Also, explaining your argument to a man from Mars, who doesn't have any interest in what the various social groups involved think they are "supposed" to believe.
I'm sorry to hear that, but I understand. Lee Marvin is perfectly cast in that movie, and the extras are a ball. However, I have friends who deeply love the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies, and I can't watch them. I think they're mostly just awful in spite of some good moments.
Interesting about LOTR. I did not see Jackson's interpretation for may years but my children eventually insisted. I was worried that he would not get the voices right. I had taken great care to develop voices for reading to my children, and after three times through I had a nearly immovable impression of what each should be. Sam's voice was nearly identical to what I had designed. Most of the others were just okay, and the elves in general were quite different from what I had and didn't like them.
But I have poor visual imagination - I skip over most description at this point - and Jackson captured brilliantly many things that I had stored only as "big generic mountain" or "Spooky guy on a spooky horse." I am very grateful to him for giving me something I could not have managed myself.
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Rubber duck debugging: The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line by line, to the duck.
Also, explaining your argument to a man from Mars, who doesn't have any interest in what the various social groups involved think they are "supposed" to believe.
That song was mercilessly assigned to Clint Eastwood in the movie.
I saw that on YouTube and decided I would not even be able to watch. Maybe if I had never seen the SB version...
A guy's gotta make a living, y'know?
I'm sorry to hear that, but I understand. Lee Marvin is perfectly cast in that movie, and the extras are a ball. However, I have friends who deeply love the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies, and I can't watch them. I think they're mostly just awful in spite of some good moments.
Interesting about LOTR. I did not see Jackson's interpretation for may years but my children eventually insisted. I was worried that he would not get the voices right. I had taken great care to develop voices for reading to my children, and after three times through I had a nearly immovable impression of what each should be. Sam's voice was nearly identical to what I had designed. Most of the others were just okay, and the elves in general were quite different from what I had and didn't like them.
But I have poor visual imagination - I skip over most description at this point - and Jackson captured brilliantly many things that I had stored only as "big generic mountain" or "Spooky guy on a spooky horse." I am very grateful to him for giving me something I could not have managed myself.
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