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[quesarah]

We saw it yesterday and I give it a hearty "not bad." There was some good epic battle stuff; Viggo and Sean were outstanding; Eowyn was kick-ass; and Legolas and Gimli warmed my cold nasty heart.

There was some not so good stuff: what was the point of having Arwen in there; some of the CGI sucked; I wanted to throttle Elijah by the first third of the movie; Karl Urban grimaced and did weird eyebrow thingies too much for my liking (he was much better as Caeser in Xena); the final 30-45 minutes of the movie needed to be hacked off.

Also, Frodo and Sam: gay much?

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[wafflelips.livejournal.com]

Somebody brought a toddler to this movie. Yes, a toddler to a 3.5 hour movie. For a toddler, it was pretty quiet, but it was still a toddler, and it made noise. Grr. Get a baby sitter or do something else. Yeah, that sounds intolerant and mean, but too bad.

Traquilizer gun

[king-ghidorah.livejournal.com]

Really quiets 'em down. Also works on the parents when they start freaking out about a big frickin' dart in the toddler.

Sam and Frodo seem just as gay in the book... maybe more so.

[king-ghidorah.livejournal.com]

But I just kept waiting for their parting kiss at the end. Didn't they look they were gonna?

By the way, the wind-down in the movie is still much less prolonged than the book. In the book, there is a whole section where they find the Shire occupied by a strange new boss who has started factories and pollution, a human who calls himself "Sharky". They the hobbits have to retake the Shire. Then everyone says goodbye. RotK is the shortest book of the trilogy, but it feels longer....

JRRT would have been disappointed at the loss of the cleansing of the Shire, but I think all but the total JRRT nuts should be glad it went away.

Sam+Frodo 4-EVA!

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

But I just kept waiting for their parting kiss at the end. Didn't they look they were gonna?

Then they wuss out and have Frodo kiss him on the forehead. Come on people, we know a romantic setup when we see it. Deliver or don't bother.

I'm glad they cut the cleansing of the Shire. The ending really was too long for dramatic purposes.

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[prrrn.livejournal.com]

I thought of the ending in the context of the three movies put together and figured it kind of fit (as well as compared to the book!). But they kept spacing it out as if it was going to end and then adding something new, making it feel like it was taking forever when we were already squirmy. Our audience kept starting to clap and then stopping for the next scene and so on...

Re: Sam+Frodo 4-EVA!

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

In terms of ending the trilogy, all they really needed to show was Aragorn's coronation and the hobbits' return to the Shire. IMNSHO.

The audience I was in didn't clap until the appropriate time, but there was some fidgeting. And a toddler, as T has mentioned.

[sionnain.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you on the Sam and Frodo thing. And Merry and Pippin, too. But Sam and Frodo were definitely in love! I am glad someone else agrees.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

It was hard to miss it. That kiss on the forehead in the last scene was just too much.