Category Archives: Books

In Need of a Good Scouring

Posted on May 28 2003 by Mickey

    -SPOILER WARNING-   (not that you haven’t had fifty years to read the book). I’ve grown used to the idea that Return of the King will not feature “The Scouring of the Shire” sequence. The filmmakers have said … Continue reading →

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Leo’s Precious

Posted on May 10 2003 by Mickey

    I happened to tape this on Tuesday, during Tech TV’s replay of Monday’s The Screen Savers. Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton are discussing HTIBs (Home Theater in a Box), and they had some interesting things to say about … Continue reading →

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So It Begins

Posted on May 8 2003 by Mickey

    At last come the first rumblings from the Peter Jackson camp regarding the third and final Lord of the Rings movie. No actual stills or scenes yet, but at least the talk of actual stills and scenes has … Continue reading →

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A Fried Peanut Butter and Lembas Sammitch

Posted on April 18 2003 by Mickey

    Last year, I thought the protest over how the title The Two Towers was supposedly an insensitive reference to terrorism (despite the fact Tolkien’s book was published twelve years before the WTC was completed). But, with this year’s … Continue reading →

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Future DVD Purchases

Posted on April 11 2003 by Mickey

    • As has been reported elsewhere, two discs in the first edition of the Back to the Future box were mastered misframed. It appears Universal is finally shipping out corrected copies. These can be recognized by the “V2” … Continue reading →

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• goofs

Posted on April 6 2003 by Mickey

    I really like using IMDB as a resource, but their “Goofs” pages really irritate me. For one thing, the viewer complaints are ridiculously nitpicky. Trivial stuff like “the level of liquid in a glass changes from shot to … Continue reading →

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My Apologies

Posted on February 11 2003 by Mickey

    I guess I should apologize to Peter Jackson. It seems my continuing criticism of The Two Towers cost him his Best Director nomination this morning. I guess I should not have focused so much on the negatives regarding … Continue reading →

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Translating Two Towers

Posted on January 30 2003 by Mickey

    Let us return to the continuing adventures of Gandolf Foogray, Gibley, Filden, and Marine the Hobik.    Last year at this time, The Fellowship of the Ring was bootlegged to DVD overseas and the subtitles, which went through … Continue reading →

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Picking on Towers Again

Posted on January 18 2003 by Mickey

    It must seem like I have a grudge against this movie, since I pick on it so much. I swear I don’t — in fact, I’m probably overly obsessed by it. But the thing is, I discovered another … Continue reading →

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Geek News of the Week

Posted on January 14 2003 by Mickey

    Apart from my purchase of a DVD±RW burner, this is a pretty big news story in my short fat world. Remember when we found out the role of Arwen would be expanded in The Lord of the Rings … Continue reading →

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