samwwise:lord of the rings really was lightning in a bottle. it shouldn’t have worked but by god it did. peter jackson, who had no filmmaking education and was mostly known for making low budget splatter movies, had no business going out and changing the movie industry like that but he did. return of the king showed up at the oscars and became one of the most awarded movies of all time. to this day it holds the record for the highest clean sweep. hollywood will keep trying to recreate that magic with bigger budgets and high profile actors and they will keep failing. i look at the state of these blockbusters where everything is smoothed over by soulless cgi and actors are acting opposite tennis balls and they will never hold a candle to the pure heart and soul and craft of the lord of the rings. every single person involved in that project loved being part of it and it fucking shows. i’m so thankful the stars aligned the way they did for these movies to happen like that.
monsterpotion:monsterpotion:monsterpotion:another underappreciated tumblr feature that you dont get on other sites is the queue. i love it when something i thought was funny six months ago and then forgot about a week later crawlts its way out of the processing vortex and i get to see it all over again.you should queue this post it would be funny and grant me immortalityyou motherfuckers put me in the processing vortex
enthusispastic:itseasytoremember:itseasytoremember:Look, we all agree that Aragorn is hot. Viggo Mortensen is absolutely a handsome man, but his character in Eastern Promises doesn’t have most of the global population ripping their hair out foaming at the mouth screaming crying throwing up horny.It’s something about the combination of long hair, stubble, a mysterious past, quiet confidence, and looking like you’ve just been riding a horse for 2 weeks, that drives people crazy.We will call this phenomenon The Aragorn Effect. My theory is that if all those same elements are combined with the correct proportions, any actor may be able to experience The Aragon Effect.In 1989 movie Roadhouse Sam Elliot plays a veteran bouncer who is asked by Patrick Swayze to assist in a particularly difficult bar. He 1. Has Long hair 2. Has Stubble 3. Looks like he eats cigarettes. In this essayFor reference, this is Sam Elliott in every other role he’s been in:And THIS is Sam Elliott in road house, for literally no reason at all:OH SHIT
nerdy-catfish:
“There are many magic rings in this world, Bilbo Baggins, and none of them should be used lightly.”-Gandalf the Grey, wielder of Narya the Ring of Fire and also coincidentally maker of the best magic fireworks in the world
I’m gonna propose “I guess you haven’t read the silmarillion then :/” as a default response to anyone not understanding a reference to something obscure. even if it’s not remotely Tolkien related. I want to build up a perception that perhaps the sum total of human knowledge is contained in the silmarillion
Scooby-Doo is a dog who can talk, which is amazing, and he largely uses his powers of speech to communicate how scared he is of ghosts and monsters, and basically the only thing his owners do is drive him around the country putting him inside various haunted houses and such. I wish I could take Scooby-Doo aside, I want to say to him, these people are not your friends.
