I believe when life flashes before your eyes pre-demise, your childhood is included. And that if you're going to summon enough will to live to knaw off your own arm with your teeth (or the equivalent), picturing your own child or child-perhaps-to-be is good incentive. I can't recall if they employed one or both shameless tactics. ;)

Both.

We are watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (yeah, we never saw it in the theatres). Hopefully we can stay away until the end

The wedding dress that Fleur is wearing is freaking GORGEOUS!!!

I just watched HP and the DH Part I a few nights ago and enjoyed it. (I fell into a deep slumber when I tried to watch it at the theater last year.) I rented it through the iTunes store, and I was struck by how very dim the image was throughout. The colors were muted and washed out in all but a few scenes, I presume on purpose. This is how the last few HP movies have looked to me at the theater as well - dark and dim. I was thinking this was due to bad projection at the local cinema, but it looks as though it's often a conscious choice to make films so murky I begin to worry about my eyesight. (By immediate contrast, the iTunes menu screens and trailers for other movies looked vivid and bright on the very same monitor just moments before and after I began streaming HP. I checked because I was so shocked at the dimness of the HP image.)

Given that 3D cinema showings leach even more light from movies, I am most definitely going to attend the final HP film in 2D!

Be sure to keep an weather eye out for 2D shown via 3D lenses.

*sigh*

I managed a grand total of two movies over the three days. GalaxyQuest and Vanishing Point. GQ never ceases to amuse (it's the little things in life you live for) and the girl on the motorcycle in VP is one of the all time classic move scenes so I guess I can't complain too loudly.

I did get out and about some which was nice. I even saw lipstick on a hog.

Hobbit news:

Does anyone know, are they breaking "The Hobbit" up into two movies or is one based on the relatively short novel and another on something else?

Breaking up the 30-page The Hobbit into two movies. Milk, milk, milk the stupid cow.

Heck, I don't think the last Harry Potter book needed to be two movies, and it was a big fat 1800 page monster. The Hobbit is indeed a slender volume, and I bet neither film will clock in at less than 2 hours and 55 minutes. Heck, maybe they'll just throw in Tom Bombadil to kill time.