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1 posted on 09/26/2005 1:56:42 PM PDT by tdice7
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I'm in the shower.


2 posted on 09/26/2005 1:57:35 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (The best things happen just before the thread snaps.)
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I've never heard him speak without a script but 'A History of Violence' was great.


3 posted on 09/26/2005 1:57:53 PM PDT by Borges
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Is anyone else watching this hollywierdo make a complete ass of himself?

No.

4 posted on 09/26/2005 1:57:54 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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But he's destined to become King of Gondor...


5 posted on 09/26/2005 1:58:20 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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A moose stuned my beeber.


6 posted on 09/26/2005 1:58:27 PM PDT by TheBigB (I will punch the next person who confuses "you're" and "your". Seriously. Don't test me.)
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Amazing, isn't it, how he makes a great movie about standing up to evil, and in real life he is an appeaser.


7 posted on 09/26/2005 1:59:25 PM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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I bet Hugo thinks he's hughly series.


8 posted on 09/26/2005 1:59:40 PM PDT by raybbr
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I'm a huge LOTR fan (the book). The movie was reasonably good. The chief weakness of the movie, IMO, was the characterization of Aragorn (Viggo M.). In the movie, he is full of doubts, reluctant to fulfill his destiny, and not sure he wants to marry the most beautiful woman in the world.

I can understand why Viggo was dying to play the part.

11 posted on 09/26/2005 2:00:54 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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During the promotion of one of the "Lord of the Rings" triologies, around the time of the Iraq War, he showed up at a press conference in Tokyo wearing a "No blood for oil." He commented that he didn't like some people making analogies between both his LoR character and the US fighting evil in the world.

Another Hollywad Lefty displaying his geopolitical genius.

14 posted on 09/26/2005 2:04:04 PM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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He's a hero in Dummyland.


15 posted on 09/26/2005 2:04:39 PM PDT by Pondman88
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Wasn't he in a horror movie called Ghostbusters?


17 posted on 09/26/2005 2:07:29 PM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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I wonder what Exene ever saw in him.


18 posted on 09/26/2005 2:10:13 PM PDT by Skooz ("Political Correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism" - Michelle Malkin)
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You're talking about Aragunt?


19 posted on 09/26/2005 2:10:16 PM PDT by Luke Skyfreeper
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These Hollywood commies are laughing all the way to the bank. Vigo Mortensen's latest is very violent. The liberal movie reviewers love the movie.


20 posted on 09/26/2005 2:10:19 PM PDT by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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He even said that Bush was as evil as Saddam Hussein


21 posted on 09/26/2005 2:13:11 PM PDT by tdice7
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Another courageous cue-card reader standing up and boldly
repeating what every other BB-brain in Hollywood is saying.


25 posted on 09/26/2005 2:17:42 PM PDT by tumblindice
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I'm really glad there wasn't an article here, so I wouldn't have to decide not to read what that idiot might be saying!


27 posted on 09/26/2005 2:19:00 PM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality - Miami)
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What show?


28 posted on 09/26/2005 2:23:26 PM PDT by faithincowboys
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Mr. Mortensen needs to be reminded that entertainers and prostitutes are on the same level. They both give you a certain amount of pleasure in exchange for money. That's as far as the relationship goes. No self-respecting person would ever be seen in the company of either an entertainer or a prostitute.


30 posted on 09/26/2005 2:24:30 PM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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I liked the movies, but had several complaints about them. One was Faramir, who was stupidly made into a Boromir clone instead of a complete contrast to his brother as in the books. Another was Gimli, who was made into a one-liner joke instead of the rather complex role he plays in the books. Another was Aragorn, who was made into a typical Hollywood style pretty boy instead of a strong, kingly aristocrat in disguise. Another was Merry and Pippin, who were also played for cuteness and laughs without any concept that they both belonged to proud ancient families in the Shire. Another was Theoden, who remains a decrepit fool for far too long, instead of recovering his majestic heroism as in the book. Another was . . .

Well, most of these problems arose because the movie was too Hollywoodish, too modern-egalitarian, too ignorant of the heroic world of the Anglo-Saxons on which Tolkien drew, with NO IDEA of what it means to be a noble hero--stress on nobility, honor, duty, and knightly courage. The director was pressed hard by Tolkien fans to be true to the books, but he only partly succeeded. Where he departed from them, it was always for the worse.

Actually, it's not entirely a joke to say that Aragorn plays a minor role in the movie, because he does. He never really rises to the challenge.


32 posted on 09/26/2005 2:25:43 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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