And ending just as they enter mirkwood would be perfect as they house of beorn is a nice ending (denouement) after the excape from the wolves and goblins.

That video really lays out how it all went horribly to shit.

The three Hobbit films combined grossed a shade under $3 billion just from the cinema box office alone. To paraphrase Dick Jones from OCP in Robocop, "Who cares if they were good or not?".

One thing I love about those old movies on TCM is that they were tight.  There are definitely some famously long standouts, but for the most part they were trim and slim, and that’s what I look for in a film.

It’s what happens when you have been greenlit (and given money) for three movies, have one movie worth of material, change directors at the last second, and have done almost no planning. It’s basically the opposite of the preparation for LoTR. 

This tells me they are playing fast and loose with the money. They are using YouTube as their “grey area”.

I expect the people of Waco are happy. They single-handedly screwed up the affordable housing market there, between direct price increases, home conversions to rental properties, and property tax bills jumping proportionately. Their Silos development has been positive for the city at large but Waco was known as a…

As a former union organizer, I have always said the best way to keep it union out of your shop, is to treat your workers, right, and compensate them fairly. Now as much as this article is trying to point out that only a few people disagree with the union, the factors as of now only a few people support one as well.…

It should settle down timeline-wise from now on. Season one was basically all set up for the Dance, showing how all the relationships and events built up to the point of civil war. In the Fire and Blood telling, the war lasts about three years, if memory serves. Although that’s dependent on what you actually classify…

Oh, yes, their entire empire has always been a house of cards. Everything still hinges on the ad revenue, because Workspace/G-Suite/GCP have always only ever represented tiny percentages of their gross revenue.

Yeah, if they’re willing to spend $26 BILLION then you know this is giving them a HUGE advantage. It’s such a high $ amount that almost nobody can compete with that figure.

It’s not actually -hot- (relatively, as in raw degrees). It’s just humidity is negative when the Santa Anas hit.

I really need to re-read Lot, the audiobook has been loaded on my phone for a couple years as a backup. 

I rather liked that short story King wrote, “One for the Road” which delves into the aftermath of the events of the main novel, and it really drives home this creep factor, of Salem’s Lot being this desolate town, that locals from neighboring towns just avoid after dark...

Thank you, you nailed it. I grew up in rural Maine, actually not too far off from King’s real life stomping grounds, and I very much related to the book in that way. When I was younger, it was a pretty well-off mill town. Then, the mills closing combined with the beginning of the opioid epidemic - it almost did feel…

King himself is quite explicit that this is what ‘Salem’s Lot was about for him - small towns in the middle of nowhere dying out. Perhaps part of the problem of setting it in a more recent milieu is that this is only exacerbated in the modern world; I can’t imagine Ben and Susan “meeting cute” in the way they do in…

See, I think it could work, if the people making these adaptations understood what Salem’s Lot is about. Every adaptation has sought to make a movie about vampires. That’s not what Salem’s Lot is about. It’s about how the places you grew up in change and die. I always imagined Salem’s Lot as being a stand in for those…

There was another Salem’s Lot movie back in 2004 with Rob Lowe. Based on the Wikipedia, it took place in the “2000's” which could mean cell phones/internet weren’t available to everyone.

Shh!

The main characters are a bunch of lower-middle-class high-school kids from Detroit. Defeating the monster through jet-setting is probably not in the realm of possibility.