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Good Fellowship, gift conundrum
Dec. 6th, 2003 10:25 pmToday the parents came up, and we attended a weekend show of the Fellowship of the Rings extended edition at the theater. It was every bit as good as it was in the theaters in the edited version, and as it was on the DVD uncut, all rolled into one. I'll confess I never expected to see things like Bilbo's "Concerning Hobbits" prologue, or the gifting of Galadriel, on the wide screen. I'm tempted to go and see it again tomorrow, just because that will be my last opportunity to do so. Probably won't, though.
( In defense of Jackson's vision )
Seeing the movie again reminded me that I never had managed to work my way through all of the commentary tracks that came on the Fellowship DVD set. I watched the first one (Director/Scriptwriter), and got a little bit of the way through the second one (Design Team), then never got around to watching more. I really do need to get through Design Team so I can watch Production/Post-Production team and Actors. And given that each one of those is three and a half hours...man, these DVDs really do put demands on your time, don't they?
In other news, I had been beating myself up over what kind of a present I could get tiny baby Guinevere, my new niece who is still too young for the proper appreciation of presents. I had settled on a pacifier, since, hey, babies use pacifiers, right? And the one I'd settled upon was, in fact, rather distinctive: the "Lil' Vampire," middle top row on this page. One of those pacifiers that, on first glance, makes it look like the baby has an enormous, oddly-shaped mouth. I was mentioning this to my parents as we all came out of the movie theater...and they told me that this might not be the best gift, as Gwen's mother would be weaning Gwen—who just recently turned one—off the pacifier soon. Which is news to me, since I thought they were used for at least the first couple years of the kid's life, but I guess that's up to them. Now don't I feel stupid? Not only am I out the money for the pacifier (though it might make a good gift for the new baby that's due in a couple months), but now I'm back to square one on what I can get a one-year-old for Christmas. (I've already gotten her two-and-a-half-year-old big sister something nice.)
( In defense of Jackson's vision )
Seeing the movie again reminded me that I never had managed to work my way through all of the commentary tracks that came on the Fellowship DVD set. I watched the first one (Director/Scriptwriter), and got a little bit of the way through the second one (Design Team), then never got around to watching more. I really do need to get through Design Team so I can watch Production/Post-Production team and Actors. And given that each one of those is three and a half hours...man, these DVDs really do put demands on your time, don't they?
In other news, I had been beating myself up over what kind of a present I could get tiny baby Guinevere, my new niece who is still too young for the proper appreciation of presents. I had settled on a pacifier, since, hey, babies use pacifiers, right? And the one I'd settled upon was, in fact, rather distinctive: the "Lil' Vampire," middle top row on this page. One of those pacifiers that, on first glance, makes it look like the baby has an enormous, oddly-shaped mouth. I was mentioning this to my parents as we all came out of the movie theater...and they told me that this might not be the best gift, as Gwen's mother would be weaning Gwen—who just recently turned one—off the pacifier soon. Which is news to me, since I thought they were used for at least the first couple years of the kid's life, but I guess that's up to them. Now don't I feel stupid? Not only am I out the money for the pacifier (though it might make a good gift for the new baby that's due in a couple months), but now I'm back to square one on what I can get a one-year-old for Christmas. (I've already gotten her two-and-a-half-year-old big sister something nice.)
