Category: Movies
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A Beren and Luthien movie thoughts
I was yakking about this on Twitter tonight, mostly light-heartedly, but I thought I’d delve into this in more depth here: in the Ideal World According to Me, the next Tolkien movie after The Hobbit would be the story of Beren and Luthien. I think I’ve mentioned before on LJ posts that their story should…
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Robin Hood review!
And now, my entirely fangirly, irrational picoreview of Robin Hood: THAT. WAS. AWESOME! *pauses to wave tiny!fists of glee, particularly over Robin and Marion, and ALSO over Alan! Doyle! Movie! Star! and his Action Lute!* Ahem. Now let’s try this again, only a bit more coherently, shall we? (Please, dear husband, won’t you share my…
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Robin Hood plan for Friday the 14th
has convinced me that the Meridian downtown will be the best possible place for her to view a movie, so I am hereby aiming for a plan involving seeing Robin Hood at the Meridian on Friday at 7pm! Local folks, if you’d like in, please feel free to join us! Chances are high that ,…
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Six days till Sherwood Forest!
Much to my amusement, found Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood movie while channelsurfing tonight, which of course leads me to further squealing over the Russell Crowe one I shall be going to ogle in six scant days! I am, of course, going next weekend. Folks local to Seattle or points immediately nearby are hereby invited to…
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Hobbit news!
Word is going around the net that The Hobbit starts filming in July! Tolkien fans, please to be joining me in squee that Sir Ian McKellen will be reprising his role as Gandalf. However, that leaves plenty more important roles to be filled. I’m of course crossing fingers for Hugo Weaving to come back as…
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All hands, brace for fangirling!
For those of you who haven’t seen this already, here’s the latest trailer for the forthcoming Robin Hood movie. Look for none other than Alan The Doyle, showing up around the 0:54 mark or so–with a line, even! Is it May yet? Is it May yet? Is it May yet? Also, elf needs icons, BADLY.…
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More serious Avatar thoughts
It occurs to me upon reflection that I had better also address the fact that even if I didn’t care about them as a viewer while I was watching the movie, with my writer hat on, I do need to care about the various tropes that the movie deals with, and why it really would…
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Avatar movie review!
, , and I all went to go see Avatar last night, finally–the second time for , but the first time for and me. Picoreview: Okay sure, the plot’s totally predictable, although I didn’t find it nearly as weakly so as many comments had led me to believe. And holy crap, so very, very pretty,…