[JenB]

Well, friends, how is it?

Since I have to wait until Sunday, I want details! Give me the scoop, tell me the truth, and how does it look on a small screen?

[2Jedismom]

I think everyone must be watching it! The one thing I noticed the most was that the battle of the Last Alliance at the beginning was clearer. It always seemed kind of grey and foggy in the cinema. On the DVD, every orc and warrior is more defined. And they aren't grey...more sepia in color. I think sepia is the color I'm thinking of...a light brownish.

Anyway, that's my initial assessment.

[2Jedismom]

Well, I checked out the chatroom earlier and no one was there. Now it's after 11:30pm so I'm going to bed.

Here's a night light! It's called a Johnny Light and I thought it was pretty funny. I couldn't post some of the things I found when I ran a "night light" Google search! LOL

[HairOfTheDog]

How does it look on the small screen? It looks a lot bigger than the screen I have been watching it on lately!

It really is beautiful... And there is even better sound than the second bootleg. I have actually just now started it... I didn't watch it earlier this afternoon... just watched all the extras.

Isildur just found something shiny and picked it up. It had a finger in it, but it was still pretty and he kept it.

[Rocko]

Well, friends, how is it?

Excellent, but I recommend you see it in a theatre-dark room with the sound up. Way up.

[Wordsmith]

Hi! Somewhat disappointing, to be honest. I was surprised by how much of the impact of the film was lost on the small screen. The thundering hoofs of the Black Riders, the dizzying camera dive off the peak of Orthanc, so much was diminished. The characters are so much larger than life, can fill up a big screen so well, the change to small screen was more pronounced than with other movies.

The consolation is that the character development comes to the foreground more. Maybe because the drama was less dramatic, and I needed less emotional "recovery time," the slower character-based scenes seemed more drawn out.

Some relationships jumped out at me more. Legolas's depth of feeling for Aragorn (he defends him at the Council of Elrond) and Gandalf post-Khazad Dum were notable. The Aragorn/Boromir dynamic really came forward. 4 key scenes, with subtle use of facial expression and dialogue, really sum up the evolution:

Night in Rivendell, Boromir fingering Narsil. Eyed by Aragorn. Boromir thinking "who's this ruffian?"

The Council. "Gondor needs no king."

Can't remember where, maybe in Moria, Boromir says something to Aragorn like "the lords of Gondor [referring to he and Aragorn] will return." So he now thinks of Aragorn as an equal.

And of course the death scene. Aragorn has resisted the temptation that has bested Boromir. Boromir's final acceptance of Aragorn's superiority. "My captain, my king!" Great stuff.