https://lemmy.ca/comment/15853833

I so fucking hated that scene

So there are the new and improved orcs, they’re invincible! They’re like 3 meters tall and 200 kilograms of pure muscle awesome, they are invincible!

Cue the guy who kills like 10 of these orcs as if he’s chipping vegetables, then he gets an arrow in the chest… And mind you, this is not an arrow that was cleared by the OIC for use at the Olympics, this is a small tree that blasts through his ribs. Oh noes! And he choos down like 4 more orcs and gets a second arrow in the chest… And proceeds to choose down a few more orcs and at this point there must be a pile of dead invincible orcs around him but he continues and get yet another arrow in the chest! Oh noes! Anyway, so he chops down another orc and then finally dies.

I may have gotten a few details wrong , it’s been a while since I saw the scene but boy oh boy did it piss me off. This fucking invincible orcs army was worth less than a promise from Elmo Musk, it was a load of crap

That same army then attacks this fortified city (was it helms deep, I believe?) and the dwarf and elf swing on to this narrow bridge and just start chopping more veggies. At some point the dwarf is boasting about having killed dozens and the elf just dead pan responds he’s somewheres in the hundreds or so? Anyways, it just completely took away the urgency and worry, it was just this dumb comedy night now with no real stakes.

Then again at the end, everything is about to fall, everything seems lost, but have no fear, the Deux ex machina is here! In the shape of a literal dead and cannot die spirit army that just waltzes over the baddies and kills them in seconds, tadaaaahhh!

These scenes ruined lord of the rings for me forever, I can’t watch it again coz it’s nine hours and I’ll just get pissed for having wasted 9more hours of my life.