"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" and the Restoration of a Legacy
The second installment in The Hobbit trilogy, the prequels to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, has just been released. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, continues the adventures of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), and the company of dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) after the events of An Unexpected Journey . They continue their journey to the Lonely Mountain to retrieve their kingdom and their treasures from the menacing dragon Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch). This is a film that yo…
SELECTED REVIEW OF THE DAY: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
We finally come to the final installment of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Return of the King. Considered by many to be the best and most epic out of the trilogy we follow Frodo (Elijah Wood), Sam (Sean Astin), and Gollum (Andy Serkis) as things tense between the three as they get nearer and nearer towards Mount Doom. Sam and Gollum form a nasty rivalry as Gollum continues to hatch a plan to get rid of the Hobbits and take the Ring for himself, and in the meantime Frodo is slowly driven to insanity and greed as the Ring starts to corrupt h…
SELECTED REVIEW OF THE DAY: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Now we come to the second installment of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Two Towers. To be honest, and this is just my personal preference, I think this the less strongest of the trilogy. But it is NOWHERE near terrible, it still comes out as a pretty good film. There are just a few problems I have with it that keep me from fully being in love with it, but the problems are minor now. It starts where Fellowship of the Ring left off, Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) are now on their own as they must venture the rest of their journey t…
SELECTED REVIEW OF THE DAY: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
In time for the release of The Hobbit, I feel that it is time to review The Lord of the Rings Trilogy directed by Peter Jackson. The Lord of The Rings trilogy, based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkein, are considered to be now as part of Hollywood's greatest films making critics and audiences cheer and making big money in the box office. The series itself has enormous fan base and has gone on to be on par with other big science fiction/fantasy franchises in terms of fandom such as Star Wars and Star Trek. You can probably call it The Star War…
Cloud Atlas Review
Let me start off by saying that the only reason I went to see this film is because EVERYBODY would not stop talking about this past week. I mean on the TV, the news, advertisements, everybody was saying how good Cloud Atlas was and how revolutionary it was. It even got a 10 minute standing ovation when it was shown at the Toronto Film Festival. I was just curious to see how good this was since people have been building it up all week. So I went to see it so I can judge it through my opinion and it was... okay. It was just okay, nothing spectac…
