[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Irrational childhood fears

[Iggy McSnurd]

> Question Iggy:
>
> Do you watch your DVD copy of Chamber of Secrets lots and will you
> be queueing up for tickets to Return of the King in December?
>
> June (cackling evilly)

Iggy here:

I actually don't have any real problem with the spiders in CoS in the
slightest.  (We have the DVD and watch it whenever my daughter is in the
mood to.)  It kinda makes my wife a bit squeamish, though.  For one thing,
the idea of the giant spiders on the screen don't phase me much, since the
more I can separate it from reality, the better off I am.  It's one of the
reasons I can deal with movies like Alien and Deep Blue Sea MUCH better than
I can handle films like Seven, or Silence of the Lambs.  (I still refuse to
watch the latter of the two.)  The more plausible I see something as being,
the worse it effects me...

As for RotK... as I have yet to actually read LotR, I don't get the
reference.  (Although I am planning on reading it soon.)  My step-son has a
copy of the first movie on DVD, and I've only gotten the chance to watch
about half of it.  I haven't really gotten a chance to watch any of the rest
of the story...I know the main storyline, but that's mostly from the old
cartoon movies...

BTW: Speaking of bugs in movies, and scary parts of said movies... My
daughter and I are watching The Mummy Returns even as I write this, and it's
the scene near the beginning where the flesh eating scarabs burst out of the
ground at the dig site.  It's making me recall my reaction when I saw the
first movie in the theatre with a few friends.  For the rest of the movie,
since you see the first swarm of scarabs, none of us put our feet on the
floor until the credits began to roll.  (And even then, it was with a great
deal of trepidation.)


Iggy McSnurd


Iggy McSnurd