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I feel like this entire Five is the equivalent of watch Santa cruise in at the end of the Macy’s parade-DECK THEM HAWLZZZ, Y’ALLZZ! I love it. We also try and shoehorn in a LOTR rewatch over the holidays. Why is this 1. Simply awesome 2. A weirdly perfect holiday watch!? These are not rhetorical. And now I really feel obligated to get my Hot Frosty on. Fine. I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR!

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I'll buy LotR as a Christmas movie before Die Hard. 🤓

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Die Hard is a movie that takes place at Christmas. It’s not a Christmas movie. You could switch the holiday to Flag Day and the movie wouldn’t change.

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Thank you! It's a simple concept but so hard for some people to understand.

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Same!

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I love those virtual fireplaces too. It's such an easy way to create some cosiness. I only have 1 living room though.

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They're so inviting and cozy!

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I have one living room, no den, no study, but I do have a fireplace and I still love to put a faux fire on the TV with music and crackling noises. My fireplace doesn’t crackle. I totally get the reflex thing. I’ve played video games since the late 70’s and I still play. I have a hard time now with platform jumping and dodging because my reflexes are slower. I also tend to scream if something jumps out at me. For shooters, all I can do now is button mash and hope I hit things. lol

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"Button mash and hope I hit things" is a good summary for playing video games.🤣

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😂😂😂😂😂 yup!

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I only have one living room which we don’t really use. It has a real fireplace but I’ve never turned it. My house is 112 years old so I’m not sure how good the masonry for the chimney is. The middle bedroom aka my office is where we hang out. Partly it’s where the tv and turntable is and partly in the summer it’s the coolest room in the house. Which makes me wish we had a basement.

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I have a fully appointed basement, with technically a third living room 🤣

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So jealous. We really don’t have basements in Texas. Most of the soil is either too rocky, too much clay, or too sandy.

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We also have 2 living rooms, though we decided they needed a "brand refresh" and now call them the "TV room" and "Front room." The front room is our second living room- no one goes in ours, either. it's only time to shine is for about :30 mins on Christmas Eve when the four of us open our presents. otherwise, it's a glorified hallway to everywhere else with a nice chair in it.

Speaking of truths: I have never seen LOTR.

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See: You get it. It's a Midwest thing. (We also only use the family room for Christmas.)

At some point soon I'm going to write something called Pop Culture Confessions that lists all the crazy popular stuff I've never seen. It's kinda embarrassing 😂

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"Is there an activity you love but feel super old doing?"

I will never deny that I have a strong affection for animation as a fan and historian, but quality control in the 2010s and 2020s version of television animation is clearly something the networks and streamers don't really care about, if they ever did. Never mind derivative and inept characterization and plotting, or obvious and ridiculous attempt to court audiences of which I am not of or no longer part of- it's hard to want to watch something if the press has leaked the fact that its creator has problems with their sexual proclivities (shall we say). Plus the whole modus operandi of streaming escapes me- is it on the service or off? Did they release all the episodes at once, or are they going out one at a time? Is it worth trying to subscribe to all of them to track down the ones you think you need to see to keep your scholarship up to date?

And lastly: can I just get them on DVD and watch them when I feel like it and not when they decide to allow me to see it?

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I love the theatrical cut of Fellowship. I have a lot of problems with that of TT. It simply doesn't flow well between its three main plotlines and so drags and jumps. The longer cut by contrast has much better pacing and so feels shorter than the theatrical.

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