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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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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.

Re: Sam+Frodo 4-EVA!

[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.