Confessions of a 'Phobe.

[vulgarweed]

Not, not that kind.


GodDAMNit, Professor T, why'd you have to put giant spiders in everything, like some kind of creepy-crawly equivalent to Sriracha sauce?

Re-reading The Hobbit, mostly for the joy of it, only a little bit to plan out my pee-break strategy. I had my Strategic Urine Initiative worked out to a science for ROTK. My excuses to always leave the room at the same point in the movie became a running joke with my SO at the time whenever we had it on at home, too.

"Woman, NOW is the time to get me a beer. Not from the fridge - at the corner store."

"What if I'm not back in time for the Horns of Rohan?"

"I'll pause it."

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I now want to invent a spider emoticon.

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Will that do?

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Needs more legs. :D

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

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[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Closer!

No idea how you'd do eight eyes, though.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Eight eyes.




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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

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[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

LOL!
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[aineotter.livejournal.com]

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...or something.
Actually, the cartoon of the Hobbit freaked me out, and I had nightmares about the spiders in Mirkwood for years.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

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Eh?

[fyrdrakken]

I've gotten fairly good at limiting fluid intake before movies I'm going to see in theaters and not needing a pee break before the end. But it's still another reason why the DVD experience is winning out over the theatrical one unless it's something I can't wait for.

Speaking of. Just ran across mention this morning of the AMC theaters doing a special run-up to The Avengers by marathoning the preceding movies in the series starting at 11:30am and leading up to the midnight premiere. And I missed the chance to go do the FotR/TTT/RotK-midnight-premiere marathon. (I think a combination of missing out on getting the tickets but especially not having the vacation days available to take -- I went to the midnight movie and then to work the next day.) I've about half talked myself out of bothering with the in-theater marathon, but I'm debating taking that Thursday off as well as that Friday to do a sort of at-home DVD marathon and then maybe hit the midnight premiere by itself.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would time pee breaks on purpose so I would have an excuse to duck out whenever a character with WAY TOO MANY LEGS was about to appear! If that involved drinking more soda than usual, so be it. ;D Oddly enough, the ones in the Harry Potter movies never bothered me as much - probably because their special-effects team just wasn't as good as WETA.

That sounds like a pretty awesome way to spend the day - but maybe only if smuggling food is doable.

[fyrdrakken]

I got dragged to see ET as like a four-year-old -- very much against my will, and my parents bloody well knew he freaked me out and I didn't want to have to see him onscreen. (The only child movie my parents ever took me to themselves, rather than fobbing me off on a grandmother to take me, and it was so blatantly because they wanted to see it and felt like they needed a kid as a prop to explain their presence in a kids' movie.) I spent much of the movie kneeling in my chair with my back to the screen, checking the reflection in my mother's glasses to see if it was safe to turn around and peek at the screen. Nowadays I'm invariably knitting in front of whatever screen I'm in front of, and when something comes up I don't want to see, I get very focused on my work. A bit harder in a movie theater, where I can't really see my knitting, of course. (I make very sure I always have at least one plain stockinette project on the needles -- something I can do while paying very little attention, and can even do by touch in the dark -- so, yes, I knit in movie theaters. Not as conveniently as at home, though.)

Being the unashamed introvert that I am, on reflection what I'd really like to do is take off not just that Friday (giving me the option of either sleeping late after a midnight movie or just going to see it Friday afternoon when the theater is largely empty) but also that Thursday from work -- but then just stay home and watch the DVDs that afternoon and evening. (I already have both Iron Man movies and have been vaguely meaning to buy Captain America and perhaps even Thor, so.)

[conjure-lass.livejournal.com]

I feel you. I'm terrified of Dr. Seuss and Alice in Wonderland, so I get to have the "you're scared of what?" looks from people. I'm also scared of The Yellow Submarine movie by the Beatles. *sniffle* They mock me! *WEEPS*

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

No, I completely understand! Those things are very surreal in a semi-random sort of way, and I totally get why they'd be upsetting to a mind that likes to have things make sense. I never liked Alice in Wonderland much, and I was scared of Yellow Submarine as a kid too! (Not now, now I rather like it, but I had to adjust to it.)

[apricot-tree.livejournal.com]

My strategy for really really important movies has been to go twice. For Harry Potter I went by myself then with the husband a few weeks later. And then you just make sure you hit the bathroom breaks at different times. :)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

That icon! *shakes fist*


I'm talking about timing pee breaks on purpose to deliberately miss something that you really, really do not want to see, no matter how much you love the rest of the movie. I have still never really seen more than glimplses of the Shelob scenes in ROTK--and that means, so far, my plan has worked! :D

[apricot-tree.livejournal.com]

An excellent plan also.

I'm afraid of spiders too. I keep that icon around to give myself the willies. He's so friendly.