OT - Return of the King trailer

[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 ]

[Fyron]

- Gimli and Aragorn fighting off about a thousand orcs on the bridge

But they did that in the book...

[Cheeze]

I just hope there's no scene where a couple of horsemen fire a harpoon into the legs of an oliphaunt, circle around a couple of times, and then ride off and watch the oliphaunt fall over on its side and explode.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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.

funny, i seem to remember that scene where he nearly got caught by the nazgul on that bridge-thingy in the book.

I just hope there's no scene where a couple of horsemen fire a harpoon into the legs of an oliphaunt, circle around a couple of times, and then ride off and watch the oliphaunt fall over on its side and explode.

[ December 11, 2003, 21:16: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]