Posted on 12/16/2004 9:13:32 AM PST by BibChr
For those who've seen the Extended Edition of the final movie of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, "The Return of the King."
If you haven't seen it and just want to mention how superior you are to everyone else and, though you've never created anything in your life that anyone would want to see, you're sure you'd have done a better job and the pictures are total irredeemable trash... please start your own thread with that as the title.
Otherwise, this is the place to discuss what you loved, what you loathed, what you found baffling, and basically other of the usual give-and-take of those of us who've followed the production of Peter Jackson's massive, flawed and yet magnificent artistic accomplishment.
We haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I am hosting my own Super Trilogy Tuesday next week.
Dan
I don't understand the issue here.... What forgetting? The facts here, are not out of line with the book, and in the book, you'd have even less background on her when she suddenly appears for a wedding.
Oh, yes! Right, thanks, one I left out. I'd read he was crying over Gamling, or someone. Yes, I liked that too.
Dan
OK - whatever... I don't think the movie is about the fall of the noble Denethor. ;~D
You're so ~testy~
*grumble*
NO FAIR!
Have it but have not SEEN it yet!
No, no...not that. I have problems with the "Arwen is going to die unless you kill Sauron" nonsense. Arwen's littl "Sleeping Beauty" impression, and Aragorn's subsequent fear and trembling over it.
(You're forgetting my issues with the whole way Arwen was depicted in the films. I still stand up when I talk about it!)
Where are your PRIORITIES, man? I came in late Wed morning, on 5.5 hrs sleep!
Dan
(c;
OKAY.... I just take the "Arwen is dying" in the context that she had decided to stay and be mortal. In the context of elves, everyone who is mortal is dying. So yes, if they don't succeed in killing Sauron, Arwen is now committed to the evil that will take over everything else, rather than safe in the undying lands. "She's decided to stay with you, Aragorn, so her fate is now tied to your success". Is what that means to me.
My biggest disappointment was that the Extended still opened with the un-needed smeagol/deagol sequence.
I was so hoping for an actual scene like in the books between Faramir and Eowyn. Didn't get it. Ok, the ten seconds in the garden was nice, but... instead, we got still more Arwen angst. Bleah.
Well, on the theory that "some" is better than "none"... it's something.
Face it: you and I'd've been happy if the THIRD movie had been a trilogy — if it could have been released all at once. Okay, and the FIRST movie, too.
Second was about right.
(c8
Dan
What Arwen angst was new? (scratches head)
Yup... and if certain Gondorians had been represented more even-handedly, that would have been nice too.
First movie could have been a two-parter, but the third needed a lot more.
At the very least there was the whole "Aragorn and the palantir" scene. What, he's totally freaked out by an image of his sleeping girlfriend?
Yeah - I can't say I'd have thought up that sequence....
Why does Legolas shoot Wormtongue?
Um, because Gandalf wanted information, not blood, out of Saruman?
Why do the hobbits kill him in the book?
At least in the book, the hobbits had suffered at Wormtongue's hand and would have reason. In our movie, Theoden offered Wormtongue redemption and forgiveness, and then Legolas offs him.
Yes, Wormtongue had to die in the plot, but I thought he ans Saruman would just fall together...
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