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LOTR movies could not have come at a better time

If made in 1990 they’d suck shit If made even a few...
cowgod
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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you have said the actual truth
Talk to Alvor of Riverwood
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Ass Sunstein
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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Cr almost like it was an Act Of God or something hmmmm
single dad, no kids
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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imagine being an adult and into orcs and fairies
\'\'\"\"\'\'\'\"
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there are no fairies in LOTR. orcs are the bad guys. get you...
peeface
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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Where's that "BROWNOID ALERT" counter-spammer with...
single dad, no kids
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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this is evident when you consider those Hobbit movies which ...
OYT and the Indie Reprieve
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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Some of the problem is that Guillermo quit in order to work ...
cowgod
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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False. the golden age of fantasy movies was the 80s. Conan t...
barnabyjones
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Never seen Conan the Barbarian but highly familiar due to 4c...
things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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Conan the Barbarian is widely considered a masterpiece and t...
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they wouldn't have been able to pull off the big moments wit...
OYT and the Indie Reprieve
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star wars did just fine
barnabyjones
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Yeah 80s might’ve worked. 90s no. It would’ve lo...
cowgod
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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They would have done it with midgets too, like Willow and Ti...
Ass Sunstein
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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there would be niggers, fags, and CGI everywhere
CapTTTainFalcon
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*monkeys paw closes as Jeff Bezos commissions Amazon’s...
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man o' war
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In the late 1960s, The Beatles explored the possibility of c...
Ass Sunstein
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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That would’ve been weird, probably a hybrid live actio...
OYT and the Indie Reprieve
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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Ass Sunstein
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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Kubrick supposedly said the books were unfilmable.
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180
things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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Even a year later and they would’ve been completely fu...
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i still think troy is the best looking cgi movie of all time...
Covid was a Hoax
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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Huge budget for the day. Probably had Gen X guys doing cgi
cowgod
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I remember reading this Newsweek article in 1999 De Luca ...
N904PD
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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if you dig LOTR and animation watch Ralph Bakshi's version f...
barnabyjones
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things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:
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Is this the one where aragorn trips on his sword
scholarship
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Does anyone actually know what rotoscope means
cowgod
  03/07/26
We must walk open-eyed into that trap, with courage, but sma...
Nazca Redlines
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: March 7th, 2026 6:55 PM
Author: cowgod

If made in 1990 they’d suck shit

If made even a few years later even before Woke shit, they’d have Hans Zimmer soundtracks and sound The Same as everything else

A few years later and they’d be shot on digital and would look like shit but would at least be 60 FPS lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724622)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 6:56 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724627)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 6:56 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724625)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 6:57 PM
Author: Talk to Alvor of Riverwood (🐾👣)

you have said the actual truth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724629)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 6:58 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724631)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:22 PM
Author: Ass Sunstein



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724678)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:22 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724679)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 6:57 PM
Author: single dad, no kids

Cr almost like it was an Act Of God or something hmmmm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724630)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 6:58 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724632)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:23 PM
Author: \'\'\"\"\'\'\'\"

imagine being an adult and into orcs and fairies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724680)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:24 PM
Author: peeface

there are no fairies in LOTR. orcs are the bad guys. get your shit together.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724688)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:25 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724689)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:31 PM
Author: single dad, no kids

Where's that "BROWNOID ALERT" counter-spammer with the siren emojis when you need him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724713)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:34 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724721)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:23 PM
Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( )

this is evident when you consider those Hobbit movies which I consider the turning point for Hollywood and the harbinger of Bad Films

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724683)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:23 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724684)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:35 PM
Author: cowgod

Some of the problem is that Guillermo quit in order to work on Death Stranding imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724723)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:39 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724732)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:27 PM
Author: barnabyjones

False. the golden age of fantasy movies was the 80s. Conan the Barbarian still stands as the best of all time.

if LOTR was made in the 80s there would have been zero reliance on cgi. Imagine Conan + Willow + Legend but with 180 story and execution.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724697)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:28 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:

Never seen Conan the Barbarian but highly familiar due to 4chan memes etc.

