Yarg!
- checks calendar*
Yay, not yarg! I shall still be in town.
- drools*
More Cinerama LotR-ness.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
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.
StuntHusband - Apr 18, 2005 12:34:28 pm PDT #3829 of 3902
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Noumenon - Apr 26, 2005 2:20:18 am PDT #3830 of 3902
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
This Slate article is really about the financing of the Tomb Raider movies, but the last paragraph is about LotR:
Of course, it's not only Paramount that employs these devices—every studio uses them to minimize risk. Remember all those stories about how New Line was betting its entire future on the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Not quite. New Line covered almost the entire cost by using German tax shelters, New Zealand subsidies, and pre-sales. If studio executives don't crow in public about such coups, it's probably out of fear that such publicity will induce governments to stiffen their rules—as, for example, Germany periodically does with its tax code. When you've got a golden goose, you don't want to kill it while it's still laying eggs. --http://slate.msn.com/id/2117309/
Noumenon - May 02, 2005 7:31:58 am PDT #3831 of 3902
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Four Word Film Reviews of the first movie.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 02, 2005 8:27:37 am PDT #3832 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
"Midget safeguards evil bling." is my favorite of the bunch.
Noumenon - May 03, 2005 4:31:28 am PDT #3833 of 3902
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I like the double meaning in "Child smuggling ring discovered," and attempted humor like "Tyler plays arrowsmith's daughter."
Fay - May 04, 2005 7:32:24 am PDT #3834 of 3902
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Loved all these:
Weaving wouldn't, Wood would.
Little guys, big feats.
Frodo fingers slippery ring.
The Ring and I.
Magneto versus Dracula. Awesome!
Noumenon - May 04, 2005 8:15:26 am PDT #3835 of 3902
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
You know, I found fwfr.com browsing my brother's old college message board archives from 2001, and then two days after I post this rare, obscure find, the site wins a Webby award. Now I look like I get all my links off Boing Boing.
Kathy A - May 05, 2005 10:51:02 am PDT #3836 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Hee! The latest collection from Foxtrot is titled, "Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything." The cover is of Jason and two other LotR-costumed fanboys surrounded by a theater full of drooling teenaged girls.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 05, 2005 11:57:12 am PDT #3837 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
I can sympathize, as someone who went to a weekend matinee showing of Back to the Future III unaware that Michael J. Fox's ass would be featured in close-up early in the film. I think the combined squeals knocked birds flying overhead out of the air.
Volans - May 11, 2005 12:31:12 am PDT #3838 of 3902
move out and draw fire
Yeah, the second time I saw ROTK the crowd was me, 6 cow-orkers, and about 40 teenage girls. Who SQUEEED when Legolas appears in Frodo's doorway at the end. (Which covered our snickering and rude comments).
Just watched ROTK EE again. It made even less sense this time. But I realize that these movies aren't movies for me - I appreciate them not as I would a normal movie, but as a group effort of a bunch of artists. As movies, they are flawed. As authentic re-creations of a world that never existed, they are peerless.