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Mar. 14th, 2004 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
titusnowlWell, I finally saw Return of the King. Apparently the Sunday matinee is the day everyone brings their tiny little children in - there were FIVE tiny kids, all under 4 years old, sitting in the row in front of me, and they cried when the Nazgul's fell beasts made their ghastly noises, and they cried during the more intense battle scenes, and they annoyed me. Also there was an under-10 in the seat directly behind me, kicking my seat and asking his dad who all the characters were and what they were doing every two minutes.
I sat in the theater for almost four hours, including the previews and such, and left near the end when Peter Jackson decided that the act of putting Frodo on a boat required twenty minutes of long, drawn-out reaction shots of the actors making inscrutable faces. So if anything happened after that, I missed it. Having read the book, I can't think of what else they could put in there, unless they showed Eowyn and Faramir getting hitched.
Movie wasn't bad, just over-long. It could have used tighter editing, IMO, especially on the forementioned long, drawn-out reaction shots of the actors making faces.
I want to live in Rohan. Gonder = Gothland. Do they even have colored dyes in Gondor? EVERYONE was wearing black and grey. Jeepers. Arwen's wedding headpiece/crown was very 1920s style, and she looked beautiful as befits the Evenstar for, IMO, the first time in the films in that scene - she's merely pretty most of the time, but she seemed sublime in that scene. Did they give her that slight glow that Galadriel had, or something?
Now to wait for Justin to get home from work. Tweedly dee.
I sat in the theater for almost four hours, including the previews and such, and left near the end when Peter Jackson decided that the act of putting Frodo on a boat required twenty minutes of long, drawn-out reaction shots of the actors making inscrutable faces. So if anything happened after that, I missed it. Having read the book, I can't think of what else they could put in there, unless they showed Eowyn and Faramir getting hitched.
Movie wasn't bad, just over-long. It could have used tighter editing, IMO, especially on the forementioned long, drawn-out reaction shots of the actors making faces.
I want to live in Rohan. Gonder = Gothland. Do they even have colored dyes in Gondor? EVERYONE was wearing black and grey. Jeepers. Arwen's wedding headpiece/crown was very 1920s style, and she looked beautiful as befits the Evenstar for, IMO, the first time in the films in that scene - she's merely pretty most of the time, but she seemed sublime in that scene. Did they give her that slight glow that Galadriel had, or something?
Now to wait for Justin to get home from work. Tweedly dee.
