[quote=""SonjaMarie""]I lurve me some Karl Urban!
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I liked him in Xena/ Hercules and LOTR.
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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
I've been on a movie binge these past weeks. Besides the old holiday classics, I've been to see:
Don Jon (much more intelligent than the opening scenes would lead you to believe)
Nebraska (brilliant)
Her (SF books do it better)
American Hustle (gotta love that comb-over)
Frozen (one of Disney's best in years)
The Wolverine (fun, but doesn't develop the character)
Hobbit II (it is what it is)
Missed a bunch that I wanted to see, but will catch on streaming or PPV.
Don Jon (much more intelligent than the opening scenes would lead you to believe)
Nebraska (brilliant)
Her (SF books do it better)
American Hustle (gotta love that comb-over)
Frozen (one of Disney's best in years)
The Wolverine (fun, but doesn't develop the character)
Hobbit II (it is what it is)
Missed a bunch that I wanted to see, but will catch on streaming or PPV.
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
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- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
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Re the Hobbit: at the risk of annoying Peter Jackson's huge fan base, I have seldom felt so thoroughly disrespected as a consumer than with this movie. Why? because the whole thing depends on getting me to suspend disbelief, and they didn't even try. It was far more important to the movie decision-makers to pile one special effect and action scene on top of another than to put the viewer into a storyworld and do the work to keep them there.
Yes, the effects were fantastic. But they were also unbelievable.
Spoilers follow. Just in case I've got the tagging system wrong.
Somewhere in the middle of all that action, my eyes glazed over. I felt like I was in the middle of a video game where I never got to play. And I don't like video games.
C'mon, guys, you want my dollar, tell me a story I can at least pretend to believe in.
Rant over.
Yes, the effects were fantastic. But they were also unbelievable.
Spoilers follow. Just in case I've got the tagging system wrong.
C'mon, guys, you want my dollar, tell me a story I can at least pretend to believe in.
Rant over.
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MLE, thank you - I zoned entirely out of the action bits for much the same reasons, it felt to me like "video game" effects. The CGI cartoon of Orlando Bloom became tiresomely unbelievable in a hurry (or, really, just started off that way). And the CG cartoons tended to have far more screen time than anything/anyone with blood in its veins.
Interestingly, the only character in the film with any development at all was the dragon. I forgave it for that, and I took the whole for what it was (and as an enjoyable time with the friends I was with) - but there is a reason I don't want to play video games, and paying what a movie costs these days to be shown a significantly long video game isn't my usual preferred fare.
Interestingly, the only character in the film with any development at all was the dragon. I forgave it for that, and I took the whole for what it was (and as an enjoyable time with the friends I was with) - but there is a reason I don't want to play video games, and paying what a movie costs these days to be shown a significantly long video game isn't my usual preferred fare.
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Finally got around to watching episode one of the White Queen. Hey, isn't that Thomas Cromwell? It was kinda interesting until they brought up the river goddess thing.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
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I took Neftlix streaming up on a suggestion to try a millennial Johnny Depp occulter called The Ninth Gate last night. It *seemed* to be aware it was a parody, but I cringed through the entire movie watching supposed rare book lover after supposed rare book lover smoking, eating, and TOUCHING WITH BARE HANDS the priceless tomes driving the plot. When one of them brushed ashes off a hand-tooled leather cover, I nearly passed out. 

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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
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I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor
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The pre-modern world was willing to attribute charisma to women well before it was willing to attribute sustained rationality to them.
---Medieval Kingship, Henry A. Myers
***
http://dianelmajor.blogspot.com/
I'm a Twit: @DianeLMajor
Oh well, horses for courses. Me and best girlfriend went to see Hobbit II, loved every minute and thought it better than Hobbit 1. Definitely will be adding to my DVD collection. I got shivers watching Thranduil!
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
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Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com
- Nefret
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- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
Hobbit II pretty much just made me want a dragon, and the third movie.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
- Nefret
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 2982
- Joined: February 2009
- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
Hunchback of Notre Dame (animated). It has the best villain song not sung by a lion.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}