The Hall of Fire

Hi everyone! :) I also was not overly fond of Ian Holm's Bilbo. Just didn't nail the character. I didn't get much of any feel of Bilbo from Ian Holm's portrayal. With time I am also getting less fond of Elijah Wood's performance, too. Picky, picky picky! But Martin Freeman was absolutely perfect. I ...

I have seen it twice now. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. In fact in some ways I liked it more than the LOTR trilogy. :) I mean, nothing is ever going to compare (for me) with my first viewing of FOTR in the movie theatre. I went in to the Hobbit knowing that. I also never really cared...

I had missed the "spoiler tag" link. I will do that in the future. So one thing that I have been thinking about (a little) was how the Capitol differed/was the same as contemporary society, and if it could really "evolve" from present day U.S. It seems as though the Capitol's roo...

Well, I've now watched two epis of Season 2. I have to say that I'll be kind of surprised if the show holds on to its audience. The challenging thing about the books (and I can see it happening in the show) is that characters that you care about and get invested in tend to get killed off/written out...

Well, it was allegory (so from that perspective I can see where it might set off alarm bells in Tolkien fandom!). I think what was interesting spoiler: was that she set up the Capitol and the rebellion against it. At first blush District 13 is the opposite of the Capitol and thus it should be good, ...

Yes, I guess it is a tough crowd around here. Tolkien can do that to you! Well, I liked it. The book AND the movie. I mean, yeah, as world-building, it was nowhere near many classics and other sci-fi. What I thought worked well about the whole thing was first...the character of Katniss and the writi...

Hmm, I'm actually kind of surprised this movie (or books) isn't getting a whole lotta love from the posters in this thread beings that we're all fantasy/sci-fi geeks in one form or the other.

Farawen: continue to stay away from Twilight. :P Seriously. Don't bother. However, don't stay away from the Hunger Games. With Harry Potter, I resisted reading the first book for quite a while for the same thing--I hate to be such a sheep and follow the crowd. But once I read the first two books in ...

I agree. If you just hear the story line for the books, it doesn't sound appealing at all! I remember when a friend of my daughter's mom told me about them, and she said something like, I don't want to explain the storyline to you, it sounds terrible, but trust me, the books are really good! I think...

Well, I liked Harry Potter and I even liked the first book Twilight so there you go. I have no idea whether you'd like this one or not, Holby. :P I suspect you'll like it, though. Teremia, I too have read a piece about the movie-makers' struggle to translate the violence to the movie in a sensitive ...

Season 2 is starting in just a couple of weeks!!!! I have had mixed feelings about the next couple of seasons. While I really liked book 1 (and last season, based on Book 1), the rest of the books have been kind of disappointing to me. Some of the story lines are interesting but to me a lot of them ...

The movie is coming out March 23rd. I've already purchased my tix to see it March 24. :D This is worth paying attention to. The Hunger Games is the first book of a teenybopper trilogy, but although it's marketed to the teenage set, it's really a quite good series. I heard about it through my daughte...

The song is now playing in my head. :love: Yes, a year of looking forward to the Hobbit. Then we will have to wait another length of time until the second movie. It's so funny. I have such memories of having just seen the first movie in 2001, and thinking HOW AWFUL to have to wait until 2002, then 2...

There were a ton of shots that really evoked the LOTR movies to me. The tracking shot of them all on horses going towards the Misty Mountains towards the end of the trailer. A whole year!!!!

And now, the true tragedy of the show is that we have to wait until Spring 2012 for mooooore.......I want more!!!!!!!! That last episode was really well done. OMG the part where the brothers went and fetched Jon Snow back...that was really well done. And incredibly spooky and eerie during the pyre s...

As I think about this show, I really do think it is amazingly well done. Fantasy done wrong can be just heartbreakingly cheesy. I eagerly anticipated the SyFy channel's version of the Earthsea trilogy by Ursula Leguin, and when they showed it (it was an amalgam of books 1 and 2) it was so bad as to ...

I'm putting them in white font. Is that not enough, Alatar? I'm sorry. I'll just stop putting them out there, on second thought.

I've also started book 2, which I'm kicking myself for since the series isn't finished. I just despise getting started on books where the series isn't finished. :help: Oh well. i'm going to try to go slowly. Yeah, right. Spoiler: Yes, River, that scene was hair raising and shocking (Danaerys). But t...

Yes, that scene came across as pretty dumb. Although, after observing a hetero male watching the scene (i.e., my husband), I can say that he had NO problem with how dumb the scene was. For him, the scene totally rocked. ;) River, the one thing that I remember as the shocker in the first book was fin...

I can. The scene where Lord Baelish tutored the two er, ladies of the evening in how to convince customers they were really "into it" while talking about the love of his life, Cate. I'm having a problem thinking that Lord Baelish can have a "thing" for Cate in the series. The act...