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Forum: The Movies
02-15-2022, 03:33 AM
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Replies: 84
Views: 4,582
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Michael Murry
So, it begins
As King Theoden said after the first arrow flew, setting off the Battle of Helm's Deep: "So, it begins." Two additional takes on these "teaser" promotional visuals. Amazon's Lord of the... |
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Forum: The Movies
02-11-2022, 04:44 AM
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Replies: 84
Views: 4,582
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Michael Murry
Vanity, Vanity, all is Vanity?
I didn't come across the Vanity Fair article itself but only indirectly by way of RT.com: Not having a subscription to Amazon Prime Video, I await the erudite deconstruction of this... |
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Forum: The Movies
02-03-2022, 08:16 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
Amazon's Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Character Posters Are Extremely Reveal
I forgot how to do links, so I'll just post the Internet Address of a web site named "Looper" where an article entitled "Amazon's Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Character Posters Are Extremely... |
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Forum: The Movies
09-04-2021, 03:33 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
Apotheosis of Existential Odor
To recapitulate my understand things, the forthcoming Amazon television series of steaming [not a misspelling] "Lord of the Rings" episodes -- projected to span several years -- will base itself on a... |
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Forum: The Movies
09-01-2021, 06:26 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
What comes to those who wait . . .
It sure looks that way. From Wikipedia: In light of the above, I think we can fairly assume that Amazon studios have already begun "interpreting" (i.e., encroaching upon) the Tolkien... |
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Forum: The Movies
08-28-2021, 10:23 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
The Undying Dirt
Moving right along after consulting Wikipedia for the low-down on the tree-dwelling Elf Queen and her "consort." The Undying Dirt Gladrail and Celebrate, Elf Queen and toy-boy mate, she... |
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Forum: The Movies
08-28-2021, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
Demiurge Dementia
Again, from what I understand: Amazon plans to start televising the first episodes of their "Lord of the Rings" series next year (2022) which I look forward to lampooning given the sort of material... |
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Forum: The Movies
08-27-2021, 03:11 AM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
Game of Thongs
I kid you not, fellow Crimestoppers. Just as I started thinking about another way to lampoon in verse the forthcoming Amazon "steaming" [spelling intentional] television series and it's... |
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Forum: The Movies
08-26-2021, 06:44 AM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
Posted By
Michael Murry
Lord of the Rights
The richest man on Earth has spent some money: two-hundred-fifty million, so we hear, for rights to make what some will not think funny: a TV-series "based on" "writings" "near" to what an... |
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Forum: The Movies
08-20-2021, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
"Tolkien"-brand Game of Thrones?
In a link that I posted to another thread about "LOTR"-brand television production shifting from New Zealand to the British Isles, I came upon the following quote that I thought also applies to this... |
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Forum: The Movies
08-13-2021, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,994
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Michael Murry
Middle Earth changes islands?
I caught this little news item while surfing the Interwebs this morning and have no idea what it portends for a television series I will probably not view in any case. But perhaps someone more... |
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Forum: The Movies
11-04-2020, 06:07 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,316
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Michael Murry
The Hobbit: Tolkien Edit
Does another edit of the Hobbit films exist? I asked myself that a few days ago and an Internet search turned up a 6.5 giga-byte mp4 download (via torrent): The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit by... |
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Forum: The Movies
10-29-2020, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 5,980
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Michael Murry
There and Here and There Again
Thanks for the couplet. Incisive, as well as inspirational. This takes us into the LOTR "future." But how to get there from here in the past at Hobbit's end? A "romantic" possibility: There and... |
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Forum: The Movies
10-29-2020, 12:12 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 5,980
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Michael Murry
Available for Future Sexploitation
I haven't commented here at the Downs for several years now, mostly because I thought the knowledgable Tolkien community had thoroughly disposed of the Peter Jackson Killer Elf-Chick Love Interest... |
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Forum: The Movies
12-05-2017, 10:14 AM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
Some of those who wander are lost
I don't own DVD copies of the three Peter Jackson "Hobbit" movies, so I have to depend on youtube to look up various scenes to refresh my memory on the occasions when I want to comment on something... |
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Forum: The Movies
12-01-2017, 01:41 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
The Picture of Royal Bastards Behaving Badly
Thanks again, Mr Hicklin, for helping me to better understand the "Jon Snow" thing. Since I'll never read the books or sit through even ten minutes of the television series, I have to depend upon... |
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Forum: The Movies
11-29-2017, 03:36 AM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
Fast Food Fulminations on televised Fan Fiction
Hey! That title-line I thought up a few postings ago gives me an idea for some vericose versification. Like: Fast-Food Fulminations on televised Fan Fiction Not Lord of the "Rings" (as in... |
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Forum: The Movies
11-28-2017, 09:53 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
Original rip-offs
Do you mean, like Elrond taking in Aragorn and adopting him as a foster son after the two-year-old baby's father, Arathorn II, met a violent death; naming the kid "Estel" to conceal his identity... |
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Forum: The Movies
11-28-2017, 06:09 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
The Once and Future TV-and-Film-franchise reboot
If I may, I'd like to take off on Item #3 of Morthoron's "No-Wish" list for the forthcoming LOTR television series and possible spin-offs: Confessing my own age, ignorance, and indifference to... |
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Forum: The Movies
11-28-2017, 04:49 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
Lard of the Fries
Not "Lord" of the "Rings" (as in "onion"), but "Lard" of the "Fries" (as in "French"). Anything to convey the image of congealed grease at the bottom of the pan after deep frying left-over vegetables. |
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Forum: The Movies
11-26-2017, 01:52 AM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
"It could happen!"
Many thanks to Inziladun and Morthoron for the respective Wish- and Non-Wish lists of prospective "LOTR" television/movie ideas. I don't know which to fear the most. Probably the former, because its... |
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Forum: The Movies
11-24-2017, 05:53 AM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
Sex, Violence, Soap Opera Drama and Pretending the Endless Hobbit movies don't exist
I just caught a couple of interesting comments regarding the "Lord of the Rings" television stuff soon to come: Oh, great: "Sex, violence, and soap opera drama." Just what the "Lord of the... |
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Forum: The Movies
11-23-2017, 11:08 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
A twice-enraged "purist" die-hard
I apologize if others have already covered this article ... "Why Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Show Won’t Be the New Game of Thrones" By Joanna Robinson, Vanity Fair (November, 2017)... |
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Forum: The Movies
11-22-2017, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
The Elf-chick and Some Fatherly Advice
Thanks for the verse, Pitchwife. And thanks, again, for that comment (#3) you made many years ago in the "Itaril" thread where you wrote: I hold you blameless for inspiring my own attempts... |
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Forum: The Movies
11-22-2017, 06:18 PM
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Replies: 344
Views: 112,273
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Michael Murry
Fictitious and Entirely Coincidental television
I really have to wonder about how much of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" (books and films) can remain in certain private hands, for their commercial exploitation only. So many millions of... |
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