My family and close circle of friends
will tell you, I'm kinda into fantasy films.
Okay. I lie.
I'm totally, embarrassingly obsessed
with Lord of The Rings.
I once had a movie marathon where I
forced about 10 of my friends to sit through all 3 movies, directors
cut editions, back to back, without sleeping. I even brought down a
squirt bottle of water to punish anyone who fell asleep, much like
the way some people train their puppies.
(Needless to say, I don't have as many friends anymore)
I have done the Lord of the Rings tour
in New Zealand and have a poster of New Zealand framed in my room
marking all the Lord of the Rings filming sites.
I take unparalleled delight in using
obscure movie references in my day to day life. For example, just
this morning:
'Oh Jaz. You look so cure there at the
door.
But no. You can't come in. You hear that? You shall not pass!'
Or earlier, when I was home alone for
10 days as my family tramped off around the globe without me. Towards
the end I took great delight in heading to the nearly empty cupboard
and groaning in sorrow.
'We ain't had nothing but maggoty bread
for three stinkin' dayyyysssss'
Making
a trip to the bin regularly becomes an act of casting the rubbish
'back into the fiery chasm from whence it came' and poor Danielle is
often thoroughly creeped out by being called 'my precious' and
creepily stroked on the head.
So...Maybe
I have some issues.
My
point is. I love Lord of the Rings. But recently there has emerged a
strong contender for the battle of my obsession.
Game
of Thrones.
Not
only does it have Sean Bean playing a fantastic, grimy, long haired,
sword wielding lord (again) but it has horses and dragons and swords
and torture and fire. Not to mention an extremely witty dwarf and the
fact that at least for five of the main male leads I would happily
let myself deliberately get locked in a tower or something just so
that they could come and save me.
It's
just like Lord of the Rings but with more politics and the sex scenes
we always wanted to see between Aragorn and Arwen (or was that just
me...)?
The
point of all this is.
You
know what? There is no point.
Just
go watch both of these films/series and your life will be greatly
enriched as you can clearly see mine has been. That is all.
Haha. We had the same movie marathon once. Or, rather, my sister did and invited her friends around, and I watched as well. :P I've heard other people talking about this "Game of Thrones". Sounds intriguing. Might check it out.
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