slow. But, the middle was very good. I'll agree that a few of the scenes
look pretty bluescreen-ish, as someone else said on this list. I thought
the same about a few scenes in The Two Towers.
The flow of this one felt more "jagged" than the other two. Whenever it
switched between Frodo and the battle, I always felt like I didn't want it
to switch yet.
I haven't read the books in over 10 years.
I seem to remember the spider being able to talk (?) and Sam wearing the
ring for a bit. I don't remember the "ghost army", although I thought it
was very well executed.
My GF (who only read half the first book) didn't understand where the
elves were going on the ships. I didn't have an explanation; I got the
impression that it was some form of heaven.
I thought the Gollum intro was rather lame. I think the "Birthday Tree"
was only mentioned once in the whole trilogy (although I seem to remember
it being a symbolistic thing in the book).
A few other comments:
a) I could have sworn that Gollum was not a Hobbit ( River Folk?
). Frodo even says at one point that "You weren't much different than a
Hobbit once." However, during the commentary on one of the movies (perhaps
the first movie?) they say that Gollum was a Hobbit.
b) After the talk of hero songs at the end of Two Tours I was hoping to
hear the story of "Nine Fingered Frodo."
c) Merry and Pippen did a great job of being seriously while also
entertaining. They are both men, right? Are they supposed to be gay?
Off to work now.
At 06:05 AM 12/19/2003, you wrote:
>Subject: Return of the King - SPOILER -
>From: "Adam Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:04:53 -0000
>Thread:
>http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm/method=messages&threadid=10892&forumid=5#99326
>
>Ok,
>Anybody else think the film failed at the end (from a perspective of the
>final chapter in the book). The return to the shire was very poorly
>executed.
>
>The place was supposed to have been wrecked and under an oppressive rule.
>The 4 hobbits should have come in and kicked butt, where as before they
>would have been oppressed and accepted it, thus demonstrating the huge
>changes in their characters wrought by this epic journey.
>
>Also the only reason Frodo was leaving the shire was because the blade shard
>stuck in his chest was slowly moving towards his heart. The elves could
>prevent this so he had to go with them.
>
>Loved the bowing of everybody to the 4 hobbits. All very impressive up to
>then although the Oliphant/elf surfing scene was a tad OTT.
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