Dude, I *loved* Legolas mounting the horse!
I choose to believe it was real, just like vampires with a soul.
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
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.
Steph L. - Dec 23, 2003 9:35:57 am PST #780 of 3902
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Calli - Dec 23, 2003 9:38:14 am PST #781 of 3902
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Dude, I *loved* Legolas mounting the horse!
As did I. In my case, it helps that I've been around horses maybe three times in my life (about as often as I've been around elephants, actually), and therefore didn't know if it was against the laws of physics or just really, really nifty.
Jessica - Dec 23, 2003 9:39:17 am PST #782 of 3902
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
In RotK, I had time to think "fake...blue screen...blue screen...fake...fake," and in TTT, I really didn't. By the second (third, fourth, fifth) time I saw it, I knew it was CG, but was so used to the way it looked that it didn't bug me.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if they tidied it up for the EE DVD release.
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2003 9:43:01 am PST #783 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if they tidied it up for the EE DVD release.
It's the same as the theatrical. We went back and ran it right away. It might be a screen size thing, or a getting acclimatised thing, I suppose.
Aims - Dec 23, 2003 9:44:35 am PST #784 of 3902
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Funny, the horse mounting scene throws me off way more than the Oliphaunt scene, because he goes up the horse on the wrong side and his wrist is all catty-whoumpus! The Oliphaunt scene, like Jess said, is fake fake fake, but still really exciting. The horse scene they TOTALLY could have done for real with a crane and stuff.
tina f. - Dec 23, 2003 9:45:32 am PST #785 of 3902
Ohhh - help!
Non-Tolkein friend just asked me who the guys on the elephants were (like their actual name - not just - "bad guys" which is what I said at first) and I can't remember...anybody?
DavidS - Dec 23, 2003 9:45:33 am PST #786 of 3902
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The horse scene they TOTALLY could have done for real with a crane and stuff.
As I recall, Orlando was injured on that day and couldn't mount the horse properly so they did a little CGI pickup and made it more spectacular.
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2003 9:46:08 am PST #787 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The horse scene they TOTALLY could have done for real with a crane and stuff.
And a double -- Orlando had a broken rib.
Jessica - Dec 23, 2003 9:46:19 am PST #788 of 3902
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
It's the same as the theatrical.
In that case, it's probably a resolution thing. Or they cleaned it up on both DVD releases.
Image quality aside, I still can't figure out how he grabs the reins with the back of his hand. Elves must be massively double-jointed.
Aims - Dec 23, 2003 9:47:09 am PST #789 of 3902
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Injury, scmingury. He is the Jackie Chan of the Elves. He wouldda done it had they asked.
ETA: Broken rib owie. Ok, minus the injury though.