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Extended TTT & extended ROTK done, wooooo! 'twas a lovely 8 hours. Well, almost 8, because I'm no way watching the endless farewells in the end of ROTK ever again. There's still various add-ons, which I'll end browsing, it seems, despite of my dislike of "Making of..." stuff, but I've heard they have the concept of how Sauron would have looked before Numenor incident, and I'm curious.
Towers is still my best liked film, solely because of Rohan. Loved all parts of Rohan. If they assembled all fights and Rohan from TTT with fights and Rohan in ROTK, I'd never bother to see Mr Elijah Wood painfully pretending he can act. Honestly, watching him was meh at first, it gradually turned to annoying, then to exasperating and in the scene with Shelob I was all thinking, "Wha?...they cut battles and other cool stuff in favour of showing 5 minutes how this wimp foams at the mouth? Argh, just die already!"
So thankee ya God verily for the fastforward button that allowed me to avoid wishing to claw out Mr Wood's big teary sapphire orbs again and... where were we? Ah, Rohan. There weren't many new scenes concerning Rohan, all the cool stuff, including Orc with the Olympic Torch and Gandalf the Lorry with Far Lights On, were in theatre version already. The android elven army was even funnier this time, with their blank faces and synchronized movements they will forever remind me Terracotta lemming army from Pterry's "Interesting Times". I wonder when this army takes a break in a march, do they take piss synchronically as well? However, Haldir the robot army leader scored a few points with his so painfully familiar reaction to Aragorn's hug - understand and compassion from a hug-hater to another hug-hater.
What was the best, is additional scene with Boromir, because there isn't such thing as too much Boromir. Must commend the casting again -- Boromir and Faramir really look brothers. Them Noses!
Return of the King has too much Frodo, ah, but we have mad fastforward skillz! Also it has prolly the coolest additional scene in all trilogy, and that is river of skulls! ♥ Rattling, rolling, clattering crunchy skulls! ♥♥ Squeee! I haven't seen so many skulls in one place for...damn, I've never seen so many skulls in one place ever! ♥♥♥ It alone makes worthy owning this DVD! Anything connected with Green Dead Army was cool, actually, though their leader reminded me of Cpt. Barbossa from "Pirates of the Caribbean" and thus couldn't be taken seriously.
Other nifty things: Sauron's "Mouth" and Aragorn's ways of Korben Dallas to negotiate; Faramir following Eowyn around with his sad puppy eyes (the man definitely earned some love. Lots of love even, considering his dad); Warcraft III units in orc army.
And the "Deaaaaath!!!" scene of the Rohirrim...aawww! ♥ I barely restrained myself from yelling "Deaaaath!" along with them, honestly. Another reason to own DVD, so that I could watch it on regular basis. I liked Theoden the best since Boromir's death anyway, but after his encouraging speech he is totally the hottest male character there. ♥
I'm also happy that Aragorn was different from the book -- more humane, less pompous. 'tis good that his healing-by-touch trick didn't make it to screen. Would look totally OOC and artificial.
Things that made me go WTF.
First of all, Leggy-poo. Why in hell LOTR fandom is so plagued with Mary-Sues? They don't need them -- they already have a perfect one hundred per cent pure Mary Sue aka Legolas Greenleaf. Stunning looks (not to my tastes at all, but I seem to be in miserable minority here), knows everything whatever he is asked about and even when he is not asked. Is skilled in fucking everything too, be that archery, skateboardery, oliphantslayery or horseridingshowoffery and never makes any fucking mistake! Not just that, he drinks better than dwarf! Drinks! Better!! Than bloody dwarf!!! (Okay, I see how it can make sense -- elves do have slow metabolism thus alcohol takes more time to kick in; I sincerely hope that later he did get drunk gradually and suffered through a week of tipsiness and a month of the horriblest ever hangover...but I digress). Also, talks in husky dramatic voice and all his lines, while supposed to be cryptic and wise, actually are useless and pompous. Plus, he's so cool he says "You're late" to back-from-dead Aragorn and he saves Aragorn's trinket, and makes friends with dwarf, and his hair is never in disorder and manicure always perfect, and he never is afraid or freaks out and he's got no sense of humour whatsoever. Perfect Mary Sue! And what is the worst about him, it's that he was in the cool scenes and I couldn't fastforward him.
