What went so right? How the fuck did the Lord of the Rings, the nerdiest thing around...

What went so right? How the fuck did the Lord of the Rings, the nerdiest thing around, become so popular in the mainstream in the early 2000s, when nerdy things weren't cool yet? And then won a fucking Best Picture Oscar?

Epics have been popular for thousands of years m8

It wasn't nerdy... Nerdy things in the early twenty first century were not fantasy related.. LOTR made them nerdy. Almost everyone had read LOTR at some stage in their life - those who read that is, even my dad, who doesn't read, got me into reading by giving me his copies of LOTR.

It won best picture because it is a great movie, in both end product and creation.

Pro tip: Don't rewatch it.

Because I made the mistake of rewatching (last time I saw it was when I was 17, 23 now) and it doesn't hold up. Some of the acting is cringe inducing, lots of the special effects don't hold up and date the movie. It almost feels more like a 1990s film rather than an early 2000s film. Gollum is starting to show his age (in terms of cgi) and don't even get me started on the battle scenes. Stiff, shaky cam, and tone breaking. Like Legolas sliding down a staircase on a shield in a very serious moment and then the music gets all fun and light hearted.

Let your nostalgic love for this film stay with your younger more naive self. I warn you. Hold onto that feeling as long as you can.

a good story and good actors

Acting that was melodramatic but sincere, a fantastic orchestral score that struck all the right notes, a seamless marriage of practical and visual effects, and an international production effort that brought a beloved but allegedly un-filmable story to the screen. It was an underdog story, simple as that.

kys.

As far as I know it's a/tv/ thing to re-watch these films yearly.

This is not an accepted opinion, its your opinion, but it's fucking dumb, m8. Of course the CGI is aging, if you judge a movie on it's CGI and CGI alone - well shit I am done posti-

That's odd. It seems the more I watch it, the better it gets. Nothing like watching a few random scenes on a rainy night, after a warm shower and a shitty day at work.

It didn't the academy is worthless. Only fellowship is good stop making this same thread

I know what you mean. The cgi is forsure starting to show it's age. Also, in this day and age it's kinda distracting watching a film starring 99% white men with only 2 relevant female characters that also happened to be white. I don't even necessarily care about the movie being all men, but even then it's all white men, including the elves and dwarves.