"My brother, my captain, my king!"

[corilannam]

Last night I appropriated my best fangirl and spent several hours in the movie theater watching a movie I've already seen *mumble* times.

Actually, I think I've only watched the extended edition of Fellowship of the Ring once or twice -- although I prefer the extended cuts of the other two movies, I like the original theater cut of Fellowship best. So quite a lot of the extended material was like seeing brand new scenes for the first time, which was a lot of fun.

There was a brief message from Peter Jackson at the beginning. He mentioned how when everything came together, he felt like he was meant to make these movies. From anyone else, that might seem awfully arrogant, but I've held the same opinion myself since the opening minutes of Fellowship. I still vividly remember sitting in the theater opening night, tears streaming down my face because every single moment was so overwhelmingly perfect.

It's less overwhelming now, but I still had to wipe my eyes a few times last night.

It was also great to watch with a theater full of My People, in all our different shapes, genders, and ages. Everyone laughed at the right places and clapped at the end, and as the credits rolled, someone down front shouted, "See you next week!"

Yup. Got my tickets.

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In tangentially related amusement, I share funny links --

Oh, Sean Bean, Never Change -- SEAN BEAN STABBED IN BAR FIGHT, ORDERS ANOTHER DRINK


A fanboy reacts to Episode 1.09 of Game of Thrones (warning: BIG SPOILERS and NSFW language, but HILARIOUS) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owf6D2vfZqM

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During dinner before the movie last night, the family at the next table was having a little mini-birthday party with three boys around 6 or 7 years old. One of the small boys declared that he wanted to marry one of the other small boys. The second small boy seemed fine with that idea, but the third loudly (and repeatedly) declared, "A boy can't marry a boy, that's ILLEGAL."

It was all I could do not to lean over and say, "By the time you're old enough to get married, it won't be." I didn't, of course, 'cause, you know, not my kids and all that. But it was nice to think it and actually believe it.

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Somebody, please make me stop reading X-Men fic. It's really starting to interfere with my life.

Comments

[snottygrrl]

i want to like sean, but since he has a running tally from various wives/girlfriends of domestic abuse issues, i just can't. was amused when i saw that article, too, though. fantasy life was much easier when we didn't know so much about our stars i think.

i was at lotr:fotr last night, too! and ditto on the seen-a-heap-of-times-but-not-that-many-of-the-extended-version. my issue was that i moved to nz shortly after fellowship came out, so i spent the entire movie going, "oh! glenorchy!" or "meanwhile, back on the north island" or "awwwww, i have a picture of me in that exact spot!" or "there's the feet that gino made!" or "look at baby elijah/orlando/dom/sean" or "i wish billy wasn't so bitter"

::flails a bit::

i had good currency for the crowd though, in nz, it's no big thing if you were in the movies (everyone either was, or knew someone that was), but here in the usa? total gold (i'm in lotr:rotk as an orc). so i met a few people, and we all said we'd be back next week.

today i got out the soundtracks and put them in my itunes because i was dying to listen to them on the walk home last night. now i'm prepared for the coming sessions!

it was really wonderful to be back with the lotr peeps for a night, i've got to say.

[sithdragn]

That video had me ROFLing. If that's his reaction so far, he needs to stop watching immediately.

LOTR doesn't play here until the last week of June. I'll be ready with tix in hand. Now I have to see who I can drag with me...

[whirligigged.livejournal.com]

Somebody, please make me stop reading X-Men fic.
I'll be happy to tackle you to the ground for your own good. You know, as soon as I'm finished reading this Charles/Erik fic. (I'M NOT CRYING. IT'S JUST RAINING. ON MY FACE.)

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I might as well just put it in a crack pipe and smoke it. It would save time.

See, I don't even have time to find a Charles/Erik icon because I'm too busy with the constant stream of angst fic!

[whirligigged.livejournal.com]

They are the GREAT GODDAMN TRAGEDY OF OUR TIME. I was expecting bromance but then there was no "bros" part of it, and they instead fell immediately into tragic love, with MATCHING SINGLE TEARS, saying things like "There's so much more to you than you know" and "I want you by my side" while gazing deeply into the other's teary eyes.

