Posted on 12/19/2001 5:52:04 PM PST by Brian Kopp DPM
Nit-pick of the day: "suddenly" is an adverb.
The way I figure that scene is this:
In the book at this point Frodo is having this internal debate about putting his friends in danger. How do you put this on the screen? Does Frodo start doing soliloquies? I think it was better to show that Frodo was afraid that the ring had corrupted Aragorn too and to show that Aragorn passed the test. It also shows Aragorn's trust in Frodo when he decides to follow Merry and Pippin.
There were about 70 -100 threads with pre-release reviews, both professional and fan. There have even been a number of threads by folks who wrote that they didn't want to see any more threads on the subject. Go to the search feature, and type in rings.
They know. New Zealand has appointed a cabinet officer (minister) of Lord of the Rings.
John Huston once said..."Why don't they re-make my flops?"
I like Guy Pearce, but he ain't no burly, hunky Rod Taylor. And Tobey McGuire as "Spiderman"? Why not Don Knotts?
Speaking of HG Wells, I actually like "Time after Time" too, with two of my fav's David Warner and Malcom McDowell.
The biggest huh?? in remakes has to be George Sluizer remaking his own movie "The Vanishing" which critics loved, into "The Vanishing" with Kiefer Sutherland, which everyone hated...
Which makes me think of Sutherland in "Dark City" which was remade (kinda sorta) into "The Matrix"...
Dark City makes me think of Jennifer Connelly my dream girl..which leads us back to those Aussies/Kiwis since she is in that new movie with Russel Crowe...who was in LA Confidential with Guy Pearce bla bla bla
If you're gonna post such jokes (i hope) you should wait for entry 40 or above, and avoid getting flamed. Trying to help ;-). Peace out.
It's one thing to read (or have read) a fairytale whilst tucked in one's bed so the young noggin can quietly digest - at his/her own speed - some of the scary parts. It is entirely another to have graphic and anatomically correct demons ten stories tall coming at you with no apparent defense and with no control over the onslaught.
Indeed, the only compelling factor here is that the adult is so entralled with abstractness of the plot that he/she wants to "make" a kid under 10 absorb the same abstraction while fighting the visuals at the same time.
Kids should read the book. Big kids can go see the movie.
I accept that many changes had to be made for the sake of brevity, but I agree that the changes at the end seemed unnecessary. Why not have Frodo, wearing the ring, slip invisably away from the fellowship?
Also, the relationship between Frodo and Sam is not made clear in the movie. Was it political correctness that caused omitting the fact that Sam is Frodos servant? Sam is clearly devoted to Frodo, whom he calls "master" throughout the book. In fact, I felt that it was originally Sams sense of duty which led him to accompany Frodo and that his "dutiful" devotion evolves into "loving" devotion as the quest continues.
I loved the movie. I'm not going to fault it because it's not a book. I probably won't see it in the theater again but I'll buy it on DVD when it's available. I did come home and dig out my dog-eared paperback copies of the books.
I would say 10 is the absolute BOTTOM age-wise. They are interested to find out what happens next, but the younger boy isn't sure he wants to see the next one. But he swears up and down that "The Mummy" was scarier.
Must be the big screen thing that was so freaky to him. We almost never go to movies (and no outside TV signal coming in either)!
I loved the movie, having never read the trilogy. I *didn't* like the dizzying fight scenes, they almost made me ill. But I'm prone to motion sickness, and any other sickness since I'm pregnant :-)
Before TLOTR, I had never seen a movie on opening day. Before TLOTR, I never paid to see a movie twice in the theater. TLOTR is just in a class by itself.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live in such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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