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Oh, you are going to LOVE it. You will return to your house and immediately blog about it, before rest or sleep. Of course. – batgrl
Am I that predictable? Or is this some sort of blogger disease to which all of us have fallen victim?
Yes.
I have returned from my first-of-many viewings of Return of the King. Were it not for the prospect of future, extended edition goodness next Christmas, I would have little left to look forward to. Other than going to see it again tonight, of course!!
Don’t worry about spoilers, nor even hints of such from me. It’s still swirling around in my brain, and I have to let it settle down a bit anyway.
I will say that I am soooo glad I went this morning. As with the Fellowship, I found myself spending too much time anticipating what was to come and wondering how they were going to do it to sit back and really enjoy thing. Unlike Two Towers, however, there were no “Ohhh, man, why’d they have to mess with the story?” moments.
Did it follow the book precisely? No, it did not.
Were things left out? Yes, definitely.
Did it matter? Not one whit.
I don’t mean to sound all melodramatic, like this is the greatest movie ever and that no one could possibly see anything wrong with it. But… man that was good.
And, yes, Batty. I fought back tears. Twice.
So far…
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And there was much rejoicing!
WOO-HOO!! Appointment moved to next Tuesday! It’s popcorn for lunch!!
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But could he hit Fistslammer’s fastball?
Wanna know why I’m sticking to Tolkien Baseball and staying away from that joke they call the real thing? Try this on for size. The Player’s Union killing a trade because the player is willing to take a pay cut to play where he wants! Never mind that this is about Alex Rodriguez coming to Boston–which, by the way, I have mixed feelings about, because it means losing both Manny (good riddance!) and Nomar (what? not Nomah!!?)…
[ via Foul Yankee Breath ]
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Got a cold? Just say NO!
“Excuse me, ma’am, do you have a license for that Sudafed?”
Iowa Looks Into Tough Restrictions on Cold-Medicine Sales
Holy freaking hell on toast. Have we run out of things to make laws about? Can we make life just a bit more annoying for people? What if someone lives out in East Buttmunch, Iowa, where there’s no pharmacy and it’s 10pm and they’re sniffling, sneezing, coughing and aching with a stuffy head and fever? They can’t stock up on Nyquil the next time they hit town. That’d be suspicious!
Posted in Rants 'n' Whines
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Aahhh love you guyssh…
If you suddenly find yourself impaired by alcohol, prevent any social awkwardness by informing all those present that you profoundly love them, and that you never get this drunk.
Once you get married and have kids, stop drinking tons of whiskey and switch to drinking tons of wine.
Sure, you may think these are obvious life lessons, but amazingly not everyone knows these things. That’s why you need to check out The Onion – Drinking Responsibly During The Holidays.
[ via Bill ]
Posted in Wouldya Lookit That!
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Eh, it might be ok…
For those that don’t know, Rotten Tomatoes is a site that gathers all the reviews it can find about a particular movie and gives you a summary of the critics’ reviews by classifying each one’s verdict on the film as either “Fresh” or “Rotten”. They give you the percentage of fresh to rotten votes and the picture’s average rating on a scale of 1 to 10.
While there have been “perfect” movies before, but the only one with more than 100 reviews and no rotten marks is Toy Story 2. It received an average rating of 9.3 out of 10. Finding Nemo had 2 rottens out of 170 reviews, with an 8.8 rating. The Two Towers managed 2 rottens out of 202, with an 8.7 rating.
Well, the reviews on The Return of the King are in, and while it has 3 rottens out of 136 reviews, it’s average rating is 9.2 out of 10!
The three negative reviews come from Stephen Whitty of the New Jersey Star Ledger (with bone-headed statements like “Jackson’s movie doesn’t ignore other races, or patronize them. It casts them as villains. Why is it, otherwise, that our heroes’ latest enemies are said, ominously, to come ‘from the South,’ and enter riding elephants and wearing burnooses? Why, then, would Aragorn gives a rousing speech before the climactic battle, telling his troops that they fight for ‘the West’ and all they hold dear?”); David Elliott of the San Diego Tribune (who’s ignorance of the novels is so staggering I don’t even know where to start); and Michelle Alexandria of Eclipse Magazine (who has the most valid points of the three–though she somehow thinks Gollum is a waste of screen time. And even she thinks Sean Astin deserves an Oscar).
I am not getting excited. Deep, cleansing breaths…
Posted in The Big Screen
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Can I get some advice, please?
Let’s say there’s a really cool movie that you want to see really badly.
In fact, let’s say you’ve already bought tickets for you and your family for Friday night.
Let’s say that you went to lunch today and found out that one of your geeky friends* has a non-geeky spouse that refuses to go see the aforementioned really cool movie.
In fact, let’s say that since you both have the day off from work on Friday, you selflessly agreed to go with him to the morning showing.
Let’s say you called your own spouse (who, while not exactly geeky to the level of dweebhood that you have fought so hard to attain, still maintains an associate membership in the geek union) and told her you’d see the now-thrice-mentioned movie before her.
So, what do you think?
Orchids or lilies for the funeral?
*Yeah, I’m all about shifting blame, yo. She didn’t buy it anyway.
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Carnival Time
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