Movies and Me :)
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la_samtyrNot to worry, this is all about movies prior to this year, so no spoilers.
As most of you know, I love movies. As in *LOVE* them. But I have always had weird things happen to me when I go, and so I thought I would share some of them here. Who knows, maybe one of you can help me turn it into a screenplay, yeah? :) Here I will share a few of the "odder" highlights.
1997: Titanic -- This is one of the very few uber-long films that I actually went to see in the theatre, and probably why I am not too keen on movies that run much over 2 hrs anymore. Of course, I went with a friend. We went in, settled down in our seats when she turns to me and says "I hope I won't get seasick. Seeing lots of water can make me feel seasick." I'm trying to unboggle my mind at this point because Hello! It's Titanic! Only the most famous shipwreck ever -- of course there will be "lots of water." And sure enough, she was seasick. Throughout the whole freakin' film, since, oh IDK only 99.9% of the blasted film (Which is *only 197 minutes long) involves ocean (water) footage of some sort? ::headdesk:: Yeah.
1999: 10 Things I Hate About You -- My cousin Elle chose this one and I have learned from long painful experience that if there is one horrendous movie to be seen, that is the one she will pick 99.9% of the time. How/why she chose this one remains a total mystery because it is actually *good*, and literally about the only decent film she has ever managed to choose. I am still avoiding her movie picks, btw. I wanted to see a new sci-fi movie called "The Matrix" that I had heard very good things about, but she said it looked "too weird". We "discussed" it outside the theatre and finally she almost literally dragged me in the building. "But I wanna see 'Matrix'." "This is Shakespeare. You love Shakespeare." "How about if we go and see 'Shakespeare on the Green' in the summer with a theatre group. My treat?" "No. We are seeing *this*." "But I don't wanna... I don't wanna... no no no no..." Well, she was the guest so I gave in with as good grace as was possible though I did make her pay for the tickets while I bought snacks. So, we went in and I began to wonder what the odds were that the projector might break in time so we could manage to see 'Matrix' anyway. But the projector failed to break and I was soon caught up in the film, especially with a young Aussie named Heath Ledger. I *loved* it and once we were outside so she could have a smoke and playing it super-super cool I asked her if she planned to see it again. No, was her answer because that blond guy had a funny accent and was hard to understand. Again, I try to unboggle my mind at her words but sometimes people are just *weird*.
1999: The Matrix -- I saw this one w/a gf who actually loved scifi. Oddly enough, nothing weird happened here, sorry. Great film, not too overly long. Agent Smith is a wonderful baddie, one of the creepiest I've ever seen.
2001: The Fellowship of the Ring -- I had been looking forward to this for a long time even though it was another uber-long one. I was still pretty new to the internet so I was pretty much unspoiled, which is how I wanted it. I went with my gf, the same one who saw 'Matrix' with me. That was a mistake, though I didn't know it at the time. The theatre was fairly crowded and more people came in after we sat down. (Remember this, it is important.) So the lights go down, the trailers start -- and then the movie begins. Now as I said, I was unspoiled for this and I wasn't thinking much beyond "elves, hobbits, middle earth, wizards, etc. etc." and so the narration was pretty cool -- for roughly the first two minutes. Then, just as I saw an all-too familiar face (Gil-galad's herald), my arm was grabbed, fingers digging in a death grip as my friend stage-whispers in my ear: "IT"S AGENT SMITH!!" Well. I went from relaxed and enjoying the movie unfold to sitting straight up in my seat, and half-panicked in about 0.00002 seconds. Why and how half of the theatre did not turn around to stare is beyond me. Nor do I know how I kept *my* seat. While the film was by no means ruined for me, I have never liked Elrond since. Pity, because I know that I used to like him a great deal. But now? Sadly, Agent Smith seems inextricably to Elrond in my mind and I cannot seem to separate them; I have it on good authority from other LotR sibs that this will probably never happen.
2005/6: Brokeback Mountain -- I've already written about this multiple times, so no recap here. You'll have to go back and look for specific posts but if you've read this far, you probably already know how I feel about this one and why.
2008: The Dark Knight -- Again, I've written about this multiple times and you should already know how I feel about it.
As most of you know, I love movies. As in *LOVE* them. But I have always had weird things happen to me when I go, and so I thought I would share some of them here. Who knows, maybe one of you can help me turn it into a screenplay, yeah? :) Here I will share a few of the "odder" highlights.
1997: Titanic -- This is one of the very few uber-long films that I actually went to see in the theatre, and probably why I am not too keen on movies that run much over 2 hrs anymore. Of course, I went with a friend. We went in, settled down in our seats when she turns to me and says "I hope I won't get seasick. Seeing lots of water can make me feel seasick." I'm trying to unboggle my mind at this point because Hello! It's Titanic! Only the most famous shipwreck ever -- of course there will be "lots of water." And sure enough, she was seasick. Throughout the whole freakin' film, since, oh IDK only 99.9% of the blasted film (Which is *only 197 minutes long) involves ocean (water) footage of some sort? ::headdesk:: Yeah.
