Can't think of a Simpsons' quote
"Is that a hobbit?"
"No, it's a hobo and a rabbit. But they're making a hobbit."

It's adapted, so there's a problem with the script, and there's Mrs Selznick (if only it could've been Kathleen Byron). On the plus side there's Cusack, as you said, and Farrar's performances. And it's the last of their films that truly looks like one of theirs.

There's still Gone To Earth, which is great, apart from Jennifer Jones' appalling accent.

No really, I just don't get them. Wish I did, but they just leave me cold.

Couldn't they just
do a big screen version of Extreme Dinosaurs instead? It'd upset a hell of a lot less people if the basic plotline got messed about with. But obviously they'd have to keep big lizards having punch-ups as the main narrative thread.

"Well done,
dull rock band" is the headline in my head. And maybe in my heart.

Haven't seen
an existential film about a doomed hitman in a while. I'll be the one in the cinema queue wearing a trilby, a raincoat and nothing else.

No really, it was worth saying twice.

I used to know a woman who'd been Neeson's girlfriend sometime in the 70's. I asked her what he was like, and she got a faraway look in her eyes and said, "He had an enormous cock." She then said he was a massive prick because he dumped her.

More like Shia LaBoeuf as Jesse, Amanda Seyfreid as Tulip, Jonathan Rhys-Myers as Cassidy, Ben Affleck as Starr, Aston Kutcher as SOK, Hayden Christiansen as Assface. Fingers crossed, eh kids?

Jacks, for merry 70's Satanism check out Lisa And The Devil. If you liked Suspiria you should like it. I'd also recommend Taste Of Fear for psychological horror and These Are The Damned. Both early 60's Hammer films stuck in double bills when released because they didn't fit the fangs and Eastmancolor aesthetic.

Obligatory "Garth Ennis is a hack" thread
Even though he did great work on Hellblazer and Preacher was at times hilarious.

@Coldstream, Charlie Fucking Drake is fucking awful as a comedian, but he was even worse as singer for Simply Red.

Or King Arthur And The Knights Of Justice? (Putting evil down)

I've got nothing against Guinevere being black in Merlin, even though it's very much not as I imagined the character from reading Mallory. But I do object to her being dog ugly.

America
you are most welcome to Mr Brand, we have no more use for him. Especially now that we have Jack Whitehall, the Lidl version of Brand. You are, of course, most welcome to him as well, as he is quite possibly the worst comedian since Norman Fucking Wisdom.

Hey Snow! Die of cholera, you fuck!

The best review I heard of TRL was a bloke in a pub saying to his mate "I dunno how they found time to kill any Japs, what with all that poetry reading."

Never mind how close it sticks
to the original story, how are they going to shoehorn Michael York into it? It can only be as the old dude at the end, surely?

John Wayne as Gengis Khan.