Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
The Gandalf vs. Balrog fight was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. When they plunged into the lake below the mountain it was like watching a scene from the war in Heaven from Paraside Lost. (And the music!)
That really was cool.
I enjoyed Gimli's comic-relief role, but it does diminish the character slightly to make him the butt of so many sight-gags. On the other hand he kicks some serious Orc heiney, so what the heck.
The more I watched the extended Fellowship and Two Towers, the more I admired dwarves, and the more annoyed I got with elves. In the extended scenes in Fellowship, Galadriel's husband comes off as an incredibly arrogant prig to me.
Rohan, Eowyn, Helm's Deep -- all pretty damn cool, though the appearance of the Elves surprised me. D'ya suppose Jackson has been reading DB's essays?
I had a flashback to Babylon 5: They finally got off their encounter-suited butts and did something. ;-) It really was about time for elves other than Legolas to do something useful, instead of just getting off on their own superiority.
Gollum, cool.
More than just cool... That computer-generated critter can really act! I really hope I can animate something nearly as well some day. ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Sloan ......... Huntsville, Alabama =========> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .............................. http://www.brin-l.org Chmeee's 3D Objects .................... http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .................. http://www.sloansteady.com Software ................ Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans ......................... http://www.sloan3d.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
