So I saw The Two Towers again last night, this time with Ruth at the Silver City Famous Players theatre at Yonge and Eglinton. Ruth's first time, my second. In tenuous connection with the movie, there was also a martial arts exhibition going on in the theatre, so we kept passing people fighting with wooden sticks and swords in different areas of the lobby.

Some of the movie theatre staff were dressed up as characters from Lord of the Rings. My favourite was Gollum, mainly because he spent most of the time in character, crouching and hunching and speaking in a Gollum voice as he helped shepherd those lining up for the movie. They even gave a short skit a few minutes before the movie was to begin, though I suspect that most people in the audience thought that it wasn't quite short enough. :-) Ruth and I cheered for Shane at the end of the movie, of course.

The Waiting For Frodo cheer list continues to grow. Very cool to hear about all different types of people from around the world cheering for Shane! Here are some of my favourite comments so far:

From Amanda and Michelle in Illinois, USA:
(Dressed up in costume and were first in line at the Woodstock Theater.) "Michelle and I pulled out the sign we had made the night before, which said: 'Line starts here! Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.' It was followed by the pic of Sam sitting by his sign with Pippin and the adress www.waitingforfrodo.com and Rosie's pic. We taped it to the door of the theater ans stood outsid in the wind as it started raining and people started arriving. A bunch of people were interested in the sign, so of course we told them all about Waiting for Frodo! We called ourselves the offical WFF delegates to Woodstock, IL....(hope you don't mind!) We also had Go Weta and We Love You Shane posters. We got many looks, dressed up as elves, but hey, they were just jealous!"

From Peter in Ashleigh, Florida USA:
"hey,just wanted to let ya know that i cheered for Shane in the credits :D all the theatre people were standing there waiting for me and my dad to go out..........its not often that you see an 11year old clapping and cheering at the credits"

From Lyanne Quirt (yay, Lyanne!) in Ancaster, ON, Canada
"I tried to cheer for Shane when I went to The Two Towers in Ancaster (ON). The problem was, I'd forgotten his last name. So I made my friends sit through to the very end of the credits, while I clapped and cheered for every Shane. I think there were only three. Still, we were the last people to leave the theatre, and I think the movie theatre staff thought I was a little weird."

Allison is sick with the Norwalk virus. :-( Ironically, the media media has been announcing that the Toronto outbreak of the stomach virus is winding down. The virus is highly contagious, and nearly a dozen health care facilities in the city are still shut down. My sister's family all caught it several weeks ago, but Ruth somehow escaped catching it. It sounds like Allison must have caught the virus from some of the sick students in her school.

Hope you feel better soon, Allison!

Links/News:

Figwit Lives: Thanks to Robin (ElectricLandlady) for letting me know about this great link (I had accidentally credited Ray for this instead a couple entries ago, but Ray sent me e-mail letting me know it wasn't him).

One year ago, I ranted about obnoxious movie crowd behaviour.

Three years ago, Andy Barrie aired my "Technonerdboy" song on his CBC Metro Morning show!

Four years ago, I explained why I quit karate.

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These photos were taken at the Silver City Famous Players theatre at Yonge and Eglinton.

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