Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to Helm's Deep or not. I'm not much for battle scenes...for example, the first time I watched the movie I was REALLY ready for the movie to move on by the time the cave troll died. Enough of the battling, get back to the STORY!
I don't mind it so much now that I've seen it a few times, but usually action just makes me impatient. Though there's also a lot of interesting character parts during the battle, so maybe it'll be better than I think!
I got the quadruple precious (20000), nyah!
The ring beyond was filled with steaming water: a bubbling cauldron, in which there heaved and floated a wreckage of beams and spars, chests and casks and broken gear. Twisted and leaning pillars reared their splintered stems above the flood. but all the roads were drowned. Far off, it seemed, half veiled in winding cloud, there loomed the island rock. Still dark and tall, unbroken by the storm, the tower of Orthanc stood. Pale waters lapped about its feet. The king and all his company sat silent on their horses, marvelling, perceiving that the power of Saruman was overthrown; but how they could not guess. And now they turned their eyes towards the archway and the ruined gates. There they saw close beside them a great rubble-heap; and suddenly they were aware of two small figures lying on it at their ease, grey-clad, hardly to be seen among the stones. There were bottles and bowls and platters laid beside them, as if they had just eaten well, and now rested from their labour. One seemed asleep; the other, with crossed legs and arms behind his head, leaned back against a broken rock and sent from his mouth long wisps and little rings of thin blue smoke.
Is that because elves are going down? :)
Therefore I don't agree with the term "mortar bomb"...
Gandalph had knowledge of gunpowder to make fireworks, so I assume Saruman did too... it's only one small step from firecracker to bomb...you just make it bigger, pack it tighter...I always assumed the Uruks dug under the wall at Hornburg and placed a bomb manufactured under Saruman's supervision...
Yes, she is. I had heard dachshunds could be hard to housebreak, but didn't really anticipate the problems I've had with her. The trouble is, she's like a very small boy (or at least like certain brothers were...): if she's able to go out and if she's not super busy, she's very, very good....but if she gets wrapped up in what she's doing, she forgets until she HAS to go, and then goes wherever. Which, considering she was having so much FUN playing with her brother at the house, must have been what happened.
What's worse is that I didn't notice it and put the coat ON and wore it to work...so now it's in my clothes and I can't do anything about it.
Yeah, I suppose that's true. But in books (Tolkien excepted), I can just skim through the battle and move on. Can't do that with a movie, at least not in the theater!
But there are enough smatterings of dialog that it shouldn't be nearly as bad as some other movies.
You guessed right...
Yes, I would buy that.... I don't know if the folks at TORN know what they are doing when they use the word mortar... I don't know if they know if it is a projectile or not.
You mean the feminazis are WRONG about men and women being exactly the same??? Whoda thunk it!
I had to laugh a bit at my little brother's friend's response to the movie. He LOVED it, but also said there was too much "walking and talking" and not enough fighting. I could have done with still MORE "walking and talking", myself!
See my #31330...
Well if they had hired me as a technical consultant... wouldn't you love that job?...
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