Just popping in. I think my reactions are spoiler-free enough, but someone let me know if you disagree.
I had to bite down on my finger for most of the last half hour to keep from sobbing, as I was afraid I wouldn't be able to stop if I started. Damn you, Sean Astin.
My crowd was astonishingly well-behaved. Light laughter at a few (appropriate) moments, no cheering (which I rarely consider not annoying), no screaming kids, dead silence punctuated with the occasional gasp or sniffle during the aforementioned last half hour.
There were, however, a couple of little girls further down our row who always had to leave and reenter the theater as a pair. It was like an assumed: "I'm going to the bathroom!" "Yeah, well, me too!"
Must buy the first two EEs post haste.
I discovered that two of my nieces and my soon-to-be niece-in-law, who range in age from 18-21, all saw the movie and loved it, but complained at the relative lack of
Orlando screentime.
It was like those Foxtrot cartoons come to life.
Did not get Viggo in my stocking. This Santa thing is a fraud--FRAUD, I say. Fraud. Fraud. Fraud.
Sign you've seen LotR too many times: this makes you giggle.
Oh dear. I've not only seen LotR too many times, I've been a housewife for too long. After I stopped giggling, I thought, "It's mine! It came to me. My precious!"
Hee. "I return to you now, at the turn of the Tide (tm)."
It was a very LOTR Xmas around here, with the notable exception of another printing of the books themselves. Which is fine, as I believe we have about 10 versions in English alone.
Obsessive? Surely not.
I'm glad we got him as Theoden instead, as it's hella fun when watching Titanic to shout "HAIL, THEODEN KING," every time he comes on screen as the captain of the ship.
Hee! One of the (many) things that pissed me off about Titanic was the focus on the fakey-fakey Doomed Romance (TM). They should have just set the cameras on Bernard Hill and Victor Garber and let 'er rip.
That
would have been one hell of a movie.
They should have just set the cameras on Bernard Hill and Victor Garber and let 'er rip.
Now that I have it on DVD, that IS the movie I see.
There's a B&W British
A Night to Remember
which was a fairly low-budget effort in comparison (though it has file footage of the actual
Titanic
in it) which practically
is
the movie you really want. Except for the different cast, of course.
