Title text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.
Transcript too long for lemmy, check Explain xkcd wiki to get one ;)
These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicate which characters are together at a given time.
It's kind of complex to follow through and they left out a lot of explaining so you have to use your brain. It's a fun but not great movie. However it's the only one with properly done time traveling logic and after watching it, you will see all other time traveling movies as a joke.
Any movie that forces an entire genre of fiction to measure up against it is a great movie.
It's not as well shot as it could have been and acting could be better. So great in some aspect, yes. Not so much in others. But it's well worth the watch definitely.