Movie Critics Thread

[GoktimusPrime]

Just saw the trailer for Tolkien and it's gotten me excited for this film. It's true that Tolkien, a hyperpolyglot*, invented his own languages before he started writing his tales of Middle Earth. Interesting to see that it will also look at the history of the founding of Inklings, which boasted many members who went on to become acclaimed writers, including C.S. Lewis (author of the Narnia Chronicles) and many more. Tolkien was very much a nerd before his time. His views on environmentalism in a time when nobody really cared about that sort of thing was also quite visionary.

I hope that this film will do his life justice and I'm looking forward to checking it out.

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*Greek for "many tongues"; a person who has mastered an unusually high number of languages -- the minimum number varies but I think the current consensus is 6 or more languages at a fluent level

[shockNwave]

Just saw the trailer for Tolkien and it's gotten me excited for this film. It's true that Tolkien, a hyperpolyglot*, invented his own languages before he started writing his tales of Middle Earth. Interesting to see that it will also look at the history of the founding of Inklings, which boasted many members who went on to become acclaimed writers, including C.S. Lewis (author of the Narnia Chronicles) and many more. Tolkien was very much a nerd before his time. His views on environmentalism in a time when nobody really cared about that sort of thing was also quite visionary.

I hope that this film will do his life justice and I'm looking forward to checking it out.

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*Greek for "many tongues"; a person who has mastered an unusually high number of languages -- the minimum number varies but I think the current consensus is 6 or more languages at a fluent level

I guess hyperpolyglot can fall under philologist of which he was considered the best in the world when it comes to covering western Europe.

[snaketales]

Batman v superman ultimate edition is sooooo much better than what we got in cinemas
Also helps if you consider it a conspiracy movie IMHO

[Autocon]

Batman v superman ultimate edition is sooooo much better than what we got in cinemas
Also helps if you consider it a conspiracy movie IMHO

Are there new scenes?

[snaketales]

Are there new scenes?

Yeah - primarily of Lois and Clark investigating their respective story threads - I felt they filled in a lot of details left out in the cinema version. Makes for a more complete story to my mind.

[1AZRAEL1]

Yep. Ultimate edition is the version we should have got in cinemas. Not the movie we need, but the one we deserved. They don't seem to want to make movies too long for theatrical cuts, but sometimes cutting it up butchers it. Nightbreed is a prime example of that.

[M-bot]

I haven’t seen the Ultimate Edition; I don’t imagine I ever will. I’m not at all convinced it’s possible to redeem BVS, no matter how much they add.

[Trent]

I haven’t seen the Ultimate Edition; I don’t imagine I ever will. I’m not at all convinced it’s possible to redeem BVS, no matter how much they add.

I agree. That steaming pile of tripe they call a film is beyond salvation. It had a great cast but they had absolutely nothing to work with.