Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"?
Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn.
Aragorn: I like "Strider."
Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
I think my biggest WTF was
the missing Eowyn and Faramir story. (Not to mention the missing Faramir story.) Here is this character that you have been made to love and cheer on and etc. and she gets told "I cannot give you what you want" from the man she loves and then boom - she's all smiley watching that man kiss his princess. And all we get is a "How you doin'" sidelong glance from Faramir as the end of her story. It annoyed.
I'm very jealous of people who had good crowds. Again, because mine SUCKED.
The other
totally inappropriate/unintentional laugh line is when Sam gives Frodo that look right after Frodo says "I'm glad to be with you" etc. The eyebrow raise utterly wrecks me.
When I saw the first night showing of TTT, there were two babies in the audience (crying off and on the whole time).
RotK was balance for me with WTF moments and the thrill of the things PJ got exactly right (IMO).
I have a list of nitpicks, but I'm going to nap on them first.
My audience was pretty good except for one guy yelling
"OH, COME ON, JUST *END* ALREADY!" when they faded up to Sam coming home.
Which was annoying, but I did kind of sympathize (it being nearly 4 am), except that the ensuing laughter threatened to
drown out Well, I'm Back.
When I saw the first night showing of TTT, there were two babies in the audience (crying off and on the whole time).
This is why I am being a good parent, if a bad geek, and waiting. Until Xmas week so grandmother can babysit.
Putting aside the parenting issue, if you're geeky enough to want to see the movie on the first night, buying tickets ahead of time, etc., don't you want to enjoy it without distraction?
From the Salon review:
Tolkien purists may be less happy with "The Return of the King" than with the other chapters of Jackson's trilogy. Several subplots have been dropped entirely... and others...have been whittled to almost nothing. In some alternate universe, Jackson could have made a 30-hour miniseries to make such people happy. In this universe, he has merely made the grandest and most delicate of pop spectacles, an epic that is heroic but almost never grandiose, a story of war that understands that within every great victory there lies a kind of defeat.
Several subplots have been dropped entirely... and others...have been whittled to almost nothing
This is intensely frustrating. I'm assuming that's what accounts, for instance for the superpowers
and
the lost
Faramir/Eowyn -- no time to go to the healing halls. It couldn't have been longer, but it should have been.
We didn't have those laugh points. There were some Gollum laugh moments that I didn't think very funny. Some "not done YET???" outbursts formed the bulk of our vibe harshers.
My "I totally don't see why you did THAT" for the movie was definitely
the Arwen thing.
Made precisely zero sense. Like the Ents coming to realisation so late in TTT and Carhadras in FotR, but moreso.
