Because many movies these days are "take you through the movie in five minutes", many people couldn't bear their temper during the three-hour set of The Lord of the Rings.
Re-releases of classic movies are very common and always attract the attention of movie fans. This time it is the turn of "The Lord of the Rings". In the history of film, "The Lord of the Rings" has received numerous accolades and can be called a monument. The trilogy received more than 20 Oscar nominations and won 17 Oscars, the most in world film history. Especially the last film "The Return of the King" was nominated for 11 Oscars and won 11 awards. In history, only "Titanic" and "Ben-Hur" have achieved this result. At the same time, the scripts of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy have won the Hugo Literary Award for Best Adapted Screenplay three times, becoming the only three consecutive winners in the history of this award. The re-release of The Lord of the Rings met with "unpopularity"
If we carefully observe the reputation of this re-release of The Lord of the Rings, we discovered an incredible phenomenon. Is it this classic that received a lot of negative reviews after the first film was re-released? Many viewers gave it 1 or 2 stars. The reasons were that "3 hours is too long", "the plot is draggy" and "there is no ending".
The box office of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" after its nine-day re-release was only over 46 million yuan. With the addition of this re-release, the box office will exceed 100 million yuan. Twenty years have passed, but the return of classics has been met with a cold reception. Is it possible that after such a long time, classics are no longer classics? Today’s “5-minute movie watching”
Today’s movie audiences spend more time watching short videos, and the duration of each work is kept within 1 minute. Even if I watch a movie, I often use the short video platform to "take you through the movie in 5 minutes". As soon as you open it, you will see the exciting scenes and climax plot. Reading the summary is equivalent to watching the whole movie.
Compared to today's popular entertainment methods, a three-hour movie is indeed too long. But for a classic film that has had a huge influence in film history, it is not objective enough to judge it simply from the perspective and standards of short videos and cool dramas, or even to vent emotions and malicious negative reviews. Could it be that times have changed?
For fans of "The Lord of the Rings", they may find it incredible to see such comments. Today, whether "The Lord of the Rings" is good or not has become a question. Why does this happen? Ultimately, it's because times have really changed. Different from other series of movies such as "007" and Marvel DC, although the plots of these series of movies are in the same vein, each one is a relatively complete independent story, and the audience can get a complete plot experience no matter which movie they watch. . Summary
Each part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is about three hours long. It is not yet known how the films will be arranged for this trilogy re-release. If it is released at the same time, it is unknown whether marathon viewings of up to 10 hours will occur.