--- I'm feeling crappy today,

--- I'm feeling crappy today, so we're keeping it short. I have this
huge desire to crawl back into bed and I'm going to cave to it sooner
rather than later. --- These people are nuts!
Now, I can understand getting fired up for a movie release. I'm not
immune and have done it myself in the past. The last time was for Matrix Reloaded
and on the whole, it was worth it. We gathered a group of like-minded
friends together, bought the tickets a few days before, got to the
theater early and got good seats. We all sat and watched the movie in
awed silence and after it was over, we went out to dinner and dissected
it. It was great fun. Getting excited about it, organizing some events
around it, made it more exciting. But I didn't have green code painted
on my face. I didn't slick my hair back, slap on some cool sunglasses
and wear a black patent leather catsuit (although the husband would
have loved it if I had). I didn't pretend I could do kung fu in the lobby of the theater. It's a movie.
A film. A story. No different in its base reality than some caveman who
painted on the walls of his domicile---its just the method of telling
the story that's different. You kinda have to wonder about these folks,
however. Getting to the theater at five a.m. for a film festival that
starts at noon? Constructing your costumes around the fact the theater
gets somewhat warm (and honestly, as that's the theater we usually go
to, I can say that they had a point. It's usually either freezing or
broiling in that place)? Renting a hotel room near the theater because
you're afraid it's going to snow and you don't want to miss it? It all
smacks of some well-described psychological conditions, that, if they
involved illegal substances, like drugs, instead of a series of movies,
would be seriously frowned upon by law enforcement. Knock it down to
the base behavior. Addiction. Obsessive-compulsiveness. I know, I'm
taking the fun out of it. It's not harming anyone. It's just a group of
geeks getting out there and reveling in their obsession. But if it were harming someone, or there was at least perceived
harm in it, it would be dissected and regulated like alcohol or drugs.
How long do you think it's going to take for someone to perceive harm
in a situation like this one? Because we all know most perceptions are
not based in objectivity. So, there's the deep thought for the day. And
besides, damnit, how did they keep their butts from going numb through
all of that? My butt went numb about halfway through the non-extended
version of The Two Towers. How they managed to get past the pins and needles is beyond my comprehension.

Ok, I'm off to bed. If your off to see Return of the King, enjoy yourself. I'd wait until it came out on home video, but I don't think the husband will allow for that.