lizards with make-up

[drache]

we just rented this movie "Holes" because Mikhaila (gartergirl) was reading the book.
it's a fun movie AND it's got lizard actors
they're supposed to be very deadly venomous yellow spotted lizards (fictional)
they are lovely painted beardies and some frilled dragons
there is a particularly fetching scene where the two protagonists are just about covered with dragons
definitely a movie I'm willing to watch more than once

[Josh]

I loved that book AND movie.

[GarterGirl]

It's so cool!
I bet we are going to rent it again and again and again
and finally we will buy it (after we move).

[Lulu Bennett]

lol i have never heard of it

[CrazyHedgehog]

Holes is a kids movie - but well worth watching!

[Lulu Bennett]

lol i'll take your word for it. i will try and find it at the local blockbuster

[KITKAT]

I just saw "Miss Potter". It was much better than I expected, and I now recommend it!

[drache]

I'm really into LoTR as well, but nobody's written anything like it
I would not compare HP to it

[KITKAT]

Well... you are comparing a book series written to appeal to children and teens (HP) versus a book series written to give adults west of the Atlantic, a substitute for cultural history and myths and legends, and written by a professor of Old English at Oxford (LOTR).

The HP books are written for fun. The LOTR books are written to fill a cultural void that Tolkien felt we suffered here in the USA.

[drache]

Well... you are comparing a book series written to appeal to children and teens (HP) versus a book series written to give adults west of the Atlantic, a substitute for cultural history and myths and legends, and written by a professor of Old English at Oxford (LOTR).

The HP books are written for fun. The LOTR books are written to fill a cultural void that Tolkien felt we suffered here in the USA.

that is so well put
it's what I was trying to say
thanks