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Forum: The Movies 11-20-2022, 08:53 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 3,801
Posted By Michael Murry
An example of how NOT to go about it

Good point about the mystery boxes, about which overused and irritating plot device in "Rings of Impotence", I came across this analysis recently:



" ... an example of how NOT go about it." A...
Forum: The Movies 11-19-2022, 08:34 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 3,746
Posted By Michael Murry
Some Wanderers ARE Truly Lost

I wanted to credit Tar Elenion for quoting "The Song of Aelfwine" in another thread which got me to analyzing the fourteen-line sonnet format (for the most part) employed in that poem:...
Forum: The Movies 11-19-2022, 07:29 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 7,094
Posted By Michael Murry
Will it Stop by Itself?

Good catch. I had a similar experience remembering the Broadway musical "Hair" as well as the eponymous song by the Cowsills in the late 1960s. Very "Woodstock" and counter-culture. Of course, THE...
Forum: The Movies 11-09-2022, 03:30 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 5,202
Posted By Michael Murry
Has anybody seen the disposable consort Celeborn?

As I've pointed out previously, the opening scenes of this Rings of Impotence television series reminded me of the film Miss Congeniality, where the young tomboy girl punches out boys who give her...
Forum: The Movies 11-08-2022, 04:50 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 3,746
Posted By Michael Murry
Finrod's Resurrection and "Second Coming"?

As the Chinese communists liked to say about the inextinguishable Confucian patriarchy: "The centipede is dead but not stiff." This cultural/entertainment corpse may appear cold and dead on a slab at...
Forum: The Movies 11-08-2022, 04:30 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 5,202
Posted By Michael Murry
The Rings of Impotence

Which reminds me of something I read many years ago (and had to refresh my memory courtesy of the Interwebs):



Unfortunately for the Rings of Impotence, when it comes to the series' Mary Sue...
Forum: The Movies 11-06-2022, 08:48 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 5,202
Posted By Michael Murry
A mangled Myth, mouldering at the Morgue

Speaking of autopsies -- an exquisitely appropriate term -- I caught this from the comment section of a movie-review YouTube channel, only one of the many I visited looking for postmortems on this...
Forum: The Movies 11-01-2022, 06:24 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 7,094
Posted By Michael Murry
I tried to lampoon this Elvish-warrior "hair"...

I tried to lampoon this Elvish-warrior "hair" thing eleven years ago.



Oh, well. Perhaps I can at least draw some poetic inspiration from further discussion of these weighty matters.
Forum: The Movies 11-01-2022, 05:39 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 7,094
Posted By Michael Murry
"long" hair for elf guys and "longer" hair for elf girls

Unfair Criticism?

https://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/image/2022/10/5/6ef7a1bf-7f07-42a9-9ddf-341d9fe9f4cb-xcly6ls.jpeg?w=710&h=483&fit=max&auto=format%2Ccompress

Possibly not.
Forum: The Movies 09-13-2022, 03:23 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 9,539
Posted By Michael Murry
[DELETED BY ADMIN] Understood. But...

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Understood.

But since I refuse to spend precious pennies watching this Amazon-ROP drek, I really have no basis upon which to form an opinion other than second-hand reports...
Forum: The Movies 09-12-2022, 09:58 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 9,539
Posted By Michael Murry
From Miss Congeniality to Starman/Superman

I finally found a way to watch and listen to this Amazon television thing without having to pay Jeff Bezos any of my few and hard-earned pennies. I tuned in to the DELETED BY ADMIN channel and found...
Forum: The Movies 09-11-2022, 10:53 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 4,775
Posted By Michael Murry
The Theory and Practice of Inoffensive Tonality

An interesting comment from one who addressed the following to me in another thread (the one about "reading" a television broadcast):



I find the tone -- which means "a speaker/writer's...
Forum: The Movies 09-07-2022, 04:04 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 9,539
Posted By Michael Murry
Viewing Film versus Reading Text

I truly appreciate Bêthberry's thread-opening post entitled How We Read Rings of Power although I think the word "View" would more accurately distinguish film-watching from book-reading: two very...
Forum: The Movies 09-06-2022, 11:15 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 11,810
Posted By Michael Murry
Woke "Warriors" Awaken!

William Cloud Hickin:





Reply courtesy of Thinlómien:
Forum: The Movies 09-06-2022, 08:02 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 11,810
Posted By Michael Murry
Extreme Elvish Elks?

Formendacil: "WHY the giant antlers? A Thranduil-call sideways?"

Thank you so much for that. When I told my Taiwanese wife about it, she had the same reaction we both did to Thranduil and his...
Forum: The Movies 09-06-2022, 05:12 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 11,810
Posted By Michael Murry
correct but incomplete

coup de grâce - French ku də ɡʀas - noun - a final blow or shot given to kill a wounded person or animal.



Both of the statements above, correct as far as they go, overlook the positively...
Forum: The Movies 09-03-2022, 08:57 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 11,810
Posted By Michael Murry
a dragon-less drag?

What about dragons (or the Great Worms)? Anything about them, tattooed or otherwise?

I ask because of the poetic/polemical possibilities suggested by The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo (Hardcover –...
Forum: The Movies 09-03-2022, 07:12 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 11,810
Posted By Michael Murry
Smug the Drag Queen

The Drag Queen with the Guy Tattoo, a.k.a., Smug.
Forum: The Movies 08-31-2022, 02:09 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 5,564
Posted By Michael Murry
Itaril - Tauriel - Sildenafil - Galadriel

Good call out on Sildenafil. I had a lot of fun with that one eleven years ago when Peter Jackson set about casting for a "warrior" female elvish love interest for his "Hobbit" films. He thought he...
Forum: The Movies 08-26-2022, 06:29 PM
Replies: 412
Views: 174,114
Posted By Michael Murry
Jaded Jewelry

For those whose "governments" haven't outlawed access to anything and everything "Russian," see: https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/561452-amazon-series-peter-jackson/

For others, I'll post the...
Forum: The Movies 08-26-2022, 05:58 PM
Replies: 412
Views: 174,114
Posted By Michael Murry
All Aboard the Rainbow Ferry

As a veteran of Uncle Sam's Canoe Club (a.k.a., the U.S. Navy) I recall lectures in Basic Training (in 1966) about how our navy differed from that of the British which -- according to Lord of the...
Forum: The Movies 08-26-2022, 03:07 AM
Replies: 412
Views: 174,114
Posted By Michael Murry
Morbid Cluck as Guardrail The Terrifying

I don't know if I can get this image link thing working correctly, but:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_740/48764d54535616a39200fca40c841cc0.png...
Forum: The Movies 08-19-2022, 03:23 AM
Replies: 412
Views: 174,114
Posted By Michael Murry
Video game giant buys rights to ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’

I apologize if others have already covered this, but I just came across a report at RT.com (which I can still access here in Taiwan, although I've heard that one cannot if living in the the U.S.)....
Forum: The Movies 02-15-2022, 03:33 AM
Replies: 84
Views: 14,301
Posted By Michael Murry
So, it begins

As King Theoden said after the first arrow flew, setting off the Battle of Helm's Deep:

"So, it begins."

Two additional takes on these "teaser" promotional visuals.

Amazon's Lord of the...
Forum: The Movies 02-11-2022, 04:44 AM
Replies: 84
Views: 14,301
Posted By Michael Murry
Vanity, Vanity, all is Vanity?

I didn't come across the Vanity Fair article itself but only indirectly by way of RT.com:



Not having a subscription to Amazon Prime Video, I await the erudite deconstruction of this...
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