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By: Da Sissop
Date: 12/25/01 7:51:33 PM
# Replies: 60
I was persuaded to see this yesterday. I can't claim to be a fan of the books, I've read "The Hobbit" and "Bored of the Rings" by the Harvard Lampoon, but the movie was quite engaging even for someone as firmly grounded in reality as myself.
Response #1
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/25/01 8:53:12 PM
And then there were a bunch of orcs, and then there was a Balrog, and then they all leapt across the yawning chasm, and then...
...they all started clogging!
Response #2
By: WitchHazel
Date: 12/26/01 10:18:22 AM
Yes, I also thought it was high on the Entertainment Scale. And frankly, that's why I go to movies... to just sit back and be entertained (it's amazing how many movies do NOT meet the mark). This one was cool, though. Lots of eye-candy. I really liked Gandalf (played by the fabulous Ian McKellen).
Response #3
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/2/02 11:15:36 PM
Did anyone else see Lord of the Rings? What'd you all think?
Response #4
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/3/02 9:32:25 AM
I've seen it once. I know people who've already seen it 3 and 4 times.
I thought it was entertaining and had incredible production value. I think there's probably 5-6 minutes you could cut, but when you're coming in at 178 minutes, would that really make a difference? Maybe just in pacing. Maybe you could use that time for an intermission so my bladder didn't come close to exploding.
Anyway, it's fun. I recommend it. It's very well done and may seem familiar even to people who haven't read the books just in that it has been the template for so much after it (yet before these movies, obviously). Go see it.
Response #5
By: bob
Date: 1/3/02 9:32:55 AM
i saw "the secret of nimh" again, it was on cable. it is one of my favorite childhood movies...that and "ricki ticki tavvy", however you spell it.
Response #6
By: Da Sissop
Date: 1/8/02 8:59:19 PM
"Tricked-tic-tic-tic! Tricked-tic-tic-tic!"
Response #7
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 1/9/02 10:42:37 AM
saw lord of the rings last weekend--wow! it's stuck in my head like peanut butter.
Response #8
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 1/12/02 5:56:22 PM
LORD OF THE RINGS!
My new alltime favorite movie. I've seen it 4 times by now. Probably going to #5 tomorrow.
I have insufficient words to describe the film. See it if you haven't already. And if you have...see it again.
Sorc'
Response #9
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/13/02 12:14:22 AM
I'm sorry, but I don't share near that level of enthusiasm.
I thought it was good. I thought it covered the bases as far as the book was concerned without requiring a viewer to have any knowledge beforehand. I thought it was well worth seeing. Maybe even TWICE, if you can find the time. I did not think it was all THAT, though.
I certainly don't see spending 15 hours of my life watching it in the theater over and over. Of course, I didn't understand the people who did the same with Titanic, either.
Response #10
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 1/13/02 1:22:07 AM
I do. I took the day off from work. =) I saw it the afternoon of opening and I went back that night with friends to see it again. I think partly I'm just sooo relieved that it didn't suck, I had such LOW expectations and was just blown away.
Sorc'
Response #11
By: bob
Date: 1/14/02 9:22:26 AM
i have to side with gowan on this one...not on lord of the rings, i haven't seen it. but, i rarely see a movie more than once in the theatres, and never more than twice. i wait until it comes out on video or dvd before i begin watching it over and over.
Response #12
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/14/02 1:21:06 PM
I am a multiple-time viewer. I've seen LOTR three times now. When Gladiator was out, I saw it five times. Chocolat... three times... I love seeing a good movie more than once. Why should the experience only last THREE hours, when it can last FIFTEEN? I'm definitely with Sorc' on this one.
Response #13
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/14/02 3:51:18 PM
I'm all for multiple screenings of a favorite movie.
Hell, multiples of *anything* you find pleasurable is always a good thing!!!! *wink wink*
Response #14
By: bob
Date: 1/14/02 5:03:07 PM
hahahaha
Response #15
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 1/14/02 5:39:59 PM
Good on ya' Witchy! Somehow I just knew were a good egg when I saw you! =)
Gladiator viewings in theater:3 (now I own the DVD ;>)
LOTR viewings: 5 as last weekend. WOOHOOO!!
It really takes alot to get me out to a movie theater, I usually wait for Pay-Per-View or rental. The last films I actually went to a theater to see before LOTR was Gladiator, before that Phantom Menance (saw it 1 time), before that was First Knight (saw it 0.75 times). Don't recall what it was before that...too long ago.
So that should tell ya' something about my willingness to go to see LOTR 5 times. =) It still doesn't seem like it's three hours long to me. I still laugh at the same parts and tear up and the same parts. It's great IMHO.