1999: 10 Things I Hate About You -- My cousin Elle chose this one and I have learned from long painful experience that if there is one horrendous movie to be seen, that is the one she will pick 99.9% of the time. How/why she chose this one remains a total mystery because it is actually *good*, and literally about the only decent film she has ever managed to choose. I am still avoiding her movie picks, btw. I wanted to see a new sci-fi movie called "The Matrix" that I had heard very good things about, but she said it looked "too weird". We "discussed" it outside the theatre and finally she almost literally dragged me in the building. "But I wanna see 'Matrix'." "This is Shakespeare. You love Shakespeare." "How about if we go and see 'Shakespeare on the Green' in the summer with a theatre group. My treat?" "No. We are seeing *this*." "But I don't wanna... I don't wanna... no no no no..." Well, she was the guest so I gave in with as good grace as was possible though I did make her pay for the tickets while I bought snacks. So, we went in and I began to wonder what the odds were that the projector might break in time so we could manage to see 'Matrix' anyway. But the projector failed to break and I was soon caught up in the film, especially with a young Aussie named Heath Ledger. I *loved* it and once we were outside so she could have a smoke and playing it super-super cool I asked her if she planned to see it again. No, was her answer because that blond guy had a funny accent and was hard to understand. Again, I try to unboggle my mind at her words but sometimes people are just *weird*.
1999: The Matrix -- I saw this one w/a gf who actually loved scifi. Oddly enough, nothing weird happened here, sorry. Great film, not too overly long. Agent Smith is a wonderful baddie, one of the creepiest I've ever seen.
2001: The Fellowship of the Ring -- I had been looking forward to this for a long time even though it was another uber-long one. I was still pretty new to the internet so I was pretty much unspoiled, which is how I wanted it. I went with my gf, the same one who saw 'Matrix' with me. That was a mistake, though I didn't know it at the time. The theatre was fairly crowded and more people came in after we sat down. (Remember this, it is important.) So the lights go down, the trailers start -- and then the movie begins. Now as I said, I was unspoiled for this and I wasn't thinking much beyond "elves, hobbits, middle earth, wizards, etc. etc." and so the narration was pretty cool -- for roughly the first two minutes. Then, just as I saw an all-too familiar face (Gil-galad's herald), my arm was grabbed, fingers digging in a death grip as my friend stage-whispers in my ear: "IT"S AGENT SMITH!!" Well. I went from relaxed and enjoying the movie unfold to sitting straight up in my seat, and half-panicked in about 0.00002 seconds. Why and how half of the theatre did not turn around to stare is beyond me. Nor do I know how I kept *my* seat. While the film was by no means ruined for me, I have never liked Elrond since. Pity, because I know that I used to like him a great deal. But now? Sadly, Agent Smith seems inextricably to Elrond in my mind and I cannot seem to separate them; I have it on good authority from other LotR sibs that this will probably never happen.
2005/6: Brokeback Mountain -- I've already written about this multiple times, so no recap here. You'll have to go back and look for specific posts but if you've read this far, you probably already know how I feel about this one and why.
2008: The Dark Knight -- Again, I've written about this multiple times and you should already know how I feel about it.
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Date: 2009-05-08 11:24 am (UTC)10 things i hate about you is a favorite mainly because of Ledger whom I adore in 1st Knight, Brokeback and Dark knight. And the plucky girl. And the flash scene. Loads of reasons':)
I think I get the reason for the Mitzi vendetta now.
But you made it a meme, you know :) You can't resist them.
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Date: 2009-05-08 02:07 pm (UTC)Are you going to do it as a meme then? :) Please?
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Date: 2009-05-08 02:31 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2009-05-08 02:50 pm (UTC)I am looking forward to reading your meme.
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Date: 2009-05-08 03:16 pm (UTC)Let me go through your lists once more, in the meanwhile I have a wip that I post on the archives and lj only to see people throwing it over for Erestor/Glor, Aragorn/Legolas and hobbit slash.
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Date: 2009-05-08 03:41 pm (UTC)Sadly, I am way behind in reading your wip; I was just starting when a lot of legal/rl things got crazy and I need to go and re-read it from the beginning now that I can concentrate again.
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Date: 2009-05-08 03:48 pm (UTC)I think you are talking about the song of sunset wip? I have 4 wips running. The one I am complaining about is the famously underread Journal. *winks*
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Date: 2009-05-08 04:06 pm (UTC)I think that even Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds was better received.