The pacing got much faster over time. Comparing LotR with a new MCU film, you clearly notice the shift. (Admittedly, LotR was a little slower than the average movie at the time)
its the buildup of the story, its so much better that way. MCU is just cocaine for a quick fix, hence why its just garbage these days, other than having to push out that much garbage to fund thier streaming service.
You’re comparing episodic spectacle movies whose source is also episodic and based on visual spectacle to a set of multi book arced epic adventure movies that are all need to be viewed to complete the story.
I feel like if you’re comparing it to modern movies, the MCU isn’t really fare. Compare it to Dune maybe. I’d guess the new Dune is still paced faster with more action, but I’m not really sure. They’re probably not that dissimilar. Probably the biggest difference is Dune (part 2 in particular) has a constant building of tension, with no release until the end. LotR builds and releases tension in cycles.
Arguably Dune should be even slower than LotR, as almost all the action in the Dune books is at best mentioned, but it isn’t focused on. Meanwhile the new Dune movies, especially the second, added a ton of fighting that wasn’t in the books and doesn’t really fit the story of the books. The LotR books are slow, but it does give quite a bit of detail on fights and battles.
That’s not a valid comparison, lotr was waaaay slower and longer than movies of it’s time. You have to compare to a typical movie of the time, like for example even 5 years before lotr look at men in black from 1997
They’re called “popcorn movies” and they’ve been around at least as long as I have. I personally don’t like the MCU films very much, but their existence and popularity doesn’t bother me any. (Except that now people think even more wrong things about Norse mythology, but I guess that’s better than the Nazis having a monopoly on it. Hel is a very nice girl.) This year was pretty great for good movies and games.
The pacing got much faster over time. Comparing LotR with a new MCU film, you clearly notice the shift. (Admittedly, LotR was a little slower than the average movie at the time)
its the buildup of the story, its so much better that way. MCU is just cocaine for a quick fix, hence why its just garbage these days, other than having to push out that much garbage to fund thier streaming service.
You’re comparing episodic spectacle movies whose source is also episodic and based on visual spectacle to a set of multi book arced epic adventure movies that are all need to be viewed to complete the story.
I feel like if you’re comparing it to modern movies, the MCU isn’t really fare. Compare it to Dune maybe. I’d guess the new Dune is still paced faster with more action, but I’m not really sure. They’re probably not that dissimilar. Probably the biggest difference is Dune (part 2 in particular) has a constant building of tension, with no release until the end. LotR builds and releases tension in cycles.
Arguably Dune should be even slower than LotR, as almost all the action in the Dune books is at best mentioned, but it isn’t focused on. Meanwhile the new Dune movies, especially the second, added a ton of fighting that wasn’t in the books and doesn’t really fit the story of the books. The LotR books are slow, but it does give quite a bit of detail on fights and battles.
That’s not a valid comparison, lotr was waaaay slower and longer than movies of it’s time. You have to compare to a typical movie of the time, like for example even 5 years before lotr look at men in black from 1997
They’re called “popcorn movies” and they’ve been around at least as long as I have. I personally don’t like the MCU films very much, but their existence and popularity doesn’t bother me any. (Except that now people think even more wrong things about Norse mythology, but I guess that’s better than the Nazis having a monopoly on it. Hel is a very nice girl.) This year was pretty great for good movies and games.