tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post844521590993202495..comments2024-03-28T11:53:04.773-04:00Comments on Hamlette's Soliloquy: "I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."Hamlette (Rachel)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-57263072515705633932015-01-23T14:35:51.255-05:002015-01-23T14:35:51.255-05:00I'm eagerly awaiting the day when all my kids ...I'm eagerly awaiting the day when all my kids are old enough to see them (somewhere around 2025, I think) and we can watch all 6 together with them! That'll probably be my first opportunity.Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-81080361253509185262015-01-23T13:59:23.716-05:002015-01-23T13:59:23.716-05:00 Aw, the wonders of Middle Earth. I am eagerly awa... Aw, the wonders of Middle Earth. I am eagerly awaiting the extended editon of The Battle of the Five Armies so I can have a six movie Middle Earth marathon. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04395502314886308773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-78844949631164412632015-01-23T09:05:45.153-05:002015-01-23T09:05:45.153-05:00True. I often don't blog about things because ...True. I often don't blog about things because everyone does it. But I still feel that need for awhile to share it and talk about it. The bloom fades after a couple of days as I find new distractions, but ... discussion. Discussion makes my world go around. <br /><br />Glad movies allow you time to recharge. :)Charityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15928012771461206094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-23424122376234311962015-01-22T10:55:07.725-05:002015-01-22T10:55:07.725-05:00That makes complete sense! I recant -- Thorin was...That makes complete sense! I recant -- Thorin wasn't being stupid.<br /><br />But I felt like he was, you're right. Because a hundred times, I've chanted John Wayne's line from <i>El Dorado</i>: "Don't go near a man until you're sure he's dead." How would John Wayne's character know that? Because he's shot enough men to know one bullet doesn'Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-66516726795315608072015-01-22T10:20:19.567-05:002015-01-22T10:20:19.567-05:00I had to challenge the comments regarding Thorin b...I had to challenge the comments regarding Thorin being stupid, cuz I just don't see it. I feel there's some crossover between what we, as audience members and movie goers have come to expect, and what a dwarf lord in Middle-Earth would expect. <br /><br />Most people in the audience know Azog isn't dead because we've learned from a hundred previous movies that the big bad isn&#DKorenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05819702518388146971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-50493417339983336682015-01-19T22:26:29.811-05:002015-01-19T22:26:29.811-05:00Aha! That does make sense. I do enjoy discussing...Aha! That does make sense. I do enjoy discussing things, but I'm also perfectly content to hug my appreciation of something to myself and enjoy it singularly. Or write a blog post about it and be done with it. I see now that because I never posted about this movie, you didn't know I'd seen and loved it. Which is simply because DKoren and I have been sending each other passionate Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-40587739231281821512015-01-19T12:44:57.277-05:002015-01-19T12:44:57.277-05:00I live to DISCUSS things, so if I like something, ...I live to DISCUSS things, so if I like something, I want others to experience it with me so I can see their reactions and discuss it in-depth afterward. I was kind of bummed when this first came out, because I didn't to discuss it much with the people I saw it with and most of my friends either didn't write posts about it or showed no real interest in talking about it in depth with me. Charityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15928012771461206094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-46757898566722114922015-01-19T12:08:09.618-05:002015-01-19T12:08:09.618-05:00I tend to have more fun at a movie without other p...I tend to have more fun at a movie without other people around. I was watching this last night going, "I'm not going to react this way when I watch this with Larry. I'm not going to be making these little happy squeaks when Bard shows up -- I'm too self-conscious with another person around." Too often, with another person there, even my husband or my mom or my best friendHamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-31021590541986379682015-01-19T11:50:56.948-05:002015-01-19T11:50:56.948-05:00I don't buy the normal versions anymore, but I...I don't buy the normal versions anymore, but I'll probably be able to get it from the library when it's out on DVD. <br /><br />I COULD just hop in the car and go see it but it's less fun alone. None of my family is interested and I don't have very many friends who live close by who care about it, so ... <br /><br />Elrond was always my favorite elf. I was his side in the Charityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15928012771461206094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-54956403950449093822015-01-19T09:56:30.059-05:002015-01-19T09:56:30.059-05:00NOVEMBER???? I... don't think I can wait that...NOVEMBER???? I... don't think I can wait that long. I might have to buy the regular version and watch it to pieces and then get the extended. But I hope you can find a way to quick go again before it disappears, because that second viewing is so splendid, so far above the first. It's almost always the second viewing of a movie that either makes or breaks whether I love something or Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-61897318173422353752015-01-19T09:16:14.147-05:002015-01-19T09:16:14.147-05:00I like Thorin at the beginning, and then not for a...I like Thorin at the beginning, and then not for awhile until the end. <br /><br />Enjoy! I've tragically only seen it once and I don't know that I'll get another chance to go, so that might be it until the EE comes out in November.