Probably two things were at play here: “Dune” is scifi (and the Academy hates recognizing scifi as legitimate art), and the movie ends so abruptly that it feels unfinished. If the sequel is just as good, he’ll have a much better shot at the Oscar.

They’re updating the Employee Handbook as we speak.

“Well, no one told me specifically to not draw on the paintings. I blame management for their lack of guidance!”

He’s right, it is dumb. But Peter Jackson didn’t get any hardware for the Lord of the Rings movies until the whole series was done. Maybe there’s similar thinking going on here given how much the Academy hates awarding genre movies.

Brolin is absolutely right. What Villeneuve was able to do with this book, and the way he did it, was exemplary. 

See also Peacemaker’s take on glam rock: “This was back when men were real men because they weren’t afraid to be women.”

Yeah. I mean, as far as we can tell, when a butterfly takes over a person, they are effectively committing murder (the immense amount of blood spraying out of the mouth is a pretty sure sign that they’re digging violently through a lot of flesh and brain matter), and Ik surely wouldn’t want to murder Harcourt.

Yes, even at the time of publication people noticed how sexless it was. Yes, Aragorn marries Arwen, and Sam gets a wife in the end, but unlike most literature romance doesn’t play much of a role at all. It’s pretty much all about male bonding (which granted some see a homoerotic context in, although Tolkien probably…

Well, not quite. Notice how all the non-white cultures (like the one with the Oiliphants based loosely on South Asian cultures) were on Sauron’s side while the whites (including the Riders of Rohan, who were literal Anglo-Saxons) were on the side of good. Yes, Tolkien wasn’t Lovecraft, but he did have a lot of early…

To me, it more or less glosses over it as to not make a big deal about it. Something is said or done and it just moves on just like everything else without a reaction. Which is how someone’s sexuality should be. Just a normal, everyday thing in tv and movies. No one double takes or makes a comment, they just keep…

I re-watched it last night, and I noticed one thing: when they’re leaving the vets, Adebayo says they need to sequester the vets’ vehicle, instead of saying commandeer. I think it was a call-back to the first episode when Peacemaker got her name wrong, having confidence in saying something wrong & not knowing it’s…

If white people aren’t careful, Black folk are going to steal Rock n Roll right out from under them.

The nations wouldn’t come together to fight Mordor, they’d insist Sauron is a myth

God it really is grim. One comment I was unfortunate enough to read went something like “black people have to insert themselves into white stories and culture because they have no culture or stories of their own.”

It’s an on-brand rounabout prequel.

It is really depressing me that all my favorite places to discuss Tolkien today are flooded with people decrying the fact that Middle-earth has black elves and dwarves and hobbits now. You’d think someone had sexually assaulted Tolkien’s grave the way they’re decrying the existence of POC as more than stock villains.…

The funniest thing is the analogy they make, that It’s like taking Native American stories and culture and casting white people in the roles. Except that Tolkien’s world isn’t real. It’s a fantasy. It’s not based on the culture of a race, lol!

Lord of the Rings and Tolkien in general is some pretty sexless stuff, so I’m good with this. The last thing anyone needs is, like, a prostitute in Númenor providing topless exposition about Morgoth.

Yeah, but that’s just for the nudity.

I would have rather had a third season of The Tick.