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Best Movies of the Decade

By Michael Hanscom
– December 28, 2009

Three best of the decade lists follow, all yoinked from Slashfilm. For each list, I’ve marked the films I’ve seen and the films we have in our movie collection at home.

LotR:TYEBEE (Lord of the Rings: Till Your Eyes Bleed Extended Edition)

By Michael Hanscom
– November 30, 2004

7am: friends arrive, pancake breakfast. / 8am: Fellowship of the Ring (~4+ hrs) / 12:30pm: Lunch / 2:00pm: The Two Towers (~3 1/2 hrs) / 5:30pm: Dinner / 7:00pm: Return of the King (~ 4 1/2 hrs) / 11:30pm: Eyes ooze out of our sockets, bedsores open on our asses.

Top 100 Grossing Movies of All Time

By Michael Hanscom
– June 28, 2004

From Alicia, a list of the top 100 grossing movies of all time. Following in the footsteps (blogsteps?) of those before me in this particular meme, the movies that I have not seen are in bold.

Garage Sale: DVDs

By Michael Hanscom
– April 20, 2004

Okay, here’s part two of my online garage sale: the majority of my DVD collection is going up for grabs.

IMDB top 250

By Michael Hanscom
– January 14, 2004

The Internet Movie Database top 250 films, as voted by IMDB members. Movies I’ve seen are in bold — exactly half, as it turns out.

LotR:TRotK EE DVD - 4h50m+?

By Michael Hanscom
– December 28, 2003

Apparently, Peter Jackson recently revealed that the DVD Extended Edition of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ‘will be longer than 4 hours and 50 min’ long!

Return of the King nitpicks

By Michael Hanscom
– December 25, 2003

After watching RotK for the second time today, I’m still quite solidly convinced that Jackson’s trilogy is, quite simply, one of the greatest achievements in filmmaking in recent years. However, that doesn’t stop me from finding the occasional odd thing to mention…such as two goofs, and a few editing choices that I’m not entirely happy with.

MiddleEarth mania, week three: The Return of the King

By Michael Hanscom
– December 21, 2003

Until this year, had someone mentioned The Trilogy in conversation so that you could hear the capital ‘t’s, it would have been fairly understood that they most likely were talking about Star Wars. Not anymore.

MiddleEarth mania, week two: The Two Towers

By Michael Hanscom
– December 17, 2003

And speaking of LotR, I just realized that I’d completely forgotten to say anything about seeing LotR:TTTEE at the Cinerama on Saturday.

MiddleEarth mania, week one: The Fellowship of the Ring

By Michael Hanscom
– December 8, 2003

Saturday Prairie and I started our three-week string of Lord of the Rings movie watching with the Cinerama’s showing of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Special Extended Edition)

By Michael Hanscom
– November 23, 2003

First off, and most simply, if you’re a fan of the series, there’s no question about it. This is a must-buy DVD (as is, incidentally, the extended edition of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring). Feel free to stop reading this and just go buy it.

Sigh

By Michael Hanscom
– October 9, 2003

As of right now — 10am on the day that tickets were available to be purchased — the Lord of the Rings Marathon at the Cinerama is sold out.

Dec. 16: LOTR Marathon

By Michael Hanscom
– October 3, 2003

It’s official: the Lord of the Rings Marathon will be at the Seattle Cinerama on Dec. 16th.

Lord of the Rings Marathon

By Michael Hanscom
– August 22, 2003

Two weeks before ‘Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ opens, the extended versions of ‘LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring’ and ‘LOTR: The Two Towers’ will be released to theaters — and some theaters will have a day-long LOTR marathon with back-to-back screenings of all three films on Dec. 16th.

The Matrix: Reloaded

By Michael Hanscom
– May 16, 2003

In short, I’m quite satisifed with what I was presented with. At the same time, I can certainly understand why so many middling to flat out bad reviews have been popping up in the last few days. I don’t think that this is the sequel that people were really expecting, and I think that that is what is affecting many of the reviews. For my part, the fact that the story is moving in ways that weren’t expected is exactly the reason I enjoyed it, and I’m really looking forward to seeing the final chapter in six months or so.

I hope this is a joke

By Michael Hanscom
– March 18, 2003

I really, really, really hope this is a joke, but the website looks all too serious. In a move even more mind-bogglingly stupid than the call to rename the second Lord of the Rings Movie, ‘The Two Towers,’ due to post-9/11 trauma, a guy by the name of Josh Wander has posted a petition to give the Statue of Liberty back to France.

Ten-minute Two Towers

By Michael Hanscom
– January 13, 2003

GOLLUM: Mordor? Hobbitses having little Goth phase, maybe? Very angsssty, wanting to go to Mordor, yes yes. Can Smeagol offer black eyeliner to angsssty hobbitses?

Oh yeah

By Michael Hanscom
– December 31, 2002

All in all, a very enjoyable trip. Except for the 15 degree below zero weather. Ugh. I am so not moving back to Alaska. Ever.

The Two Towers

By Michael Hanscom
– December 19, 2002

While…LotR:TTT admittedly cannot stand entirely on its own as a single entity (and I would hate to be someone in the unenviable position of attempting to watch LotR:TTT without having first watched LotR:FotR), as the second chapter in an epic saga, it is far and away an absolutely incredible achievement.

Caught by the Zeitgeist

By Michael Hanscom
– December 18, 2002

Last October I ran across a website claiming to be a protest against the latest installment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films, ‘The Two Towers’. Over the past week and a half or so, as the release date for LotR:TTT has grown closer and closer, that entry on my site has suddenly been getting a highly unusual amount of interest.

Two Towers protest

By Michael Hanscom
– October 24, 2002

This just might be the single stupidest thing I’ve seen in a very long time. A group of people have put up a website protesting the title of the next Lord of the Rings movie, ‘The Two Towers’, because, ‘The name of this movie will undoubtedly cause a return of the emotions felt on Sept 11th which left so many people in the nation feeling stunned and in a state of shock.’

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

By Michael Hanscom
– April 12, 2002

It really is as good as people say it is. Not that I ever really doubted that, however, it’s far different to have so many people hold it up as a masterpiece of fantasy, and to be able to actually form that opinion for yourself.