I didn't know exactly, off hand who Brian Blessed was but immediately recognized him in a video and I totally agree with you he would have been perfect.
I can appreciate this take, I know he's a popular character and I read somewhere that Jack Black would be the only actor capable of pulling off the role which absolutely makes sense to me (and honestly does make re-reading more entertaining.) I get it, I just don't like him. The world around him is falling to darkness and he just doesn't care. No one really knows what he's capable of outside of his realm because he likes his life with Goldberry and again just doesn't care about anything else. I always saw him as representative of those apolitical people who didn't care enough to stop fascist regimes take over their own country because they only cared about their own day to day life and couldn't be bothered to vote or fight for anything. I'm glad they took him out of the movies, it flows better and fits the tone of everyone coming together in a fellowship to defeat evil. 🤷♀️
Lol. This might not be popular BUT there's a reason he doesn't make the cut in the movies or extended cut releases. Tom Bambodil is basically middle earth's "MyStErIoUs WaYs." This is a hot take but I would almost go so far as to say his existence in the world ruins the book, his songs/poetry are terrible and he's just kind of there. He is meant to be a mysterious figure that lends to the overarching mystery of the world, one who has always been around and is so powerful he is basically a god, but doesn't actually give a shit about the world outside of himself or the suffering of others. I see him as a vestige of JRRT's catholicism seeping through, this ultimate force that could end the war but didn't because reasons.
Ughhh when will something be done about the police problem in this country!?!? This is a self selected group of people who take on a position of authority with virtually no oversight or consequences to blatantly illegal behaviors, this study just confirms what we have all known. Abusers choose positions that provide access to populations to abuse, and policing specifically, empowers and protects the abusers. ACAB
This is an actual nightmare situation, those poor parents. I hope they find peace and the investigation shines a light on the practices that allowed this horror to happen. The U.S. medical industry needs to do fucking better.
This literally unlocked a core memory of my parents locking the steering wheel of the family Plymouth Voyager that no one would ever steal. Amazing. Didn't realize "the club" was still around.
The Fountain, it's one of those movies that just absolutely blew me away and I had to have it but I'm just never quite in the emotional state to revisit yet I still recommend. It's breathtakingly beautiful and devastating. What Dreams May Come is a very close second, but I feel like after Robin Williams' death it's even more so, but the movie itself is just so beautifully done and heart wrenching.
This pretty much sums up the current state of my job search.