Oh wow, is it Oscar season already?

This man speaks the truth. Great book to movie adaptations need a writer/director who both loves the source material but knows he knows best about movies. The LOTR films were incredibly well balanced. Yes they excised a lot but the alternative is those Hobbit movies and they fucking suck.

He starts out as some asshole and ends up saving the world. How is the Hero's Journey not complete without the Scouring?

In fairness, they were only ever acting like they had.

Far and away my favourite is: "Morals and ethics and carnal forbearance…"

OK, smart guy, he's done plenty of American films.

They kind of cribbed that from the comics (Killing Joke in particular) but yes it worked like a goddamn bastard.

I mean, look, it could work in a 'taking it back' kind of way. From the review it sounds like this whole thing was Trank trying to do something interesting and just failing in every way.

David Cronenberg is one of the few true geniuses of the American cinema, but he could not make a functional superhero movie.

I think you answered your own question.

Given the almost forensic detail the original edit went into about every event even suggested in the novel, I can only assume the additional footage is just people going to the toilet.

It's not so much if they extend past 7 seasons, it's their motivation for doing it. If they genuinely have stories to tell then great. If they take the "wait, this cake is 60% sawdust!" approach, like Jackson's Hobbit movies, that would be extremely depressing to see.

They did the best they could with the material they had. I'm not even saying the last 2 books are bad, but they'd have made terrible television, as written.

Ah come on it's 2015, I'm sure Netflix will pick it up. Wait…

*must… resist urge…to recommend… things in… great…. detail*

Has it got Snake though? Mine has.

I think that's what the Ewoks sing when they're about to roast Luke.

I get what they were going for but I don't feel like that VO worked.

Gladiator is a fantastic movie, and certainly the best of the nominees that year (with the *possible* exception of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.)

Pretty influential on British bands like Kaiser Chiefs, Maximo Park, The Vaccines, The Fratellis (Chelsea Dagger is pretty much the British Flagpole Sitta). The wordy, upbeat, stripped back, 'fun without being goofy' thing.