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'Uncle! I'll nurse you back to health! With soup!'
Return of the King was The Book That Wouldn't End. The climax comes, then the book drags on forever, tying up millions of loose ends and telling you what everyone did for the rest of their lives.
Even after taking out an important end sequence, Return of the King was The Movie That Wouldn't End. It was great, but the end was so very long and so very filmed in slow-motion.
I also laughed inappropriately much too often, but that could be me. For example, I couldn't help but giggle every time Gondor's ridiculous helmets came onscreen. And seriously? They all ended up in bed together. What's up with that? I had a lot of other complaints, as a fan of the books and as a fan of watching movies, which is just stupid because it was a great movie and I enjoyed it. All I can think of was how much more I could have liked it. Maybe this will all be solved in the Extended Edition.
Orlando Bloom Legolas was always the most masculine-looking of the elves (which really isn't saying much). Then they ruined him by putting him in some ice-blue getup and putting jewelry on his head. He was also ruined for me earlier in the day when Mr B------ pointed out that all of his lines just state the obvious. At least he got to climb an oliphant.
I'm glad my beloved elf turned out to be totally lame, because my affections were stolen by a Fool of a Took anyway.
srah - Thursday, 18 December 2003 - 2:57 AM
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Comments (12)
Justin - December 18, 2003 - 11:39 AM - ℓ
Oh, and a word about the ending(s). It was really justified, in my opinion, to have a 20-minute epilogue. I mean, when you've invested 7+ hours (in the Extended Editions) in these characters, the least you can do is bring their stories full-circle and give them some closure. I mean, at least they didn't go on like the book did. That'd have been an entire hour of movie if they'd done that.
Vanessa, London, UK - December 18, 2003 - 5:12 PM - ℓ
Complaint 1: The dwarf and Legolas only got about two lines. When it seemed like they were all set to get together at the end of the last one along.
Complaint 2: It was way too homo-erotic to be serious.
But I'm bloody surprised that I enjoyed the battles. I think having a cutesy brave midget in the far corner of every single scene helped.
Vanessa, London, UK - December 18, 2003 - 5:13 PM - ℓ
And by homo-erotic, I mean hobbits.
What's a Fool of a Took?
Orlando is so yummy I don't care about the jewelry. And stating the obvious is an important job, since everyone else seems to be totally overlooking it. Seriously. Gimme some elf lovin'.