Hee.

I don't blame Orlando, since the lines the elves are given are generally weird, but his are weirdest. "A red sun rises, blood has been spilled this night. " Yeah, no. Viggo pulls off some stiff ones, but his aren't that bad, and he's also got a huge understated yet overwrought thing going with Aragorn.

True enough, I just have a knee jerk snarking reaction to Legolas, and a similar reaction to Bloom, though not in a really mean way.

Of course, What Ewan MacGregor managed to do with the fountain of terribleness they had him spewing in Send In The Clones is little short of awe inspiring. Dude was the most credible thing in that picture, IMO.

I love Ewan, I really do. But I can't watch another SW prologue. So I'll never know his brilliance therein.

I liked A Life Less Ordinary, fer crissakes.

It's Lothlorien that did it to him. Before they get there, he's speaking in complete sentences that say things other than statements of the complete obvious. But after they leave, it's all "The horses are restless. The men are quiet."

"The horses are restless. The men are quiet."

I like that one, actually. Though it did take me until the second viewing to appreciate it.

I know he had dramatically fewer lines in the second two movies, but couldn't PJ have let him still be able to make sense?

I wonder -- which characters have most of the lines Tolkien gave them?

My problem is I get the same vibe listening to him on commentary.

There are only four things I like about Send in The Clones, and two of them are my own jokes at it's expense. Then there's MacGregor's work, which is very much acting into the face of hell itself, and then there's the one little moment where Samuel L Jackson stops trying to act like he's not Samuel L. Jackson.

Off the top of my head, with no evidence to back me up, I'd guess Gandalf.

I get the same vibe listening to him on commentary.

Is he on the TTT commentary? I don't remember him. I do remember feeling very sorry for him on the FotR commentary, since he was evidently out of his comfort-zone and alone to boot.

I'm very interested to see if all his media exposure and seven million movies have seasoned him, and if he's more relaxed on RotK.

I'm very glad there was no Viggo commentary, even though part of me is curious. I'd have had to kill something. He still freaks me out.

Now, that I don't get. Viggo seems all manner of cool to me. And when I heard the 'Convincing Stunt Guy to Headbutt Bloom' story, he jumped to 67 on my all time personal hero list. That was cool.

Viggo no-ego-speaks-three-languages-LOVES-his-horses-carries-his-sword-in-public-is-adored-by-all-unites-nations-brilliant-photographer-singer-poet-painter Mortensen?

Completely unrelaxing. He makes me tense, and after more than a few minutes of interview I start inching back in my seat.

He's Viggo Sue, and that's creepy.