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The article now has 15 ways. Some are valid complaints, some are nonsense, almost none are actually about it aging poorly.
Their list
- No female main characters interact throughout the trilogy
- It is implied that every orc and goblin is evil
- Frodo’s reunion with the Fellowship is ultimately underwhelming
- The movies lack diversity
- The story takes a while to get started
- Some main characters lack agency
- The heroes seem invincible
- Some characters show up momentarily
- Certain visual effects look clunky
- Elijah Wood’s acting in some scenes is awkward
- It will inevitably be rebooted
- The Hobbit trilogy condenses the timeline of the LOTR trilogy
- Important scenes are missing in the theatrical cuts
- Major characters like Tom Bombadil and Glorfindel are cut from the films
- Return of the King fades out four separate times
Omg these sound ridiculous.
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They were literally created and indoctrinated from birth to be thus, that kind of brainwashing is most effective
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THEY ARE LITERALLY DIFFERENT SPECIES
#11 takes the piss though, bc that is true of every successful movie series, though notably it is mainly for successful rather than unsuccessful ones… 😜
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That’s a fair point. I would love to see some side stories about something like defecting orcs, or just a friendly orc living in a cabin in the forest.
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Yeah. Such a hard thing to avoid unless you want to kill off a lot of characters. I would say that Borimir is the only main character that dies in my mind.
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This 100%. Watching the 4K versions really shows some of the terrible (by today’s standards) CGI and green screens. Lot less noticable on DVD.
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Intellectuals re-watching the trilogy:
“It is a click bait article, Sire. It is not welcome here.”
I mean, there’s a couple scenes with slightly awkward CGI. But definitely not 10.
The only one that always leaps out at me is the cave troll, which gets positively video-gamey in a handful of shots.
