Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.   

Dude!! How did you get David Tennant to pose for a picture in a DIF hoodie?

And he's a fan of Shaun Of The Dead? Too cool!   

I really enjoyed this and the follow up, Children Of Dune, as well. I prefer it's adaptation to the 1984 film, which I don't care for much. I'd like to see this get a well funded TV season to flesh out the world fully, or perhaps a movie trilogy would do the trick- LOTR style?

What does everyone think of sports docs? Specifically ESPN's 30 for 30 films. Here's a few of those I like quite a bit:

The Best That Never Was

Pony Excess

Little Big Men

Winning Time: Miller vs. The Knicks

I'd love to hear a sports-centric episode of Documentality.

Here are some titles I highly recommend, my apologies if this is too long of a list.

NON-FICTION: 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks(fascinating story of where HeLa cells used for all manner of research came from)

Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (The Pacific was based on this along with another book)

Any Stephen Ambrose

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team(Munich was inspired by this)

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Angela's Ashes

SCIENCE FICTION:

Ender's Game- OSC's controversial politics don't creep into this story at all, a classic.

Armor by John Steakley

Cryptonomicon
and The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, both by Neal Stephenson

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas(Don't assume you know what this is before you read it)

FANTASY:

The Name of the Wind

His Majesty's Dragon

ZOMBIE:

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry

CLASSICS:

A Tale Of Two Cities

Around the World in Eighty Days

The Hound of the Baskervilles

RELIGION:

What's So Amazing about Grace?

I think adding Legolas makes more sense than not adding him. His father is featured in the story as the king of the Woodland elves, and all kinds of crazy stuff is going down in Middle Earth. His son, as we all know, is one bad son of a gun. If he wasn't involved, it would be nonsensical. Remember to separate the source material and keep in mind the presentation of the story of Middle Earth is being told in hindsight for film goers, not chronologically like the books.

The original Total Recall blew me away. It's sort of a landmark in special effects for my film memory.

When I go, I go to the very 1st showing of the day(I don't like crowds). I hear it's more crowded in the evening, plus they serve alcohol, so that probably helps out their bottom line quite a bit compared to normal theaters. Their ticket and concession prices are comparable to a regular place, and it's a lot smaller, too. So I guess they don't have as much overhead.

The Silmarillion is a mind blowing book. It's definitely the best exploration of determinism and freewill I've seen in a work of fiction. Funny that some of Tolkien's main criticisms by modern readers are repudiated by that story. He has plenty of female characters and some are quite strong. It's also a much more tragic and darker book, with nuanced characters- not simplistic good vs evil characters where the good guys always win that he is often accused of writing.

The Tolkien Professor podcast has a bunch of Silmarillion Seminar episodes that make an outstanding companion to the book.

http://tolkienprofessor.com/wp/

The funny thing is Brave felt more like a Disney film to me, and I thought Wreck It Ralph had a Pixar feel to it.

Another vote for Road To Perdition. I love that movie- the cast, performances, score, and just the basic story of a parent who wants his kid to be a better person than he is. That scene with Hanks and Newman in the rain- wow.

I'm surprised No Country For Old Men isn't already listed, I'm a newb- so am I missing something? I'd like to hear a commentary on that as well.