New Line Cinema's anime feature The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which opened on Dec. 13 to a very low $4.5M, will be available on digital in home on Dec. 27, repping a 14-day theatrical window.
  • emax_gomax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    I enjoyed it but also did not think it was gonna have much mass market appeal. I think it being animated probably turned a couple people off but I quite liked that. Where it struggled is building actually likable characters and a coherent story. At least twice characters and plot points were so monumentally dumb it got hard to really suspend my disbelief and overlook it. The big villain of the movie is also depressingly 2dimensional.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      Once you realise it’s more of an in universe folk retelling by Arwen. It’s easier to suspend disbelief. It’s almost like hearing a fairy tale or a myth from middle earth.

  • TheImpressiveX@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    As someone who was eagerly anticipating this movie and saw it in theaters, it’s a shame that it ended up having a terrible box office gross. I thought it was really good, and I appreciated the fact that I got to see 2D animation on the big screen again.

    I think the best-case scenario for Rohirrim is that it blows up on streaming and digital.

  • ryan213English
    41·
    3 days ago

    It was a decent movie. Just not sure how successful 2D animation movies are at the box office. I can’t remember the last time there was one that made a lot of money.