Uhm......wut? “an edge lord remake of The Empire Strikes Back”? Have you actually seen TESB? And I mean, story-wise. It doesn’t play out at all like TLJ. Don’t get me wrong, I love the original trilogy and enjoy the prequels for what they are, but The Last Jedi was the most original of the newest trilogy and the only…

“They were charged with making a Lord Of The Rings series that appealed to the widest audience possible without alienating die-hard fans.”

It’s whatever gets the most clicks

but it’s looking like Amazon’s big gamble might just pay off, despite the efforts of the usual toxic suspects.

REMEMBER, FOLKS, IF YOU DON’T BUY A PRIME SUBSCRIPTION AND MAKE JEFF BEZOS EVEN RICHER, YOU’RE RACIST, SEXIST, AND ANY OTHER -IST WE CAN THINK OF.

Tits and Dragons sell!

As we have seen with things like the Innocence project and others (like you have one right now in the SAME day posting: https://www.theroot.com/judge-angered-by-hidden-evidence-in-wrongful-conviction-1849469296), it doesn’t really matter if you did the crime or not, if you are lumped in (due to skin color and…

“Raising awareness”... why does anyone need to be aware of this other than to watch it?

For me, it was the opening of the Two Towers, which I saw at midnight premier. Just watching the beginning of the scene which is basically the same as in Fellowship, and then the music changes and the camera plunges to follow Gandalf and the gregorian chant swells and the whole thing becomes Metal As Hell as Gandalf…

In honor of David Letterman, tonight’s top ten: My favorite moments from the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

I hear this a lot and I just don’t get it. Was the movie supposed to end at Minas Tirith with everybody celebrating while the Force Ghosts of Boromir, Gollum, and that one elf guy who died at Helm’s Deep looking on in approval?

Yep, still sends a chill down my spine.

The horn of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the deep! One last time!

Gimli: Yeeeessssssss
Audience: Yeeeeesssssss!!!!

‘Begone, and trouble me no more! If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom.’

My favorite memory was when it was pointed out to me that the One Ring destroyed itself.

Wouh! I’m all for another bout of KWF - Kaiju Wrestling Federation. Like seriously, that’s what the Legendary “Monsterverse” movies are: Wrestlemania, but with giant monsters. There are faces, heels, team-up, cage matches, undercards, and a bunch of sketches to fill time in between the fights.

But even her “fight” against Fëanor need not have been physical. Tolkien describes quite a lot of non-physical conflict, especially in LOTR (e.g., Gandalf ‘striving’ with the Dark Tower). There is a lot of competition between wills, so to speak. The whole ‘Warrior Galadriel’ is comprised by a lot of assertion.

While I am fine with reimagining Galadriel as a warrior, I kind of resent people claiming “that’s what she always was in the tolkien legendarium.” It’s one thing to say “we are going to have a new version of galadriel,” but it’s straight-up gaslighting to say “she was always portrayed as a warrior and great…

Bioshock 2 is criminally underrated. If I have a complaint, it’s that there aren’t enough drill fuel stations, because using the drill is awesome.

My dream has been to write this movie. For real. I have it sketched out, using all the major references that ride makes and subtle allusions to other items in that part of the park.