I do not remember how many times I had to sit through the LotR trilogy during Lilly's grade 1 obsession with it.
If she ever finishes The Hobbit (she refuses, because Smaug is her boo), I'm going to have to watch all those over and over again with a small child. I have no parental objections, as my small child found the live-action human violence less terrifying than she finds cartoon violence.
(Up made her run from the theatre in terror. The Winnie the Pooh movie that came out at some point recently, same thing. Helm's Deep? Walk in the park.)
Interesting, Tom. What I found said he didn't consider it a children's book (from Wikipedia too), so there might not be agreement.
as my small child found the live-action human violence less terrifying than she finds cartoon violence.
This is why she won't watch Nightmare Before Christmas with me, isn't it? Hmmm, maybe she'll be okay with Beetlejuice.
Hmmm, maybe she'll be okay with Beetlejuice.
Both of my kids were able to watch Beetlejuice very early, and were only somewhat frightened by the hellish wedding scene at the end.
Saw this elsewhere and it just made me smile and smile.
"We're making a sequel in Middle Earth. It's going to star Gandalf the Gay. And you'll get to find out who's his favorite dwarf."
---Ian McKellen on The Colbert Report
And you'll get to find out who's his favorite dwarf.
I'm gonna guess: Thorin Fuckinshield.
I just found out who played Figwit. Call me gobsmacked.
I just found out who played Figwit.
Ha! Really?
(He has lines in this one! And a name!)
It didn't even occur to me. Not that I knew who he was when the movies came out.