Was this is the last time a big budget Hollywood trilogy was created with passion and for something other than to push...

Was this is the last time a big budget Hollywood trilogy was created with passion and for something other than to push an agenda, launch a cinematic universe, or to keep an IP? Where did all the talent behind these films go? How has nothing been able to top them in terms of blockbuster popcorn movies?

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Where did the talent go? He went on to make the Hobbit travesty.

Only the fellowship is true kino

As much bad rap as capeshit gets around here (for good reason) the beginning of the MCU had heart, at least Iron Man 1. But i cant think of any other trilogy or movie with sequels that had ANYWHERE near the same level of passion, heart, and polish that the LoTR trilogy had.

Hobbit a shit.

>How has nothing been able to top them in terms of blockbuster popcorn movies?
First class source material, script set in stone, clear vision what the movie is supposed to look like, shot in one year. No public outcry that can influence the second movie after the first, no writers that drop in and out, no writers changing their opinion from movie to movie.

The Hobbit movies, especially the first one still have more soul than all of the Marvel movies put together.

Del Toro was supposed to do the Hobbit, Hackson came on later and it was a rush job. He turned one book into three overly long films and also had much less time to plan and design things than LotR. He can probably make something good again if he's given another shot, although I don't think anything in his filmography comes close to LotR's quality.

Was "They Shall Not Grow Old" a passion project for him? Didnt have the chance to see it but it seems like something that he really wanted to make, but dont really have anything to base that off of.

What are you talking about? All big budget movies exist to sell merch. Get adult, neckbeard.

Basically the current dire financial straits across the world is infecting every aspect of our culture. Once a more stable global economy takes hold (cryptocurrency) we may have a better culture and better movies on average as well.

>crypto
>stable
pick one

yah but that's not hard m8

It just has to be more stable than fiat currency. When the next 2008-style crash happens watch crypto takes its place.

Of course, there is no money in the project and it must have cost him, and select investors, an arm and a leg to edit.

>When the next 2008-style crash happens
that'll be next year, let's see how that crypto thing goes.

eh, NZ probably has generous subsidies for films. Most 1st world countries do except burgerland, oddly.

Didn't they have to develop a coloring process from scratch? That can't have been cheap.

Almost everything is farmed out to chinese sweatshops and the remaining white nerds have given up on the idea of standards.

Pretty much the entire first phase of marvel’s movie world was really well made
The avengers was the first one under the mouse and it was downhill from there

Did Weta Digital do all that? Whatever processes they developed probably will later on make them good money as they use it for other projects.
Also colorization has been a thing for ages, if anything they just developed an improved process.
I haven't seen it so idk how different this process is, I'll have to check it out.

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if crypto is ever stable it won't look anything like what you imagine it to be. The currency selling point of blockchain tech has always been complete bullshit meant to exploit goldbugs and other lolbertarian retards who don't understand how currency works to inflate the price for the benefit of early adopters.

*Ahem*
PotC trilogy had great soundtrack, thought-out, intertwined plot, amazing characters (heroes and villains alike), memorable scenes, great humor. 2 and 3 films were even shot back to back. And just as with Jackson's films, it was a singular vision of Gore Verbinski.

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>It just has to be more stable than fiat currency
It won't be. It can't be.
Sure, crypto is better alternative to a failed currency if an isolated government fails. But if the whole fucking system crashes crypto won't be solving any problems in fact you'll be lucky if the infrastructure required run it even survives for its current userbase much less the number of people you assume would be using it.

Hobbit shouldn't have been made. Silmarillion and the prequel books at least had enough nebulousness to them that the right director and writers could have made nearly anything out of them. The idea of taking Hobbit and then welding a bunch of Hollywood shit on top of it invented out of thin air absolutely destroyed the story.