Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Went to Olympus Has Fallen last night and it pretty much SUCKED.
Oh, really? The review in the SF Chronicle was pretty good. Huh.
Javi's review:
"olympus has fallen" is like a slasher flick where the camp is the white house, the teens are terrorists and gerard butler is jason voorhees
I've been in a state of tears or near tears for the last hour thanks to Moon.
All six movies played at the same time. Just the beginning with all the theme songs on top of each other with some slightly out of sync is hilarious.
We watched The Hobbit last night. Mal had a map of Middle-Earth spread out on his lap for most of it, except when he needed to hide from trolls. He thought the wargs looked like dinosaurs, which made me think megafauna, and a little Google later it appears that the wargs are a mix of megafauna, while Thranduil's war moose is an Irish elk (which is apparently neither Irish nor an elk).
This time I was even more blown away by Martin Freeman's performance.
Why was Benedict Cumberbatch credited?
Why was Benedict Cumberbatch credited?
He is Smaug.
He is Smaug.
And the Necromancer.
And the Necromancer.
This one! I knew he was the voice of Smaug, but Smaug doesn't really say anything in this movie.
Smaug doesn't really say anything in this movie.
Neither does the Necromancer! Either he's being credited for the trilogy, or he did 3 seconds of mocap for that shadow in the doorway.
Neither does the Necromancer! Either he's being credited for the trilogy, or he did 3 seconds of mocap for that shadow in the doorway.
This has been in debate on Tumblr recently, actually. Err, if the shadow is mocap Cumberbatch, that is.
The Necromancer does make some sort of vocalization thing. I could pull the disc out of my pocket and check (don't ask) to make sure I'm not misremembering, but I'm lazy.
Or Jackson likes instigating games of "Who is that under all that makeup? I saw his name in the credits, he has to be there somewhere."