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 Posted: 05 Jan 2022 at 11:17am |
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If they just wanted to make The Hobbit they could have done it in one film. The book itself doesn't set all that much up for The Lord of the Rings, so they drew on other sources to build a more complete picture of what was happening before The Fellowship of the Ring. The extended Hobbit's add even more to that tie-in material. The result is something that feels part of one long saga, not just a story set in the same world.
By comparison as well, each LoTR film has considerable more cut from the source text even in the extended editions. While interlaced with tie-in material, you do actually get all of The Hobbit novel as I remember it across three films. We would not have done so if they'd instead made one film.
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Posted: 05 Jan 2022 at 9:32am |
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^I've only ever watched the first two movies, somehow, but I always thought breaking that particular book into three movies, when the three longer LOTR books only needed one movie each, was nothing but pure greed, so I'm not surprised the pacing seems to have been completely ruined.
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Posted: 05 Jan 2022 at 7:48am |
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 The extended edition of the final film primarily just amps up the battle itself to 11, to the point that in the UK the film got reappraised by the BBFC as a 15 instead of a 12. I'd say the film is improved by going all out with the battle, but as a film it does still suffer from most of the film being one long climatic battle. If you think of the trilogy as one very long film the length of the battle makes more sense, but as an individual film it still lacks something the others don't.
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Posted: 05 Jan 2022 at 2:29am |
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 A very simple story, and a very short movie (64 minutes), but it's going to stick with you. Be warned: could be construed as exploitative by today's standards.
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Posted: 04 Jan 2022 at 11:27pm |
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 So funny, but scarily so plausible.
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Posted: 04 Jan 2022 at 6:08pm |
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I've been watching a lot of movies on Tubi lately (the price is right anyway!), and last night watched Night Game, starring Roy Scheider (Jaws). A decent cop/serial killer movie, a tad predictable though. Still worth a watch.
It can be streamed for free here: https://tubitv.com/movies/579563/night-game?start=true  Edited by Stooge - 04 Jan 2022 at 6:11pm |
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Posted: 04 Jan 2022 at 8:49am |
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 Some interesting additions added to the extended cut of this one, including Gandalf discovering Thorin's father alive. Overall I think this one still isn't quite as good as the first but still very good, and the extended cut does add some more LotR tie-in and lore.
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Posted: 04 Jan 2022 at 1:01am |
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 Brutal, funny, powerful, a bit confusing, and the last scenes were filmed in New Zealand, which I wasn't aware of.
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Posted: 03 Jan 2022 at 7:30pm |
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 NOW I've seen every movie mentioned in Science Fiction Double Feature from The Rocky Horror Show. Unfortunately, this is also the worst one of the lot. And if anyone's interested, here's the movies:
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Posted: 03 Jan 2022 at 4:22pm |
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 Starting a long overdue return journey through Middle-Earth. First time on the Extended versions of The Hobbit Trilogy. And first time on blu-ray for the entire series. Looks fantastic and there's some really entertaining antics from the dwarves that was cut in the theatrical versions. I get why those cuts were made, but the new scenes do add to the fun of the movie. This was always the best one of The Hobbit films for me, the second and especially third movies seemed to lose something in the theatricals, but we'll see how the extended versions of those impact the experience.
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Posted: 03 Jan 2022 at 10:11am |
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I liked this one too, and yes both main acresses are great in their roles.
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Posted: 03 Jan 2022 at 9:54am |
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A legitimate all time favourite of mine that hardly anyone seems to know. Nice to see it keeps getting some love here. The same director did the much more famous Interview with the Vampire film adaptation, but I prefer this one.
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Posted: 03 Jan 2022 at 9:17am |
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The first stinker watched in 2022:
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Posted: 03 Jan 2022 at 12:27am |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2022 at 7:40pm |
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 This was actually boring. Never thought I'd say it about Metallica live, but there ya go. A lot of it was down to really poor song selection, but it just didn't sound particularly convincing at times either.
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Posted: 02 Jan 2022 at 2:19pm |
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 Pretty good folk horror. Don't hear this one mentioned as often as The Wicker Man or Witchfinder General, but it certainly fits with them well to make an unofficial trilogy from that era of British filmmaking.  A Mario Bava I hadn't seen before. Unfortunately streaming only had the English dud and not the original Italian audio (because that would just be too hard right?). It's full of dark gothic atmosphere, very adult themes and has Christopher Lee in it, though sadly it does a Psycho. Overall still solid.  Solid but I didn't find it to hold a candle to the 1930s version. Frankenstein is a right dick in this version.
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Posted: 02 Jan 2022 at 1:39pm |
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I've been meaning to watch this! I backed his upcoming doc about John Scofield on Kickstarter, and was provided some links to stream Joerg's other ones for free. I should get on that.
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Posted: 02 Jan 2022 at 3:46am |
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) Love the stories of the books this movie was based on. The movie itself was pretty entertaining.
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Posted: 02 Jan 2022 at 12:19am |
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 Love this movie, which doesn't seem to be a very widely felt thing with a lot of Bond fans. It doesn't get too stupid with gadgets, and there's plenty of kick ass action scenes. Daniel Craig is a bit of a badass Bond too.
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Posted: 01 Jan 2022 at 10:05pm |
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 Not particularly well drawn or animated, but the vocal cast was great (Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Brad Garrett).
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