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Forum: The Movies 12-20-2012, 04:08 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,682
A little trouble with fundamental categories

Beginning an article on philosophy by confusing it with psychology sort of explains the uncritical mentality which can't differentiate a fan-fiction turkey like The Hobbit: Goblins and Dwarves from...
Forum: The Movies 12-16-2012, 04:32 PM
Replies: 283
Views: 111,256
Gandalf and the Thriteen Dwarves (plus a lot of goblins) -- Part I

I spent two hours and forty-come minutes enduring stuff like this:

Bilbo gets an elvish blade handed to him. He tries to beg off receiving it, saying that he doesn't know anything about fighting....
Forum: The Movies 12-16-2012, 12:57 AM
Replies: 283
Views: 111,256
And so it went

Speaking only for myself, I cannot see a film adaptation of The Hobbit through the perspective of someone else who has never read the book and/or seen the Lord of the Rings movies. I've read the...
Forum: The Movies 12-15-2012, 03:02 PM
Replies: 283
Views: 111,256
As the Stomach Turns

Many thanks to Boromir88 and Bethberry for the humorous links. After suffering through two-hours and forty five minutes of this bloated turkey -- not to mention two days of intestinal flu -- I really...
Forum: The Movies 12-11-2012, 05:44 PM
Replies: 242
Views: 78,307
Mr Spock sings Bilbo Baggins' story

Someone else may have already done this. If so, I apologize for any redundancy. Otherwise, a much younger Mr Spock (who had his own pointy-ears issues) sings all one needs to know about The Hobbit....
Forum: The Movies 12-06-2012, 02:09 PM
Replies: 242
Views: 78,307
"Why does "The Hobbit" look so weird?"

Without getting into the narrative aspects of The Hobbit -- that will come later, he says -- Salon critic Andrew O'Hehir focuses on just the technical aspects of HFR/3D in his review, "Why does 'The...
Forum: The Movies 11-30-2012, 04:27 PM
Replies: 242
Views: 78,307
The Nuclear Unit of the Monomyth

I believe I've posted this elsewhere, but again, regarding the so-called "thing about threes" in tales of heroic (mis)adventure:



In the case of J. R. R. Tolkien's telling (The Hobbit) and...
Forum: The Movies 11-23-2012, 04:27 PM
Replies: 130
Views: 81,757
All things come to those who wait?

It will require two-and-a-half years to watch this two-and-a-half-hour movie, so one will have to sit through the First Third of the Hobbit, to see how much narrative bloat, gratuitous CGI,...
Forum: The Movies 11-13-2012, 08:13 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 4,401
Self-indulgent cameos un-suspend disbelief

I can't wait to leap up out of my chair during the movie, excitedly shouting" Look! See the director Peter Jackson playing Peter Jackson doing his obligatory cameo thing!"
Forum: The Movies 10-01-2012, 04:36 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 8,980
Getting What They Wished For

I simply cannot wait for that magic moment in the darkened theater when I can leap ecstatically from my seat, exclaiming: "Look Everybody! It's Evangeline Lilly from the TV series Lost together with...
Forum: The Movies 09-26-2012, 06:14 PM
Replies: 198
Views: 88,449
The Plot Sickens

Make sure you get your Young-Elf-Lord + Elf-Chick-Security-Guard toys and posters as soon as they hit Toys-R-Us, Tolkienite consumers, even though you may have to wait another year to actually see...
Forum: The Movies 08-26-2012, 01:59 AM
Replies: 242
Views: 78,307
The Fanboy Fascists

Yes, indeed. You've really got to watch it with those infantile fanboys. Some of them eventually become President of the United States. Then they get to play with real armies and weapons and fighting...
Forum: The Movies 08-25-2012, 05:27 PM
Replies: 242
Views: 78,307
What Tolkien knew that Peter Jackson doesn't

I made reference to the "One Ring dot Net" article above, by Ostadan, because I thought the author did a credible job of raising some disturbing questions about the...
Forum: The Movies 08-24-2012, 06:39 PM
Replies: 242
Views: 78,307
Getting Cold Feet

Someone at The One Ring site chipped in an opinion on all this:

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/08/23/61133-jacksons-hobbit-too-much/

I hope the link works. If not, those interested can...
Forum: The Movies 08-07-2012, 06:42 PM
Replies: 242
Views: 78,307
The Hobbit: A Haiku

The Hobbit movie:
One film can tell the story.
Three films? Not so much.
Forum: The Movies 08-04-2012, 08:51 AM
Replies: 198
Views: 88,449
Beyond Childhood's End

"TMT went beyond good natured, insightful disagreement and personally, I thought it appallingly distasteful." -- Boromir88

Thank you. I'll take that as a compliment.

Frankly, I do not...
Forum: The Movies 08-01-2012, 05:30 PM
Replies: 242
Views: 78,307
The Continuation of All Things

Sounds like "Final" Destination 6 to me. You've just got to love that "finality" thing, formerly known as "ending."

"Glad to have you with me, Samwise Gamgee, here at the continuation of all...
Forum: The Movies 08-01-2012, 12:07 AM
Replies: 242
Views: 78,307
Possibilities -- for good or ill

As most informed persons know, Tolkien re-wrote sections of The Hobbit -- especially the "Riddles in the Dark" chapter -- so as to make the earlier book conform to the Lord of the Rings as it...
Forum: The Movies 07-31-2012, 10:08 PM
Replies: 242
Views: 78,307
"Terrible Idea or Geek Opium?"

Film critic Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com weighs in:

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/31/peter_jacksons_hobbit_trilogy_terrible_idea_or_geek_opium/
Forum: The Movies 04-12-2012, 07:11 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 8,657
Exploiting Controversy

"Controversy equalizes wise men and fools alike -- and the fools know it!" -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Forum: The Movies 12-31-2011, 09:50 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 7,706
Reading Tolkien's Long-Dead Mind

From what I understand, Professor Tolkien did not think that anyone could make a film version of his literary work. That anyone actually did might have surprised him. Tolkien expressed the wish that...
Forum: The Movies 10-24-2011, 07:41 PM
Replies: 198
Views: 88,449
Re-branding Itaril as Tauriel

It bears repeating -- at regular intervals -- that this thread began with a legitimate concern over the announced casting criteria for the character "Itaril' (which I will not repeat because my...
Forum: The Movies 10-09-2011, 06:05 PM
Replies: 198
Views: 88,449
Opening up the Empty

I see where the studio -- which otherwise enforces total secrecy -- continues allowing You-Know-Her to blab in public, hoping to drum up some kind of mall maiden interest in a Mary Sue elvish...
Forum: The Movies 10-04-2011, 02:48 PM
Replies: 198
Views: 88,449
The gift that won't stop giving

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2011/10/03/48623-lilly-talks-tauriel-in-elvish/

She just won't shut up. She keeps telling anyone who will listen that, yes, she really does have a part in this...
Forum: The Movies 09-25-2011, 07:10 AM
Replies: 198
Views: 88,449
Oh, What if they don't like me?

Actress Evangeline Lily worries that Tolkien "purists" won't like her wet-T-shirt impression of an elf-chick security guard named Itaril/Tauriel (or, whatever) who just so happens to have no place in...
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