Is still the best franchise of all time

Can't imagine him saying those comfort words to frodo and pippin like Ian McKellen did. He was just so likable.

Nothing in the last twenty years has come close to matching the comfiness of Gandalf's arrival in the Shire.
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>>is still the best franchise of all time

The last comfy full white cast movie. No niggers. No politics. No feminism. Women are secondary cute characters to look at.

We will never go back.

Yes Ian was perfect for the role. One thing that did disappoint me, however, is that Gandalf didn't really contribute much in battles. Maybe I have a bad memory, but it seemed like all he really did was light up his staff. Maybe that's a fault with the books.
I would like to see Gandalf with more consequential powers.

take the anime pill user

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I'm incapable of imagining Liam in anything other than Taken-mode
>End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

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Gandalf lead the armies in minas tirith by commanding gondor's army and giving them morale.
Also went to get the rohirrim that were with eomer and charged the uruk hai at helm's deep.
And also defeated the balrog that allowed the fellowship of the ring to get out of moria.

>kills the balrog
>drives off the nazgul
>steadies Gondor during the siege
>doesn’t contribute

>there was never an anime version of LOTR in the heyday of 90s anime
it hurts

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mhmm.

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=brgXEYXpTyA

Also one of the best scenes in the series

sad but true

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I didn't say Gandalf was inconsequential, I said I wish his "powers" were more consequential.
Improving morale and leading armies are not "powers" in the sense I'm using that word.
That's basically all he really does is light up his staff. Isn't he supposed to be like millions of years old or something? Does he have more powers in the books?

comfy

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He was sent on a mission to lead middle earth against Sauron. He had many of his powers diminished. He's not fucking dumbledore.

>gandalf didnt really contribute much in battles
>I didnt say gandalf was inconsequential

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The light is his power. He’s the light striving against the darkness. Magic in LotR is more subtle in general and for sure in the third age.

Just because he’s not throwing fireballs doesn’t mean he’s not displaying power

>at this point.
Equivalent to starting a sentence "But like,"

I got that too wtf?

>the dwarf is taller than everyone
based

>no Glorfindel just so Liv Tyler can get more screentime

Youtube recommendation algorithm rotates a ton of videos to tons of people. That's why when you get a video that looks kind of outside of what you usually see, you go to the comments and everyone is commenting how they all got recommended that out of nowhere.

Why does it look like it could just be your average family photo from a random Canadian family?

His choices are undeniably absolute fucking trash but they're all white (aka jewish) so it's kinda based.

Shit books, shit movies.
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why is elijas head so big compared to his body

geniunely looks like he has some sort of syndrom

lol shiit.
okay my thoughts are all a bit nebulous. but yes, it does seem like gandalf didn't contribute much in battles. anybody can ride in front and yell "charge!"
fuck that useless old wizard. comrades dropping left and right and you can't do something with that staff? shoot fire or some shit you bearded cunt! they're killing me! hheeeelp.
>The light is his power.
I noticed.

The directors said that there too many characters and was hard to put everyone in and try to give me any kind of deepness. Tom bombadill didn't make it also.

It was just alright.

beautifully shot film.

you're actually wrong about this

well yeah, they are perfect
but in a world where they cannot be, wouldn't you say the choices are not bad at all? Imagine Liam as Qui-gon but old, it would just be different than Ian. Also I'm having trouble coming up with anyone else.
and Fassbender as Aragorn would be KINO

I know that but usually it's something like a quirky cover of a song or an animal doing something. I was thinking that this was obviously trying to push some sort of agenda but then I remembered they're making that tv series so now it's obviously a paid advertisement.

The title appearing on screen is kino in all three movies
>FOTR
Title appears in Bilbo's house with the fellowship theme softly playing behind it
>TTT
Title appears in front of the rocky mountains Sam and Frodo must descend while the Rohan theme softly plays behind it.
>ROTK
The Gondor theme players sombrely in the background as Gandalf and co. enter Isengard through Fangorn

this was a great decision actually

If the sentence ended without "at this point" it would have worked better. It's just pointless filler because they're not comfortable sharing an opinion without adding some familiar catchphrase everyone can recognise and hopefully relate to. At what point are they even talking about? Perhaps we'll never know. Perhaps they don't even know.

Gandalf isn't slinging spells in the books either. I can only think of a few instances where he uses what you would probably consider to be magic: in the Hobbit, he kills some goblins with a down ranked lightning in the cave before the hobbits get captured. His real power, at least the one he is allowed to use, is persuasion and speech.

In the FOTR the screen title is different in extended version.
In the extended version is on bilbo's house, while on the regular is when Frodo's reading outside.

The title card is a different shot for extended edition/theatrical version in each film

It is a reasonable assumption to make that "at this point" means when the person wrote the sentence. But that's a fair point, I just meant that grammatically it is not incorrect.

Kino casting
Couldn't have picked a better cast at the time

>even hinting or suggesting that someone else could play Gandalf
Absolutely fucking disgusting

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A day may come when I watch the cinematic version of LOTR, but it is not this day

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>implying

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