“I’m so sad that I enjoyed some parts of this play and hated others. Woe! Woooooe!”

I don’t GAF about Marvel anything, but working with them seems like a waste of Waititi’s time, imo. He could be doing more interesting (maybe even important) things with his time. But, yeah, it’s all about the money and thank goodness Americans feel such joy when someone compromises they’re talent for a dollar (Fuck…

Thanks for sharing. Woulda been great if the post could’ve provided more detail on the scathing reviews but… sigh… I know better than to expect more from the AV Club at this point.

“Curtains on Beanie Feldstein’s arc as the eponymous mensch of Funny Girl’s Broadway revival will apparently come sooner than expected.”

brutal review. you should do this professionally

I saw her in it. Her performance would have fit in better as the understudy at a local tri-state high school production. It wasn’t even that she couldn’t fill Barbra’s shoes - no one can! - it was that she was totally incapable of handling the score with even a modicum of competency in the way that should be expected…

After nearly ten years (!) since the last book, I’m not even sure its possible to really remember all the loose threads and tangents floating around in those books, even for a writer with discipline.

I’m going to bet the books end with a fat old dude having a heart attack and a ghost writer feverishly finishing them before returning to their day jobs writing Tom Clancy books and helping James Patterson wipe.

as if these dullards would do justice to the Sil. Leave that for an old Robert Eggers to do has a multipart anthology

what do you expect with tasteless former Bad Robot hacks at the helm, some rigorous vision? It’s just going to be a shallow pastiche.

As far as early age stuff, Amazon only has the rights to the appendices of Return of the King. Even though there is obvious overlap with The Silmarillion (and some differences), they can’t take something that is only mentioned in the appendices, that refers to an actual story in The Silmarillion, and adapt that…

I expect the books will have an ending eventually. Not expecting Martin to be the one to actually write it though.

For something so expensive it looks awfully cheap.

If the books never come out then they cant end the same way as the show.

It all seems pretty reasonable. The real question is, when will Simon Callow deliver the next volume of his Orson Welles biography?

I’ve often wondered who was supposed to be the Christ figure in LOTR? Gandalf conquered death, but Frodo had the Passion of carrying a horrendous burden, on behalf of all the free people, to the brink of death and was so tormented by the wounds and scars that he was assumed body and soul into elf-heaven.

It never ceases to amuse me how comparing LOTR to Christianity makes Christianity seem even more like made-up nonsense.

eh, not as bad as the screenwriting acolytes of JJ Abrams. They contribute much more garmonbozia to the culture.