The Hall of Fire

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: (...) AUJ is probably a 3, DoS a 7, and BotFA an 11.

Thanks for the info!

Thank you for your review, Necromancer.

V, what are your overall thoughts on the extended edition? Does it visibly improve the film? If so, where in particular? How does it compare to the other extended Hobbit films? (mind you, I have not seen any of the extended Hobbit cuts).

I have never said that racists are a tiny minority in your country. What I said was that on the internet you have tiny minority of “sincere” supremacist white-nationalists who fear that children movies such as the upcoming Star Wars films are ploys of Jewish world dominance, deployed to extinguish t...

I on the other hand think that this The Hollywood Reporte r article is merely a reflection of bad modern journalism. The premise of the article is such a nonstory really. Basically the author just informs us that there are people on the internet that like Star Wars and are racists. I am shocked, utt...

Rumors abound that Joe Biden will announce his candidacy for the main office in the next 48 hours: https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/joe-biden-enter-presidential-race-fox-news-reports-185031529.html http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sources-biden-announce-decision-within-48-hours h...

So I guess this fits in here :D : Vin Diesel , acclaimed star of The Fast and the Furious franchise, The Chronicles of Riddick trilogy, and Guardians of the Galaxy , wants to play Melkor himself in a possible Silmarillion adaptation. Elijah Wood told Stephen Colbert as much. Mr. Diesel, who is an av...

Beutlin, if you want to see my review of MI2, please go back to pg. 24 on this thread. Not my cup of tea at all! Sunsilver, I know where you are getting at, and by no means am I disagreeing with your assessment that MI2 is a pointless action movie. But it has its (mostly unintentional) selling poin...

After my horrible experience with Mission Impossible 2, I was not tempted to watch it. I am somewhat of a contrarian, so in my opinion Mission: Impossible II is the most entertaining out of the first four films (I have not seen Rogue Nation so far). Whereas films 1 and 3 tried to tell a faux-seriou...

Al, if one considers your vocal skills, you shoud seriously consider to star as Conan in an actual Conan musical. I help you with the Austrian accent, and you need to bulk up of course, but I see a great future ahead.

I think to say that what defines games is “the obstacle course” is a tad too simple. After all, one might - along the same lines – say that what defines movies is “moving pictures”, and therefore anything else (characters, music, dialogues, etc.) is something else “around” the moving pictures. There...

In my opinion, the article is a mess and perfectly aligns with so many other articles these days which talk about the boundaries of art. In our postmodern era, the meaning of art, its (degree of) importance to society and the personal relationship to it have become ambiguous to say the least. To tal...

It appears my hunch was wrong: 33/34 positive reviews so far.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_martian/

Personally, I still have my doubts about whether I will see it or not.

Why am I suddenly muttering "Trebuchets are not a defensive weapon!"? While the trebuchet was predominantly an offensive siege weapon, evidence exists that trebuchets – in other parts of Europe known as Fundíbul (Spanish), Tribok (German), or Valslynge (Norse) – were also occasionally emp...

In case you have not seen the boxes for the Hobbit Trilogy Extended Edition yet: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81yUlJOiBQL._SL1500_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81XIN9vs-UL._SL1500_.jpg TheHutt posted them both on the German fan-site: http://forum.herr-der-ringe-film.de/showflat...

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River wrote:The First Order has been defeated, but Kylo Ren and Uber retreat to lick their wounds, and plot their next move.

Did a disgruntled cab driver write the script? I was aware that the Dark Side has cookies, but a vehicles for hire service? Where can I sign up?

I have a hunch this movie will flop, both with critics and movie goers. Some of Matt Damon's lines from the trailer are truly atrocious ("In your face, Neil Armstrong!";"...science the shit out of this."). Who talks/writes like that besides bad pop-science writers on the Internet...

Looking back at them, I prefer the first two Spiderman films to Singer's X-Men flics. Raimi brought a light hearted playfulness to the whole genre, and in many ways Spiderman comes closest to what I consider a quintessential American comic. I would not go so far as to call myself a fan but Raimi's c...

Meanwhile, to my jaundiced eyes, it appears like Hillary Clinton's campaign could well implode over this email server issue. And if that left Bernie Sanders as the candidate, much as like his views personally, I think it is likely that there will be a GOP president. https://cdn1.lockerdome.com/uplo...

Ah, ye olde Marvel vs. DC feud. As a continental European, I never got into American comics. Back in the day, I read tons of “Asterix” and “Lucky Luke” comics from France/Belgium. Europeans (especially Italians) are curiously fond of Mickey Mouse and the Duck family, and my room was filled with Scro...

Apologies for starting a new thread for this. Apparently some guys in England want to crowdfund Minas Tirith. They just need 1.85 billion pounds. So far they have made 77K. :D Reactions came in quick and fast. There is already a kickstarter called "Destroy Minas Tirith" which wants to buil...