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I think a weakness with the original trilogy (and the books too) is that Sauron is not established strongly enough as an opposing force. I agree the CGI is dated and often fake looking, especially in the Return of the King. There are great parts though but there is too much going on and they give videogame cutscenes vibes. Overall what happened (IIRC) was that Peter Jackson established a production company to make the CGI and he had to keep them in business so he gave them plenty to do in the 2nd and 3rd films. I guess also kids who don't understand the story, world, philosophies, and characters too much could then have a smashing time with the CGI.

the new eva in the mgs4 re-make looks like the japanese idea of what a good looking white woman looks like lol she looks like a final fantasy character.

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monica jac, who was one of the most beautiful of all runway models/vs angels 10 years ago hasn't aged too well.

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Also: + Elves are supposed to extremely long-lived/immortal so their personalities reflect someone who has lived hundreds of years or more. They live like they have all the time in the world. They behave differently than humans and its a bit of trope in fantasy. Kate Blanchett did an amazing job (book accurate) as Galadriel imho, but you can see that if this version of Galadriel had her own show it would be really weird. She would speak slowly all the time (but have high impact words filled with meaning all the time), be all-knowing, and not run around with a sword. She would also be strange and baffling at times. This fan artist for the Witcher understands elves did a comic that illustrates their behavior here: CIRI, The Child of Destiny - Lady of the Lake (the-comic.org) The Galadriel in show is basically a human to me, and behaves like one.

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I would say less mature in terms of a certain aspect of (to Tolkien- religious) wisdom as it can be said that Galadriel was more 'worldly' (power hungry and active in the world as a leader) before the events of Fellowship but once Frodo encounters her she is one has already given up on the fallen world (like real Christians and Buddhists do) and is ready to leave it (to the Grey havens, which symbolizes the afterlife ). Naturally she has already given up on worldly power (that is why she rejects the temptation of the Ring). Her mind is one of one who is ready to leave this veil of tears, this great suffering behind. Which is a very religious sort of characterization. Galadriel isn't in the books very much and like Sauron her deeds are talked about in the lore history/notes (Silmarillion) so its open to interpretation/adaptation. There is a lot of hate I noticed from 1. Tolkien purists who worship the texts and want everything to be 100% the same 2. Christians who have co-opted the work, see it as a Christian allegory and find Amazon's effort offensive. 3. Culture war people from the Right like Critical Drinker, right wing pundits and many other content creators who hate it mainly because they hate the people who made it, and their style of writing & directing.

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Galadriel is supposed to be already ancient and I saw her as primarily as a high official rather than an individual warrior. So the direction the showrunners took with her was clearly an attempt to make her more interesting than someone sitting in an ivory tower and issuing orders.