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Watching the Lord of the Rings extended editions, one minute at a time. Check out minutemonk.org for more!
"What have I got in my pocket" is not a riddle! Bilbo's a cheat! (Also, since when does Gollum give a shit about the rules? Just eat the hobbit's face and go back to bed.) minutemonk.org/fellowship-8/ #blog #lotr #film
Fellowship 8 - Concerning Hobbits
Bilbo cheated at the riddle game! The world needs to know!
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New blog, broken DNS, gollum's weird, I'm tired. Let's do a short one tonight. minutemonk.bearblog.dev/fellowship-7/ #lotr #film #blog
Fellowship 7 - Sundries
Unnaturally long life, but a naturally short blog post.
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"Hey, the king we just killed had a magical ring and disappeared? Should we look for it?" "Nah, it probably isn't worth anything." Idiots! www.minutemonk.org/fellowship/ #lotr #film #blog
Fellowship 6: Da Ring King
I'm not usually a plot hole kind of person, but these movies are extremely long, extremely detailed and have already had their structural integrity extremely shattered by having been shoved through th...
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I'm blogging every minute of Lord of the Rings! I only just started but I've already learned two things: 1. JRR Tolkien is a genius at world building, and 2. Hugo Weaving is disturbingly sexy. More shocking revelations in my first newsletter: www.minutemonk.org/sunday-best-... #film #lotr #blog
Sunday Best 1: Hello There
Hello and welcome to the very first Sunday Best, middlemonk’s weekly newsletter. Every Sunday I’ll be compiling the week’s posts, adding some bonus commentary and sending it all straight to your inbox...
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Every movie goof is just a sign somebody tried their best. (Unless the movie was made after 2015, where it's a sign some unpaid intern fucked up the render.) Movies should made by people, not pipelines! #film #lotr #blog www.minutemonk.org/fellowship-5...
Fellowship 5: Plus Expenses
The 2000s are effectively the last time Hollywood truly gave a shit. Back then CGI was new enough that it could only be used sparingly, the last generation of physical effects workers were still spry ...
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Someone in New Zealand has a stolen ring from the Fellowship set just sitting in their junk drawer, and I just wanna say that person is super fucking cool. #lotr #blog www.minutemonk.org/fellowship-4...
Fellowship 4: Big Swings
We're still in the intro, so let's pivot for a second. Watching these movies one minute at a time is surprisingly agonising, so to increase my Tolkien dosage I've started reading the books as well. I'...
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Hugo Weaving is insanely hot. Oh yeah, and the movie's good too. #lotr #blog www.minutemonk.org/fellowship-3...
Fellowship 3: Let Fly
Minute three and we're still in setup mode, but once again it's brevity that comes to the rescue. We're doing two things at once here: one, the rapid flow of "rings exist" → "Sauron sucks" → "elves be...
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I'm watching #LOTR at the agonising pace of one minute per day and blogging the whole thing. Minute two has people in it! Very shiny and expensive people. www.minutemonk.org/fellowship-2...
Fellowship 2: Word Perfect
Yesterday was all about tone-setting, but today has a little more flash. Not since Titanic have I seen a movie announce so confidently that it has all the money in the world and it knows exactly how t...
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I'm watching #LOTR at the agonising pace of one minute per day and blogging the whole thing. Minute one? It's pretty chill. www.minutemonk.org/fellowship-1...
Fellowship 1: Mostly Darkness
I genuinely believe a good opening line can cure a lot of ills. Star Wars is ultimately just a bunch of random nonsense George Lucas made up on the way to work, but "a long time ago in a galaxy far, f...
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Hi, I'm Stephen and this is minutemonk, a daily blog where I watch the entire Lord of the Rings extended film trilogy, one minute at a time. Check out minutemonk.org for more!
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Watching the Lord of the Rings extended editions, one minute at a time.
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