I think you should definitely give it a shot.
I think it was about as faithful as one could be in the book to film translation. Some portions were cut and some characters were mashed together to aid in pacing, but I think a great number of the fundamental lessons and morals still transfer over, and do so in an incredibly potent way.
In general, I agree with Tazzurit that it captured the essence excellently. I also would point out that for a great many involved it wasn't just another movie; this is evident in the amount of significant injuries received by cast members throughout filming.
Just take the actor for Aragorn, for example. There is a scene in which he arrives at a pile of burning orc corpses (the ones that had abducted Merry and Pippin) and is supposed to kick a helmet across the camera in his frustration; a cool cinematic blip. PJ was consistently not happy with the take, so they kept running it through time after time until ultimately the actor broke his foot mid kick; instead of ruining the scene, however, he channeled the immense pain into his performance of frustration and lets out this loud yell before collapsing to his knees. That's the take they kept in the film.
That same actor supposedly used his full-weight sword as much as possible (most of the swords had a "full weight" versions for the few scenes where that was required and a "lighter weight" version where it was just a standard prop) to not only improve his performance with it in action scenes but also to further "embody" the character while acting. This of course turned out to be deeply beneficial to him. There was a scene in which he is battling an orc whom was intended to throw a knife safely past Aragorn's head, but in the filming of the scene, the orc guy got makeup in his eyes during the throw and accidentally threw it at the actor for Aragorn's head. With his skills with the blade he had been taught for fight scenes and so on, he managed to deflect the oncoming knife and they continued the scene.
He also almost drowned due to sketchy rigging at another scene.
It's abundantly clear there was a deep passion in the project to try and capture the essence of the original as much as possible. It's definitely not perfect, but it is fantastic.
Opposite take:
Disney (like most of the megacorps doing so much damage today) have succeeded explicitly because of their government dealings. In Disney's case they've been granted a lot of special privileges the rest of us don't have (tax exemptions, some component of self-governance, etc.), but they haven't exactly been providing a lot back to the government or the people of Florida that I can figure.
This is a textbook example of "deal with the devil"; Disney got to ride it high for a long time, but just as easily as the government givith the government can takeith away.
This is NOT a case of the government somehow stripping Disney or others of their rights, constitutional or otherwise. This is the government putting Disney back on a level playing field with the rest of us, and taking away their arguably unfair and unjust special statuses over the rest of us.
By doing this, they kneecap Disney, AND they break down the unholy alliance between the corrupt parts of the government and the corrupt companies. I am fairly confident that neither can live with out each other, so dividing them is a logical step to defeating both. It has the added bonus of making all of these mega-corporations that have been getting rich off of taxpayer dollars and exemptions think twice about their strategy.
I wish I had one on hand, I don't expect they'd be TOO hard to find, I think it was a part of some general plan they formulated but again, working all on memory here. I've been really busy lately, normally I'd have gone and fetched one but if you give me a day or two I should be able to get back to you with some stuff.
Admittedly direct quotes are hard to find over general plans as the quotes are more often censored or translated and it's hard to know if you can trust the translator (as I myself do not speak German). I have one or two friends that I can check with that might have a more readily accessible direct quote for me to hand you.
I'll see what I can do in a few days if you want it. If it's extremely important for you and I forget send me another reply or direct message so I can get that notification through the reminder.
I don't know why you'd install one guy and then install a different as a replacement.
I'm not saying the newer guy is great but he seems to have definitely been the popular choice.
He also had little to no background in politics (instead in television) and seemed to be an outsider, having his background instead in television. This part reminds me a lot of Trump, and given he was both elected during Trump's presidency and he received some pretty substantial aid from Trump (such as the Javelins that appear to be demolishing Russian tanks in huge quantities from what I can gather).
Just something to consider, I have nothing more than that to suppose. Whole thing just seems way more complicated than 99% of people are viewing it, including on here.
Zelenski was not installed in 2014.
Petro Poroshenko was installed in 2014 and was president of Ukraine until Zelenski beat him in the 2019 election with 73% to Poroshenko's 25%.
Zelenski ran in big part on anti-corruption and from what I've seen the dislike of Poroshenko's corruption is a big part of why he was voted out.
By all means have your opinions but at least do some bare minimum research first. I'm not going to try to tell you if he's good or bad or where he lies in between, but Obama most certainly did not install him in 2014.
I mean isn't this literally just bait to try and get people to turn off the trucks and stop honking?
Near as I can tell (haven't been following super closely), it just looks like this one organizer guy is saying that he's got a crap load of fuel in case they get cut off so they can continue to operate their trucks in the area for a while.
This Redditor is basically just saying "look this is what this actually means, I have inside sources but I can't say who just trust me guys turn off your trucks and stop blowing your horns"
Also why at all mention that the horn blowing is paramount to torture? that is totally misplaced in the rest of the message unless it's a leftie that's just trying to bait the protest into shutting down?