Sorc'
Response #16
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/14/02 10:08:49 PM
I *have* seen movies at the theater multiple times, but I don't think I've ever seen anything more than twice during its initial release.
I do own movies on DVD that I watch again and again, but then, it's with time between in, not usually even within a week of each other.
I can generally run a movie I've seen recently back in my head. I love movies, don't get me wrong, but I just never have wanted to go to the theater that many times. Hmm.
To each their own, of course.
(Psst..Sooz hasn't even seen it ONCE!)
Response #17
By: sooz
Date: 1/15/02 8:07:38 AM
He's truth telling. Not even once for LOTR for me. Richie and Jimmy have both been, and enjoyed it, but neither felt a burning desire to go back.
Fantasy's just not my bag. :-)
Response #18
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/15/02 10:21:24 AM
Well, hon... You're missin' out. You'll rent it one day and think "Damn... this would be better on the BIG SCREEN."
And I'm with Rox... "Multiple times" for all pleasurable experiences is worth my interest/participation.
Response #19
By: bob
Date: 1/15/02 10:32:35 AM
i am still with gowan, i love movies, and i like going to movies in the theatre. if i like it, i buy it on dvd and watch it again and again, but when there are so many movies in the theatre to choose from, i try to see several of them, rather than one at a time.
of course, i haven't seen lotr, either. i actually haven't been to a movie since momento back in april. but this is primarily do to my present state in life, not a lack of movies to see.
Response #20
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/15/02 10:36:11 AM
Gee, Witchy, you and I agree on so much and seem so similar, I'm afraid people are going to have a hard time telling us apart. Oh wait, I'm the one with only one nipple! ;)
Response #21
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/15/02 7:41:25 PM
SOP around this house is about two or three movies a week getting rented and watched by everyone. Most are quickly forgotten, too.
Last night we watched 'Photographing Fairies,' which is a pretty nifty flick.
Response #22
By: bob
Date: 1/16/02 11:49:49 AM
roxy: well, i guess you and witchy have to stay topless all the time so that we can tell you apart. nametage would work, but wouldn't be nearly as fun.
Response #23
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/16/02 3:25:02 PM
Oh bob, please don't make me go topless...it's so COLD in here!
;)
Response #24
By: bob
Date: 1/16/02 3:54:15 PM
i wont force you to do anything witchy, or is it roxy...i can't tell. i guess we will just have to do a feel test everytime. oh, is it the other one that is missing? sorry, i never can remember
Response #25
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/16/02 4:26:55 PM
Heh. Yeah, both my nipples are intact. That's ONE WAY to recognize me, I guess. Hee!
It's cold up here in Seattle, though. I don't think I wanna hang out topless. But I could wear a thin shirt, so you could see both of 'em when they got perky!
Response #26
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/16/02 5:58:05 PM
Maybe Rox should tell us which nipple remains (left or right), in case both she and Hazel are in the same room wearing thin shirts, except half the room is warm and the other's cold.
(I fear that was too far to go for such a joke.)
Response #27
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/16/02 6:38:18 PM
Hmmm. You have a point there, Homey. What I wouldn't give to be in the same room with Roxy... We'd be drinkin' Irish Coffee's without the coffee, and baby-oil wrasslin' over Val Kilmer. Ahhh. My kinda party.
Response #28
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/17/02 9:59:03 AM
(empties cup, starts over)
Response #29
By: sooz
Date: 1/17/02 10:25:57 AM
(Stomp, hissy fit, etc.)
If there's a party, Val Kilmer and Irish coffee, I demand an invitation. C'mon, I have breasts! Big ones!
Response #30
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/17/02 11:16:32 AM
Sooz, you're always on my party list! Why do you live so far away!?!?
Response #31
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/17/02 5:48:01 PM
Roxy lives further from you than Sooz does!
Response #32
By: sooz
Date: 1/18/02 7:03:57 AM
I've always wanted to take an Amtrak somewhere... anywhere... does Amtrak go to Seattle? I think Homer owes me a cup of coffee... or maybe I owe him one... or maybe he'd just like to pour one on my head...
Response #33
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 1/18/02 9:26:00 AM
It does go from Austin to Seattle.
It takes a while, though.
Generally, Austin -> LA -> Seattle.
It also costs ~$350.
Now you know.
Response #34
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/18/02 10:30:12 AM
How the hell does it get sidetracked in LA? Well, I suppose it *is* the West Coast, but sheesh. You'd think there'd be a more DIRECT route.
And $350? A plane ticket is prolly cheaper.
Response #35
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/18/02 1:15:26 PM
Ahem, my nipples are both *intact*, thank you very much. One was only injured in a bizarre showering accident, but it has healed completely and you can't even tell! So, I guess Witchy and I will have to find another way to tell each other apart.
