Of course I noticed! I noticed the lack of funny hair and armoured shoulders! And the lack of an expression other than pissy. Sigh. I bet he has a nice smile, but I wouldn't know. I've never seen it.
Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.
Wash ,'War Stories'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
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.
Beverly - Aug 17, 2004 9:27:49 am PDT #2941 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Nutty - Aug 17, 2004 10:05:21 am PDT #2942 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Beverly, you need DVD extras. There are interviews. You even get to see people without their funny wigs on.
"Why did that little guy with the curly hair and blue eyes have to get on the boat?"
To be fair, the movie didn't do all that good a job with explaining why Frodo went. He sort of had some PTSD, and some arthritis, but mostly it was "Gandalf said so". I wish it would make clearer how hard it is for Frodo to live in the world he helped save; for one thing, it would make that Galadriel line in TTT ("The quest will take his life") actually true.
sumi - Aug 17, 2004 10:20:10 am PDT #2943 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
If you are reluctant to buy the EEs -- you can certainly netflix the two extra discs.
Beverly - Aug 17, 2004 10:26:56 am PDT #2944 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I have the EEs, and I've seen Urban smile, and he is definitely yummy. I just haven't seen him play a character with any lightness in him, and I'd like to.
Liese S. - Aug 17, 2004 10:36:31 am PDT #2945 of 3902
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
It's because we're missing the Scouring! I tell ya'.
I loved book!Denethor, so I was deeply and fundamentally annoyed by movie!Denethor. Didn't stop me from making him my wallpaper, though.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 17, 2004 10:49:51 am PDT #2946 of 3902
"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
It didn't help that the actor was made up and behaved to suggest the stereotypical movie villain, a la Viggo from Ghostbusters 2. If you'd stood him next to Lee's Saruman, would anyone new to the story have picked Denethor as the good guy?
Jeff Mejia - Aug 17, 2004 11:00:29 am PDT #2947 of 3902
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
I completely did not remember that his death isn't even in the book Fellowship. It's dispensed with in about two lines at the beginning of TTT.
I think it was a bit more than two lines. I'll have to dig out the text when I get home, but I do know there was the description of him when Aragorn came upon him, the conversation between Aragorn and Boromir, and heck, they even had a long song that Aragorn and Legolas sang as they sent him down the Anduin in the eleven boat.
Plus, there was some flashback material when we got Merry's perspective of what happened in a later chapter.
sumi - Aug 17, 2004 11:02:48 am PDT #2948 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Try the Price of Milk -- I'm trying to remember whether he smiles in particular but it is a light movie and he doesn't play the heavy.
Katie M - Aug 17, 2004 11:10:46 am PDT #2949 of 3902
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
they even had a long song that Aragorn and Legolas sang as they sent him down the Anduin in the eleven boat.
Hee. Yes, the extemporaneous singing. And then Gimli's all "um, dude, no. Sorry."
Beverly - Aug 17, 2004 11:26:35 am PDT #2950 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Try the Price of Milk
On the queue. Thanks!