Dammit, Janet! I haven't seen RHPS in years! Someone get me a raincoat and fire up the toaster!!!

As A-1 will probably know, I think this movie is what contributed to the death of the grand Indiana Theater a few decades ago.

I let the boys watch it, too, but I warned them first. They were old enough to understand satire and comedy.

To this day, #3 sees Tim Curry in a flick and says, "He's just a sweet transvestite, you know."

I chatted with Slammr one night a while back, and we discussed Game of Thrones. I decided that it wasn't the book/film for me based on his review. To me, it sounds like there's too much "Everything Wrong With It" in this one. I believe it's CinemaSins on YouTube that tears into movies about these plot holes, etc.

In my book, anyone who tosses out a perfectly good child, eunuch or not, because he won't kill a puppy, isn't too bright. You fed him and housed him for a year, you might have had to buy him first, and now you're just going to toss him when he's still got resale value? That's like buying a new car and setting your trade-in on fire first.

But back to the idea of "books turned into movies," I've learned the hard way on that one. The only reason I survived Harry Potter was because I'd seen the movie FIRST, and didn't really like the book. I did this up to #3. I lost hope in the movie there, too, but still had to take the boys to see them all. And any adaptation of a Stephen King book, forget it. It broke me of that habit.

That's why I absolutely refuse to watch Ender's Game. Yes, given the computer tech now, it can finally be done. However, if done RIGHT, it would probably get an NC17 rating and be illegal in most countries.

The last HP book - DEATHLY HALLOWS really wasn't a fun read for me. I kept getting lost and bored and trying to skin the long, long chapters and then lost again and bored. I've watched the two movies over a half dozen times but the book I won't touch.

Now I bought "THE CUCKOO'S CALLING" just because and while it's a nice murder mystery, JK Rowling is at it again.

Like all the elements of HP are revealed in the first and last books and all the objects and magical things mean something, in The Cuckoo's Calling the murderer is hinted at very early in the book. That's a had and ultimately satisfying gimmick to pull off in a book but it required the reader have lots of patience.

RHPS is a thinking man's movie (well a thinking nerds movie) and being a musical with audience participation is great fun.

That's why people like GOBLET OF FIRE and PRISONER OF AZKEBAN over the other movies.

Go watch a good Hitchcock thriller and you have to think hard to understand the horror. How many movies have copied the policeman in sunglasses at the car window because it's scary and foreboding?

Go watch a spectacular movie like WAIT UNTIL DARK and see what exciting really is.

Go watch a great drama like WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF if you want a slice of desperate lives...

Last suggestion - go watch CASABLANCA or THE MALTESE FALCON because they are movies that define what is good on the screen.