[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

When I rewatch the movies, I rewatch them because I love them, and the action, acting, and cinematography is brilliant. They're just great movies. I am not aware that I make any conscious decision to attempt to convince myself that I am watching them for the first time.

Something I do try to do, though, is to go to a special place mentally and emotionally. This is big especially with the last two. I have to be in the right, Middle-earthy mood to watch them. I can't be feeling too silly or energetic.

I never skip parts. I can't really interrupt the flow of the movie. It's like skipping pages in a book: only to be done in extreme cases.

The movie I have seen most is FOTR. This is mainly because it has been out the longest, so I've had the most time to view it. It's also the lightest and easiest to just sit down and watch. The tone is very different from that of the other movies, and I can casually pull it off the shelf when I'm looking for something to watch, and enjoy it. The same is true of TTT, to a certain extent.

ROTK is a different story all together. It's the best movie I've ever seen, and also is pretty emotionally intense. Because I love it so much, I do need certain circumstances to take place in order for me to watch it: I need to be in a slightly melancholy mood to start with. If I'm feeling too silly, it just won't work. Also, I need to be alone at home. It's so hard for me to fall into Middle-earth the way I want to when everything that takes place in a normally busy household is happening in the background. Especially my brother. He's usually great about movies, but the emotional stuff in LOTR makes him feel a little awkward or something, so he makes himself a nuisance to take his mind off of it.
I haven't seen ROTK since April of '04 right before it left theaters. I have this fear that somehow the movie will lose its magnificence when viewed on my humble home TV. And I just don't want it to happen. I have, however, decided that I need to get over that so I have laid plans to watch it again sometime before the end of the month. It's been over a year since I last saw it.

Another thing for me is spacing. I like to watch any movie sort of independently from other movies. That means that I'd like a space around my viewing of almost any movie of at least a week, so that it's less influenced by other movies I may have seen within the past few days. I find that my enjoyment of all movies that I watch is increased by doing that. (it also keeps me from spending too much time on my bum in front of the TV!)