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ls3mach
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SEP 03, 11:56 AM
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I watch the Amazon boards and I am surprised they aren't all up in arms about raises with the $715,000,000 production on their Prime Video Service. Plus another 1/4 million for the rights.
I haven't even seen the originals all the way and none of the Hobbit series or any others.
Most expensive production in history. I can't imagine selling enough Prime memberships to pay for this. Especially since Prime is ad free. They already get my $6.99/mo so no change for me.
Related article:
https://www.gamerevolution....pensive-tv-show-ever
How about that new Game of Thrones. Same exact show from the first episode. King names an unlikely heir. King meets an untimely demise. This isn't a spoiler, it is literally the damn opening.
I hear too much of it rots your brain.
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Jake_Dragon
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SEP 03, 01:00 PM
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I get prime included with my phone. Every where I go they are advertising it.
I will pass, had enough...
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MidEngineManiac
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SEP 03, 01:18 PM
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They will make it up in merchandising.
Get the tele-zombies hooked on it, then everything will have a LOTR picture slapped on it at twice the price it was yesterday.
Now, walking dead stuff, I can kind of understand.  
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RWDPLZ
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SEP 03, 01:48 PM
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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SEP 03, 02:15 PM
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Remember the one where they walked around a lot, and had a huge battle? And stuff happened. And they made friends. And folks died. and others didn't actually die. And there were some monsters and big insects and stuff. And there was a ring and an evil guy. and Orcs.
I dunno, I would probably watch the Hobbit one day (the version they condensed the three into one movie.)
or THIS one. That one was "different" , at least!
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Jake_Dragon
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SEP 03, 06:14 PM
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Remember when Apple pushed unwanted music to itunes? Is there some young person that can help me take this off my prime account
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MidEngineManiac
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SEP 03, 06:37 PM
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I tried over dinner.
Made it about 10 minutes.
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Wichita
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SEP 05, 01:07 PM
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I thought the first two episodes (the ones released so far) were pretty good. The production value seems to be very good.
They are also following the strict story format that the LOTR from Peter Jackson series did, so I don't see anything different from the originals.
Honestly, they probably got themselves a winner. Will they recoup it? Amazon basically makes over $1 billion a day, so I don't think they are worried about it.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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SEP 05, 01:30 PM
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I can't get my daughter to watch Lord of the Rings... even the originals.
I saw one of them in the theater, and I honestly don't remember which one. I don't think I saw all three, and I don't really know what's up with the Hobbit one.
As far as I can tell, the old guy with white hair in the Lord of the Rings, I think is the exact same old guy with white hair in Harry Potter.
I've seen all the Harry Potter movies just because my daughter loves them so much, but it doesn't really seem like anyone is that into Lord of the Rings anymore.
I have been meaning to sit down and watch all of them in order... just as I've been meaning to replay all of my old DOS games from childhood. None of which will ever happen, and my Fiero still sits in storage where it's been for almost 12 years now.
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Raydar
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SEP 05, 02:59 PM
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Apparently some of the reviewers are trashing the "diversity" of the production.
They're being called "trolls", and the reviews have been shut down, until the mods can kill the "troll" comments. Sounds fair to me. 
Me? Haven't seen it. Probably won't. Don't have streaming capability, just now.
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