08-30-2017, 02:25 PM
(08-30-2017, 12:22 PM)cranefly Wrote: In terms of movies, I've never seen The Exorcist, Back to the Future (none of them), or Jaws. That tends to surprise people. Maybe when I get tired of rewatching Ichi the Killer I'll finally give them a gander.
WTH? You should see all those films. But only The Exorcist 1, none of the sequels because they all suck (and The Exorcist is about barfing not sucking, kinda the opposite), Jaws 1, maybe Jaws 3-D if you can see it in 3D (might as well just skip to 3-headed Shark or Sharknado if you're going to go there), and Back to the Future 1 & 2 (especially weird now with the whole Biff/Trump thing), 3 falls apart.
I luved Tolkien as a teen. I still have a ton of memorabilia from the Rankin Bass Hobbit and Bakshi's LotR - posters, keychains, lobby cards - damn, remember lobby cards?
BTW, I have a whole crate of MQ6 ad graphics for the constant stream of grindhouse flicks that went through there. Those were the cut&paste graphics sheets that you used to send out to newspapers, prior to computers. I should dig that box out someday because I'm sure it's packed full of memories.
Anyway, I read LotR to Tara cover to cover. We tried to do the Hobbit, but after LotR and Journey to the West, we never finished it. Keep in mind, her generation was brought up with Jackson's LotR, so it's out of order for her and her classmates. And Jackson flubbed the Hobbit so painfully bad.
What about the Silmarillion? For some reason, that seems more your speed, KB.
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