I'm a bad, bad girl.
Jan. 2nd, 2004 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ashinaeI would just like to make a few things plain and clear, in case I suddenly say something later that somebody will find offensive, and will need to unFriend me. This may make it much easier to get it over and done with right now. I am an opinionated bitch, and if that's too much for somebody to handle, then it's probably best that I put this out on the table.
Of course, it goes without saying that these are merely the opinions of a relatively young person who hasn't even finished college yet, and I have always believed in the concept of agreeing to disagree, but from reading some stuff on my friends page, it seems that some people can't cope with that concept. Therefore, here I go:
(1) FotR is still my favourite. I get caught up in RotK when I watch it -- have seen it three times now -- but then several hours later, it just feels very flat. It feels like a good third of the movie is missing so that we can watch special effects. Grr, I say. Where's the real movie? Where's the story? What happened to all the characters besides Frodo and Sam? I always felt that despite the title, Return of the King is about Sam, but really now. The other people in the story did more than kill Orcs. Where's the damned Extended Version, I've been robbed!
Before anybody says that I like FotR best just because of Boromir, let me also say this -- I get thoroughly, horribly bored during action sequences once they've been going on more than five or so minutes. The fighting in Balin's Tomb felt too long for me. Though, yes, I will admit that what kept Amon Hen from feeling too long for me was watching Boromir, Merry and Pippin.
I love FotR for the same reasons I love M&C -- it's a movie about characters, with a few action sequences cutting up all the talking. Master and Commander is and will remain my favourite 2003 movie (likely only to be challenged by Lost in Translation when I get my hands on the DVD for that in February, if I can trust what "everybody" is saying about this movie). I will be rooting all the way for Return of the King for all the awards it is up for, but I will always feel that the awards given to RotK will in fact be for the entire trilogy.
(2) I can't stand movie Legolas. There, I've said it. I really, genuinely dislike him. He's pretty. And... what else? What does he do, besides Stupid Elf Tricks He is given virtually all the worst dialogue in all three movies, and often only states the very, very obvious -- and one line in RotK merely gives the two-word idiot's version of a speech by Aragorn. *headdesk* I mean, honestly. If somebody can't figure out what it is Aragorn is talking about at that point -- well, if they're a kid, it's forgiven. If they're not a kid, there's no way for me to say what I'm thinking about that without being very, very mean.
I will NEVER make a music video about Legolas. Ever. (Or Haldir for that matter) So please stop asking me. Stop hoping for one. It isn't happening. After RotK is released for home viewing, I will make ONE Elf-centric music video, because the song I have in mind is indeed perfect. And that's it. No more.
As far as I'm concerned, Jackson's Gimli and Legolas are jokes. Very much a disservice to the characters that Tolkien wrote.
(3) Yes, there are things in TTT and RotK that I get excited about. There are things about them that I love. There are more things in either of these movies than in FotR that make me want to bang my head against a brick wall. But I like my movies to be about people, first and foremost. Which is why TTT and RotK frustrate me, because the characters seem secondary to the special effects.
And this, I'm sure, is why three hours after each of my three viewings of RotK, I get a desperate desire to go see M&C again. Damn all the theatres I'd be willing to drive to, for having dropped M&C already.
There. Said.
*looks around*
*waits for the unFriendings to begin*
Of course, it goes without saying that these are merely the opinions of a relatively young person who hasn't even finished college yet, and I have always believed in the concept of agreeing to disagree, but from reading some stuff on my friends page, it seems that some people can't cope with that concept. Therefore, here I go:
(1) FotR is still my favourite. I get caught up in RotK when I watch it -- have seen it three times now -- but then several hours later, it just feels very flat. It feels like a good third of the movie is missing so that we can watch special effects. Grr, I say. Where's the real movie? Where's the story? What happened to all the characters besides Frodo and Sam? I always felt that despite the title, Return of the King is about Sam, but really now. The other people in the story did more than kill Orcs. Where's the damned Extended Version, I've been robbed!
Before anybody says that I like FotR best just because of Boromir, let me also say this -- I get thoroughly, horribly bored during action sequences once they've been going on more than five or so minutes. The fighting in Balin's Tomb felt too long for me. Though, yes, I will admit that what kept Amon Hen from feeling too long for me was watching Boromir, Merry and Pippin.
I love FotR for the same reasons I love M&C -- it's a movie about characters, with a few action sequences cutting up all the talking. Master and Commander is and will remain my favourite 2003 movie (likely only to be challenged by Lost in Translation when I get my hands on the DVD for that in February, if I can trust what "everybody" is saying about this movie). I will be rooting all the way for Return of the King for all the awards it is up for, but I will always feel that the awards given to RotK will in fact be for the entire trilogy.
(2) I can't stand movie Legolas. There, I've said it. I really, genuinely dislike him. He's pretty. And... what else? What does he do, besides Stupid Elf Tricks He is given virtually all the worst dialogue in all three movies, and often only states the very, very obvious -- and one line in RotK merely gives the two-word idiot's version of a speech by Aragorn. *headdesk* I mean, honestly. If somebody can't figure out what it is Aragorn is talking about at that point -- well, if they're a kid, it's forgiven. If they're not a kid, there's no way for me to say what I'm thinking about that without being very, very mean.
I will NEVER make a music video about Legolas. Ever. (Or Haldir for that matter) So please stop asking me. Stop hoping for one. It isn't happening. After RotK is released for home viewing, I will make ONE Elf-centric music video, because the song I have in mind is indeed perfect. And that's it. No more.
As far as I'm concerned, Jackson's Gimli and Legolas are jokes. Very much a disservice to the characters that Tolkien wrote.
(3) Yes, there are things in TTT and RotK that I get excited about. There are things about them that I love. There are more things in either of these movies than in FotR that make me want to bang my head against a brick wall. But I like my movies to be about people, first and foremost. Which is why TTT and RotK frustrate me, because the characters seem secondary to the special effects.
And this, I'm sure, is why three hours after each of my three viewings of RotK, I get a desperate desire to go see M&C again. Damn all the theatres I'd be willing to drive to, for having dropped M&C already.
There. Said.
*looks around*
*waits for the unFriendings to begin*
