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LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".  

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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.

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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.

Calli - Dec 23, 2003 9:24:47 am PST #771 of 3902
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm such a CGI goober.

Heh. That's how I'm going to think of you now.

ita's a peanut made of pixels? And yet, still impressive.

DavidS - Dec 23, 2003 9:28:16 am PST #772 of 3902
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

ita's a peanut made of pixels?

Correction: She's a pixel peanut that can kill you with her finger. Or possibly her shell.

Jessica - Dec 23, 2003 9:28:40 am PST #773 of 3902
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Would it have taken people out of the scene had it been a stunt with a real elephant and not CGI?

The CGI Legolas was more distracting than the CGI Oliphaunt. (Since there weren't flesh&blood Oliphaunts to compare them to, they didn't look like effects to me. But CGI Legolas looked fake fake fake. )

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