[quote=MovieGal]Baba Yaga[/quote]

[quote=MovieGal][quote=FilmBuff][quote=MovieGal]Hey @FilmBuff,  guess what I'm watching with my friends.[/quote]

Is it a Christmas movie?[/quote]

Nope. But it's something I watched earlier this week.[/quote]

[quote=FilmBuff][quote=MovieGal]Hey @FilmBuff,  guess what I'm watching with my friends.[/quote]

Is it a Christmas movie?[/quote]

[quote=Corax]Well another whistleblower turns up dead. RIP Suchir Balaji. 

Note to Self: Just mail the evidence to the Times anonymously and then run like hell.[/quote]

[quote=MovieGal]Hey @FilmBuff,  guess what I'm watching with my friends.[/quote]

[quote=I_Wear_Pants]Weather changes suck sometimes.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane][quote=FilmBuff]I think the biggest problem with LOTR and the Dune novels is that, from a modern perspective at least, they feel excruciatingly patriarchal.[/quote]
so say we all!

:highfive:[/quote]

[quote=FilmBuff]I think the biggest problem with LOTR and the Dune novels is that, from a modern perspective at least, they feel excruciatingly patriarchal.[/quote]

[quote=I_Wear_Pants][quote=FilmBuff]
I have very little interest in reading either LOTR or Dune books, I feel life is too short as it is.... :shrug:[/quote]
I enjoyed Lord of the Rings. I haven't read Dune. I've never looked into the story. 

[quote=John McClane]you know, fun fact, Tolkien didn’t even want to write LOTR and his publisher basically forced him to do it[/quote]
That's interesting. I didn't know that. I know he wrote it like in his 40s or 50s I think it was.[/quote]

[quote=FilmBuff][quote=I_Wear_Pants]It can be tough to start. I don't pretend that it's the easiest thing to do. I have a lot of practice.[/quote]

Yes, it is definitely much easier to just avoid them altogether... :p[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]in the first edition of The Hobbit, the character Gollum freely bets the ring in the Riddles in the Dark chapter. he had to rewrite it to make everything work.[/quote]