It was really hard to avoid the Holy Grail associations too when Pippin kept yelling "He's not dead!"
Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.
'Shindig'
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.
DavidS - Dec 23, 2003 9:17:40 am PST #761 of 3902
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Steph L. - Dec 23, 2003 9:18:32 am PST #762 of 3902
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
But then, I also giggled whenever anyone got a "What the FUCK?" look on their face, which happened pretty often.
Aims - Dec 23, 2003 9:18:37 am PST #763 of 3902
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hell, every time someone peers over the side of castle I think, "We've already got one!"
Calli - Dec 23, 2003 9:19:03 am PST #764 of 3902
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Mmm-hmmm, well, I'll have to disagree about the Legolas vs. the Oliphaunt issue, mainly because the Oliphaunts themselves had already taken me out of the movie a bit. I don't know why I'm perfectly fine with orcs and trolls, but not Oliphaunts. Maybe it's because they're so close to elephants, which are already cool and exotic in my book, and then have the various add-on that leave me going, "Wait, elephants tusks don't do that."
OK, there's also the elf-lust clouding things for me. But it's mostly the Oliphaunt thing.
Aims - Dec 23, 2003 9:20:00 am PST #765 of 3902
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Would it have taken people out of the scene had it been a stunt with a real elephant and not CGI?
DavidS - Dec 23, 2003 9:21:27 am PST #766 of 3902
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Would it have taken people out of the scene had it been a stunt with a real elephant and not CGI?
Do they have elephants who are 8 stories tall?
Calli - Dec 23, 2003 9:21:37 am PST #767 of 3902
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Would it have taken people out of the scene had it been a stunt with a real elephant and not CGI?
Far less so, for me.
I still have a fairly uncritical "this is so cool" love for the whole scene, whether I was in the movie at a given moment or not.
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2003 9:21:44 am PST #768 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm such a CGI goober. It wasn't until the TTT features that I realised that if the wargs were bits and bytes, the riders? Not so real. And that something like that would apply to the long shots (and some of the close ones, I bet) of the Oliphaunts. And was it capitalised in the book? Is that why I'm annoying myself?
A nice thing about CGI beasties is that they can kill horses willy nilly. I like that.
Aims - Dec 23, 2003 9:22:16 am PST #769 of 3902
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok, smartass man. If they did a scale type thing. Trick photography or something.
t glower at Hec
DavidS - Dec 23, 2003 9:22:50 am PST #770 of 3902
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm such a CGI goober.
Heh. That's how I'm going to think of you now.