ROtK (finally!)
Dec. 27th, 2003 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xturtleGraduate school and holidays kept me from seeing ROtK until today. I finally put myself in my little car and drove us (me and myself) to the theater. I asked the One With Whom I Live (or "Mom," as I call her) if she wanted to join me, but she had a date with her treadmill.
Yeah, she could've just said no.
Straight off, two miracles: first, no cell phones rang during the entire movie. Second, the first child who got away started to run around the theater with only ten minutes left. I ask you, would you bring a three-year-old to a three and a half hour movie? What would possess someone to say, "hmm, can't get a babysitter... oh, well, it's only three hours that she has to sit still"? Clearly, this person does not spend much time with their three-year-old.
OK, I have a confession to make: I don't remember much about the books. Usually, I have this strange habit of remembering the stupid details from things I've read, but LOTR was so chalk-full of stuff that I brain-dumped a lot of important things. This tends to become clear to me in blinding flashes of "was this in the book?" confusion. Thus, my only real thoughts are on movie-dom, which makes me rather plebe-y *sigh.*
So, I'm merrily enjoying the movie, shipping Aragorn/everyone he has the slightest conversation with because, frankly, VM's main means of looking serious about something seems to be "look like you fully intend to make him/her scream with pleasure as soon as the camera's off." Then we get to the end, with Arwen, and... nothing. It's like great, blank Aragorn, then suddenly he's trying to eat her face. And I'm going "huh? Was this in the book?" because I'm just that off-put.
The end also confused me, but I think I can safely say this means I need to re-read the books. Or find a web-site that points out what is book and what is pure movie. The latter seems more realistic, so if anyone's actually gotten this far and wants to help out, please do.
So, enjoyed immensely, was a bit tweaked and confused at the end. And will probably make my platonic husband explain the parts I didn't get when he comes to visit in two weeks. Then will freak him out with talk of how slashy the damn thing was. :-)
Yeah, she could've just said no.
Straight off, two miracles: first, no cell phones rang during the entire movie. Second, the first child who got away started to run around the theater with only ten minutes left. I ask you, would you bring a three-year-old to a three and a half hour movie? What would possess someone to say, "hmm, can't get a babysitter... oh, well, it's only three hours that she has to sit still"? Clearly, this person does not spend much time with their three-year-old.
OK, I have a confession to make: I don't remember much about the books. Usually, I have this strange habit of remembering the stupid details from things I've read, but LOTR was so chalk-full of stuff that I brain-dumped a lot of important things. This tends to become clear to me in blinding flashes of "was this in the book?" confusion. Thus, my only real thoughts are on movie-dom, which makes me rather plebe-y *sigh.*
So, I'm merrily enjoying the movie, shipping Aragorn/everyone he has the slightest conversation with because, frankly, VM's main means of looking serious about something seems to be "look like you fully intend to make him/her scream with pleasure as soon as the camera's off." Then we get to the end, with Arwen, and... nothing. It's like great, blank Aragorn, then suddenly he's trying to eat her face. And I'm going "huh? Was this in the book?" because I'm just that off-put.
The end also confused me, but I think I can safely say this means I need to re-read the books. Or find a web-site that points out what is book and what is pure movie. The latter seems more realistic, so if anyone's actually gotten this far and wants to help out, please do.
So, enjoyed immensely, was a bit tweaked and confused at the end. And will probably make my platonic husband explain the parts I didn't get when he comes to visit in two weeks. Then will freak him out with talk of how slashy the damn thing was. :-)
