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cedarlibrarian's last night where we and her husband watched Two Towers before the movie. The following conversation ensued:
deralte: If Aragorn isn't interested in Eowyn, why does he keep flirting with her?
cedar: Because he's a manwhore.
*L*
Cue muttering about manwhores for the rest of the night *eg*
Theatre was very crowded and even had some people dressed up. Crowd was very... er, rowdy. Our film stopped twenty minutes before the ending which led to death threats and curses being flung at the management, and would shortly have progressed to a full blown riot had they not restarted the film in the right place. Still it did ruin the mood a bit so it was nice to be compensated at the end with free passes.
It was an improvement over the second, but still not as good as the first. Whatever quibbles I have with the movie, I must say PJ must be doing something right because the audience was cheering left and right for the last two thirds of the movie. Every 'cool' character got his moment, though the only ones I really felt like cheering along with were Sam's triumph over Shelob and Eowyn's slaying of the witch king. Was too busy giggling over the writhing eye when the ring was destroyed to be cheering. The same goes for Legolas' now customary, 'I will do something so cool, it's elvish' scene.
Things I loved and liked:
Faramir's interaction with his father. For all the fact that neither of them are really the character's they are in the books, the conversation was strait out of the books and was lovely and deep. Ah, dysfunctionalness...
Everyone's acting. Lovely all around, especially with sam and frodo even if my eyes did start to glaze over at points when they kept going on about the shire (certainly not PJ's fault, the books are much worse in detail...).
The whole scene in Mount Doom. Lovely, and the look on Gollum's face as he fell...
Sam's fight with Shelob.
The surprising amount of singing in the movie. Way to go to PJ for having the confidence to leave that in.
The Rider's of Rohan's charge.
Merry and Pippin charging after Aragorn near the end before anyone else.
Pippin's and Gandalf's interaction.
Less Legolas.
Gimli's cool lines.
Sam getting up the courage to talk to Rosie.
The end.
Things I didn't like:
Denthor's portrayal as mad, a glutton, and an idiot. He is supposed to be mad by the end, but not in the beginning and the lack of the palantir... cheapens his character. I was wincing horribly when Gandalf delievered that 'smack down' The jumping off the tower in flames was over the top as well.
Random Arwen is dying due to ring now thing. Very weird, odd, and not actually needed.
Wondering:
Why we had to watch such a long scene of the beacons being lit. It was cool to watch but I couldn't help but look for the message in the corner saying 'paid for by the new zealand tourist industry'. Have to agree with Fyre here and say that Aragorn runs like a girl on seeing the beacons and had me giggling madly.
Random Observations:
Becoming powerful in Middle Earth obviously automatically entitles you to a spot light, hence how Gandalf carries one around all the time and Sauron does his best impersonation of a lifehouse:)
Flaming eyeball's dying are quite funny. So was Pippin with the palantir.
Minas Tirith didn't look the way I pictured it. It seemed too, small I suppose. That's just me though.
Edit:idlerat wrote a lovely, long response to my entry which I thought I'd link to, here.
And now I must go see it a few more times to see if my opinion changes.
cedarlibrarian's last night where we and her husband watched Two Towers before the movie. The following conversation ensued:deralte: If Aragorn isn't interested in Eowyn, why does he keep flirting with her?
cedar: Because he's a manwhore.
*L*
Cue muttering about manwhores for the rest of the night *eg*
Theatre was very crowded and even had some people dressed up. Crowd was very... er, rowdy. Our film stopped twenty minutes before the ending which led to death threats and curses being flung at the management, and would shortly have progressed to a full blown riot had they not restarted the film in the right place. Still it did ruin the mood a bit so it was nice to be compensated at the end with free passes.
It was an improvement over the second, but still not as good as the first. Whatever quibbles I have with the movie, I must say PJ must be doing something right because the audience was cheering left and right for the last two thirds of the movie. Every 'cool' character got his moment, though the only ones I really felt like cheering along with were Sam's triumph over Shelob and Eowyn's slaying of the witch king. Was too busy giggling over the writhing eye when the ring was destroyed to be cheering. The same goes for Legolas' now customary, 'I will do something so cool, it's elvish' scene.
Things I loved and liked:
Faramir's interaction with his father. For all the fact that neither of them are really the character's they are in the books, the conversation was strait out of the books and was lovely and deep. Ah, dysfunctionalness...
Everyone's acting. Lovely all around, especially with sam and frodo even if my eyes did start to glaze over at points when they kept going on about the shire (certainly not PJ's fault, the books are much worse in detail...).
The whole scene in Mount Doom. Lovely, and the look on Gollum's face as he fell...
Sam's fight with Shelob.
The surprising amount of singing in the movie. Way to go to PJ for having the confidence to leave that in.
The Rider's of Rohan's charge.
Merry and Pippin charging after Aragorn near the end before anyone else.
Pippin's and Gandalf's interaction.
Less Legolas.
Gimli's cool lines.
Sam getting up the courage to talk to Rosie.
The end.
Things I didn't like:
Denthor's portrayal as mad, a glutton, and an idiot. He is supposed to be mad by the end, but not in the beginning and the lack of the palantir... cheapens his character. I was wincing horribly when Gandalf delievered that 'smack down' The jumping off the tower in flames was over the top as well.
Random Arwen is dying due to ring now thing. Very weird, odd, and not actually needed.
Wondering:
Why we had to watch such a long scene of the beacons being lit. It was cool to watch but I couldn't help but look for the message in the corner saying 'paid for by the new zealand tourist industry'. Have to agree with Fyre here and say that Aragorn runs like a girl on seeing the beacons and had me giggling madly.
Random Observations:
Becoming powerful in Middle Earth obviously automatically entitles you to a spot light, hence how Gandalf carries one around all the time and Sauron does his best impersonation of a lifehouse:)
Flaming eyeball's dying are quite funny. So was Pippin with the palantir.
Minas Tirith didn't look the way I pictured it. It seemed too, small I suppose. That's just me though.
Edit:
idlerat wrote a lovely, long response to my entry which I thought I'd link to, here.And now I must go see it a few more times to see if my opinion changes.
