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True Story Movies 4 – Titanic
Even though I tend to watch more action movies, comedies and sci-fi/fantasy movies than anything else, I can enjoy pretty much any kind of movie you throw at me. Some of my favourite movies are dramas. There are several documentaries … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th century fox, academy award, bernard hill, bill paxton, billy zane, celine dion, cgi, david warner, disaster movie, drama, gloria stuart, grand staircase, jack dawson, james cameron, kate winslet, kathy bates, leonardo dicaprio, movies, my heart will go on, romance, rose dewitt bukater, shipwreck, titanic, true story movies
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True Story Movies 2: Apollo 13
One of the more fascinating aspects of the Cold War was the space race. The United States and the Soviet Union competed for years to see who could achieve various first in their spaceflight capabilities. This race began with ballistic … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, apollo 13, astronauts, bafta, cgi, cold war, docudrama, ed harris, gary sinise, gene kranz, jack swigert, jim lovell, kansas cosmosphere and space center, kathleen quinlan, ken mattingly, kevin bacon, lost moon, marilyn lovell, movie review, movies, nasa, roger ebert, ron howard, rotten tomatoes, space race, space travel, sputnik 1, the moon, the rolling stone, tom hanks, true story movies, ussr
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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
It’s been a crazy week, which is why I haven’t been able to post this until now despite rewatching Return of the King over a week ago. Anyway, Return of the King’s accomplishments cannot be overstated. Upon its release, it … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, andy serkis, aragon, army of the dead, battle of minis tirith, battle of pelennor fields, cgi, christopher lee, denathor, elijah wood, eomer, eowyn, epic fantasy, fantasy, fantasy movies, faramir, frodo, frodo baggins, gandalf, gimli, gollum, ian mckellen, john rhys-davies, jon noble, jrr tolkien, karl urban, legolas, lord of the rings, lord of the rings month, lord of the rings: the return of the king, miranda otto, mordor, new line cinema, orcs, orlando bloom, path of the dead, peter jackson, return of the king, roger ebert, rotten tomatoes, samwise gamgee, saruman, sauron, sean astin, smeagol, the witch king, Tolkien, trolls, viggo mortensen, weta digital, weta workshop
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Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers takes almost much everything that worked in Fellowship of the Ring and kicks it up a notch. If the first Lord of the Rings movie is a masterclass in worldbuilding (which it is), … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, andy serkis, aragon, arawen, bafta, battle of helms deep, bernard hill, billy boyd, boromir, cgi, denathor, domonic monaghan, elijah wood, ents, epic fantasy, fantasy, fantasy movies, faramir, frodo, frodo baggins, gandalf, gimli, gollum, gondor, grammy awards, helms deep, howard shore, hugo award, ian mckellen, john rhys-davies, king theoden, legolas, liv taylor, lord of the rings, lord of the rings: the two towers, merry, movie review, movies, orcs, orlando bloom, osgiliath, peter jackson, pippen, rohan, samwise gamgee, saturn awards, sean astin, sean bean, smeagol, the two towers, treebeard, uruk-hai, viggo mortensen
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Dragon Movies 3: Dragonheart
When I researched dragon movies for this list, I realized how few good dragon movies there are, and that’s a shame. Dragonheart is probably the most consistently high rated live-action Dragon movie I could find during my research, and it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged cgi, david thewlis, dennis quaid, dina meyer, draco, dragon movies, dragonheart, dragons, fantasy, fantasy movies, king einon, movies, online film & television association, patrick read johnson, randy edelman, rob cohen, saturn awards, sean connary
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