Oh yeah, I have a tattoo. Witchy, ya got any tattoos?
Response #36
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/18/02 3:44:28 PM
Nope. No tats. That'll work! Where is yours? On your nipple!? :-) (I couldn't resist)
Response #37
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/18/02 5:11:07 PM
There's a line from Austin to San Antonio (it actually goes as far north as Chicago, if you want to go that far out of the way), and then the line from San Antonio to LA, and then the Pacific Starliner that goes between San Diego and Vancouver, BC.
The Pacific train is one of the most worthwhile rides you'll ever take.
Response #38
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/21/02 2:03:07 PM
Trains rule.
Response #39
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/22/02 9:55:19 AM
My tat is a yellow rose over my left breast.
I'm thinking of getting another tat...perhaps a battleship across my back...
Response #40
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/22/02 12:02:06 PM
Were you serious or kidding? (I can't tell sometimes.) A battleship? Honey, you don't need your hubby to feel like he's going to war every time he sees you from behind! Heh.
How about a belly ring, or a small tat on your RIGHT boob? I dunno if I'd want a tat on my back. I couldn't see it!!!!!! And what's the point. It's for ME, right?
Response #41
By: bob
Date: 1/23/02 11:14:36 AM
you sank my battleship
Response #42
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/23/02 11:22:14 AM
I'm not kidding about having a tat. But yes, I am kidding about the battleship.
No belly rings. Piercings anywhere but where God intended (earlobes) is just creepy! :)
If I ever decide what I want it will probably be on above my ankle. Something small.
Response #43
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/23/02 3:31:12 PM
Ankle tats rule.
Response #44
By: sooz
Date: 1/23/02 6:42:57 PM
I want a tattoo of a duck on my hip. A yellow, rubber duck.
Response #45
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/24/02 11:36:28 AM
Interesting choice, sooz. Any reason behind it or do you just dig rubber duckies? ;)
Response #46
By: sooz
Date: 1/25/02 5:20:33 AM
I seriously have a thing for yellow rubber ducks. I have a little family of ducks that routinely float in my bathtub... and then there's their outlaw cousins, the glow-in-the-dark, sunglasses-wearing, neon-beaked ducks. They hang out too.
Yellow ducks are cool.
Response #47
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/25/02 5:17:41 PM
Sooz in a bathtub filled with rubber duckies. Now why does that sound kinky to me??
Response #48
By: sooz
Date: 1/26/02 11:16:56 AM
It happens weekly. C'mon by for a viewing. Lots of bubbles, too. The ducks like the bubbles, see.
Now, if Bob would trade me bathtubs, I'd have a good thing going.
Response #49
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/27/02 9:48:35 AM
What is it you like about Bob's bathtub?
I have a great bathROOM, complete with rose-colored tile, a chandelier, gaudy gold fixtures, and soon...some pinup girls. Weeee! Rubber ducks and martinis for everyone!
Response #50
By: sooz
Date: 1/27/02 11:41:15 AM
Bob has this enormous, deep, garden-type tub, and I just have the standard little tub.
(No, I've never bathed with Bob. I was friends with the woman that lived there previous to Bob, and she showed me her tub.)
Response #51
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/27/02 6:25:52 PM
Bathtub Snerd!!!
BYOD (Bring Your Own Ducks)!!!
Woo-hoo!!!
Response #52
By: sooz
Date: 1/27/02 7:48:25 PM
I just had a visual of a buncha Nunnizens standing around a hot tub, towels wrapped around their waists, ducks in hand, lookin' for the party.
Response #53
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/28/02 9:26:00 AM
I think that's actually happened before! :)
Response #54
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/28/02 6:22:45 PM
Musta been that snerd I missed. Durn.
Response #55
By: WitchHazel
Date: 1/29/02 10:05:48 AM
Dang. That sounds FUN. Party at Bob's!
Response #56
By: Da Sissop
Date: 2/5/02 8:30:40 PM
I've been packin' on a bit of a beer belly lately, and believe me, you don't wanna see my duck.
Response #57
By: bob
Date: 2/6/02 10:11:39 AM
hahahahahahahaahahah, oh please, can we can we? hahahaha
Response #58
By: rorschach
Date: 2/6/02 7:40:16 PM
towels?
Response #59
By: Roxanne
Date: 2/9/02 8:34:54 AM
Ducks?
Response #60
By: WitchHazel
Date: 2/10/02 10:17:08 AM
How can a duck have a beer belly? ;-)
Apparently Fang's been having all of my missed beers for me. (Well, as long as SOMEONE is getting to drink them...)