quote:At the same time, the two other midget-men and the giant hippies have seriously ****ed up that one evil guy’s tower (he was Count Duke in Star Wars: Every Cock in the Universe Up My Ass Part II), and they hook back up with Magneto, and also that chick with the bow and arrows and finally the Giant Midget with the Axe. Oh, and also that I Don’t Want to be the King/I Am Destined to Be the King Dude is with them, and he has this whole other story where he pretty much decides to be the King because, I mean, pussy for miles. This is where I started getting really confused, though, because they start talking about kingdoms and alliances and there’s a lot of lines like, “Rohan shall ride!” and “Gondor still stands!” and “Flabadan Son of Rectum must wear the mantle of Bloggith!” and also there’s some shit with the elves that’s like being in a ****ing candle store for twenty minutes.
Okay, that review really did make me l out l.
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I also liked this (edited for obscenitiy)quote from that funny review.
quote: Someone told me that all of the spider stuff actually happens in the second book in the series, and that they had to tweak some of the stuff that happens in the books to make the movies work. You know what? Good. Books suck. They used to be good back when people didn’t have movies and TV and dressed like Davey Crockett. People also used to ride horses and drink tea, but now we have cars and Sprite. Move the XXX on. Peter Jackson did an amazing job adapting these books, and now the movies are so kick-XXX that some people are going to go back and READ the books, which wouldn’t have happened if he’d just filmed the books exactly as they are. Happy now, smarty?
Hey if you look at the NZ premiere pics, there is in the mix a shot of Hugo Weaving like he should have looked in the movie. In my opinion he's a lot more elven there.
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Wow...it just gets more and more obsessive!!
3 days
(It's about 108 hours until the 2:40pm showing on the the 17th...for which Abrynne and I have tickets!)
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Four days for me, until the showing Wednesday afternoon for which we have tickets.
Those of you who see it before then, please list ALL the differences from the book for me as soon as possible. I want to know in advance, so I don't waste precious time going, "NO WAY! WHY? WHY?", when I should be enjoying the visuals.
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Just to whet appetites further, NPR did a great segment on LotR , and there are juicy interviews with Peter Jackson, Sean Astin, and Ian McKellan linked as well as lots of other yummy background stuff. Check out this great weekend edition segment with a couple of video store clerks talking about the hilarious low budget stuff Peter Jackson did before Lord of the Rings. I've just got to watch "Meet the Feebles" after this.
On second thought, I don't think my stomach is strong enough.
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Trilogy Tuesday starts tomorrow. yippeee!!! (even though SOME of us have to wait until premiere Wednesday, so it makes 2 days for me.)
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Hey Narnia, I have that parody saved too. AND TERRIBLE NEWS ALERT! They cut Imrahil (Prince of Dol Amroth) He's one of my favorite guys, cummon we are going to lose the charge of the swan knights to save Faramir! Grargh!
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BTW, Return of the King just won the film of the year award from the normally artsy-fartsy New York Film Critics. Oscar anyone?
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Yes but we Trilogy Tuesday people will be watching ROTK starting at around 10:15PM. We will be almost through the movie before you lesser people are graced with it.
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NO Mquared, because we "lesser people" will rise up and kill you "greater people" and take your tickets, even if it means using a pickaxe!
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Then I will just have to sick my Orlando Bloom obsessed 17 year old sister on her, no one can face that, except another Orlnado Bloom obsessed 17 yr. old girl.
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Sorry, thirty odd Eowyn obsessed acne faced teenage males stand with me, and then about ten 17 year old Orland Bloom obsessed girls. Hah! Go back to whence you came, spawn of math facts!
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I was thinking about seeing it this weekend, if we have time; we've got some Christmas parties to go to. But maybe.
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oh gosh , Im dying to see it- but all my friends are so not exited about going and don't want to go to the first show!!!!! (we do have 3 tests the day after .. but who the hell cares?)
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Why do some of you want to diminish your enjoyment of ROTK? Why watch it at the 12:01 AM showing, having to fight sleep and making the sign of the cross to ward off vampires (and other weirdos) at that hour?
Is it really worth it to say you saw it at the very first possible showing? Well, too bad, some movie critics have already seen it. In fact, I think it opened some time ago in New Zealand. So you can't be first. You will have gone to the zombie showing for nothing.
I will watch at the first daytime showing, at 11:00 A.M. in one of my area's premiere theatres, so I can thoroughly enjoy it.
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I told Abrynne that if she went at midnight, she'd be going alone. I didn't think I'd enjoy it that much by the time 3:30am rolled around.
We have tickets for a 2:40 pm showing tomorrow.
(this is just to make myself feel better for not getting the EE marathon tickets. I probably WOULD have done that had I the chance.)
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3:30 Is NOTHING. One of my friends is going directly from the Midnight showing to a plane, and then across country. Poor sucker. Posts: 4816 | Registered: Apr 2003
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::super jealous of Bernard:: Not only did he get to go to the trilogy showing, but he ALSO gets to see RotK two hours before midnight! Sigh... And I'm going to go see it after the rush, maybe next weekend, if I'm not working.
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