I still love my triple play of Year of Living Dangerously, Welcome to Sarajevo and Three Kings. Such a weird choice for a birthday movie night.
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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sarameg - Jul 05, 2009 3:49:26 pm PDT #2893 of 30000
Tom Scola - Jul 05, 2009 3:55:04 pm PDT #2894 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And it was awesome.
Yes. Yes, it was.
You even had the good sense to go to the bathroom during the Arwen scene.
DavidS - Jul 05, 2009 4:55:37 pm PDT #2895 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You even had the good sense to go to the bathroom during the Arwen scene.
I think connie neil had tipped me. Or it had already reached a status of conventional wisdom or something. But once Arwen had stopped fending off Ring Wraiths with water ponies she got less interesting.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 05, 2009 6:13:49 pm PDT #2896 of 30000
"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
I don't think I minded Arwen quite so much at the time, but in retrospect I think "THIS is who Jackson devoted 20 minutes of loving slow motion close-ups to when he couldn't be bothered to film the most kickass bit of dialogue in the whole trilogy?!?"
Sean K - Jul 05, 2009 6:23:10 pm PDT #2897 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
t sits with Matt
Fay - Jul 05, 2009 8:09:15 pm PDT #2898 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Okay - which is the most kickass bit of dialogue in the whole trilogy?
t /sheepish
erikaj - Jul 05, 2009 8:12:51 pm PDT #2899 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know, either. I'm not much of a Tolkienist...
DavidS - Jul 05, 2009 8:19:42 pm PDT #2900 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's Eowyn's speech to the Witch King, I think.
DavidS - Jul 05, 2009 8:37:28 pm PDT #2901 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Incidentally, Emmett and I were playing the LoTR version of Stratego tonight. I was doing pretty well until I foolishly attacked a Stronghold (Bomb) with my Aragorn (a 9) without testing it with a Soldier of Gondor.
Sean K - Jul 05, 2009 9:50:05 pm PDT #2902 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It's Eowyn's speech to the Witch King, I think.
It's a whole dialog exchange, really. And Jackson cuts it down to like two lines, that lack all the punch of Tolkien's original. If I wasn't so tired at the moment, I could probably quote the whole scene from memory.