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| 161 | That's moronic. Money is nothing, simply paper and metal. It's useless. | Would you surrender twenty-five years of your life for a billion dollars? |
| 162 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Monty Python's Flying Circus Red Dwarf Mr. Bean Fawlty Towers Black Adder (all of 'em) The Thin Blue Line Spaced Are You Being Served The Vicar Of Dibly One Foot In The Grave Absolutely Fabulous Keeping Up Appearances Men Behaving Badly Father Ted Bless Me Father | What are your all time favorite britcoms? |
| 163 | Fight Club Dogma American Beauty American History X Memento Being John Malkovich X Dark City Boys Don't Cry Vanilla Sky (the original and the new one with Tom Cruise) Dragonfly (even though it isn't out yet, I think I'd like it) All 3 LOTR movies (even though Peter Jackson butchered it) The Hobbit movies (even though Peter Jackson will probably butcher it) The Mothman Prophecies Cube Man Bites Dog I Married A Strange Person Pink Flamingos The Gods Must Be Crazy Blow The Matrix (and both sequals, and the anime) When it comes down to it, practically any movie that WANTED IN would get in, but I think those movies would be essential, and I'd want the uncut versions of all of those that have things cut. As well, I'd want tons of anime shown, far too many to mention. | What would the Your-Name-Goes-Here Film Festival show? |
| 164 | I feel that he butchered Lothlorien by cutting SO SO much of it and leaving out the gift-giving scene, and the awe of Gimli for Galadriel (a key side-plot to the books that added a great deal of wonder to it the series, and quite a lot of fun), and he also added in Arwen as the saviour of the day for Frodo. Number one, it was Elrond and Gandalf, as well as Glorfindel, who did that job. Elrond cast the spell to sweep the riders away, and Gandalf added the horses because he was confident in Elrond's focus and skill at utilizing the ring of the sea in concordance with his own natural Elven magic to do the job. Arwen would have been not only MUCH weaker in magic at such a "young" (for Elves anyways) age, she would not have had the ring, and why, when focusing on saving Frodo, would she have added the horses?! Gandalf was confident enough in Elrond's total focus and concentration on saving the ring-bearer that he felt he could add something, but Arwen, alone and by herself, could not have done that with all of her focus and concentration, much less adding horses too. It was just to add a female role. Also, at the end, Aragorn LET FRODO GO. That COMPLETELY not what happened in the book, and also not in Aragorn's personality. He would have stopped Frodo if he'd seen him, but it was too late. And of course, how could I forget, one last thing, though this is just nitpicking more than anything, as they don't even mention him later on in the books, and he is the one thing that every HARDCORE LOTR fan would have argued about endlessly, Tom Bombadil. Gone completely, as was the Barrow-wights. Tom Bombadil is my favourite character because of all of the things he could have been, from Valar to Earth spirit to simply a forest spirit or maybe even a joyful manifestation of Illuvatar himself. I tend to think of Tom Bombadil and his wife, Goldberry, as the Valar of the forest and the hunt, Orome, and his spouse Vana, the ever-young. But once again, because of the hotly contested issue, I can UNDERSTAND, if not like, the last one. Just my humble opinion, as you wanted it. | What would the Your-Name-Goes-Here Film Festival show? |
| 165 | When it comes to Arwen as a LOVE INTEREST, ok. But that was simply stupid addition for the sake of political correctness. "Let's have a strong female character, even though we already have Galadriel!" "Ok, sounds good to me, let's alter something that doesn't need to be altered so women's rights groups won't complain at us." I hated that. It was Elrond and Gandalf, NOT Arwen. They could have, yes, included the love interest thing, and in fact I think they could have done MORE on it than they did, but they did the flight to the ford thing all wrong, and that pissed me off. There was no reason to change it. It did, in fact, add to the time the movie had, because Arwen was for some reason there, and they had to include those scenes. If they cut out those scenes, there would have been room to include Glorfindel, and still had lots of room left over for a little more romance scenes between Aragorn and Arwen. And I agree with you that it's sad they altered the Sam/Frodo relationship, and also that they cut out the subtle "My world is ancient and deep." things Tolkien probably would have loved to see in there. And as for him cutting things, you'd be surprised. I have the History of Middle-Earth series, books 1-6, and Book 6 is all about his notes and writings of LOTR, compiled with commentary by Christopher Tolkien. He cut very little, and in fact ended up making it much larger than intended BECAUSE he didn't want to cut anything. It was supposed to be one book. It ended up in three. When he started he didn't even know about the Ents or about Sauron's involvement. I'm going to quote a letter he wrote to a friend, because I thought it was so cool of Tolkien to write in a letter to a friend. "I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was then had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlorien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforseen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystified as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on September 22." -J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to W.H. Auden, 7 June 1955 | What would the Your-Name-Goes-Here Film Festival show? |
| 166 | Bling Yo Ownzed Biatch Bargain Yaks Over Barley Bring Your Own Brain Bweing Ygerh Ovlenty Bgrenta By You Of Beginning British Yanked Out Britannia Britannia Yanked Out British Brick Yodel Over Brain Before You Open Barns Barter Your Olive Branch And many others I'm sure. I just wanted to do my top 10 that popped into my head. | What does B.Y.O.B mean to you? |
| 167 | The Decline by NOFX, closely followed by The Divine Wings of Tragedy by Symphony X, closely followed by And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian. Each of those songs is over 14 minutes long. | What is your favorite song? |
| 168 | Of course I would. | If you could take a pill to be immortal, would you take it? |
| 169 | Probably everywhere I could, everyone I could, and whatever I could. I wouldn't want to be restricted. | If you became a ghost after you have died, what/who/where would you haunt? |
| 170 | "Before you say anything, I'm just going to let you know that whatever you tell me, no matter how small, will alter the future so that I will no longer be you in the future, so you will never come back to tell me what that thing which changed it was, and in fact, I don't know how you are here right now, as your very existance in this time frame is altering my perception of the future." | If your future self came to the present to visit you, what would you say? |
