She didn't know he had a poisoned wound until she found him on the table, writhing in pain long after she made the decision to go AWOL. It was at the house where she made the decision to treat the wound rather than follow the Orcs.

When we are first introduced to Taurial's character, she is fighting the horde of giant spiders. Later she appeals to Thranduil to allow her to follow them to their source and stop them. Her concerns are with Middle Earth and she explains that they too are part of this world, not isolated.

If you see her character as nothing more than "two men's love interest", the character who gets more dialogue than either men mentioned, gets more character building than either, and is shown numerous times having the ability to handle herself with different weapons… if you only see her as a vessel for two men to…

It's like I don't even have to go to Wikipedia today.

I have both the extended editions and I love them dearly. The extra footage fleshes them out and improves the pacing. Look at the trek through the forest as a good example. The truncated version doesn't work near as well because you don't buy that in that short of time they would lose lucidity. The longer version…

If you think the years he's spent world building, adapting that daunting work spending millions of dollars and man hours as "nothing", then your standards are impossibly high.

You know what I tire of? People complaining that the movies are too long. Or that he's making too many. You know what? Don't watch. They're not for you. They're for people who like spending time in this world Jackson created. Who enjoy the meticulous slavish detail. Go watch something that was filmed and run through…

Just when I thought the internet was done doing great jobs.

This piece works really hard to try to convince us that this stinker is anything but the tossed off, mediocre inclusion in the adapt-a-70s-TV-show sub-genre that was already tired before the second Brady Bunch movie came out.

This recent wave of self-serious types who need movies to hold up to scientific scrutiny before they allow themselves to be entertained by them annoy me.

It's just "52 Pick-up". That way it sounds like it was named after the truck. Why the heck would anyone call it "52-Card Pickup"?

I thought it was a pretty clever movie and the kind of sci-fi we don't see anymore; where an idea is mulled over from every angle and the plot is there only to help this along. Like The Incredible Shrinking Man.

That's it, O'Neal; pack it up. A Newsfeed article about both Goodfellas and The Simpsons. Nowhere to go but down, sir.

Aw, jeez. It just occurred to me why you keep arguing the superiority of the Spanish Dracula but ignoring Dowd's outright misinformation regarding Lugosi and his ability to speak English; you're yet another damn sock puppet for Dowd. How many accounts do you have?

I'll concede that there is a decent debate to be had over which film is better. I won't budge on Dowd's misinformation about Lugosi having to learn his lines phonetically, though.. Apparently he did his research utilizing the comment section on IMDb.

The pacing is jarring on purpose, or at least it's effective in keeping the audience off balance.

For a one-note video, this was pretty cool. I suppose it's the song. It's nice.

Look at Dowd, perpetuating the myth that Lugosi couldn't speak English when he made Dracula. And also parroting that idiot opinion that the Spanish version is better when it was an also ran production. It's like saying Van Sant's Psycho is better. It really is.

It sounds really nice to be Elijah Wood. Like, when he wakes up every day he says "yeah" before getting out of bed.

What a spectacular waste of time. Why would you make such silly leaps of logic and read in subtext that is obviously not there just to force these already great films to conform to a silly theory that doesn't actually make any of them any better?