123: Pretentious Peter Jackson's LOTR
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Some have accused Brian of being pretentious. More have accused Nate of pretension. But the most have accused SASF of being "pretentious" when they criticize Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. The guys set out to dispel the myth of pretension and to answer charges leveled against them fairly and honestly. Yes, thirteen-year-old Brian loved Aragorn hacking orcs. However, if you don't understand why PJ's LOTR would make Tolkien vomit, listen to this episode. Ep. 123 also functions as a follow-up to earlier episodes on taste and sophistication. Plus you'll get solid reasons for what the movies did well (Gandalf, Gollum, setting), what they did poorly (Aragorn, Frodo, Tony-Hawk Legolas, oliphaunts, the Dead), and what they did abysmally (Faramir, Eowyn, no cleansing of the Shire) -- and why they get graded harder for it. All around a fun episode about why Brian and Nate refuse to bury this particular hatchet.
#LOTR #LordoftheRings #SASF #StoriesAreSoulFood #Aragorn #Legolas #Tolkien #JRRTolkien #TheHobbit #Gandalf #Gollum #PeterJackson #WetaWorkshops
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stories Our Soul Food Podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction imprint of Canon Press. |
| 0:07.9 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:11.8 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:14.9 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:17.1 | Now we're starting. |
| 0:21.1 | You get to clap. We all clap. Everybody 120. Now we're starting. You get to clap. |
| 0:22.9 | We all clap. |
| 0:24.0 | Everybody claps. |
| 0:24.8 | Stories are Soul Food episode 123. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm glad we know what number it is. |
| 0:29.0 | My daughter told me, she's like, that joke isn't funny anymore. |
| 0:31.6 | And I was like, it's not a joke. |
| 0:32.5 | We just don't know what episode it is. |
| 0:34.0 | That is just fact. |
| 0:35.9 | And I thought I knew before, but the pressure of the moment comes and you forget. |
| 0:39.7 | 123. SAS, 123. Why on earth have we done this 123 times? Because we're shooting for 365. Is this the |
| 0:48.4 | definition of insanity? To keep doing the same thing over and over. Well, I just met earlier yet another fan. Shout out |
| 0:55.7 | to Rubin. Uh, wanted a photo with me. Way to go. He didn't know where you were. |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah. I didn't tell him. Sorry, Rubin. He's not in makeup. He's not ready for a photo. |
| 1:06.9 | Nate needs to have his tie on for photos. Always. |
| 1:13.2 | Anyways, we're here. |
| 1:15.8 | Hope you all enjoyed our live studio audiences. |
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