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Post by queenzod on Aug 19, 2017 1:26:36 GMT
I just got an email from Cinemark, and they're playing all the Marvel movies in theaters for $5 starting August 25. Dr. Strange is playing on the 25th and 26th. I assume that only in North America.
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Post by mllemass on Aug 19, 2017 5:39:09 GMT
That must be only in the US. It looks like Cineplex is doing something sort of similar in Canada with theme days, with $5.99 movies. Doctor Strange isn't listed, but this Wednesday will be "Hobbit Day", so you can spend the whole day watching Benedict as Smaug!
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 22, 2017 12:03:18 GMT
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Post by igs on Aug 24, 2017 14:57:51 GMT
Wednesday will be "Hobbit Day" Wow this sounds like my personal nightmare. I'm pretty sure Finnish cinemas did the Marvel marathon thing a couple years back (maybe before Age of Ultron?) but I didn't go see it. It would be pretty cool though, of course not see all of them but a few. I did go to a Lord of The Rings marathon once, it was awesome.
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Post by mllemass on Aug 24, 2017 16:04:04 GMT
I cannot imagine how that's possible! A friend convinced me to go see Lord of the Rings with her when it came out, and it was by far the worst movie-going experience I've ever had. It was so mind-numbingly boring that I just wanted to scream! I kept looking around at the rest of the audience, wondering how they could all seem so interested in what was happening on the screen - because it was literally hours of nothing happening!
It is interesting, though, that human beings can watch the same thing and see it so differently.
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Post by igs on Aug 25, 2017 7:08:28 GMT
I cannot imagine how that's possible! A friend convinced me to go see Lord of the Rings with her when it came out, and it was by far the worst movie-going experience I've ever had. It was so mind-numbingly boring that I just wanted to scream! I kept looking around at the rest of the audience, wondering how they could all seem so interested in what was happening on the screen - because it was literally hours of nothing happening! It is interesting, though, that human beings can watch the same thing and see it so differently. Ah, I made the assumption of thinking that anyone contemplating a Hobbit marathon must be a LOTR fan to some degree. 😝
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Post by mllemass on Aug 25, 2017 20:59:57 GMT
The only Hobbit movie I've seen is The Desolation of Smaug, and that's only because of Benedict. It wasn't too unbearable! I enjoyed seeing Benedict and Martin Freeman together (sort of) on the big screen. I was relieved that the battle scenes weren't too long, and there weren't too many of them. It's kind of funny that I remember the movie being criticized for the battle scenes being too short and too few!
I actually own a copy of the book Lord of the Rings! It was required reading for a Children's Literature course I took in university. That's when I discovered that I hated fantasy/adventure novels. We also had to read Peter Pan - I hated that, too.
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Post by roverpup on Aug 26, 2017 0:54:24 GMT
Sing it sister! It was in uni that i discover how much I hated Fantasy fiction. And I had to read all of the trilogy of LotR in my SciFi and fantasy course there and Peter Pan (I must have taken the same Children's Lit course as you Mllemass!) but to make up for it we also were required to study one of my favourite children's books - The Secret Garden. I absolutely loved that book when I was young!! I did love the science Fiction part of my SciFi and Fantasy course - War of the Worlds, Day of the Triffids... great stuff!
I have watched the BTS of the making of The Hobbit movies (BC's part) which I always find fascinating even if I have now interest in the film itself. Seeing Ben crawl around and growl and hiss is endlessly entertaining.
:-))
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Post by igs on Aug 26, 2017 5:19:24 GMT
That's when I discovered that I hated fantasy/adventure novels. We also had to read Peter Pan - I hated that, too. Ah yes, I think we have discussed fantasy/scifi before, too. It's one of those things some people are really passionate about and some people absolutely hate! I was a total Tolkien geek in my teens, read everything I could get my hands on from the obvious (LOTR, Hobbit, Silmarillion) to the more fangirl (older works, Tolkien's letter collections, tales of his inspirations for the creation of Arda ie "Middle-Earth" etc.) It took me longer to get into scifi, except for Star Wars which I consider more fantasy than scifi and Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy which in turn I loved more for its humor and its imaginative narration than any science aspect, but I love scifi now too. Martin Freeman actually has the dubious honor of starring in not one, but two in my opinion garbage adaptations of my youthful obsessions (Hobbit and HHGtTG) lol - just be glad I was never really into Sherlock Holmes prior to 2011 or so, well except Basil the Great Mouse Detective which was one of my favorite films as a kid haha. I did love the whole Lord of The Rings trilogy, but I read the book around the same time Fellowship of the Ring premiered so I kind of grew into both at the same time. There were things I disliked (mainly the characterization of Faramir and scrapping the Scouring of the Shire) but on a whole I absolutely loved the trilogy. It was appropriate in tone to its source. The Hobbit seemed like PJ and co didn't know if they were adapting a fantasy epic or a video game even though The Hobbit is of course neither. I didn't even see the third Hobbit film, I started watching it on a plane once but quickly gave up.
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Post by mllemass on Aug 26, 2017 7:44:04 GMT
It probably wasn't the exact same course because we never read The Secret Garden. I still have all the books from the course, but the real standouts for me were "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" (which I saw years later as a tv movie), and an early Gordon Korman novel. Gordon Korman is a Canadian writer who started writing children's books while he was still a child! I remember that our professor spoke very excitedly about him because he had met him and interviewed him, and he played the recorded interview for us. It was fascinating! His books were intelligent and laugh-out-loud hysterically funny. After the course ended, I bought and read everything he had written up to that time. I think his books are now part of the curriculum in our elementary schools.
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