It's hard not to wonder what Del Torro's version would have been like. I have to think that they'd have been a lot less overtly connected to the LotR films, which, while the connections are cool, I can see why most people felt they dragged down those movies. That whole sequence in Rivendale could have been three…

The Zelda games are often pretty openly sad, but often the minor characters (Link's Awakening, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker and Skyward Sword in particular) have surprisingly dark, depressing lives the more you get to know them.

There's a neat (and probably accurate) video theorizing that Master Hand is Sakurai, and each entry kind of expands upon that fight in ways that mirror Sakurai's own internal struggles with the idea of keeping the franchise going in the first place.

No no, I don't want more battle. I actually wanted a more Return of the King like-ending. I loved the bit with Bilbo and Gandalf just sitting next to each other, exhausted. No words were needed. And I loved Biblo returning to his home, finding it surprisingly empty. It was an appropriately tragic interlude to…

I agree with you on all the prequel stuff—I'm a fan of them, honestly. I like Star Wars when it's good and bad. It's all Star Wars.
I find it odd you enjoy the prequel's lightsaber duels but decry the barrel sequence as "videogame" like. They're both pretty gamey.
I understand I'm in the vast minority on The Hobbit, I…

These guys are totally ripping off Teen Pope from Hollywood Handbook.

I thought the films did a mostly good job at starting out very lighthearted (singing songs about washing dishes, the silly encounter with the Orcs) and building up to the darkness, which is what the book did.

" the camera was spinning more than in a Michael Bay movie."
That's just nonsense. Did you see it in 48 fps? Because it does indeed look like shit. The normal version looks good, though.

Anybody who thinks there is more merit in the prequels than The Hobbit is insane. The Hobbit has great performances from all the cast—Martin Freeman gives the best performance of maybe anyone in all six movies—the Golum scene is probably the best Golum scene, Smaug is incredible, the barrel sequence, Lake Town (just…

Smaug is a lot of fun, and easily the best of the three; the third one is very Two-Towers-y. I liked it, but it felt like there were some scenes missing. It did a good job at capturing the tragedy of Thorin's arc, and did a better job at including Bilbo in the proceedings than the book did.
I like just about…

Say what you will about the Hobbit trilogy, but not a single one of them is the boring mess that is the extended edition of the Two Towers. I will absolutely take the theatrical cut over that.

"which already expands a slim children’s novel into a three-movie epic"
Jesus Christ. Must every SINGLE article about the Hobbit written by anyone ever contain this refrain? The book was not slim. It's about 300 pages. The Hobbit was the only Tolkien book I got really, really into so I was excited that the adaptation…

I thought they were just really quiet…

Absolutely. Against all odds, Season 6 was on par with the show's finest seasons, and the finale was an absolute masterstroke. It was everything a Community finale needed to be, and has maybe surpassed 30 Rock as my vote for Best Sitcom Finale.
A movie makes perfect sense. It's the only reasonable way to get the…

Calling people fun is slander?

AngryDad seems fun

That's what made it awesome. How needlessly insane it was.

Glad you ended up enjoying Season 4. I think it's under-appreciated, and really needs to be seen twice to be fully enjoyed (which, admittedly, is not necessarily how comedy should work). I just loved, more than anything, that the show remained incredibly ambitious—structurally I don't think there's another comedy like…

I've never had the heart to watch Godfather III. I've never heard a single good thing about it.

Just posted this in the movie's review thread, but it's probably better off here: