Ahab_Ali t1_ixihah1 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 6:11 PM

Reply to comment by GetWreckedDJ in Amazon to invest $1 billion yearly to produce movies for theaters by Familiar-Turtle

I only saw the first episode and thought it was meh. The stories and characters just were not as engaging as the Tolkien movies. And, sure it looked cinematic, but not $500M cinematic. The Mandalorian had a polished look as well, and cost 1/5 as much.

Therefirs t1_ixin6c4 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 6:49 PM

Believe me, it gets much, much worse from that point onwards.

Michaelmyers69420 t1_ixir8ar wrote on November 23, 2022 at 7:16 PM

I got 3 episodes, its bad, really bad.

Spot-CSG t1_ixk89ab wrote on November 24, 2022 at 1:40 AM

Is that 500m on making it or dies it include buying the rights and shit?

SlowMotionPanic t1_ixkgjbz wrote on November 24, 2022 at 2:48 AM

The rights alone were $250m just for the indices more or less. That’s why they have to do all this bullshit dancing around because they didn’t purchase the rights to a lot of actual LOTR writing.

It seems so rotten that any other studio is accuse of money laundering. But this is Amazon; they are just more or less incompetent with filmmaking. They fucked with WoT in much the same way.

Amazon thought they would try a new marketing tactic known as fan baiting to get contrarians consuming their show. It didn’t work, and Amazon is covering their tracks because they overcommitted to this nightmare.

I’m a firm believer in giving a show at least 3 episodes to unpack. I think Amazon wishes more people did thag because they are still hiding their viewership data while HBO acts with transparency and gloats.