any of the stuff with Gollum, that's my main issue with the trilogy. I find him annoying and not that interesting. That's why the first one is the best. But helms deep is probably best sequence in the whole trilogy.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I agree entirely. Helm's deep is an amazing sequence.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

One does not simply bash lotr!

by New_Permission7864 1 week ago

Ugh I just wish people would stay away from CGI when they make these complaints. It's like terminator 2 hasn't aged well because when he turns into the metallic liquid it looks awful. Well it was groundbreaking at the time. You have to watch CGI for the time it's in. Also I think your version or audio is busted? Mine sounds awesome in those moments

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Except T2 has aged well and the CGI still looks excellent, you're the first person I've ever heard say otherwise.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Going to have to agree to disagree here. I mean it looks ok, so does LOTR but I really don't think say the scene where terminator goes through the flames and is in full metallic would hold up today at all

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That is because the second and third movies are two movies in one. One of them is good to great and the other is mediocre.

by Tstracke 1 week ago

You really start to see the seeds of the hobbit planted in TTT (still a bonkers movie though), and it's sprouted in ROTK.

by Jeffereyferry 1 week ago

Blasphemy!

by Mundane_Housing696 1 week ago

I suppose this meets the definition of unpopular opinion, because it's literally the opposite of reality. Well done?

by No-Roof-4939 1 week ago

I highly disagree. Just rewatched then recently and they def hold up and the cgi is better than a lot of the garbage out today.

by Ok-Efficiency 1 week ago

This could also be said of Star Wars. If you're old enough and you watch the film when it first came out it had everyone spellbound, some kid in your school sat through it 30 times over the weekend. If you watch it again the original episode it looks cheap, and the special effects are dated. You can see the acting is, well, not very good. I actually don't understand how they've gotten the mileage out of the series, because it's been worn out for a long time. Somewhat like The Simpsons, The Legend goes after season 9 everything fell apart.. everyone will even pinpoint the episode where Principle Chalmers has his flashback..

by Anonymous 1 week ago

At least you're smart enough to know the first film is the best

by PresentBuilding1129 1 week ago

Interesting opinion, I watched it last year, and couldn't fault it. Still the only movie I consider a 10/10.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I mean I agree, the Balrog was fantastic, and still holds up well in the first film. The CGI fight with CGI Gandalf, was......not so good.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You are pointing to the most banal things

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Nailed unpopular opinion perfectly. CGI is a bad way describe if a movie aged well. Acting, script, cultural zeitgeist is much more reasonable. Ghostbusters is a good example of the effects/CGI being badly outdated but loved. It aged badly because everything would be canceled now.

by InterviewAlarming 1 week ago

Wow this is an awful take lmao

by kanekoss 1 week ago

Are you ok?

by Final-Macaroon 1 week ago

Just did a rewatch still holds up for me

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Go back and smoke some more crack!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Boooo

by clarekemmer 1 week ago

I watched the trilogy a week ago and was just as blown away as I was every other time I watched it. Definitely an unpopular opinion op. Well done.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's goddamn 20 years old man.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I generally don't like them but I think this is a weird critique of the films. Occasionally poor cgi isn't the reason that things age badly, it's when that cgi was used to cover up more bad parts of the project and that's not how LotR used its cgi

by Remote-Donkey1287 1 week ago

Did you watch the director cut?!?!

by Kevinrunolfsdot 1 week ago

Truly an unpopular opinion

by Calm_Letter_234 1 week ago

Ahhh… the wonderful smell of a truly unpopular opinion. I haven't had the patience to sit through the films in years but just no, I truly don't agree with you.

by schroederagusti 1 week ago

Absolute garbage take. Like to the point that this is obvious trolling. Do not feed the troll, folks.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Return of the King is honestly one of the most boring movies ever made. No humor, no characters - just awful, stilted dialogue designed to be as pretentious as possible with heavy handed dramatic music, and endless tedious battle scenes that go on and on and - who cares? To be fair, the books got progressively duller as the wry spontaneity of The Hobbit gradually dissolved into the epic boredom of characters endlessly reciting their lineages. Nobody cares who you are the son of, Aragorn!

by Anonymous 1 week ago