I was mildly entertained by it on the first viewing, but it certainly does drag on repeated watchings. Part of that is probably the over familiarity of the tale though. The most challenging part for Jackson was to inject freshness into it with a ton of cutting edge effects. While some effect scenes were honestly…

Yeah…I had never heard it used in the context of the second definition…

Yipes.. Funny how my mind misremembers things I thought I had burned long ago in my brain.

To emphasize the sarcasm…

It revises the part when he narrowly avoids loses his hat. Almost as egregious as when Greedo started shooting first.

Whenever I hear the word Patton… Like Pavlov, I hear that movie trumpet riff bah-bah-bah bah-bah-bah bah-bah-bah

Watch his Saturday Night Fever dancing… Endless comebacks… Undeniable charm and talent

Dead eyes… Like a doll's eyes…

Meh…

As much as GWH is very watchable, I have trouble when dialogue is a bit too clever, a bit two arch. Sure, witty rapid fire banter back and forth shows the message of dualing minds, but it seems strange in the real world. Not many Wal-mart clerks and managers spar at each other like Hitchens.

I think a big part of why "wildly successful actors with dubious talent" succeed is probably due a lot their off-screen interaction with others. I remember hearing somewhere that when one wondered on why Sharon Stone got so many chances with high profile movies, it was because that she's very charming, friendly and…

I remember that scene in Fly Away Home in which the father and daughter are trying to figure out how to feed Igor, the slow wounded goose. They needed to figure out a way to imprint the goose to eat. Standing visibly in front of the goose, the father told the daughter that he wanted to be in her mouth.

I thought the house of Hufflepuff had all the botanical herbologists.

To be honest, Craig Brewer seems like a perfect director for this. Like the review says, the guy can dig deep into music genres. I had no idea he was directing this.

Ehhhh…..

To me, the most irritating thing about this new one is Julieanne Hough. Sounds stupid to complain about a chick who is perfectly beautiful, perfect body, perfect teeth, perfectly nice, perfectly talented and skilled performer… But way beyond normal levels of perkiness. She's just such a relentless shameless driven…

The original movie was sorta a weird high school migratory experience back in the day. It's one of those weird phenomenons that somehow picked up traction. I don't remember anyone who truly enthused about the soundtrack, or connected with the storyline of a danceless town, or identified with leggy whiny Lori Singer…

Actually - I really liked The Fall. Along with the amazing photographic aspect, (amazingly it didn't have very much CGI in it, just brilliant locations and well placed cameras) anyone who has an interest in storytelling, the thrill of the film image, (flickering upside horse projected on wall), the effort of all the…

I think of Barry Lyndon as an example of people now overlooking what was a huge advancement of a camera lens operating in natural light, even candle light.

I only remember his affected pronunciation of ad-vert-tis-mints in Blood Diamond