This isn’t significantly more revolting than a standard Bloody Mary; the entire idea of tomato juice is disgusting, it’s just thin and bland tomato soup and if you chill it it’s even worse. It’s a waste of vodka, not good vodka mind you, but you could have had a perfectly fine screwdriver with that vodka!
I’ll always miss the scouring of The Shire. I know the movie didn’t need more endings, but it is a big part of Frodo’s end and it’s the big payoff for Merry and Pippin
I’ve thought this for a long time, I thought the movies were bad, like actually bad, and the first one, despite being the most boring, was actually probably the best one. This year I watched the extended version of the first movie and it was the first time I enjoyed it, but the others felt like large set piece battles and some simple, high fantasy plot as glue.
There is a fun podcast called Drunk History of Middle Earth that is essentially this dynamic the whole time - a husband/wife duo where the guy is trying to teach her about Tolkien. She’s genuinely open to it, so it’s probably less annoying than some other instances of that pattern. Aside from the hearing new perspectives on the lore, it’s interesting to vicariously experience the stories for the first time again.
Also I love their accents, and how they sometimes expose their personal lives to the world and talk through stuff as a couple - it’s very endearing
But it’d like 9 hours isn’t it? It’s sooo difficult to sit through the movies in the first place. It’s not even that I don’t like them, they’re just so damn long.
It’s 12,5 hours total. But the thing is, the extended edition is more like the original and the other has been unduly chopped down for theatrical limitations. It’s missing essential scenes basically.
I had a friend like that with every comedy movie he liked. He’d just stare at you with a goofy grin prior to every part he thought was funny. He’d look over, grinning, just waiting to see your reaction. He’s a great guy, it just made it real uncomfortable to watch a movie with him.
Also had a friend like this and it made it quite annoying to watch anything with him. He later got a diagnosed on the autism spectrum so that probably explains the tendency to do this
I got half way through the final book before I couldn’t take it anymore.
If he would have only tried to let my imagination fill in become details, it wouldn’t be so bad, but it was a trudge of over detailed explanation of everything.
Everything that spawned because of it was great, but the books themselves really are overrated.
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