The MST3K mantra is appropriate here.

About the kids thinking it was boring...I'm thinking alot of kids are very heavily stimulated nowadays. Look at the average kiddy sitcom on Disney and Nick. The kid actors actually look like they're jittering from too much caffeine. Not to mention that one web series "Fred" where some teenager pretending to be a 6…

I was shunted away into homeschool for the duration of middle school. Whether that was a good decision or not is still being hotly debated in my mind. (Suffered quite a bit of social anxiety and depression when I came back for high school)

And still no Ep. III.

Was wondering if there were any private networks still running for it. Figures it would, seeing how modifiable it is. Used to have a blast making my own modules for it with the toolset.

Saint-Saens' The Aquarium is quite common too.

Once you see teal and orange, you can't unsee it.

I really love Celtic mythology (makes sense, I got quite a bit of Scottish and Irish blood in me, and I've been to Ireland once, Scotland twice and to Stonehenge and Avebury) Really, the only recent movies I can think of that utilize Celtic mythology are Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy 2. del Toro really seems to like…

Heh, I was being intentionally facetious.

That'd be cool. Fratboy shit for some, high culture for others.

I really wish people didn't have to cater to the lowest common denominator in order to get things sold.

I wonder if it's an entirely new interior or just the older one getting a light makeover and maybe a new color scheme. I quite liked the previous one.

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The…

Exactly, like the final showdown with Saruman. I also like the scene with the the Voice of Sauron.

Indeed, Tolkien's Legendarium has more to say to all generations than the average movie ever could.

Heh, yeah I was going to post that overused joke about LotR and Atlas Shrugged, but you did it better without it.

Yup, exactly what I was going to say.

And yet, I still love it for many of the same reasons I loved it back then.

Actually, he's expanding on the book. The book itself is brisk, about 250 pages, however, in the appendices of LotR and some stories in Unfinished Tales there is a whole other story that's occurring at the same time that involves Gandalf and the White Council. And it leads up to something very, very awesome. This…

Heh, it wasn't directed to you. I must agree, though, there's never a dull moment on the internet, but it can get tiring after a while. One can only take so many ill-informed trolls before the need for ibuprofen sets in.