I'm pretty sure Fran wrote the poem, and Billy set it to music.

ita, you did get a chance to see this month's GQ cover, didn't you?

Billy said he picked a poem of Tolkein's and wrote the tune.

tina, thanks for posting that article! I love them all so much.

Scifi.com: What was on your gag reel at your wrap party?

Bloom: Mine's got [the '80s song] "Hungry Eyes." And I'm pulling out my sword. ... Aragorn pulls out his sword, and Legolas is turning [looks sexy], and then he pulls out his sword, and then I'm throwing the bow: [sings] "Hungry eyes ..."

Want to see this now!

I went to see ROTK for the third time this afternoon with two friends. You know, I thought I was going to be OK and not cry. I was so very wrong. One part I cried at that I hadn't before was when the Rohirrim shout "Death!" before they charge onto the Pelennor Fields. Gave me shivers, it did. And I think the bit with Gandalf telling Pippin about death will make me cry even on my hundredth viewing. Gah.

[Edit: We're not whitefonting any longer, right? End of the weekend?]

Tom Cruise has been nominated for Best Actor !!!! for the Golden Globes.

PJ for Best Director, RotK for Best Picture.

Its studio is pumping Cold Mountain so hard it's liable to spring a leak any minute.

But ... Tom Cruise?

There was a post for Last Samurai at the theatre on Christmas that, at first glance, looked just like the main Aragorn poster for RotK, Viggo and his sword backed up by the massed armies of the West. The interesting thing about the poster is, all you see is Tom Cruise's back. It's a shot of him in the samurai armor, he's swinging a sword, he's got the long hair, so to the swiftly looking eye you've got all the elements of RotK--armor, sword, army, even the coloration is the same--but the words that will, hopefully, stick in your mind are "The Last Samurai." I guess the very similar poster they've had that shows Tom's face wasn't working.

To be fair, it looked like a fairly decent film, even if only for a chance to look at samurai armor. But it's probably something we'll rent so we can freeze-frame the DVD and nitpick over armoring details.

Sorry, but even New Line isn't making enough money that they could pay me to see Dances with Ronin.

This is wonderful news--for us. When/if studios see that people like good movies, not just blockbuster-style movies, and spend money on them, it is a good thing.

Call me cynical, but I suspect the effect of the fims' success among studio execs will be that lots of Dungeons & Dragons and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys style movies will get made in the next few years. I don't see why the LotR movies would make their point about audiences and good movies any better than Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Alien did.

"[...]It gives a whole new dynamic and I can assure you that the DVD version of Return of the King will be longer than 4 hours and 50 min." -- Note that this was translated into Danish by the newspaper and then back to English by us.

Heh. They forgot "This was translated from Viggoese to English into Danish..."

Call me cynical, but I suspect the effect of the fims' success among studio execs will be that lots of Dungeons & Dragons and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys style movies will get made in the next few years. I don't see why the LotR movies would make their point about audiences and good movies any better than Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Alien did.

Party pooper.

I watched 'A Director's Vision' about PJ and LOTR and there was so much footage that obviously belongs in ROTK that we didn't get to see. It makes me very, very excited to see the extended ROTK. And it really does need to be 5 hours long.

edit - oh, and there was an outtake of Sir Ian flubbing a line and saying 'bugger it'. We need outtakes and gag reels.

edit - oh, and there was an outtake of Sir Ian flubbing a line and saying 'bugger it'. We need outtakes and gag reels.

WANT. They must be out there somewhere. I think one of the more recently posted links mentioned that each actor was presented with a tape of outtakes/gag reels when he filmed his last scene. *Sigh* Think of all the fun.

Dances with Ronin

HAW!

Back from the dead - do you know that the theater here that has the special screens with reserved seating and leather recliners is showing PAYCHECK on those screens? Paycheck. ROTK is consigned to normal screens.

Great news about the DVD length - they did say that Howard Shore had scored about 5 hours of movie, so at least that much is finished.

I want a commemorative Gandalf coin from NZ! ("The queen on one side and Elizabeth II on the other." Ha!)