They are the Mercedes Benz of angst.

[lolafeist.livejournal.com]

Giggling at this. You're so right.

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

Oh, you are exactly right about that! I think I'm loving this so much because there's more unmanufactured potential for quality angst and hurt/comfort than I've seen in a fandom for a long time.

You can't deny the power of matching single tears. YOU JUST CAN'T. Especially when the tears came from a FUCKING TELEPATHIC CONNECTION.

[riventhorn.livejournal.com]

I had that same experience with the opening minutes of the Fellowship--seeing Bag End, it was just so perfect, it was hard to believe.

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

It really was amazing. And nearly every fan of the books that I've ever talked to has said the same thing -- that it was exactly what they'd always pictured. Really extraordinary.

[riventhorn.livejournal.com]

Other parts definitely were not how I had pictured them in my head (which was fine) but Bag End--yeah, it was perfect.

[reginagiraffe]

I want a "They killed my n***a Ned" t-shirt, except I would never be able to wear it.

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Totally inappropriate for me to use, but it really deserves to be a fannish catchphrase.

I watched his longer episode review, too, which was also great. His face during the first minute or so of that totally mirrors my feelings while reading the relevant portion of the book.

[lolafeist.livejournal.com]

I tell my son all the time he is welcome to marry whoever he wants. He says he just wants to have babies on his own and live with me. Ha.

My life is totally Xmen fic right now. I wish I was WRITING some but I am all nervous about it. NEW YET LONG BELOVED CHARACTERS WHY SO HARD.

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I'm sure that plan would work out great for you! LOL

I really want to write some X-Men, too. I have some ideas, but I have so much Merlin to write and I'm so behind that I just can't let myself get distracted (LIKE I'M NOT ALREADY, RIGHT??)

BUT YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO WRITE THEM. Don't be nervous! There are so many canon versions of them, you really can't get it wrong! *pom poms*

[leashy-bebes.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha oh my god, Sean Bean ♥ Stuff like this reminds me why I've had a crush on him since I was about twelve.

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

Oh, totally. He's a sexy beast (even if I wouldn't want to actually date him!)

[aeshna_uk]

Somebody, please make me stop reading X-Men fic. It's really starting to interfere with my life.

God, you and me both. And there's just so much of it right now. The kinkmeme is moving a lot faster than I am at the moment....

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

I know, seriously! I've been reading mostly from the recs and reposts from the kinkmeme, because that's been exactly as much as I can keep up with. I need to make more time, though, because I really want to start going through the prompts for something to write, too.

[aeshna_uk]

Yeah, same here - I really do have other stuff I should be writing, but somehow I don't think I'm going to be escaping this one for long (okay, I have a tiny gen thing done already that I should post somewhere, but let's not talk about that)!

But, you know, X-Men was my first real internet fandom, albeit in a lurky way - we're talking alt.fan.xmen here! And I joined eGroups (later OneList, later YahooGroups - my account just kept getting reassigned) specifically to join the Magneto list. The fannish karma fairies are just finally catching up with me or something.

(what, me have a bit of a thing for pragmatic sometime-antagonists who might just have a bit of a point? C'mon, it's not like I have previous! Actually, I blame that entire thing on Erik anyway, so it's just coming full circle....)

Hmm, time to find an X-Men icon or six, methinks....

[giselleslash.livejournal.com]

That Sean Bean story never stops being awesome. And hilarious. Oh, Bean. Bless.

And LOL at that vid - that was pretty much my reaction too when I read it in the book. I love how worked up he got, brother had to pace and everything. AHAHA. Love it.

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I totally related to all of his reactions. Awesomely hilarious. And I loved the bemused interjections from his friend, because I've definitely seen that expression on the faces of my loved ones before!

[iknowitsmad.livejournal.com]

I sat down in a theater last night and watched FotR EE, too, and it was just wonderful. Not only do the movies look great on a big screen again, but the theater was filled with people who just get it. Ugh, so much love for this experience, and I can't wait to go back two more times!