LotR: FotR, Take two
10 Jan 2002 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karohemdJust saw it for the second time and am still utterly in awe.
Big advantage this time: big screen and prime seat (in the first row up from the aisle, no seats in front and railing to put feet on). It's been running for almost a month now and Screen 7 was still fully booked.
An observation about the audience: I was amazed to see so many middle-aged and even older people there (at least 10, 15 were retirement age), I felt young for a change. Hm, most likely people who read the book when it first came out in the fifties...
Anyway, back to the film:
- Elrond: I tried to blank my mind and wait objectively for him to come on but as soon as he started speaking, I thought he'd say "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson." It gets better later but some expressions are just so Agent Smith.
- Gimli: I again couldn't see it properly, but unless he had two axes to start with, he suddenly has a new axe when he swears allegiance to Frodo after his first one shattered.
- Second time round, the cave troll and the Balrog look pretty dodgy CGI wise, the Balrog is still the better, though, and it has style and atmosphere.
- In the fight scene against the Uruk-hai on Amon Hen, Legolas shoots an arrow every other second. His fighting style with the two short swords still rocks and he moves like an Elf should, the most obvious of this is not sinking into the snow on Carathras.
- To my German friends who might read this: Already the first time round I had to think of Fernet Branca when Gandalf is rescued by Gwaihir. ;o)
- Sean Bean as Boromir is the best cast, followed by Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee.
- Where the hell does Bill the pony suddenly come from at the gate of Moria? When Frodo and Sam set out, it's not with them.
- IIRC, Aragorn shouldn't really use a sword until Rivendell because he has the shards of Narsil in his scabbard. Again, this is IIRC. I so need to read it again.
- The sets, the scenery, all the costumes, armour and weapons are just perfect. The Elven blades are elegant but look decidedly lethal, The Orc weapons are rough and brutal etc.
- The battle scenes are great especially the flashback at the beginning with the first row in the Elven army with their halberds (or whatever they are).
Right, time to watch it again until some other must see movie comes along, Ice Age most likely.
Big advantage this time: big screen and prime seat (in the first row up from the aisle, no seats in front and railing to put feet on). It's been running for almost a month now and Screen 7 was still fully booked.
An observation about the audience: I was amazed to see so many middle-aged and even older people there (at least 10, 15 were retirement age), I felt young for a change. Hm, most likely people who read the book when it first came out in the fifties...
Anyway, back to the film:
- Elrond: I tried to blank my mind and wait objectively for him to come on but as soon as he started speaking, I thought he'd say "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson." It gets better later but some expressions are just so Agent Smith.
- Gimli: I again couldn't see it properly, but unless he had two axes to start with, he suddenly has a new axe when he swears allegiance to Frodo after his first one shattered.
- Second time round, the cave troll and the Balrog look pretty dodgy CGI wise, the Balrog is still the better, though, and it has style and atmosphere.
- In the fight scene against the Uruk-hai on Amon Hen, Legolas shoots an arrow every other second. His fighting style with the two short swords still rocks and he moves like an Elf should, the most obvious of this is not sinking into the snow on Carathras.
- To my German friends who might read this: Already the first time round I had to think of Fernet Branca when Gandalf is rescued by Gwaihir. ;o)
- Sean Bean as Boromir is the best cast, followed by Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee.
- Where the hell does Bill the pony suddenly come from at the gate of Moria? When Frodo and Sam set out, it's not with them.
- IIRC, Aragorn shouldn't really use a sword until Rivendell because he has the shards of Narsil in his scabbard. Again, this is IIRC. I so need to read it again.
- The sets, the scenery, all the costumes, armour and weapons are just perfect. The Elven blades are elegant but look decidedly lethal, The Orc weapons are rough and brutal etc.
- The battle scenes are great especially the flashback at the beginning with the first row in the Elven army with their halberds (or whatever they are).
Right, time to watch it again until some other must see movie comes along, Ice Age most likely.
