The Hunt for Gollum needs to be watched twice, because a first viewing will be interrupted by your own exclamations of, ’This can’t be a fan film’ and, ‘There’s no way this was done for under £3,000’. It is an amazing piece of work: sweeping vistas, ancient forests, goblin’s hordes, and all put together by unpaid fans. ![]() As this site claims to represent the best in online shorts, we need to dip into the slime, and what do you know? I found a jewel, pre-shined and all. I try to stay away from fan films. Really I do. Weekend demi-amateurs with a camcorder, a pair of crudely sculpted Spock ears, and a K-Mart (or S-Mart) light saber should not be encouraged. It is the lowest of the low.Īnd yet (there’s always an and yet), fan films and the Internet are so gruesomely intertwined that to reject one is to reject the other, at least with regard to video. Only porn stands prouder as the flag-bearer of streaming distribution. It hurts all the more because of those very occasional gems that force fools like me back into the muck searching for another Troops or Pink Five.
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