Okay, enough of the melodrama, let's talk about movies!

This is one of my favorite times of the year. I love the weather for one, but most of all because this is when the best movies come out. I've seem quite a few good to very good movies lately. Training Day (very good), The Last Castle (good) and From Hell (Outstanding!!!). Tons of great ones headed our way soon. Can't wait for Vanilla Sky, Lord of the Rings, Spy Game, I could go on and on.

Thanks for starting a good thread Brad, nice to see something other than evil stardock, evil TGT, evil WC, evil DA.

Watching "The Godfather" right now... Would you believe I'd never seen it up till now?

I'm really looking forward to The Fellowship of the Ring, Harry Potter, Spider-Man, and of course, Episode II (I refuse to call it "Attack of the Clones )

I think Lord of The Rings is the one to be waiting for.....the last one I saw that really rocked my socks was Final Fantasy...

I hadn't watched it for a few years, but I have probably seen Nightmare Before Christmas about 10 times in the last month. Man, it's great!

I watched "Shrek" the other day.....i was in the video store wondering what i should get (as you do)....i saw it on the shelf and thought i'd get it out to check out the graphics....WOW....
- great story
- great graphics
- very funny
...i was inpressed!!!

...i to am looking forward to seeing "Lord of The Rings" too

I haven't been in the theaters in 2 years, but I just can't wait to go see Lord of the Rings! I downloaded the long trailer (30 megs), it just looks too awsome! Did I say I can't wait till December 19th?
I'm sure you've all seen it, but just in case you haven't, prepare to be blown away: http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/fellowship_of_the_ring/

took my girlfriend's 9 year old daughter to see Monsters, Inc. last night. Very entertaining.

Okay, I'm throwing my hat into the Lord of the Rings crowd. I've been a Tolkien junkie for 25 years and got so much Tolkien/Tolkien-related books its kinda embarrasing.

From the stills and previews it looks amazing. Hobbiton and Bag End look incredible, right out of a John Howe painting ('course he did a lot of the set design along with Alan Lee...)

/me avoiding looking at stills and previews so the final experience of watching LOTR is not affected in any way.

Finding it very hard. Been a LOTR fan for absolutely ages. Read the books (Hobbit, LOTR, Silm) several times over.

Yes, I read the Hobbit when I was 10....[yep, they had books back then...well...stone tablets, anyway]...1964 that would have been.
When I read LOTR, I started on a Sunday and finished on the Wednesday....was so blown-away by the experience, I started again [a little slower] on the Thursday...

I'm still waiting for the movie version of "Stig of the dump"!.......
Guess i'm gonna keep waiting.........
Oh well........

I wasn't gonna watch any LOTR previews or stills, but I got the will power of a gnat.

I read the Hobbit when I was 11 ( 1976 for me) then read LOTR when I was 13 or so, and it pretty much left me in a daze from which I still haven't fully recoverd.

There's something about reading those books at that age that results in some sort of permanent imprinting.

I'm eagerly awaiting Harry Potter first and foremost. Following that is definitely LOTR however I am a bit dismayed by, as far as I can tell so far, the eye-candy part "created" for Liv Tyler. (Whose character name, I confess, I can't remember - it's been at least a decade since I read LOTR)

Jafo, you mean you read the 3 bible-thick books in 4 days? Or do you mean just the first book?

And I too read pretty much everything Tolkien has written, Bilbo, LOTR, Silmarillion, even Unfinished Tails and Legends (translating the title which I read in French, so I'm not sure that's what it was in English) several times. I am a huge fan of those middle-earth stories.
(I might have to read it in English before I go see the movie, cause I know all the names and stuff in French, I wonder if I'd be confused).

I never read Lord of the Rings because after I made it through War and Peace I was burned out on huge books with tons of characters to keep straight through the whole story.... After the first Renaissance Faire there were lots of kids running around with names like Frodo and Bilbo. I must admit I felt kind of left out sometimes but now I can just see the movie (!)

I'm glad I waited.....

Lord of the Rings is a classic book of all time. Nobody knows subtlety like Tolkien did. The power of the Istari aka Wizards is subtle yet intense. How it gets carried off in the motion picture I eagerly anticipate.

Paxx....yes...3 and a half days...it was one book in my edition...about 2 inches thick.
I didn't do a lot of sleeping....I couldn't put the damn thing down....

I find it AMAZING that DavidK never read the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I sort of thought that would be right up his alley

I'm not a big fan of fantasy works, both literaty or artistic, so I never read them either. It's no surprize that there are big-budget films being made of the LOTR and Harry Potter books, but I can't say I'll make an effort to see either one.

I saw Mulholland Drive last night. 13 hours later I'm still scratching my head. Anyone big David Lynch fans here?

Count me in for the David Lynch fandom. I've seen "Wild at Heart" more times than any other movie excpet for "The Princess Bride". "My dog....barks...some."

Admittedly, I've never read the LotR trilogy. I read "The Hobbit" for the first time a few years ago. I've just never gotten around to reading the trilogy, though. I will, hopefully, before the movie comes out.

Last theatre movie I saw was "K-Pax", last weekend. Good movie. Not the best I've ever seen, but good nonetheless. And it really just further solidifies Kevin Spacey's role as one of America's *best* actors.

Davad70 - I saw Mulholland Drive a few weeks back. I think I had to stop trying to figure it out before I came up with any answers. Good flick, but next time I see it, I'm taking notes.

Saw "Domestic Disturbance" Friday. It was the most predictable movie I've seen in a long time, but time spent looking at Vince Vaughn is never truly wasted.