I saw, according to my ticket 'HFR3D The Hob' (pronounced 'heifered'?). On the up side it didn't give me a headache like 3D usually does. Huzzah. Also I didn't hate the HFR as long as I told myself 'Pretend it's a live play' once every 20 minutes or so. I imagine that I could eventually get used to it. So while I would be happy to never see a 3D or HFR movie again, if I have to see a 3D movie I would honestly probably rather see HFR3D.

That said, it made the makeup look like makeup (especially old Bilbo), and most of the swords looked prop-ish. Basically real things looked real and fake things looked fake. And when it's a fantasy movie...that's not a good thing. Also when they either time ramped things faster or slower than IRL it looked very unconvincing. However, I would love to see, say, the Cirque movie in HFR3D.

The movie itself was uneven and very Peter Jackson. Big problem with stakes when your main cast is clearly invincible. I liked the white council and riddles in the dark parts best, and had to remind myself that all the Gandalf-ex-machina and cheesy parts (except Radagast) were pretty much directly from the book. I don't know what was up with Radagast, but I think they were trying to make up for removing Tom Bombadil? I don't remember him being quite that silly in the Silmarillion.

I've only seen the first season of Game of Thrones, but I seem to remember being amused that every episode with female full frontal nudity had male full frontal nudity. It was like someone was trying to balance it out exactly (not counting bare breasts, of which there were many). There was also one sex scene with two women and one with two men (though the circumstances were rather different and the one with women was on screen while the one with men was more implied off screen).

I know the quote from Looking for Alaska by John Green (with a changed pronoun). Are the the silhouettes and constellation pattern BBC Sherlock?

The Bride from Kill Bill representing Miramax.

Our house just got picked to do a Nielsen ratings like survey for a week in booklets. Now I feel obligated to start watching Community that week