Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series

Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by MisterTea on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:32AM (#31987426)

> (Jackson had done Heavenly Creatures and Frighteners and a few others before LOTR)

No one ever mentions his first, a splatter flick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Taste

Hilariously bad but a fun watch.

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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by synu on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:51AM (#31987587)

Meet the Feebles never seems to come up either.. one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Feebles

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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by MisterTea on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:05AM (#31988318)

I have yet to see it. I grabbed bad taste around 2005/6 via torrent after hearing a sound bite in a death metal song. I found out about Meet the Feebles but couldn't find a working torrent at the time and forgot about it. I'll have to remind myself to find and watch it one day.

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Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring... by evanelias on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:16PM (#31993806)

I remember the "making of" extra on the Bad Taste DVD being great. Jackson's low-budget special effects are really quite impressive.

I believe this is it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POXwP4ucPe4

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