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the 13th warrior
Rivendell
Mar 20 2018, 7:51am
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The little fried won ton of wisdom or the sock puppet sage??
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Hello starling, Yoda, Grover connections are interesting, and perhaps Grover can portray Yoda in another Muppets meet Star Wars send up. I vaguely recall Pigs In Space and Mark Hamill was the special guest. Miss Piggy has Leia locked down. Big Bird the tallest so Chewy will the played by a large brightly colored fowl. Perhaps Kermit the frog would be a good Luke. Imagine Star Wars '77 New Hope with Luke looking at multi suns at sunset, except it's Kermit singing, the rainbow song.
The 13th Warrior, Left Field Caliphate
*From the scroll rooms of Gondor, sing everyone, "why are there so many songs about rainbows......*
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Lily Fairbairn
Half-elven
Mar 20 2018, 3:23pm
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
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This is a behind-the-scenes story of how Charles Dickens came to write A Christmas Carol, interspersed with fantasy passages showing his writing process. The characters from the story actually appear to him, for example, and Scrooge in particular gets in some very good lines.
I particularly enjoyed the lighter moments, and the dead-on depictions of a writer's mind at work. I'm a bit surprised that while there were extensive scenes of Dickens' own miserable childhood, the story never touched on Scrooge's youth, which helps to explain his misanthropy later in life.
It's a nicely paced holiday movie, with a good cast of classic British actors, including Dan Stevens as Dickens and Christopher Plummer as Scrooge.
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow....
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Darkstone
Immortal
Mar 22 2018, 1:35pm
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I laughed and cried all through it, a rare and wonderful film experience. It's nice that the screenwriters picked up on the fact that Dickens was exploring the philosophical question, then popular among German liberal thinking, "Can a man change?" The thought was that things like religion (or perhaps ghosts of Christmas) could *guide* a person to change, but in the end the change has to come from within. So while initially resisting the possibility that one so wretched as Scrooge could change, by accepting the possibility Dickens himself is able to change, and he is able to reconcile with his Father. Marvelous storytelling!
And of course the cinematography was gorgeous.
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"Now the Star-bellied Elves had bellies with stars. The Plain-bellied Dwarves had none upon thars."
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Darkstone
Immortal
Mar 22 2018, 1:41pm
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...was colorful, cosmic, and fun, everything a comic book film should be, but which many *cough*dceu*cough* are unfortunately not.
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"Now the Star-bellied Elves had bellies with stars. The Plain-bellied Dwarves had none upon thars."
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