Not to niggle, but Youtube recently 'soft' launched 45 and 60fps upload capabilities.

I assumed that Alfrid was played a PJ childhood friend for royalty check purposes.

I upped you just for introducing me to the term 'atonal humor.'

The sad thing is that Anakin's line was part of a *dialogue* with Natalie Portman, but she was so non-essential to the scene that it's easy to misremember that crapitude as soliloquy.

Hopefully he's a better editor than actor.

Did Mindy breast feed Jonathan Winters? My childhood will never be the same.

Let's call this movie what it is- a pile of poo that's buying Peter Jackson a yacht.

According to the LOTR project Aragorn dies when he's 210, so I guess that makes sense. But if it's never been mentioned in the films, why suddenly throw it into the Hobbit?

And for raping his girlfriend?

That should be the five argmies' marketing line: 'The Hobbit: Oh, just end it already.'

Or worse, what Tolkien would've thought of Legolas riding a shield down stairs like a snowboard while calling out his kill count.

I'd read the trilogy and the hobbit many times by the time i was a teenager, and I still couldn't force myself to read more than a couple pages of the Silmarillion. It felt like reading just the glosses from the Norton Anthology of Poetry instead of actually reading the poems.

Not the younglings!

'Anakin, you're breaking my heart!'

Did Peter Jackson give this interview while sitting on a pile of money?

I have a weirdly strong childhood memory of reading a single issue of the Star Wars comic in which Leia is stranded on a planet with a storm trooper who *surprise* is a native of Alderon. At the climax, the storm trooper is dangling from a cliff, and Leia is holding onto his hand and he slips, leaving behind a…

Not sure if this has been covered, but does Legolas being instructed to seek out Aragorn at the end of the film strike anyone else as sloppy fan-fiction from Walsh? According to the LOTRO Project timeline, it's 60 years from the end of the hobbit to the beginning of the fellowship. This begs the question- how the fuck…

now do 'jeremy irons'

Penny Dreadful is the diametric opposite of the walking dead: lovingly realized and utterly believable period sets, scores of extras, intelligent writing, consistent tone and atmosphere, generally exceptional actors, smart casting, sparkling dialogue (unless you hate romantic poets), sparingly effective use of…

I wholeheartedly agree. Eva Green's performance is wonderfully effective. And kudos to John Logan and Sam Mendes for embracing her skills as an actor, and not incessantly trying to ogle her rack with the camera like half-wit hacks Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller did in Sin City 2.