LoTR music and a Pirates movie

Well, Terra and I had a really fun weekend. Through CarQuest I was able to acquire tickets to see the Raleigh Symphony perform music from the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. The music was awesome, though it was a little hot and humid to be outside...overall, though, it was awesome to hear the music performed live. Here are a few pics:

Yeah, just a couple people showed up...

We happened to sit directly in the line of fire for a couple of lights - as you can see right here.


And this blurred picture is the symphony getting ready to perform the second two movements during the intermission.

So that was lots of fun last night, and this afternoon we went to see Pirate's of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. It was a lot of fun, though it lacked the novelty of the first one. I guess the first one was such that nothing like it had never been seen before, and so that one had a special "aura" or "tone" about it. But I would definitely say that this new Pirate's movie was a lot of fun, and if you enjoyed the first one, you'll definitely like this one (and the reverse would be true as well). It was a bit darker and more violent than the first, and it left you hanging at the end. And if you stayed until the end you got to see a little fun, but stupid, clip.

Also, we got to see some neat previews, one of which got me really ecited: Jet Li's Fearless. during the preview it was touted as Jet Li's "last epic film" - I just hope that means Jet Li will be doing some more less than epic films...but I have a feeling that it means he won't be doing any more movies. Which would be sad, because I love Jet Li films. Oh well, I guess I knew that sometime he'd get too old to be doing the martial arts stuff.

Here's to Jet Li and some of his great movies.

These are my favorites:
Hero
Fist of Legend
Once Upon a Time in China
Kiss of the Dragon