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Dec. 19th, 2001 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noahgibbsSaw the Lord of the Rings. I'm hearing a lot of good things about it from a lot of people. Not sure what I think. There were some wonderful parts, and the acting was, well, movie acting. They also mangled a number of characters really badly (Galadriel and everything to do with her, for instance -- ditto Boromir and a lot with Bilbo, plus Arwen and large amounts of Legolas and Gimli and Elrond, and come to think of it...) and a number of scenes (the "people in a circle of light" scene in Moria with all the scuttling nasties was just gratuitous). And they reinterpreted a number of the Tolkien legends in weird, weird ways. Isildur is constantly considered a symbol of weakness? He defeated Sauron and kept him down for the following 3,000 years, but of course Aragorn's scared he'll be weak like dear old Great-great-great-grampa Isildur. Isildur defeated Sauron in hand-to-hand combat. Whaddaya have to *do* to get some respect, you know?
Anyway. See it. But be prepared to heckle if you expect it to be roughly like the book. It's not.
Anyway. See it. But be prepared to heckle if you expect it to be roughly like the book. It's not.
