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Thursday, January 20, 2005

 
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The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition)
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Well, I watched Return of the King Extended last night. Sufficive to say, at the end of the movie, Dan, my sister and me were mocking it. First off, though.I did think there was something great about it. Gimli in the halls in the dead, or paths or the dead, or whatever it's called. When he was blowing the ghosts away and stepping on the skulls. Haha, that is my second favorite scene after Moria. It should have been in the theatrical release. Okay, well, that's about it for the good. Now for the bad, then the mocking:

What's up with Eowyn taking off her helmet on the break for Rohan? Would they recognize her? And if they did, why didn't they send her back? Or what? It's doesn't make sense.

Why did they do the healing scene before finding Merry? That was dumb. They should have found Merry first.

There didn't seem to be enough reason for Grima to kill Saruman. He just slapped him for crying out loud.

And the Dr. Evil rule was in effect! After having Eowyn and Gandalf at his mercy, the witch king starts monologuing! Duh! Just kill them!

And the new palantir scene sucked. It added nothing.

And when that one-eyed orc leader gets off his warg on Pelennor Fields, that warg was horribly CGI-ed.

Now for the fun stuff.

I can only think of Elrond as being mean, per Mr. Smith from the Matrix.

We are in accord: Frodo and Elijah Wood are sickening by the end of the movie. Why couldn't he just fallen with Gollum? And his horrible laugh. Ugh.


And when Baradur came tumbing down, I have no idea why, but I started think of "God Save the Queen."

And what kind of morons are those Rohan people? You attack elephants head on? That's a stupid tactical mistake.

When the ship sails off for the Grey Havens, we started dicussing the retirment options for Ring-Bearers. Like, "What's up with that? If your a ring bearer, you get some special retirment or something? They just sit on beaches sipping margaritas? It's totally unfair to the rest of us."

And we tried coming up with a sequel to the movie. Example: LOTR IV: Shrek vs The Elves (ala 'Freddy vs Jason')

Also, since I played the video game at my cousins house for some 4 hours, I made some numerous "Hey that's in the video game!" remarks.

Like, "I have no clue who that weird mutant guy is, who has Frodo's mithril coat, but hey, I killed him in the video game."  Or "Darn it, the Paths of the Dead was a freaking hard level. It took us forever."

To some it up, I now like ROTK the least of the three. To me, it gets progressively worse. From Gandalf the Grey to Gandalf the White; from normal Frodo to possessed Frodo; from Boromir to Denethor; and Eowyn -- bleh! She whines too much.. I like Gimli much more now, and Pippin has almost redeemer himself for getting Gandlaf killed.  I know a lot of your will say I am wrong, but oh well. I can no longer take the last movie seriously. It's just to easy too mock.

Hasta la vista.

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very interesting...thought provoking....and depressing

[simply b/c your making sense and i hate to agree with it]

Posted 1/21/2005 11:58 AM by randombubblz - reply

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"What's up with Eowyn taking off her helmet on the break for Rohan? Would they recognize her? And if they did, why didn't they send her back? Or what? It's doesn't make sense."

Exactly my thoughts.

Overall, the movies, based with the books... stink. I'm sorry, but they do. FotR is my favourite, cause its closest to the book. Other than that, *shrugs*

Yes, those were mistakes... but what can you expect from something "based" on a book. I should have learned my lesson with this. I hope I learned it with Troy.

As for the Ringbearer part going to Valinor, it explains it in the Appendixes. Great part of RotK that is (and no, I'm not talking about the movie). :D

My rant has ended.
Posted 1/21/2005 12:50 PM by maraskywalker - reply

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Yeah, I know about the Ring-bearers going to Valinor. But my sister's boyfriend hasn't read the books, so he started the comments about it, and then we ran with the idea.
Posted 1/21/2005 1:36 PM by Anakin_Solo - reply

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"Why did they do the healing scene before finding Merry? That was dumb. They should have found Merry first."

In the books, everyone ditched Merry and Pippin just like that.

"There didn't seem to be enough reason for Grima to kill Saruman. He just slapped him for crying out loud."

I think Brad Dourif did a good job of displaying the emotions of Grima at that scene. It appears to me that Grima finally realized what Saruman had done to him, and what his life could have been. I don't know. I kind of liked it.
Posted 1/21/2005 1:52 PM by NiftyNinjaGirl - reply

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In the books, they may have found Merry afterwards, but in order to make a better movie they should have found Merry first.

Posted 1/21/2005 2:01 PM by Anakin_Solo - reply


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