Who would YOU spend a weekend with? (was: And *I* met...)

[A. Vulgarweed]

>Wendy:
>
>Heh heh heh . . . I still can't get over it. I am *totally* creeped
>out by Elrond in the films. And the thing is, I hadn't seen any of
>the Matrix films until about a month ago, so my creeped-outness by
>this actor is unconnected. I'm not sure if I ever saw him in
>anything else and don't remember, or if he just comes across as
>creepy to me in general. But it's creating trouble for me with the
>LotR movies. My husband keeps telling me that Elrond is cool, and
>trustworthy . . . but I just DON'T believe it.


Heh. Yeah, Elrond is cool. Honestly, he is. He's just *still* kicking
himself for not shoving Isildur into the Cracks of Doom, Ring and all, when
he had the chance all those millennia ago. It makes him grumpy, but you
can't really blame him.

You know, I saw the first Matrix movie when it came out, and liked it OK,
but it just never grabbed me all that hard (I think it's Keanu--he tends to
cause some degree of instant tune-out for me). No, the role I remember Hugo
Weaving from that I couldn't get out of my head was in _Priscilla, Queen of
the Desert_. Yeah--*spectacular* drag performance.




He creeps me out!
>Evil! (I'm speaking here as someone who *has* read the trilogy and
>so should know these things, but it's been more than 15 years ago,
>and I honestly don't remember how it ends).
>
>On a related note, yesterday I finally saw the LotR trailer (when
>seeing Matrix Revloutions, LOL). And it made me cry. Gah. I'm going
>to be a wreck. I cried at least 5 times watching TT (I really got
>going while Smeagol/Gollum fought with himself). I think the new
>film is going to be worse. If I'm already sobbing at just 45 seconds
>of thrown-together scenes . . . . ARGH! I think I'd better bring a
>box of tissues to the cinema with me. ::grin::

Eeek. Well, take it from someone who's re-read them very recently: buy
*stock* in Kleenex. Nobody will need to worry about drinking too much soda
in an over-3-hour movie because all the moisture will be coming out our
faces. (You know who made me cry in TTT? Theoden and Treebeard.)

>:-)
>Wendy
>(Who still hasn't seen the PoA trailer . . . hey, maybe I should
>take Connor to see "Loony Tunes" today. He's home sick from school,
>but going to a film surely isn't an overly ambitious activity for a
>sick day). ::grin::

Can I just say--I know some of the the casting choices have been
controversial, but can I just get a hallelujah on the casting of
*Crookshanks*?!? What a perfect, surly-looking, cranky, smart scrunch-faced
kitty. In fact, I can almost hear _him_ saying, "Men? Men are weak!"

AV
who hasn't taken the quiz because if she isn't compatible with Viggo
Mortensen or Johnny Depp, she doesn't want to know.