There are real "heil hitler" dogwhistles and then there are ones they inventively come up with. I am prettttyyy sure 99% of people that say "honk honk" do not mean it as a dogwhistle, and I don't think it was started like that either (though knowing what I do about the chans it would definitely be possible, I suppose). It's always in the context of clown world though so it doesn't make any sense for it to be a dogwhistle.
They always do manage to come up with the dumbest shit like that though. I still can't tell if its them being "closeted" national socialists or them being so insanely scared of national socialists (or us) that they try to do the associate thing? IDK anymore.
While maybe uncomfortable, discomfort is something that we all have to face in life. At worst they could probably get them a pair of earplugs and make it a bit better that way.
Realistically this is the most peaceful major protest in decades. The protestors are intent but jolly and high energy from everything I've seen.
I find most polls seem to skew about 15% against reality against us. So in my head I just automatically adjust by 15% to see what the "real" numbers are. By that guide it would be 73% which I could definitely believe and which would pretty well reflect my anecdotal evidence.
Someone else mentioned these are from July, which makes that number even more believable. I suspect it's higher now, though probably not by a ton.
Do be fair NVIDIA specializes in graphics, so having an eye, the thing you use to, you know, see, makes pretty good sense.
Like I wouldn't be surprised to see a headphone manufacturer have an ear in their logo. It just kind of makes sense.
In some ways he's almost in more peril now than on the night in which he defended himself.
-He has people wanting to assassinate him that are deranged and WOULD DIE to do it.
-He has the media circling him for blood in every way shape and form.
-He may very well be about to come into an absurd amount of money (wealth can be perilous in many ways).
And much more.
Maybe it's not immediate harm, or bodily harm (though death threats are threats of bodily harm), but the other thing at risk is his soul, something that was not besieged in that same way that night.
What you mean the shoddily put together propaganda piece that so blatantly follows all laws of propaganda? Some of the things it does well:
- Mix facts in with massive amounts of spin (to the point of lies)
- Pre-announce arguments to prep people's subconscious and bias, then give the shoddy mixed truth and lies, and then go "boom!" as if it all proved it
- Overwhelmingly interlacing with highly emotional appeals in place of facts (emotional appeals both directly and through use of musical scoring, imagery, etc.)
- "History Channel 101" of interspersing random ass people saying shit to give an air of legitimacy
- Extreme levels of repetition to drive home points
- Use multiple unfounded or unverified claims to attempt to "verify" other claims circularly - in other words, extensive use of circular logic
- Clever strawmanning where you self-doubt your argument using a strawman point (not actual counterpoints; this is done to appear reasonable when you really aren't)
- Less clever outright strawmanning
Europa is long-ass trash. I gave it a shot to see if it was worth anything, and I made it through about a half an hour to an hour before it got to the point where the arguments it was making were all based on original false arguments, and it was SO heavily laced in just emotional appeals and other bullshit that I couldn't stand it. If you really want a quality piece of education or information, it will stand without all the bullshit. Facts don't need dramatic flair.
Are its contents true? Not as it presented them, they weren't, but to be fair, absence of proof is not proof of absence.
That said, I agree with the others here; Q has deeply connected the evil today to the Nazis of the past. To ignore that as "disinfo necessary" is to: 1.) take the "disinformation necessary" out of context completely, and 2.) discount the entire fucking movement.
Disinfo necessary isn't about things like major structural portions or themes. It's about specific small details; ally or enemy name drops, timing of events, etc; disinfo is necessary not because "lets lie for the hell of it", disinfo is necessary because cabal are monitoring. Minor details (to us) are huge tactical pieces between the two of them. That's the kind of disinfo needed; stuff like saying "so and so flipped and is on our side" when it might not be true is a damn good way to sew seeds of distrust and fear among the DS.
I think the incessant "HOSPITALS ARE FULL" propaganda leading up to it made it harder for a lot of folks to notice.
That and pilots are pretty specialized. Not saying they're "more important" or anything like that, but there are a lot more nurses and doctors than qualified airline pilots, last I checked. Similar is probably true with air traffic control.
If we think that nurses require significant qualifications and would be hard to replace in these cases, I think the people that keep airlines operational hit even harder.
That and airlines are a "luxury" moneymaker, hospitals are a "captive" moneymaker.
You're totally retarded if you think it's about a moral high ground.
It's about getting fucking allies you retard. When you piss off these people you're just throwing them back in the enemy camp. The more accepting of them you are the less likely they are to fight us.
If you don't fucking understand that optics are important by now you're part of the problem, period.
Also, what the fuck are you on this page for if you don't like Q/Q supporters ("quislings")?
Well caught, I don't often make this mistake but I was dancing around not remembering how to spell various actors' names and lacking the motivation to look it up!