Amazon resorting to deleting negative reviews of Rings of Power on IMDB just cause they own it is super fucking humiliating for them but also demonstrates the problem that if like 4 companies own most of the internet that means they own both the media and all the sites that critique said media and you can say goodbye to any reliable consumer reviews of products on the internet
Amazon resorting to deleting negative reviews of Rings of Power on IMDB just cause they own it is super fucking humiliating for them but also demonstrates the problem that if like 4 companies own most of the internet that means they own both the media and all the sites that critique said media and you can say goodbye to any reliable consumer reviews of products on the internet
Anyway, you absolutely still should not blindly trust call-out posts.
The vast majority of call-outs are made with the specific goal of inciting harassment.
Unless the person being called out has done something truly horrible, and there is actual sufficient evidence to back it up, take it with a grain of salt.
Y'all need to have higher standards than “sources: dude trust me”
remember to do your part by giving Amazon’s Rings of Power show the Morbius treatment
this is one post i actually wouldn’t be mad about it blowing up. i want as many people in on this Morb as possible. i’ll suffer the notes.
in response to your tags, basically, a while back, Amazon the soulless megacorp acquired the rights to some portion of Tolkien’s Middle Earth lore. As someone more heavily in the LotR online fan circles, we all immediately knew it would be terrible and hold no respect for the source material, by dint of it being Amazon.
And true tof form, they decided to do the worst possible low effort job of making a show out of it. Grave mistakes include adding sexual content (very not-Tolkien), rewriting characters just cause they feel like it (turning an elegant, powerful sorceress into a warrior and a wise leader into an “ambitious” go getter), none of the male elves have long hair (and hair is a HUGE part of Elvish culture), party city looking costumes, general low effort all around, and egregious inaccuracies a la Amazon the Soulless Corporation essentially just trying to make Tolkien’s work more palatable for Game of Thrones fans rather than putting effort into just letting it be what LotR fans actually like about it.
Each new promo material makes it worse and worse, and more obvious that no one making it cares at all, hence why we want the Morb treatment to make it flop and show Amazon the fans won’t stand for them trying to just GoT-ify other beloved properties and stray so far from the source material when they could make something original instead
Holy crap, that sounds awful! Also just like something Amazon would do. I’m so sorry. I will happily spread your message to my followers.
There’s also the part about how they started filming it in New Zealand because, you know, Middle Earth is kinda a cottage industry there thanks to the films? A major driver of jobs, tourism, and popular culture which New Zealanders have proudly embraced as a little piece of their national identity?
But then extremely seasoned stunt actors kept complaining about unsafe work practices during the filming of Rings, which they considered particularly egregious on that kind of budget. Their complaints were ignored. There were multiple serious injuries, some requiring surgery. Amazon failed to report these incidents to New Zealand’s WorkSafe program as required by law.
Finally, it pulled out of filming in New Zealand altogether, a costly move for both Amazon and New Zealand, and relocated the production to the UK where worker safety rules are far more lax.
If you ever thought they were taking it seriously as Tolkien work, the fact they punted their Tolkien consultant and specialist says a great deal. They want to have a new GoT. They don’t care what that means.
Holy shit I hope the Tolkien esate goes for their throat
unfortunately since we lost Christopher, I don’t think there’s anyone left who cares. Amazon had to get the rights from someone after all…. and they announced RoP almost immediately after he died
“But I would ask them to make an effort of imagination sufficient to understand the irritation (and on occasion the resentment) of an author, who finds, increasingly as he proceeds, his work treated as it would seem carelessly in general, in places recklessly, and with no evident signs of any appreciation of what it is all about.”
“The canons of narrative art in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration, and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies.”
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