My evening with Jar-Jar Gollum

Being a little slow on the pop culture curve, La famiglia tbogg finally got around to seeing LOTR: The Two Towers last night. I may have confessed this before, but I have never read the trilogy, and having tried again last year, can confidently state that I never will. I'm just not a fantasy, good v. evil, Ye Olde Renaissance Faire kinda guy. I can say that I thought the picture was...just fine. I didn't see the Bush vs terrorists allegory that some of the warbloggers saw when it came out, but then I don't think that many of them saw the homoerotic sexual tension between Frodo and Sam that is so there on the screen.

Nice cameo by John Ashcroft in the role of Gríma Wormtongue, though.

(Additional note: No Virgin Ben sighting at the screening, but then it was Saturday night which is date night and, well...you know.