I'm not a film theorist so I can't articulate it exactly but why do the sets, costumes and locations in the original trilogy all look so real and believable while this with the budget of a small African nation looks like a highschool production that would fall over if you bumped into a wall.
>>216008948Bad costumes (both the designs and craftsmanship), bad cinematography, unfathomably bad lighting, and last but not the least, bad CGI.
>>216008948For LOTR they had a couple guys specifically in charge of making just the chainmail for all the costumes. For ROP it’s just one costumer using wool weave to look like chainmail
>>216009171It just looks disgusting.
>>216009209It's so fucking cheap despite its apparent cost. Every scene is a few people in front of a cgi background. The battle with the Elf King, was like 10 guys?
>>216008948Too clean so it looks fake
The money simply doesn't go towards building sets and hiring professionals, it all goes to marketing or CGI, or money laundering or whatever. It's not so much a lack of skill of the people on-set (probably) as a deliberate strategy on the producers' part. TV series are a minimum-effort business and they just don't care to make a quality product when a shoddy job will do. In part it's also an issue of your expectations, I'd imagine. You've failed to recognize the work for what it is (mass-produced slop) and treat it as something it's not (an aspiring work of art). Like going to a high-school theater production expecting Broadway. It's not that they've failed, because the series probably produces the expected results, it's you who fails to manage your expectations.
Money can’t buy soul
>>216008948Talent.
>>216009304Except the cinematic equivalent of this garbage has the exact same problem. Marvel sludge looks like an episode of Power Rangers despite again costing more than the GDP of Eritrea.
>>216009209It looks like a commercial for a mobile game.
>>216009508This is a pretty solid take, desu.
>>216008948they're not actually spending that much per episode. minus the $200 million they paid for the rights, 5 seasons at 8 episodes per season works out at $20 mill per ep, the same as Severence.
You have to make it beautiful and believable, but then you also have to make it worn and aged. This last step they always ignore.
>>216008948I can explain it easily. Theres 2 black people in the cast and you're racist. Its really that simple.
>>216010238can you feel it? your magic spells have lost all their potency. pretty soon they'll start actively backfiring on you. it's already begun.you're going to have to get a job.
