Lord of the Rings - [Amazon] *Spoilers*

It's been going for quite a long while on IMDB and there seem to be concerted efforts by fanbois to counter sometimes quite valid criticisms of a film or a show. Usually an indication of that is multiple 10 scores blocking together over a few pages to combat lower scores. IMDB is almost a type of social media at times these days! That's not to say you still can't get reasoned reviews of stuff. Never really seen this claim about it but not a good one for Amazon. Word of mouth elsewhere may well decide on its fate. Definitely not a GOT level of excitement about this show.

Well asking for evidence was genuine @Brian? - You have stated something fairly serious. Im just asking for evidence to support the claim - pretty basic stuff. Iv heard a lot of people attack Drinker et al - especially on Youtube - And they make claims similar to yours - and when they are asked to copy/clip/provide-verifiable-evidence, in support of these claims - they cant, and invariably leave.

You stated something - quote I've heard him express many misogynistic and toxic viewpoints

You use the word 'many' - which would indicate how easy it must be to find examples of Toxic, and Misogynistic comments! He behaved this way 'many' times - How do we know this - well, because you have said so.

I replied in a respectful way - asking for evidence - which you have, as of yet, not provided - Therefore, I believe Hitchens Razor is quite appropriate - If we have reached the Hitchens quotes, then you have lead us there. Or you could provide genuine, verifiable, clear cut evidence of Drinker being Toxic or Misogynistic!

Oh and here is the man himself talking about RINGS OF POWER - for all those interested, he gives it 4/10

Is it 5 days since the 72 hour ban was implemented on Amazon prime video?

on another note, the two hobbits looking after the tall fella - are they going to be female Sam and Frodo? The resemblance seems to be there. I was thinking it may have been just the one hobbit sorry … erm … harfoot since they mentioned how they always stick together.

The one on the right is the skull off Frodo in some scenes. She is also curious and yearns for more like Frodo.

The one the left is cautious and afraid of getting in trouble which is bang on with early Sam wise.

Freeman was born to play Bilbo for sure.

I would agree with what you have said there. They do give us more content that we didn’t really need, but at the same time wasnt terrible.

He's mainly just a whiney bitch, who does his bitching to an audience willing to tip him so they can salve their own opinions on something. In fairness, he can be often correct about the current state of film making in some of the points he makes, but nonetheless he's still only gigging a particular take on modern movies to make a buck off of those who only want to hear their own preconceived opinions reflected back at themselves.

No, it wasn't absolutely abysmal. Just like 'Rings of Power' isn't absolutely abysmal either. Well, so far anyway. There's plenty of time for it to end up as complete junk.

But there's some good scenes in 'The Hobbit', such as the beginning, "Riddles in the Dark", and Bilbo's encounter with Smaug. But they were sandwiched between too much boring filler. In fact I rather like the first movie in its entirety, but as a whole the trilogy is a dud. The final movie being particularly boring to watch and I never liked the casting for the dwarves.

Whatever about the discussion of valid reviews being hidden the drinkers fanboys are as cringe as ever defending their lord and saviour. His popularity is bizarre.

Hes playing a blinder. An AI could auto-script his videos pretty accurately as he only has a few phrases that get his fans hooting and hollering.

He probably doesnt even watch some but just knows what his base wants so fires away with his view.

Just to be absolutely clear - I am totally fine with people not liking Drinker. My partner is not a fan. And some of my friends feel the same - He is not for everyone. Just say, as you did, - i dont like him i find him cringe - i hate his content -

Fine! I dont agree, i am a fan, and i agree with his points. I find him more entertaining than most Marvel shows since endgame. but we are adults and we can agree to disagree

My biggest issue is when people state:

'I dont like Critical Drinker .. because he is

• Racist
• homophobic
• transphobic
• an incel
• Xenophobic
• Misogynistic
• insert more bigotry's

Its happened several times already here, and happens quite a lot elsewhere too - And i feel its ridiculous -

And then, when asked - 'Can you actually provide evidence to support this claim' - What then happens is rather hilarious. The poster usually restates the above but emphasizing the words.. and tells me, and other fans - 'Oh its in all his videos.. my god he is so toxic, just look at any of his videos'

And this is followed by fans asking - 'Ok but, you are telling us YOU HAVE SPOTTED THIS - in MANY OF HIS VIDEOS' - ok SHOW US - Demonstrate that you are correct'

And..... thats when they vanish - sometimes with a final comment, along the lines of, i dont have time to be dealing with you incels, go look for yourself... etc etc yada yada yada

But anyway - You dont like him - you are not alone here, seemingly many cant stand the guy - totally fine -

If on the other hand you are going to state something as a fact - THIS CONTENT PRODUCER IS A RACIST PERSON (for example) - Please for the love of sanity - be able to prove it - if its as OBVIOUS as you make out - this should be very simple

Of course its impossible - because he is NONE of the above - its just that certain people feel the need to smear those they disagree with now. And what better ****in way to smear someone than to accuse him of being a bigot -

And its the exact same crap that is thrown at all fans who are critical of a production like LOTR - we are bigots - very sad

The world really has changed

From what I gather, it doesn't matter much what was in the books, the series is going its own way

I’m going with Sauron anyway so far.

the fire the big killing etc is what I’m basing that off. But I’m sure Amazon will put a big Gotcha in there for us.

I'm liking it and the season preview after ep 2 actually looks brill. It's a tv show, either watch it or turn it off.

If you don't like it don't watch it.

It takes all sorts I suppose.

Lets not even mention the gun - the gun that was handed to Harrigan in Predator 2, some how ends up in the possession of an Indian girl, right after she kills a predator - basically they are 'keeping their options open for a sequel'

It wasnt a bad movie, i kinda liked it - but certainly not as good as some critics are saying