King, writer of ephemeral paperbacks that people buy in airports and then sell to Half Priced Books for 75 cents, thinks movies are an ephemeral and therefore inferior medium.

News Radio is still such a funny show.

Cartoons and cartoons living together!

This is likely to be a deeply unpopular opinion, but I honestly think Charlie Brown's Christmas falls flat these days, whereas the Garfield Christmas special is really quite touching what with the love letter storyline.

"A white face in Harlem… Good thinkin', Bond." - Black CIA guy

The whole Baron Samedi business is still the only instance of an apparently supernatural occurrence in the Bond universe, right?

I am also confused by that. At first I thought they meant that it doesn't exist anymore, that it's gone extinct except as a tourist draw. But now I'm thinking it means that it was always more a legend than anything, a rumor of a practice that was always syncretic at best and was instantly absorbed into ritualistic…

I always thought that hoodoo was just a sort of colloquial or dismissive word for voodoo.

I'd have to rewatch the movie, but is the Orc army already pretty much assembled when the Elves show up? If so, I'd have to rely on the stealth of Elves to explain it. They probably all wore their Lorien cloaks. :)

OR they could have just walked out of Lothlorien and cut a line straight through Fangorn.

Presumably they marched or sailed out of Lothlorien down the Anduin as far as Rauros, then marched or sailed up the Entwash and Snowbourn to Edoras, then walked the last leg to Helm's Deep. It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for an Elven army to cover that ground relatively quickly, I don't think. It's the…

For me that would be "Run for Your Life," which Lennon later had the wisdom to disavow.

I have one but it's of no interest to anyone (yet), which is why I didn't list it. It's Kekuta Manneh, who might be a household name in a few years, but so far he's only known to big MLS fans.

That's a good point. If I were dealing with the whole public, you'd be exactly right. But I'm explaining my experience within my milieu, as I failed to explain at first. The thing is, I hang out with smart people. It's a job hazard. Most of them aren't nerds, so they don't give a damn about the source material, but…

This was in the long interregnum between Zeppelin and Jackson. We had Bakshi and Rankin-Bass, and that was about it, and even those were long in the past by the 1990s. When I dressed as Gandalf for Halloween in 1995, nobody had a damn clue. It wasn't a bad costume, and today everyone would recognize it, but at the…

Yes. You understand.

Um. I don't think so. My wife's criticism is that Jackson didn't stick to Faramir's decision-making process as it plays out in Ithilien, prior to his return to Minas Tirith.

IMO that's the weakest point of the three LOTR movies. The Elves being there is Jackson's worst/most wrongheaded departure from canon.

Yes. That doesn't mean that Jackson's take on it is likely to be any good, but you didn't ask that, so the answer is just yes.

I lived and breathed Tolkien long before Jackson made it cool. Then he made three great and popular and critically-acclaimed movies, and for a brief time I was could say I liked Tolkien among normal people without being embarrassed. Now he's ruined it again, and I have to blush every time I name my chief fictional…