The Movie Meme!

[badboy_fangirl]

gakked from bogwitch

Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL films, like the films that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite films but the ten films that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously). Come

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[badboy_fangirl]

I couldn't READ them, either. I did read "The Hobbit" and "Fellowship of the Ring" but it took me FOREVER. I do not care for his writing style, but the films are just breathtaking and magical for me. I saw Fellowship SEVEN times at the theater, that's how much I loved it. I loved the friendships among all the characters and the allegory of the Ring -- all the things it can represent in our lives and how it leads us away from what we really should be doing or what we should truly desire, etc.

Technically, I think the all the films are brilliant, too, and even though they are very long, I prefer the extended editions that are available on DVD over the theatrical releases.

BUT, I can see if you're sensitive to violence, or just don't get into fantasy stuff, how they wouldn't be very appealing films. Did you watch the whole first movie? Maybe you were just in a bad mood? I don't know! I really just love them so much!

[bogwitch]

What! I read LOTR in two weeks when I was 11.

[badboy_fangirl]

Yes, I know people in my family who have read them all multiple times, but there is something about it that doesn't work with my brain. When I read "The Hobbit" I was 26 years old, and every time I'd put it down, when I'd come back to read some more, I couldn't for the life of me remember what had been happening when I stopped reading. And I love to read. I've read all the Harry Potter books no less than four times, and the older books many more times than that, so I can't explain it other than to say that Tolkien and I don't mix.

But I LOVE the films!

[bogwitch]

I think The Hobbit can be challenging for an adult. The lightness of it doesn't sit that well and it lacks the whimsy of say, Winnie the Pooh.

I only read the first Harry Potter book and I wasn't impressed by either the prose or the sense that a lot of it was rather familiar.