Category: Entertaining

The least I can say of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is that it does follow some story from the appendices to The Lord of the Rings. It’s rough structure is there in the text. Does it necessary follow what Tolkien has written? Well… maybe?

The story comes from the before the events of the War of the Ring in the kingdom of Rohan. When they were fighting off the Dunlendings and establishing the Hornburg AKA Helm’s Deep. It tells of the succession of the throne of the kings of Rohan for the end of the first line and the star of the second line which ends with Theoden at the end of the War of the Ring. A bit of history which wasn’t not known, but was fleshed out a bit well.

Since this isn’t really written by Tolkien, I was suprised at how well it adhered to the structure of Tolkiens story. There was the king. His fallen sons. The daughter. The nephew/successor. It was animated which is great for one of Tolkien’s tales. It was made to look as if from the movies, which made it all too familiar. As a Tolkien fan, I liked it.

3 of 5 stars.

Again, I forget to write up a post that I had watched The Wild Robot in theaters sometime this month. Maybe it could’ve been in September? It’s quite late to write it up, and I don’t remember what I wanted to say.

It was okay. I guess.

3 of 5 stars.

It’s getting to be summer movie season, isn’t it? I haven’t been doing movies in quite a while. Nothing is pulling me back into the movie theater, but I am craving buttered movie popcorn. I’ve got to get my fix of buttery oil so I went to watch Ryan Gosling in Fall Guy.

I went in hoping not knowing a thing about it just that it is the film version of the television show from the 80s. It’s a bit tongue in cheek in its retelling. At least by the end, I got that feeling.

Ryan Gosling is the fall guy, a stuntman who experiences an on the job injury. He’s out of commission for a few months, but it scares him that he removes himself from life disappearing from his work and the life with his girlfriend, an ambitious camera operator looking to become an action director. A year passed and Gosling is called back in to do stunt work for his ex on her for directing duty. Sparks rise again.

It seemed as that was where the film was going to spend its time trying to get these two back together. The first half was, but then the film makers lost the script. The back half of the film was solving a murder and avoiding being accused and sent to jail. It was like they didn’t know how to end the film Out of know where everyone became the villain.

Did the popcorn still taste good? Yes. It was fine for such a movie.

3 of 5 stars.