I think where I get a bit frustrated is that during WWI (IIRC) he was working on parts of the stories that became The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, Unfinished Tales, Beren and Luthien, and The Fall of Gondolin. Specifically, content related to the last one.
Honestly, I think they should have called it “Beren and Luthien” and it be focus upon how his life informed his work rather than the pre-prequel to LOTR that it looks like.
In the defence of said sentence, it does summarize the trailer quite well. And in its form a movie trailer, a mish-mash of all the things the movie contains, so too this sentence, shall hold all my viewings that I have of this trailer.
“This movie really, really wants you to remind you at all times that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit that sometimes it looks less like a biopic and more like an absurd re-imaging of the Peter Jackson films cut into a period drama.”
As long as we get a bromance between him and CS Lewis, I’m good. Although I have a feeling that they will do that stupid thing that a lot of biopics do, where they will drop “foreshadowing” lines that are just blatant references:
They always(?) end up taking off the hoods - it’s just supposed to be dramatic so when they finally reveal who it is you go *GASP*.
Heartily agreed - the lighthearted pulp essence hangs in the background of pretty much every aspect of the OT, which is precisely what makes it such perfect media comfort food, even when it delves into the darker chunks of the narrative.
I think the shifts in tone are what make it stand out, but there’s still a general neutral tone that it returns to — it’s generally pretty quick paced, light-hearted and adventurous. The fact that it can hit really low moments doesn’t mean that the overall tone isn’t still the same.
Lucasfilm and Disney executives seem very protective of the brand and are not ready to take wild, tonal risks just yet.
Thank the lord. Keep it close-ish to the Howard-edited Solo tone (hopefully with a little more directorial personality in terms of the editing, but that’s thankfully a hell of a lot easier to play around with in a streaming TV format than in a movie), and it’ll be the absolutely golden gem that it’s clearly shaping up…
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
Nobody ever talks about the power plants. It’s my first thought when watching any apocalyptic story. I’m just pretty sure that pretty much everywhere would be an irradiated wasteland if one day people just stopped showing up to run the nuclear reactors. I mean, I hope I’m wrong about that, but I suspect I am not.
My hope for Endgame? They really do spend some time acknowledging that randomly killing half of the planet would end up killing way, way more than that in secondary kills. Power plants would fail, supply chains would fall apart, governments would be decimated...
lol, Penny Arcade totally nailed it
Join the legions of idiots who don’t understand that low temperatures in a place where the infrastructure and populace are designed and prepared for them are DIFFERENT from the same low temperatures in a place where those things aren’t true.
My wife, a non-gamer, jokingly said to me “Well now I can’t go to bed until I see when this game actually begins.” Little did she know twenty minutes would go by before I even needed to pick up the controller. The II.9 thing was hilarious.
I’d just finished telling my kid how much the combination of Roman and Arabic numerals in the title for Kingdom Hearts 2.8 bothered me. When this came on the screen we looked at each other and just laughed.
Seeing the top photo, I felt this was appropriate.
In Star Wars, the First Order is as powerful as it is because the leadership is exceedingly smart.