They were going to, but Gandalf kept it close to the chest to avoid tipping off the enemy, then got waylayed by the balrog in Moria before he could let Frodo in on the secret. He TRIED to tell them before he was pulled into the depths, but apparently an instruction as straightforward as "Fly, you fools!" can still be…

I was told to go into it totally blind, and did so—it was a consequentially wild ride. I also have only seen Princess Bride once, a while ago, so I didn't recognize the actress until well into it, and any issues about her character were therefore mostly lost on me.

Just to flesh it out, if you don't think a shockingly evenhanded examination of the power and merits of mass self-deception and distraction is a appropriate topic for art in the year of our lord two thousand and fourteen, then you should definitely skip this one.

It's crazy that the AV Club would give this movie, which I was still thinking about months after the fact, a C, while joining everyone else in the hype over that dumb train movie. Seems like the reviewer got hung up on the casting and never gave it a chance as a result.

I thought it was amazing, although I went into it blind which was, I think, helpful.

I loved the subtle parellels to Gus—trying to waive off insistent illicit business associate by repeating the canned lines of the licit business (Have an A1 day!) and methodical puking in toilets

I know the guys who were doing the segway tour you can see in the scene where Malcolm makes a cell phone call; the bored but slightly curious look the guide gives Malcolm as he runs past was utterly unscripted (and is, in fact, pretty much how that person always looks).

I know the guys who were doing the segway tour you can see in the scene where Malcolm makes a cell phone call; the bored but slightly curious look the guide gives Malcolm as he runs past was utterly unscripted (and is, in fact, pretty much how that person always looks).

no, it's still going steady

the park51 "controversy" was pretty comic, though.  dumb chickenhawks whipping up a very public episode anti-muslim bigotry and subsequently doing more to hurt the US military's overseas mission than bradley manning and anwar al-awlaki combined.  do those crackers think bush delivered his religion of peace lines out…

you got your domestic agenda apologetics in my foreign policy critique!

you'll forgive me if I'm less than impressed with the right's bona fides on this issue.  sure, pron haul says he'll roll back the security state, but so did obama