OT - Return of the King trailer

[Fyron]

He never took Frodo and Sam to Osgiliath. He agreed to help them when they asked back at the secret hideout. The movie portrays Faramir as an entirely different person than he was in the books.

[ September 30, 2003, 21:08: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
Still, they are doing a better job than anyone else has managed.

I'll certainly grant him that - no more bad animations ever again! And most of the changes PJ has made (not having Bombadil, super-Arwen, etc) I could easily live with. But something about the Faramir sequence really stuck in my craw. And the Ent episode...

I'm looking forward to the release, and I'm sure I'll buy the super duper director's extra special collectors complete DVD set when it comes out (along with a few other copies along the way). I'm usually immune to the marketing tricks that get you to buy multiple copies of the same movie, but I suspect that I will play the sucker for these movies.

I had a few reservations about the first movie - seeing the extended Version removed them entirely. I too will be getting the extended Version of TTT when it comes out, but I'm less expectant that the things I had problems with in the theatrical release can be cured with additional footage.

[Alpha Kodiak]

You can now find locations for, and buy tickets for the extended movie showings and the back-to-back showings in December: link

[gregebowman]

The one thing I didn't like about TTT was that they stopped about a chapter or two too soon. They stopped at the battles, and never showed Frodo, Sam and Gollum's journey past the gate. Can't wait for ROTK to come out. And I"m also waiting for the super-duper DVD to come out next month.

[Cheeze]

I have to agree that certain changes in the movie adaptation do disappoint me, by and large the movies are beautifully done and an absolute pleasure to watch. There is something about them that I enjoy, not only as someone who has been excited about these books from the moment I first opened The Hobbit, but also that they provide insights about current circumstances (in the world or personally) without being either obvious or heavy-handed.

Arwen is a great example of a change that works for me, if only because MOST of her screen time feels like a part of the story that was always implied, but that Tolkien never wrote about in depth. I'm hoping, though, that Arwen doesn't take Eowyn's great scene in the Last film.

Faramir is, so far, the reverse. I think that Jackson and all the writers felt that, in this movie format, Aragorn must be the only human who can resist the lure of the ring. I didn't care for the entire Osgiliath sequence, but I can live with it.

From the Two Towers DVD, I'm as excited about the extended Version as I am about the Return of the King. Give me more Ents, and the Huorns too!!

[General Woundwort]

The initial buzz on ROTK is filtering in, and the news is goooood...

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/...3_1_0_,00.html

http://greenbooks.theonering.net/qui...es/120103.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...557084,00.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/features...n.asp?pid=2476

[gravey101]

I think the things that bugged me most about the Two Towers were the 'Hollywood' scenes in the battle of Helms Deep.

- Legolas skate-boarding down the steps on a shield
- Gimli and Aragorn fighting off about a thousand orcs on the bridge
- a 1/2 dozen horseman riding through Saruman's entire army.

Also the Warg scene bugged me. Not becuase of the action, but because of Aragorn's unnecesary brush with death.

[ December 11, 2003, 15:10: Message edited by: gravey101 ]