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This is a pretty good year for movies.

We have

The Avengers
Prometheus
The Dark Knight Rises
Amazing Spider Man
James Bond: Skyfall
The Hobbit
Lincoln
The Raid

And that list doesn’t even include those wonderful off-the-radar films that surprise you.

This excites me.

R.I.P. Bob Anderson.

Wow, today sucks.

Even if you don’t know who he is, I assure you, you are familiar with his work.

He was a sword master who orchestrated some of the most classic sword fights in the history of cinema, including:

The original Star Wars trilogy
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Princess Bride
The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

The final film that will display his work will be The Hobbit.

Cinema suffered a terrible loss yesterday.

List of things I plan to do in 2012:

Watch The Hobbit

The Importance of Lord of the Rings.

It’s 3:38am. I was in the middle of watching the special features for The Fellowship of the Ring and the significance of the entire film series culminated for me all at once. I felt an urgent need to enunciate my feelings for this project and why I love it. So now you, my hapless audience, will now be host to my collective thoughts on the matter. I’m not entirely heartless, however; I’m sure this will be long, so I’ll hide it behind the all-powerful “read more.”

The Hobbit trailer and a new production diary within a few days of one another?

It’s a Christmas miracle.

There’s a scene in The Two Towers, near the middle of the movie, where Rohan has that little battle with the Warg Riders.

And Aragorn is on his horse when he looks back in slow motion, turns around, and then rides off into battle.

If I were a girl, I’d go crazy for that. It’s shot so perfectly.

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights, we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for.

The Hobbit is going to melt everyone’s face off when it comes out next year.

The Mayans were right.

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