Can I still maek it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724702)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:34 PM
Author: barnabyjones

Conan the Barbarian is widely considered a masterpiece and the best in the genre. John Milius directing an oliver stone script. it has the similar misfortune of the first Rocky though, a 180 movie followed by silly sequels.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724722)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:39 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724731)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:30 PM
Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( )

they wouldn't have been able to pull off the big moments with just puppets and stop motion imo. maybe they could but it would look pretty dated today.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724708)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:31 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724714)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:32 PM
Author: barnabyjones

star wars did just fine

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724717)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:38 PM
Author: cowgod

Yeah 80s might’ve worked. 90s no. It would’ve looked like a Tim Burton Batman film or something. In the 90s it would’ve needed to have bankable boomer actors in it. Mel Gibson as Aragorn. Kevin Costner as Elrond.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724729)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:39 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724733)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: Ass Sunstein

They would have done it with midgets too, like Willow and Time Bandits.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724777)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:57 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724780)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:38 PM
Author: CapTTTainFalcon

there would be niggers, fags, and CGI everywhere

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724728)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:40 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:

*monkeys paw closes as Jeff Bezos commissions Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prestige project*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724734)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 9:41 PM
Author: man o' war (🫶🏾)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724976)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:41 PM
Author: Ass Sunstein

In the late 1960s, The Beatles explored the possibility of creating a movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. They even approached director Stanley Kubrick, and there were discussions about specific roles for the band members. However, Tolkien ultimately denied the band the rights to the material, preventing the project from moving forward.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724737)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:43 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724745)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:43 PM
Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( )

That would’ve been weird, probably a hybrid live action-animation 60s acid trip.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724746)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:45 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724749)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:47 PM
Author: Ass Sunstein



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724753)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:47 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724754)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:48 PM
Author: ..;;.;;;;.;;..;.;;;;.;;..;;,;;,....


Kubrick supposedly said the books were unfilmable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724755)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:48 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724758)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:46 PM
Author: scholarship

Even a year later and they would’ve been completely fucked. Jackson lived CGI so much that he would’ve done the whole trilogy in full cgi if it were possible at the time. He had so settle for gollum and it sent him into a cgi spiral. There’s a story of them kicking in the door of his trailer and he’s showing cgi down his throat frantically flushing the toilet and smushing it in the shower drain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724750)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 7:46 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724751)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 8:06 PM
Author: Covid was a Hoax

i still think troy is the best looking cgi movie of all time. like how the fuck did they do that back in 2003 or whatever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724799)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 8:06 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724800)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 8:09 PM
Author: cowgod

Huge budget for the day. Probably had Gen X guys doing cgi

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724806)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724810)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 9:12 PM
Author: N904PD

I remember reading this Newsweek article in 1999

De Luca can afford to back his hunches because he has the support of New Line's chairman. (Shaye retains the ultimate authority to green-light the movies that De Luca chooses for the studio.) De Luca says, "Coming off the worst year in our history, I walked into [Shaye's office] with 'Boogie Nights,' a 170-page epic on porn in the '70s and a guy with a 13-inch penis. And he was fine with it." Now De Luca is embarked on his wildest gamble yet, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. The project has a little-known director, Peter Jackson, and no big stars. Still, De Luca is typically cocksure when he discusses the project. "Maybe it'll stink. Or maybe it'll be 'Star Wars'."

https://www.newsweek.com/hollywoods-bad-boy-makes-good-166362

More interesting background from a different article I found

“This is really the first time you could visualize Tolkien’s imagination on film,” says Jackson. “The technology has really only existed in the past two or three years. We’re writing our own software codes that will allow us to animate creatures in a realistic way and show battles on an incredible scale. The technological boundaries of film are expanding at a faster rate than any time since the pioneer days of cinema.”

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However, in recent weeks, it became evident that Miramax, while enthusiastic, was not willing to make three separate films. “They wanted to stick with one movie, and I wasn’t comfortable with that,” explains Jackson, who says their parting was amicable. Miramax co-heads Harvey and Bob Weinstein retain an executive producer credit.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-24-ca-15963-story.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724921)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 9:40 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724974)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 9:36 PM
Author: barnabyjones

if you dig LOTR and animation watch Ralph Bakshi's version from the 70s. impressive rotoscope use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT18OJEPU9Q&list=PLhoG7Tljmp9-dJCKVge1PGFTuYHla78AC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724963)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 9:40 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724975)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 9:47 PM
Author: scholarship

Is this the one where aragorn trips on his sword

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724985)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 9:55 PM
Author: cowgod

Does anyone actually know what rotoscope means

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49724997)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 10:03 PM
Author: Nazca Redlines

We must walk open-eyed into that trap, with courage, but small hope for ourselves

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49725004)



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Date: March 7th, 2026 10:50 PM
Author: things from the 90s/00s so ethereal and dreamlike:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5842823&forum_id=2...id.#49725092)