Finally playing The Witcher after having slept on it for years reminded me of "discovering" The Wire. It's a peculiar feeling, indeed, to be bursting with enthusiasm and eagerness to share all you know, while hipper friends give you pitying looks as if to say "about time," and those poor souls as yet unenlightened wonder what all the fuss is about.
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I saw The Hobbit in 48 frames per second the other day.
Read MoreBeorn has just sent the party Mirkwood-bound and re-ponied, and this (plus recent Hobbit-discussion on here) seems a good place to take stock.
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b: anyone who makes a film of his works has explicit concrete beef with Tolk, who firmly argued (in On Fairy Stories ) that cinema cannot do fantasy, a point he hammers away on at some length.
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Recently, I went on a rant about the way the term "young adult" is more and more being used to describe books that are for children.
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Peter Jackson's return to Middle-earth has been a long time coming for Tolkien fans.
Read MoreAn Unexpected Journey had a huge opening weekend , making nearly $85 million and breaking the box office record for a December release.
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As a cinematic achievement, the Lord of the Rings trilogy is nearly unparalleled: a gorgeous, sweeping epic skilfully adapted from Tolkien's seminal work of popular fantasy.
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An extremely jarring 48 fps look -- which looks like an odd " Masterpiece Theater " in HD -- is unsettling, and the opening is slow-going and tepidly genteel, taking its time with two prologues, one that includes an aged Bilbo Baggins ( Ian Holm ) and Frodo Baggins ( Elijah Wood ).
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When the New Zealand composer met with film director Peter Jackson and his team to discuss plans for the song – which appears on the film's soundtrack, premiering exclusively today on Rolling Stone – he was told that these stocky denizens of Middle-Earth played a big role in the film.
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An Unexpected Journey that he burst into tears on set.
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What Jackson thought would spark conversation about the plot and characters, instead created a ferocious debate over the use of 48fps (frames per second) technology, which is twice the standard frame rate that has been used to make movies since the 1930s.
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Nana is back in New Orleans after a week in London doing makeup for the Prometheus press tour.
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Snow White And The Huntsman has been criticised for its casting choices by the Little People Of America.
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It has had many incarnations since its creation, including the latest by first-time director Rupert Sanders, titled Snow White And The Huntsman.
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Mirror Mirror " is like the big budget Broadway show that you're forced to see when your parents are in town.
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Do not read on if you have not seen Season 1, Episode 14 of ABC's "Once Upon a Time," entitled "Dreamy."
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