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... because Sauron is a Maiar, or basically a fallen angel who can use magic. Gandalf is also a Maiar who can use holy magic. Gondor didn’t have access to that magic to create any “beams of light.” Your complaint is bogus, as you can see.
That was Mordor that was “shooting a beam of light into the sky” and were obviously using some arcane black magic to accomplish it. You need to pay attention more before criticizing a movie.
I thought the best part about the first book was how it starts out as an innocent sequel to the Hobbit. You think you’re going on another fantastic, light-hearted adventure with Gandalf, but it turns that little magic ring Bilbo found is actually a doomsday device and is basically the creation of one of Satan’s minions.
You sound a little Islamaphobic.
What ruined the original S-W trilogy for most were the special editions and the needless attempts to shoehorn everything in the prequels into the originals. Now unless you have the despecialized additions downloaded from the internet it’s like watching some weird Frankenstein monster’s hybrid of what Star Wars is supposed to be. The Disney trilogy pissing all over the original characters didn’t help.
I sort of agree and disagree. On one hand, I can see how it’s an unnecessary blemish on an otherwise almost perfect set of films. Raiders was revolutionary and Crusade capped off the decade nicely with them riding off into the sunset. The end. Except now Indy is a geriatric old fart with a douchey son, and that will never go away.
However, I do not think it completely ruined the series, much like how The Godfather Part III didn’t diminish the achievements of the first two. In my mind the only series that has been utterly ruined by its sequels was Star Wars. A close number 2 would have to be the Alien series.
I know what you mean. For me the quintessential James Bonds were Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan.
When playing James Bond is just the Cherry on top of your acting career, you know you were a complete badass
Went out like he came in... a true legend
RIP Jones Sr
They had no budget so they used stock music from a library.
Besides Zombie, their other big hits were Dreams and Linger.
Ah jeez I’m really sorry you had to run away from the debate like a little coward and wait for your white Knight to save you. I hope you accept my sincerest sympathies.
I didn’t realize you need someone else to fight your own battles for you. Does your mummy still tuck you in at night?
And in modern parlance, that’s what we call “rage quitting.”
I don’t really consider Spartacus the tv show related to this film. It’s a fantasy version. I also easily preferred Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as a show. I don’t know what went wrong with Spartacus tv show. It was just bad.
The Spartacus tv show is garbage lmao. It’s so network television-y, with really obvious cheap effects, and is pretty much pure fantasy. Has basically nothing to do with this movie.
A better comparison would be HBO’s “Rome” show.
It took the emo-vamps a month to kill a few dozen people, and that was with the total cover of darkness. The Salem’s Lot ones were twice as efficient without any of that.
<blockquote> It took the weaker Salem’s Lot vampires longer,</blockquote>
2 guys killed almost 400 people, probably more in barely any time. You have no clue.
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Crosses and garlic are piss-easy to use, heavy firearms and machinery are not,</blockquote>
LoL, you think having to put your faith into a pair of wooden sticks to repel a demonic entity or stake through the heart are easier than shooting a gun? Especially when....
<blockquote>A far cry from the weak, slow vampires of Salem’s. </blockquote>
Salem’s Lot vampires are immune to firearms, unless they’re shouting silver. Those idiots in Alaska wouldn’t last, they didn’t even have a priest.
<blockquote> You seem to have barely understood these films</blockquote>
Ironic