The Hall of Fire

I've seen a lot of people say they hated the movie so I'm not surprised to hear you say that. I don't really get why though. I found the whole thing ridiculously entertaining from front to back, with a bunch of great performances and such delightful, sharp writing. (Though I agree the ending was pre...

Not that there was a lot of competition but Chicago 7 was easily my favorite movie of 2020. But then, I'm a big Sorkin fan too.

I moved the posts from the Shibboleth thread "Middle-earth in New Media" to this one so that the discussion was together If you've ever thought, I love LOTR but I wish I could see an ULTRA low budget Russian film adaptation - I have good news for you! https://www.slashfilm.com/soviet-lord...

I watched that a while ago, it was fun. Birds are weird!

If I recall correctly, Avengers Infinity wars had a few scenes filmed there, but I think it's just a few.

Huzzah!

So Frelga, Falcon and the Winter Soldier starts today. You going to be watching or what?

Fabulous?

Maybe this isn't quite the thread for this but something that's been on my mind after reading Earthsea. The book is a fairly simple, classic tale - a young hero must undergo a magical quest to defeat evil. That kind of story. Throughout the book, Ursula casually mentions that our hero is brown skinn...

Ooh, yes I do, is that a thing you can do? I didn't know that!

The Earthsea trilogy is more of a traditional fantasy story. If you are looking to explore Le Guin as a writer, I'd go Earthsea, Left Hand, Dispossessed, as those show three very different sides of her talent. I just finished the first Earthsea book and very much enjoyed it! A lovely, wonderful boo...

I am not familiar with Redwall, but I adore their Over the Garden Wall mini-series so they've got my attention.

Here's the latest Falcon and Winter Soldier trailer. I'm not all that excited for this one (both of these were side characters for a reason imo), but perhaps Frelga will be happy to finally see Bucky getting more of the spotlight. :P https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nifybT6FBO4 (PS - that big twist in ...

I hadn't heard of it either. I checked and it looks like it is based on a comic, I'm pretty sure that one isn't Marvel.

Wandavision: it's the kind of show that's built around a big "what's going on!?" mystery at the center and I find whether or not those kinds of stories ultimately work will really depend on whether the mystery gets resolved in a satisfying fashion, but for now - OMG I'm enjoying this show ...

Can't really disagree with that, Maria! And what's really crazy about it is that not only does the movie treat it like no big deal at all, like if it's barely even a weird thing and hardly worth commenting on, but there's also zero reason for it to be in the movie at all. You could seriously remove ...

Explanation in the spoiler tags as to why many, including myself, say that Wonder Woman committed a form of rape in this movie. So the plot of this movie revolves around this magical stone someone finds that can grant wishes. Wonder Woman upon getting her hands on the stone wishes that Steve Trevor,...

What did you not like about it, Yov? I really would like to know. The number of things wrong with the movie is very large and I could go on and on about it, but I would say that it has two huge problems: - the first WW worked mostly, imo, because Gadot and Pine had wonderful charisma and were very ...

Finally got around to watching Wonder Woman 1984. It was probably the worst big-budget movie I've seen since Batman v Superman.

I had thought about mentioning Bradbury as an exception to my observation about poor writing in the genre. He writes beautifully, and Martian Chronicles is an all time fav.

(Duly notes ULG advice.)