poll: upcoming movies?

A couple of nights ago, Jeff and I took our Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring DVD over to his dad's house to watch the movie and some of the special features. His dad has only seen the movie once, and wanted to be able to ask questions while we watched it. I've seen the movie over a dozen times now, so didn't mind. In fact, I found that his questions made me want to reread the books!

So that's what I'm doing. I'm reading The Hobbit first, since I haven't read that in about 25 years and can't remember much of it, and then I'm rereading the trilogy. As some of you may recall, I read LOTR for the first time last year. For those interested, I'm posting my reports online.

Quite enjoy The Hobbit so far. :-) For those of you who have never been able to get into the heavier Lord of the Rings, you might enjoy this book.

I am so looking forward to The Two Towers. In fact, after a depressing dearth of good films during the summer, looks like the winter's much more exciting. Allison told me that filmmakers tend to like debuting their movies in December to increase their chances for Oscar nominations. But heck, wouldn't a good summer film be more memorable than one of many good films clustered together in a single month? I don't get it.





But this brings me to the next poll:

What upcoming movies are you most looking forward to seeing?

Answer in Blatherchat

News/Links:

Heather Munn is organizing a gathering of filkers with online journals at OVFF. "OVFF Online Journal Birds of a Feather" will take place on the Saturday of the convention, 7:30-8:30 pm ("at least").

A British tv station will air a 2 minute, 17 second trailer for the next Harry Potter movie, "marking the first time the full-length clip with scenes from the movie has been shown to audiences", according to
CNN.

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Today's Blatherpics:

I scanned these pictures as part of my ongoing Family Photo Archiving Project. Click on any of the photos above to see the larger image.

	Me on the beach during a family holiday, before I got braces. :-)
	Ruth, Jim and me. I'm pointing something out to Jim. Grandma's to the far left, partly cut out of the photo.
	My family in Toronto. This photo might have been taken in front of our house on O'Connor Street. Though I don't remember that big house in the background, hm. I'll have to go check this sometime.