The Lord of the Rings versus Titanic
I was just reading oliveoyl's live journal where the user icon is currently an Elijah Wood picture, so, naturally, it made me think of The Lord of the Rings. Which I haven't seen. Yet.
Leon and I had a huge argument about that movie right before it came out last December, in our typical stupid argument form. I had told him that I would see it with him. Unfortunately, he was flying home to Tennessee for winter break ONE DAY before it opened. He didn't want to wait until January to see it with me. So, I felt betrayed and second place and a bunch of stupid things that don't make a bit of sense. I thought that the movie was only worth seeing with him if it were his first viewing. Yeah, pretty dumb. We made up. We always do.
But, as a condition of the argument, I swore that I would never see the damn movie. So, I was annoyed when the movie was nominated for Golden Globes. And I was annoyed when my suitemates wouldn't shut up about how hot the Orlando Bloom character was. And I was especially annoyed when it was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
But I refused to see it.
Rows and rows of it mocked me in Blockbuster. And, sure, we could've had a free Lord of the Rings DVD if we wanted to test drive a Kia with no intentions of buying. But, no, no. No Lord of the Rings.
Well, Leon has since criticized Titanic. Gasp! The shock! The horror!
No, I'm really not that big of a fan. I was when the movie first came out. I saw it multiple times in the theater, cried throughout the last hour, and exclaimed, "No, Jack, no!" when Kate Winslet had to let him slip into the ocean. But in the past few years, I've come to jump on the bandwagon that has crucified the dialogue and basic plot.
Still, though, Leon is much too critical of it. His hatred for Leonardo DiCaprio forced him to completely dislike the film, when I think there are a few things of merit in it. So, I'm making him sit through those three hours again. Not to mention, he's also going to have to watch What's Eating Gilbert Grape, because I think that best proves that DiCaprio is actually a good actor.
Of course, in order to sit through Titanic, he made me promise to watch The Lord of the Rings. In Leon's words, he's going to watch a bad movie so that I'll watch a good one. It sounds like I got the best part of the deal, eh? But this is forcing me to back down from my post-argument stance. And I'm generally more stubborn than that.
But we can call this growth on my part. Relationship growth. That, and I'll do anything to hear "My Heart Will Go On" again. Now that's good stuff.
Leon and I had a huge argument about that movie right before it came out last December, in our typical stupid argument form. I had told him that I would see it with him. Unfortunately, he was flying home to Tennessee for winter break ONE DAY before it opened. He didn't want to wait until January to see it with me. So, I felt betrayed and second place and a bunch of stupid things that don't make a bit of sense. I thought that the movie was only worth seeing with him if it were his first viewing. Yeah, pretty dumb. We made up. We always do.
But, as a condition of the argument, I swore that I would never see the damn movie. So, I was annoyed when the movie was nominated for Golden Globes. And I was annoyed when my suitemates wouldn't shut up about how hot the Orlando Bloom character was. And I was especially annoyed when it was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
But I refused to see it.
Rows and rows of it mocked me in Blockbuster. And, sure, we could've had a free Lord of the Rings DVD if we wanted to test drive a Kia with no intentions of buying. But, no, no. No Lord of the Rings.
Well, Leon has since criticized Titanic. Gasp! The shock! The horror!
No, I'm really not that big of a fan. I was when the movie first came out. I saw it multiple times in the theater, cried throughout the last hour, and exclaimed, "No, Jack, no!" when Kate Winslet had to let him slip into the ocean. But in the past few years, I've come to jump on the bandwagon that has crucified the dialogue and basic plot.
Still, though, Leon is much too critical of it. His hatred for Leonardo DiCaprio forced him to completely dislike the film, when I think there are a few things of merit in it. So, I'm making him sit through those three hours again. Not to mention, he's also going to have to watch What's Eating Gilbert Grape, because I think that best proves that DiCaprio is actually a good actor.
Of course, in order to sit through Titanic, he made me promise to watch The Lord of the Rings. In Leon's words, he's going to watch a bad movie so that I'll watch a good one. It sounds like I got the best part of the deal, eh? But this is forcing me to back down from my post-argument stance. And I'm generally more stubborn than that.
But we can call this growth on my part. Relationship growth. That, and I'll do anything to hear "My Heart Will Go On" again. Now that's good stuff.