Well, my brother forced me to watch The Two Towers, so I feel pretty confident that I'd be just as irritated by the other two movies.
...Fucking elves.
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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Strega - Jun 21, 2007 6:55:29 pm PDT #9547 of 10001
Beverly - Jun 21, 2007 6:58:44 pm PDT #9548 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh, but The Two Towers is an awful movie--or book--unless you've done Fellowship. (Or, as I typed first, Fellowhip). TTT is dirty, gritty, all about ugly orcs and horrible gollums and dark, dank, icky places. At least Fellowship is set in green and gentle lands, lets you discover in wonder before the dark invades. I'm not surprised you didn't like it.
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2007 7:00:34 pm PDT #9549 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Two Towers is definitely the weakest of the three, and I say that having seen the first one. I cannot imagine it being a happy fun time on its own.
Not that I'm trying to talk you into it...I'm a rabid Ringer myself with much pervy elf love. But I think you'd be less irritated by either of the other two.
Perhaps not enough, but less.
P.M. Marc - Jun 21, 2007 7:02:06 pm PDT #9550 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Harvey just made me really upset. I can't watch it.
Vonnie K - Jun 21, 2007 7:10:49 pm PDT #9551 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Hey, Vonnie, I think the Kubrick guy you're talking about was that asshat Merrwit. Haven't heard from him in years.
Possible. But I reckon there is probably more than one Kubrick-nut with manners like a wild dog running around the 'net.
It's got 2 of the people from MI 5 and Wash
Matthew MacFadyen and Keeley Hawes (Tom and Zoe from Spooks) are married with a couple of kids, if I recall. Man, their children must be pretty.
Is Alan Tudyk playing an American or a Brit?
Peter Dinklage! I'm reading the George R.R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books right now and keep thinking they *have to* adapt the books to screen before Dinklage becomes too old to play Tyrion.
Daisy Jane - Jun 21, 2007 7:15:51 pm PDT #9552 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Alan has an Engish accent. Peter is kinda the star. You have to see it.
Sean K - Jun 21, 2007 7:24:36 pm PDT #9553 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm reading the George R.R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books right now and keep thinking they *have to* adapt the books to screen before Dinklage becomes too old to play Tyrion.
HBO has optioned the books for a possible series.
I'm torn. I don't want them to do it if they won't finish. But I still want them to do it.
Strega - Jun 21, 2007 7:25:59 pm PDT #9554 of 10001
Oh no, Fellowship would have been worse. At least Two Towers had Gollum running around; he's the only character I like at all. And the battle scenes were cool, at least.
My mom and brother are big on Tolkien. I mean, I dimly remember seeing Bakshi movie in the theater. I read The Hobbit and Fellowship, and that was enough. My antipathy is not based on a lack of knowledge.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2007 7:26:44 pm PDT #9555 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Two Towers was my favorite of the three.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 21, 2007 8:45:56 pm PDT #9556 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If I hadn't been with friends as a social event, I might have walked out halfway through TTT. There were like three moments in the whole movie that I enjoyed, and each was solely due to Ian McKellen. (Though I must admit the scenery in Rohan was very pretty.)
By contrast I loved Fellowship and saw it three times in the theaters and about 50 on cable. Return of the King was enjoyable, but not so much that I ever wanted to sit through it again.