I Sat Through That? – The Lord Of The Rings
Posted on | September 7, 2009 | 5 Comments
Really.
I am courting controversy. I am sacred cow-tipping – sneaking up on it as it sleeps the long, drowsy sleep of the utterly bored and giving it a ruddy good shove. The cow will emit a torpid, barely audible moo before falling on its bloated, special-edition, extended arse where it will sit lazily without even attempting to get up.
The Lord Of The Rings: corpulent, lethargic, slow-moving, sacred cow. You don’t get that time back, you know. So much precious, precious time (no Golum comparisons intended).
I Sat Through That? – The Lord Of The Rings
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5 Responses to “I Sat Through That? – The Lord Of The Rings”
Gerry Hayes
I mostly sit around all day and drink tea. Occasionally, I write stuff and send it to strangers so they can humiliate me and debase my efforts. Other than the self-harm to dull the shame of failure, it's not a bad life. Like I say, there's tea.
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September 7th, 2009 @ 11:08
I only stomached the first one and that’s because an ex boyfriend of mine wanted to see the second and I felt it only a girlfriend’s duty to catch up. Plus it’s the pains of being a scriptwriter and seeking solace that films can do continuity just right. It bored me to actual sleep. I remember getting so angry watching 12 or 13 Oscars going to the collection of films and writing a rant on my emotionally fuelled online journal at the time.
I salute you in wasting your time, but I agree that you should by rights demand it back.
September 8th, 2009 @ 9:54
Hurrah! Thank you, KatieMac for your kind words.
Seeing all three of these is enough to make your gall bladder explode, taking out everyone in a fifteen feet radius. Count yourself lucky. ;-)
September 9th, 2009 @ 15:05
Hmmm, exploding gallbladders could be just the thing this season. I hate to say it but I felt the same way about Inglourious Basterds… not to the point where I was bored to actual sleep but just in general a lazy “meh” erupted from my broken gallbladder.
September 9th, 2009 @ 15:06
I realise I may encounter some wrath from people about that comment about the aforementioned film, but if I could re-direct people’s anger to a small child located near them it may make them think twice. And give me plenty of time to peg it.
September 9th, 2009 @ 15:43
I still haven’t seen ‘Inglorious [GUNFIRE masks the word so the kiddies don't hear - won't somebody please think of the children] Basterds’. I have the sense that I could well go the same way – I tend to have a pretty ‘meh’ response to Tarantino too.