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Dec. 18th, 2003 03:34 pmNo updates lately--have had lots of makeup work, and track, and shopping, and seeing Karen, and stuffs. And RotK and Glyphs yesterday, which were fun. RotK rocks. It made me happy. (Along with pirates and gypsies and whatnot... I went around all Wednesday naming things that made me happy. LotR, pirates, and gypsies got mentioned a lot.) Took too long for Shelob to show up; I was really looking forward to her and spent all the Mordor-ness up 'til she happened going "Spider? Spider spider spider? Spiderspiderspiderspiderspiderspider..." and the whole time she was there going "Spider! ShelobshelobshelobSPIDER!" Catapulting heads made me happy. And Gandalf thwacking Denethor (my one "Yay Gandalf!" of the movie... spent a lot of the rest of it going "Gandalf, you are SUCH an ASS!"). And Legolas in a tiara (I mean... Legolas! In a friggin' TIARA!).
For many years people have been arguing over whether pipeweed is suppsed to represent tobacco or pot. I think we've figured it out, considering Merry and Pippin's behavior at Isengard.
Three things that did not make me happy: Arwen, blacksmithing, and transitions. Arwen because she has no bearing on the plot whatsoever as long as she shows up to marry Aragorn at the end, but they still keep putting in random Arwen scenes. Arwen reading a book. Arwen reciting propecies. Arwen arguing with her father. Arwen on a horse. Arwen lying flat out on her back on her chaise-longue thingy going "I would have liked to have seen him one last time...". Enough already! And I just felt that the blacksmithing at the reforging of Narsil was really pansy-looking. I mean, they're Elves who do everything with grace and whatever, but it's blacksmithing. It shouldn't be that nancy-looking. And the transitions were just bad--for the bulk of the film, they were blinding. It'd be all dark and in Mordor and generally Mordor-y, and the next frame is a face shot of Gandalf the Sparkly White, backlit, and you're sitting there like "Dude! I'm blind! What the hell'd you do that for?" Then they ended the last half dozen scenes so you thought the movie was ending, all fade-to-black and music swells, and you think the credits are gonna roll and are just about to get pissed off that they left out whatever bit of the ending they left out, and then oh wait, that scene's starting. >.< Friggin' annoying.
But for the most part it made me happy. Prettiful...
-Claudia
For many years people have been arguing over whether pipeweed is suppsed to represent tobacco or pot. I think we've figured it out, considering Merry and Pippin's behavior at Isengard.
Three things that did not make me happy: Arwen, blacksmithing, and transitions. Arwen because she has no bearing on the plot whatsoever as long as she shows up to marry Aragorn at the end, but they still keep putting in random Arwen scenes. Arwen reading a book. Arwen reciting propecies. Arwen arguing with her father. Arwen on a horse. Arwen lying flat out on her back on her chaise-longue thingy going "I would have liked to have seen him one last time...". Enough already! And I just felt that the blacksmithing at the reforging of Narsil was really pansy-looking. I mean, they're Elves who do everything with grace and whatever, but it's blacksmithing. It shouldn't be that nancy-looking. And the transitions were just bad--for the bulk of the film, they were blinding. It'd be all dark and in Mordor and generally Mordor-y, and the next frame is a face shot of Gandalf the Sparkly White, backlit, and you're sitting there like "Dude! I'm blind! What the hell'd you do that for?" Then they ended the last half dozen scenes so you thought the movie was ending, all fade-to-black and music swells, and you think the credits are gonna roll and are just about to get pissed off that they left out whatever bit of the ending they left out, and then oh wait, that scene's starting. >.< Friggin' annoying.
But for the most part it made me happy. Prettiful...
-Claudia