<br /><br />Also? Elrond is awesome. I've always adored him.Charityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15928012771461206094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-77117672023610150762015-01-18T14:41:49.163-05:002015-01-18T14:41:49.163-05:00I was an Elrond fan already, but I wasn't attr...I was an Elrond fan already, but I wasn't <i>attracted to</i> him until this movie. Now, holy hotness, Batman! Not to mention, dude, watching elves fight is one of my favorite things ever. They're so beautiful and so deadly! All swooshes and swirls and yeah...<br /><br />But anyway, I'm sorry you didn't like this last one :-( I hope to have a chance to read your post soon!Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-40735553980929512402015-01-18T14:35:27.767-05:002015-01-18T14:35:27.767-05:00I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't enjoy some...I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't enjoy something that I do. They probably feel the same way when I say I don't enjoy football, or potatoes, or whatever.<br /><br />High-five for being another person who fell in love with Middle Earth thru the movies!<br /><br />Yes, Thorin's death was pretty dumb of him. Dork. Still, I really love how he redeemed himself because, to be honest, IHamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-45503938728144343962015-01-18T14:31:17.289-05:002015-01-18T14:31:17.289-05:00It's true! I tend not to cry over the fact th...It's true! I tend not to cry over the fact that a character has died, but I will absolutely cry over peoples' reactions to death. Like when Boromir dies -- I don't cry because I'm sad that he's dying, even though he's my favorite character. I cry because of how he died, trying to right his wrongs and coming to accept Aragorn as his king. And I cry over Aragorn telling Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-74438697004722536722015-01-17T23:25:16.851-05:002015-01-17T23:25:16.851-05:00All right, yes, Elrond is amazing. It took these m...All right, yes, Elrond is amazing. It took these movies to make me an Elrond fan, and so that sort of helps redeem them. I can't believe I never liked him in <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>. So weird!<br /><br />Like you, I didn't cry at the deaths. Actually, I didn't cry at all, not a smidgeon of a tear. I just wasn't invested in them, and like Charity said, I hate stupid deaths, Carissa (Regency Woman)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16052175780167961631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-41107391975595733082015-01-17T19:12:27.296-05:002015-01-17T19:12:27.296-05:00I love these movies. I feel sorry for those that d...I love these movies. I feel sorry for those that don't.<br /><br />1. Tell your story of how you came to see the movie(s) or got into Tolkien in the first place.<br /><br />Some guy I barely knew invited me to the first movie, which I had never even heard of, so I went with my dad and him to the biggest screen in the state and it blew my mind. I was hooked after that.<br /><br /><br />2. Who Charityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15928012771461206094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-47789845628738875872015-01-17T18:22:14.799-05:002015-01-17T18:22:14.799-05:00One of my favorite things about this tag is readin...One of my favorite things about this tag is reading what parts made different people teary-eyed. I'd forgotten - how could I?! - about that part at the end when you hear Gandalf's voice, <em>And what about very old friends?</em> I love that part. :)<br /><br />xxSW https://www.blogger.com/profile/14687537232841591331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-390851548279963552015-01-17T13:28:07.037-05:002015-01-17T13:28:07.037-05:00It really brought all the storytelling together ma...It really brought all the storytelling together magnificently, didn't it? I know that, as a writer, I really appreciated how all those little threads that ran through the first movie that seemed kind of a tangled mess got woven into a beautiful tapestry here.Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-24690448023557459492015-01-17T12:45:21.622-05:002015-01-17T12:45:21.622-05:00I can completely related to your answer for number...I can completely related to your answer for number 5; I liked The Hobbit Trilogy more after watching this one. :D<br /><br />~JamieJamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17203554335912426375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-53154425516234859502015-01-17T08:18:07.467-05:002015-01-17T08:18:07.467-05:00Of course non-bloggers can answer :-)
The first t...Of course non-bloggers can answer :-)<br /><br />The first time I saw this, I missed ALL of Smaug :-( Thanks to hordes of last-minute Christmas shoppers who used all the parking, and to whoever decided having a movie theater attached to a shopping mall was a good idea. And even without those first brilliant 20 minutes, I still loved it.<br /><br />I'm sorry you don't like the movies, inHamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881774.post-65902414525944317112015-01-16T19:33:15.710-05:002015-01-16T19:33:15.710-05:00Hopefully us non-bloggers can answer. :)
1) First...Hopefully us non-bloggers can answer. :)<br /><br />1) First encountered Tolkien in either 4th or 5th grade in elementary school when it was one of the stories our teacher read during story time. Also got into C.S. Lewis that way too. <br /><br />As for the movies, what Tolkien fan wouldn't go to see them? And until halfway through Two Towers I was tolerating them. But just so many things Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16501327753737422337noreply@blogger.com