(It might be a subject of acting, though. Say, Galadriel is even more perfect, but she does not annoy me. Maybe because Blanchett is waaay better in acting than Bloom).
Then, Denethor. Oi. Poor old man, what have they done to him. :(
Also, why didn't Witch King kill Gandalf before returning to the battlefield? It was a question of minutes anyway, since he broke Gandalf's staff already. And then, even better: Sauron's Right Arm, sorta Army commander, engages in the battle over almost corpse with some puny Rohan rookie? Why such a stupidity? He couldn't be pissed because someone crossed him -- he's a bloody undead, they don't have strong emotions. Anyway, the stupidity shown in that sequence makes his death much earned. When in Underworld, he could chill out with another idiot army commander who dumped his duties for idiotic duel -- that is, Hector of Troy. They'd understand and comfort each other perfectly, I'm sure. :P
How did Sauron manage to gather such a big army anyway, given the morale and discipline of his troops? However, it was cute to see that, while humans and elves all had identical mass-produced helmets, orcs cared to give individual features to their headgear. And who is calling who primitive beasts? :P
Wow. 'tis one long post, time to stop. Maybe will add something after I watch appendices. :P
RANGER
You are the Ranger, whose most
famous representation would be Strider from The
Lord of the Rings. Rangers are mythic heroes
akin to samurais and cowboys. They are loners;
they roam the woods and wildnerness, and while
they will not throw themselves into a fight
they will defend whatever cause they have taken
up. They are great warriors, but they will not
choose willingly to go to any battle. Rather
they will fight for their own beliefs, when
they want to, and where they want
to.
Color: Forest Green
Animal:
Eagle
Stone: Jade
Symbol:
River
Image:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/13215498/
Who would you be if you were a character in an epic fantasy? (beautiful pictures)
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Towers is still my best liked film, solely because of Rohan. Loved all parts of Rohan. If they assembled all fights and Rohan from TTT with fights and Rohan in ROTK, I'd never bother to see Mr Elijah Wood painfully pretending he can act. Honestly, watching him was meh at first, it gradually turned to annoying, then to exasperating and in the scene with Shelob I was all thinking, "Wha?...they cut battles and other cool stuff in favour of showing 5 minutes how this wimp foams at the mouth? Argh, just die already!"
So thankee ya God verily for the fastforward button that allowed me to avoid wishing to claw out Mr Wood's big teary sapphire orbs again and... where were we? Ah, Rohan. There weren't many new scenes concerning Rohan, all the cool stuff, including Orc with the Olympic Torch and Gandalf the Lorry with Far Lights On, were in theatre version already. The android elven army was even funnier this time, with their blank faces and synchronized movements they will forever remind me Terracotta lemming army from Pterry's "Interesting Times". I wonder when this army takes a break in a march, do they take piss synchronically as well? However, Haldir the robot army leader scored a few points with his so painfully familiar reaction to Aragorn's hug - understand and compassion from a hug-hater to another hug-hater.
What was the best, is additional scene with Boromir, because there isn't such thing as too much Boromir. Must commend the casting again -- Boromir and Faramir really look brothers. Them Noses!
Return of the King has too much Frodo, ah, but we have mad fastforward skillz! Also it has prolly the coolest additional scene in all trilogy, and that is river of skulls! ♥ Rattling, rolling, clattering crunchy skulls! ♥♥ Squeee! I haven't seen so many skulls in one place for...damn, I've never seen so many skulls in one place ever! ♥♥♥ It alone makes worthy owning this DVD! Anything connected with Green Dead Army was cool, actually, though their leader reminded me of Cpt. Barbossa from "Pirates of the Caribbean" and thus couldn't be taken seriously.
