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Lord of the Rings
Arrgh! As well as recovering from the food poisoning, now it's my (assume booming voice of vengeful god) Woman's Time. Christ on a fucking bike, I should just've never got out of bed this year. Still, we're going to see RotK again tomorrow, which seems the best way to spend my last day of freedom before the school holidays are over.
I've been watching the cast talk-over on The Two Towers for what seems like all day and am almost dead with the pleasure of it all, except for towards the end when I wished Sean Astin would just calm down for a second, but that might have been my headache.
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Seeing David Wenham and Sean Bean together in that new scene in Minas Tirith was just great- they've got exactly the same nose! Brilliant casting there, just a shame we didn't get to see that scene in the theatres. But who cares? Now I own the extended DVD version and I can watch it again and again.
I loved Return of the King down to its every last molecule, and at the moment my critical faculties regarding it are pretty much nil, apart from simple love. There were so many good things that they far outweighed the things that made me sit up and go huh? Like Arwen's life being tied to the ring, and the public snogging. I coped with the changes to Shelob's lair, and to Sam's rescue, just about, yet found them lacking in tension compared to the desperation of those scenes in the book. But the later scenes at Mount Doom made up for them. And the battles! Theoden clanking his sword against the cavalry pikes, that charge, Pippin singing, the beacons.
There was this odd pressure-cooker feeling inside me from about an hour in to the the film and crying at the end was a huge release, partly because of the ending but partly too because it was finished, the whole thing. It's a wonderful, amazing film, not just the Return of the King, but the whole trilogy.
I've been watching the cast talk-over on The Two Towers for what seems like all day and am almost dead with the pleasure of it all, except for towards the end when I wished Sean Astin would just calm down for a second, but that might have been my headache.
.
Seeing David Wenham and Sean Bean together in that new scene in Minas Tirith was just great- they've got exactly the same nose! Brilliant casting there, just a shame we didn't get to see that scene in the theatres. But who cares? Now I own the extended DVD version and I can watch it again and again.
I loved Return of the King down to its every last molecule, and at the moment my critical faculties regarding it are pretty much nil, apart from simple love. There were so many good things that they far outweighed the things that made me sit up and go huh? Like Arwen's life being tied to the ring, and the public snogging. I coped with the changes to Shelob's lair, and to Sam's rescue, just about, yet found them lacking in tension compared to the desperation of those scenes in the book. But the later scenes at Mount Doom made up for them. And the battles! Theoden clanking his sword against the cavalry pikes, that charge, Pippin singing, the beacons.
There was this odd pressure-cooker feeling inside me from about an hour in to the the film and crying at the end was a huge release, partly because of the ending but partly too because it was finished, the whole thing. It's a wonderful, amazing film, not just the Return of the King, but the whole trilogy.