Posted on 11/21/2017 1:30:56 PM PST by mairdie
Or, if you prefer Lord of the Rings, Annie Lennox's "Into the West," one of my favorites.
There are :-)
David Crosby has asked Trump supporters not to attend his concerts.
Favorites???
A word that I don’t say out loud. Or type. Let’s enjoy his music and let him eat that!
I know that comment was off topic, but it’s worth noting.
Not off topic at all. These music video threads wander over the widest terrain and I love following.
I just think we ought to play all of his songs at top volume at every Trump gathering.
Agreed!
Most recently, Thor - Ragnarok, but that's more fun than lovely. I loved most of the LOTR ones (though nothing beats the books). I enjoyed the Harry Potter books and films, even though I'm of somewhat middle age.
“There really are wonderful movies out there.”
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Yeah - but “Harry Potter”??? You must be quite a youngun!
I love LOTR and HP and haven’t seen Thor but adore Ironman. I’m 73. Spots are lovely places to stand. You either have excellent posture or great balance.
73 years young and I still occasionally check out what I loved about the Bobbsey Twins. HP is very clever. The only one that’s written for children is the follow-on movie that’s dreadful - Magical Creatures. And I do have trouble with the original Lord of the Rings book, The Hobbit. That was written with simple subject/predicate style that I found screamingly annoying, but the movie avoided that problem.
I’m 55 and raise my hat to you x
And a bow of acknowledgment in return. May there never be a day when we aren’t passionate about life and creating beauty.
Ya got a couple years on me, then!
:D
Never cared much for fantasy films, with the exception of very few personal faves - e.g “Wizard Of Oz”. Can’t stomach animated-CGI movies, love the old cartoons tho (like Bugs Bunny).
In my film-snobby view, the list of must-see films made since circa early 1980s is a relatively short one. Found a good site for streaming movies that has a good selection of many of the types I like (instead of Netflix):
FILMSTRUCK
https://www.filmstruck.com/us
This is one of the loveliest pieces of music I know:
Vaughan Williams : Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
I have a passion for the English landscape, being English and all, and this plugs directly into my soul.
The Bobbsey Twins! I loved them as a child.
I have a 42’ hallway going into the library, where the hallway is floor to ceiling bookshelves on both sides. Two of the bedrooms are also filled with bookshelves, and the library closet holds all the boxes of books that don’t fit on the shelves. The Bobbsey Twins sit in the nearest bay to the library, right above the shelf of Little Golden Books and right next to the Classics books from U of Chicago. Flossie and Freddy and Nan and Bert! Sold for $1 each and a stack of them was the BEST Christmas present EVER.
I have a wide range but I like things that aren’t nasty (in multiple meanings) and prefer things that make me laugh. Though I have one shelf filled with 1940’s movies that I used to watch at 4pm after coming home from school. So Laura, A Guy Named Joe, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, and such. The Doris Day movies didn’t hold up for me. I’m addicted to Ironman and will get any Ironman movie Downey comes out with, as I am to his Sherlock Holmes. Love Whoopie Goldberg movies, though not fond of her personally - Jumping Jack Flash. Newer ones - Men in Black, James Garner in Sunset, In the Line of Fire, Red and Red2, Lethal Weapon, Beverly Hills Cop, any of the Flint movies. But then I also have all the Ice Age movies.
I sang in an a cappella divisi (8-part) choral arrangement of “Into the West” several years ago. It was one of those rare moments when I, a semi-professional chorister, nearly choked up while singing.
(Of course, after reading the LotR more than 24 times - lost count at that point - and having performed in the Howard Shore live productions in a major venue, I am hardly impartial.)
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