Kids... they ruin it for everybody!

Aside from Smaug and Bilbo (but even that turned into generic chase sequence #32), the second film was a mess and completely poorly edited. They even removed the amusing conversation between Gandalf and Beorn, who in my opinion they completely butchered. And as brilliant an actor as Sir Ian McKellen is, even he…

Wife and I just caught "Desolation of Smog" last weekend. You know a movie has problems when your falling asleep during the scenes featuring the big ominous, scary, forced out a city worth of dwarves into gloomy exile bad ass dragon. They were kind of boring for all that was happening and carried no weight either. …

Was I the only one who thought the 2nd movie was terrible?

I liked the first one quite a bit, but thought the second was lacking. And for a movie series that's stretching such a thin book into 8 or 9 hours, I was surprised at how much of the original story they left out.

Nope, you're not alone. The first one had a little charm, amid the hours of stuff, but the second one was just 3 hours of disappointment. Apart from the fact that it suffered terribly from being the middle part of a story that doesn't need to be a trilogy, it was badly designed and just not really convincing. I don't…

The whole series seems like a lot of nothing as far as I can tell. Nobody (that I am aware of, so, anecdotal) really cares much about these movies. Some people see 'em, some don't, but there's nowhere near the "let's line up for the midnight show" mentality that the LotR movies had.

No...just...no.

I love when people say "you know" because then I can smile and nod and let them know I'm listening to them!!

awwww, you are sweet !

Anyone who aspires to do a mashup of 2001 and spaghetti westerns deserves a shot. Can't wait!

I'm not saying Beyonce is not important. But, you know, Oprah IS still alive.

" No one gives a Shit about you Barton. "

half the fun of the fight is the prep.

They also call it "bud grafting"... My uncle taught me to do it. It works when you swap genus to genus, so you can graft citrus to citrus, malus to male, or, as with the tree above, prunus to prunus. It's tedious, but less traumatic to the host tree. It works like gangbusters.

God no. Not at all. Jez wanted the tipping post for Monday, so it got the Monday slot. Don't worry, BCO will be back tomorrow. Doing something unusual this week, too. :-)

Completely off topic, but where is my Behind Closed Ovens? How am I supposed to get through my Monday?