[Talisker]

So The Hobbit didn’t win anything (waiting for all 3 to be out?), and Ender’s Game wasn’t nominated for anything. That should be a clue to Gavin Hood to leave film.

LOL, those were the only 2 movies I actually paid to watch in a theater!

I liked them both, with reservations, of course. But I never, ever watch a movie without suspending disbelief and all expectations before the thing even starts.

Very, very, very few movies are films.

A film matches the quality of the book.

[a fool in paradise]

A film is shot on film. Everything else today is a photoshopped video.

The editing is totally different. The consideration when they frame a shot is different. And on set, the cast knows that it is more expensive if they don’t get it right in a reasonable number of takes.

A movie isn’t “epic” because it runs 3 hours. The tale ITSELF must be epic in scope and told in a manner that has an arc.