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Viv
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 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: How long has it been? |
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| How long has it been since you've watched the movies? Will you watch them again, or has the magic faded? |
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: How long has it been? |
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| Viv wrote: | | How long has it been since you've watched the movies? Will you watch them again, or has the magic faded? |
all of the above?
I watched them recently, but didn't finish. But I'm sure I will watch them again in the future, and the magic will be there. Right now it's still very fresh in my memory. When the memory fades a bit, they will seem fresh again.
I'm thinking of going back to the books, soon.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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I know for sure I didn't see them this year, neither in 2006....
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Anna
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I watch them quite frequently, but usually under strict censorship. You see, my daughter who is 6 years old loooves Legolas (whom she calls Eola) and wants to watch the movies all the time. Needless to say, she is far too young to watch them uncensored, so I sit next to her with the remote control. It really makes the movies slightly....well, surreal.  
The last time I watched the movies uncensored was about three months ago, I think. It was a relief to be able to watch them in a 'grown-up way'! 
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DreadLadyFreya
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| Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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Has the magic faded? Never!
Will I watch them again? Of course!
How long has it been? Only a month or so.
Should I mention that I usually watch FOTR, and only from the council of Elrond through Amon Hen? *coughpervyBoromirfanciercough*
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Viv
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Ooooch... but you're missin out on the Boromir-in-armor yumminess in those extended-edition flashbacks, DLF! With the wind in his hair and all that. *hands over the popcorn* |
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vladazhael
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Viv wrote: | | Ooooch... but you're missin out on the Boromir-in-armor yumminess in those extended-edition flashbacks, DLF! With the wind in his hair and all that. *hands over the popcorn* |
Aah, I remember that scene. I also remember turning into a heap of joyful giggling on the floor the first time I saw it. My friends were mildly disturbed by the uncharacteristically ostentatious display of giddiness.
I think the last time I watched the whole trilogy was around Halloween last year - I watched the first two while I was carving The Pumpkin of Gondor, and the third the next day. That set off a chain of watching bits and pieces of the movies and the extras intermittently until around Christmas, when the customary seasonal obsession peaked and subsided.
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Viv
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| vladazhael wrote: | | The Pumpkin of Gondor. |
Unrelated to the Horn of Gondor, I 'spect.
(Was there betting on how long it'd take this thready to get pervy?) |
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Two weeks. I'm an insomniac, but the films relax me enough that I can sleep. *shrug*
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Cressida
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I'm sad to say that I really can't bear to watch the movies any more. The parts that make me want to scream have just come to outweigh the good parts.
This doesn't mean I've lost interest in Tolkien's world; quite the opposite! I just prefer to stick with the books these days. I think the problem is that, as I've developed my own ideas of how things work, my own picture of Middle-earth has diverged from the movies. Things that didn't seem all that important before, or that were just minor annoyances, have come to seem bigger ... and the things I always had trouble with (*coughFaramircough*) have become impossible to watch, where before they just made me grind my teeth.
Alas. Because the movies were fun while I was able to like them! |
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Rhapsody
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| Cressida wrote: | Things that didn't seem all that important before, or that were just minor annoyances, have come to seem bigger ... and the things I always had trouble with (*coughFaramircough*) have become impossible to watch, where before they just made me grind my teeth.
Alas. Because the movies were fun while I was able to like them! |
I wonder what will happen if you watch the movies again in a couple of years. My experience is that most often those things that ticked me off, are long forgotten.
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Cressida
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Rhapsody wrote: | | I wonder what will happen if you watch the movies again in a couple of years. My experience is that most often those things that ticked me off, are long forgotten. |
*shrug* It had been well over a year since I tried to watch them. When I tried again recently, I found myself reaching for the fast-forward button a lot. Like I said, my tolerance seems to have gone down rather than up. I think that having a group of people to squee with and regular bits of new information/pictures/speculation helped distract me when they were new. |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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more than 2 years for me.
I dunno...kind of just faded out of my interested since I watched them a lot...but it doesn't mean I won't watch them again.
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ZeeDrippyVessel
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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I was given the new extendeds some months ago and sadly, I've only watched the documentary to the 1st one. I had hoped to sit down with all of them over the summer, however I ended up in classes to get my teaching certification renewed and I'm not going to really have time to rewatch them until probably Thanksgiving.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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I admit I have not watched the trilogy in a long, long time! That being said I would watch any of the films again at least in part just to revisit old friends heck I feel the same way about Back to the fuiture, The Matrix and Chronicles of Narnia. I have a soft spot for this cultural icons and always will!
BTW: Viv I sent you a PM did you get it?
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