The Hall of Fire

Well, for me there is still something different about this: you are not safe in any other place. If you take a traditional totalitarian system, if you do not live in that system - e.g. if you lived in the US during the Cold War - you were rather safe from the impact a communist system had on your e...

Just passing by to mention that I absolutely love the staircase scene. It has great pace, there is a sense of danger, and the moment when they finally make it and the “Fellowship theme” is played in its full glory makes me want to rise up and shout: “Hell yeah!”. Oh, me too! :clap: And I love the d...

Oh my goodness, Jude, this is beautiful and heart-breaking. :bow: I can't imagine the suffering of this gifted lady and her family, and the incredible humanity and creativity she showed in the face of it. :cry: All you can say is: the goodness of their spirits live on, while their enemies are only r...

Ghastly, heart-breaking and deeply worrying. :( This attack is a deep shock. On the one hand, it is an attack on the freedom of thought and speech. If Charlie Hebdo is sometimes going very far in the critic of extremism of all sorts and does not fear vulgarity, it is still a journal which reflects a...

I like the ridiculous Cockney Orcs. :D In canon, their talk is rough and uncouth. (Not that cockney dialect is necessarily uncouth, I hasten to add! But I don't see how Cockney Orcs are worse than Cockney trolls, which are canon.) The LotR films have in their favour an organic, immersive, passionate...

V-man, I liked that Durielle song very much. :) Shore's score for BoFA is my favourite of his Hobbit scores, which so far have underwhelmed me. Of course I love his LotR score like the fire of a million suns. It occurs to me though that his rather more understated musical score for BoFA - there was ...

Just saw it a second time, and I liked it even more second time round. :D :) As I said on TORC ... I think it's the best of the Hobbit films, actually! Although I like AUJ. DoS is definitely the weakest of the three, by a very long shot - way too long, and all that silliness in Erebor - although it,...

Aww, you should have posted your review of FotR in Moobies, Sunny. :hug: My first viewing of FotR was the most magical cinema experience of my life. :love: Having devoured each and every spoiler, I was prepared for the changes! Most of which I didn't find that bothersome. My biggest beef of all has ...

Oh, I quite liked 'You should have stayed dead'! :p It's not much different from 'They have a cave troll!' or 'Let's hunt some Orc', and it IS better than the truly dire drivel poor Tauriel and Thranduil were made to spout about love hurting and feeling 'real' - this was some of the cringingly worst...

I did!

I fancy the Anne of Green Gables one.

One thing I will say, which is at the heart of why I enjoyed these films more than LOTR, is that there was very little of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LSP7zFIWX0 :rofl: Seen it before. Disturbing and hilarious. :D Oh goodness me yes, PJ does drown things in a ton of golden syrup at times....

:D PtB - it's a very strong opening, a really good introduction to the tale. It tells the audience a lot at once, in an immediate and dramatic way. Brilliant! :) I get where you're coming from re: Sam. Sam has the greatest character development out of all the hobbits, including Bilbo. But even the c...

Passdagas the Brown wrote:I'm glad Tolkien didn't write in the editing world of today.

In case this was in doubt, so am I!

But that doesn't place his work - as awesome as it is - beyond criticism by us, his humble fans.

I like the beginning very much. :) This will, of course, take only a few minutes of screen time. Does this mean, though, that you intend to reintroduce Dain at some point? (Why else go to the bother and expense of casting him? ;)) Title card: does this first episode also have a name? It needs one. ;...

I also agree that it's a 'weakness' - for want of a better word - of the plot that Frodo's first instinct, on hearing that the Dark Lord has very likely worked out already where precisely he, Frodo Baggins, lives, is NOT to get the heck out of Dodge. I know that's what mine would be! :help: :D And y...

What an enjoyable critique! Agree very much with it. I love the social satire of the 'hobbit-talk'. My two main criticisms are the same as yours: the unnecessary plot diversion through the Old Forest (and Tom's rhyming couplets are excruciating - I can see what the Professor was trying to do there, ...

Frelga, I love the Maccabeats.


Some brilliant person has edited scenes from the lovely BBC Nativity to This Woman's Work by Kate Bush.

It really, really works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ROFMhu_Nw

I love Passdagas's review! :D Agree very much with it. :) Although I like Legolas and Tauriel, actually ... but agree that everything plot wise to do with them is superfluous and badly written. But movie Thranduil is one of my favourite film characterisations! He fleshes out the book's description t...

I loved Galadriel going nuclear on Sauron! - it links well to her 'nuclear' moment in FotR (which I don't like, but can forgive a little more now, since Sauron needed someone to go nuclear on him! ;) ) I take Elen's point that it would have been good to see all members of the White Council take Saur...

Well, I've seen it - at the IMAX in Norwich - and I enjoyed it. :) I analysed the LotR Trilogy endlessly but feel less inclined to do that with the Hobbit films - I no longer have the time and energy. I agree that PJ sets out primarily to entertain, but all of his adaptations of Tolkien have had sub...