[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Even The Return of the King had a typical Hollywood moment when that fine lady warrior, played by Miranda Otto, slayed that awful, darf-looking critter. The critter said to her, "No man has defeated me." She replied, "I am no man," before running him through with her sword. I almost groaned out loud.

You go, grrl?

[Calvin Locke]

Miranda Otto wielding a sword?

Sorry, her meter maid character from "Danny Deckchair" sticks in my mind.

[Frapster]

That had a bit of a flow to it, though. The End Game scene was a frikkin’ speed bump non-sequitur.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Well - that scene did come from the book, as written by Tolkien. If you ask me, it was one of the few scenes that was actually faithful to the books. Those movies while well done, were a disappointment for me - too much emphasis on action and fighting while leaving out a number of rich story elements, mangled some others. Like the Ents for instance - in the movie they were a bunch of clueless idiots who had to be led by the hand by a couple of hobbit youngsters - in the books, they knew exactly what was going on - they didn't live to be that old by being fools - and had ways of keeping tabs on events out in the world. The question they had to grapple with was whether they wanted to get involved in those events or not. An important facet of the story that got written way different from the books. One of many disappointments. Was also expecting to see the moment when Aragorn leaped up on the wall to parley - more like talk trash - with the attacking orcs during the battle of Helm's Deep. The orcs quickly tire of him, the arrows start flying again and shortly after the assault resumes worse than ever is when the Riders of Rohan finally appear. The very sort of dramatic scenery you would expect to find in such a movie, but inexplicably didn't make it in. They could have cut time out of showing all the redundant hacking, slashing & killing to have fit it in, but didn't. To me decisions like those made the quality of that production fall short of what it could have been.