Other nifty things: Sauron's "Mouth" and Aragorn's ways of Korben Dallas to negotiate; Faramir following Eowyn around with his sad puppy eyes (the man definitely earned some love. Lots of love even, considering his dad); Warcraft III units in orc army.
And the "Deaaaaath!!!" scene of the Rohirrim...aawww! ♥ I barely restrained myself from yelling "Deaaaath!" along with them, honestly. Another reason to own DVD, so that I could watch it on regular basis. I liked Theoden the best since Boromir's death anyway, but after his encouraging speech he is totally the hottest male character there. ♥
I'm also happy that Aragorn was different from the book -- more humane, less pompous. 'tis good that his healing-by-touch trick didn't make it to screen. Would look totally OOC and artificial.
Things that made me go WTF.
First of all, Leggy-poo. Why in hell LOTR fandom is so plagued with Mary-Sues? They don't need them -- they already have a perfect one hundred per cent pure Mary Sue aka Legolas Greenleaf. Stunning looks (not to my tastes at all, but I seem to be in miserable minority here), knows everything whatever he is asked about and even when he is not asked. Is skilled in fucking everything too, be that archery, skateboardery, oliphantslayery or horseridingshowoffery and never makes any fucking mistake! Not just that, he drinks better than dwarf! Drinks! Better!! Than bloody dwarf!!! (Okay, I see how it can make sense -- elves do have slow metabolism thus alcohol takes more time to kick in; I sincerely hope that later he did get drunk gradually and suffered through a week of tipsiness and a month of the horriblest ever hangover...but I digress). Also, talks in husky dramatic voice and all his lines, while supposed to be cryptic and wise, actually are useless and pompous. Plus, he's so cool he says "You're late" to back-from-dead Aragorn and he saves Aragorn's trinket, and makes friends with dwarf, and his hair is never in disorder and manicure always perfect, and he never is afraid or freaks out and he's got no sense of humour whatsoever. Perfect Mary Sue! And what is the worst about him, it's that he was in the cool scenes and I couldn't fastforward him.
(It might be a subject of acting, though. Say, Galadriel is even more perfect, but she does not annoy me. Maybe because Blanchett is waaay better in acting than Bloom).
Then, Denethor. Oi. Poor old man, what have they done to him. :(
Also, why didn't Witch King kill Gandalf before returning to the battlefield? It was a question of minutes anyway, since he broke Gandalf's staff already. And then, even better: Sauron's Right Arm, sorta Army commander, engages in the battle over almost corpse with some puny Rohan rookie? Why such a stupidity? He couldn't be pissed because someone crossed him -- he's a bloody undead, they don't have strong emotions. Anyway, the stupidity shown in that sequence makes his death much earned. When in Underworld, he could chill out with another idiot army commander who dumped his duties for idiotic duel -- that is, Hector of Troy. They'd understand and comfort each other perfectly, I'm sure. :P
How did Sauron manage to gather such a big army anyway, given the morale and discipline of his troops? However, it was cute to see that, while humans and elves all had identical mass-produced helmets, orcs cared to give individual features to their headgear. And who is calling who primitive beasts? :P
Wow. 'tis one long post, time to stop. Maybe will add something after I watch appendices. :P
RANGER
You are the Ranger, whose most
famous representation would be Strider from The
Lord of the Rings. Rangers are mythic heroes
akin to samurais and cowboys. They are loners;
they roam the woods and wildnerness, and while
they will not throw themselves into a fight
they will defend whatever cause they have taken
up. They are great warriors, but they will not
choose willingly to go to any battle. Rather
they will fight for their own beliefs, when
they want to, and where they want
to.
Color: Forest Green
Animal:
Eagle
Stone: Jade
Symbol:
River
Image:
http://www.deviantart.com/view/13215498/
Who would you be if you were a character in an epic fantasy? (beautiful pictures)
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