This month I’ve been writing article after article saying how emotional the last Middle-Earth movie was going to be for me. I even came up with metaphors for how many tears were going to be shed. (Filling the River Anduin? I mean, come on.) Except that I did not cry tonight. This could be because, throughout the film,…
Yesterday it was announced that Mockingjay, Part 1 was dethroned after three weeks at the #1 spot in America. For me, I felt that this was totally deserved, except that it really should have stayed on the top spot longer. It’s not only a great first half to what is bound to be an epic conclusion with Mockingjay, Part…
In 3 days, 19 hours and some odd minutes, I will be journeying to Middle-Earth #OneLastTime. I don’t know about you, but this whole #OneLastTime hashtag business is a pretty genius marketing scheme for The Hobbit. They aren’t going to let us forget that this is the last Middle-Earth movie, and they’re not going to…
It’s long been known that Stephen Colbert (my spirit animal) is a die-hard Silmarillion-reading Tolkien fan, but this week, the week before the last Middle-Earth movie, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, is released in theaters, and also the week before Stephen’s last episode of The Colbert Report airs on Comedy Central, Stephen did more to…
Almost a year ago, I shared my thoughts on the whole “originals vs prequels” debate. (I would highly suggest reading that article before reading this one. One, because I’m actually quite proud of that article, and two, because some things in this article won’t make sense unless you read that one first.) Now, finally, I…
Really? Honestly? Seriously? I was already pretty emotional just with the anticipation for The Battle of the Five Armies, then the release of the audio track for this song happened, and then Billy Boyd had to go and make a music video? Do you get that I am running out of metaphors to describe the exaggerated flow…
Despite the announcement early last week that the Jurassic World trailer would be released on Thanksgiving Day, the powers that be gave us a surprise gift and released the trailer two days early. Unfortunately, my long weekend was busy with family gatherings, so I wasn’t able to write about the trailer until now. However, I…
I was already prepared to release all the H2O from my body through my tear ducts upon watching Battle of the Five Armies before this song was released. You know, because this is the end of an era so-to-speak, in that this is very likely the last film set in Middle-Earth for a very long time. (Peter Jackson’s…
“If this is to end in fire, then we shall all burn together.” Sound familiar? The above quotation comes from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which came out last year. Now, appearing in the latest and final trailer for Mockingjay, Part 1, we have Katniss saying this: I have a message for President Snow: if we…
Can it be next month yet? I want Battle of the Five Armies, like, yesterday. Released in 2001, 2002, and 2003, The Lord of the Rings movies were the must-see movies of my high school years. I was a senior in high school when The Return of the King was released. I saw it in…