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I liked Sommers's Huckleberry Finn adaptation, haven't seen his Jungle Book adaptation, dug Deep Rising, loved The Mummy, disliked The Mummy Returns (pretty much just The Mummy all over again, but with more special effects and less of that pesky dialogue and plot). If you take away David...

11 Oscars! Take that Titanic! Sean should have at least been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, though. The only thing that bothers me is that now we'll never know if the Academy really thought that LotR was that great, or if it was just giving in to fear of the possibility of the Nerd...

Check out this thread for an interesting and related discussion. http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72602 Bear in mind that the arguments presented make more sense in the context of the book (but I think they also make sense in the movie's context as well).

I don't agree with his tone, but I have to agree with Storm Raven's arguments. From a purely Christian point of view, killing is wrong, period (there are no conditions given in "thou shalt not kill"). Even if you kill Adolf Hitler to prevent (or avenge) the Holocaust, you have still murdered...

A rebuttal by Stephanie Zacharek, one of the film critics for Salon.com: "Lord of the Rings" is for boys . . . And I happen to agree with her.

I don't really like the question because I think of them as one film. But. . .if I have to pick one, I'm going to go with The Fellowship of the Ring. Partly because of what Hypersmurf said. I just love Ian McKellen's performance as Gandalf the Gray, and the anticipation of his possible...

Actually, what I think is going to be the toughest aspect of the stories to translate well to the screen will be the children. Anyone ever seen the BBC version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe? The little girl who played Lucy has to be one of the most irritating child actors ever. I...

Without bragging too much, let me say that I wish I had had an eighth grade teacher as cool as I am. Today (the last day before Christmas break), we spent the morning before lunch watching FotR, and the afternoon watching TTT. Not a bad way to spend a school day, huh? I figure I'm going to...

It was I who had to pry my wife's hand from my leg as Shelob was stalking Frodo. That scene was every bit as creepy as I had read, and it was the first time I was actually taken aback by a giant spider in a movie (usually they're just not that scary).

Four words. Ho. Lee. Shee. It.

While I think it would be great if RotK won Best Picture, I would still rather see an special Oscar for Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking for the entire Lord of the Rings movie. That would be the kind of accolade this movie deserves.

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I like John Hughes movies as much as anyone, but . . . huh?

I don't know if I can pick out a worst movie ever. I've seen a lot of :):):):)e to be sure, but worst ever? Well. . . Movies I saw at the theater and wished I could get my money back: *Weekend at Bernie's 2 (I still hold my wife responsible) *Body of Evidence (with Madonna and Willem Defoe...

They squeezed one off all right. Pee-yew! I had to light a match after that stinker. :D

Yeah. I created Drizzt Do'urden. No, seriously. Many moons ago, there was an issue of Dragon published that had an excellent cover with dwarves on it by Keith Parkinson. One of the articles in that issue was about using drow (then found as a PC race only in Unearthed Arcana) in unusual ways...

I will say that although I think this movie is fantastic and a worth second chapter, after the "big" water was pointed out to me, I wondered how that got by them in post-production. There's only one extremely short shot that I think looks really bad, but to me, it's like the lightsabers losing...

I have to agree with this one. I was a rabid X fan for years. For me, the moment when Magneto removes Wolverine's adamantium was an incredibly powerful moment. Then he goes into the Danger Room to try to get back on the horse. He went through something that had to be unimaginably painful...

Ain't it grand to see each volume of The Lord of the Rings take its rightful place back in the top ten of every major bestseller list, thereby being introduced to a new generation of readers who will come to love and appreciate (or, in some rare cases, snore through) this book just as we do...

Has anybody watched the "From Book to Script" documentary in the appendices yet? PJ and Co. talk about why they found it necessary to make the changes they did in TTT. The one that I found the most interesting was why they changed Faramir so much. According to them, if Faramir just shrugged...