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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 536755" data-attributes="member: 6521">First: As others have said, glad I didn't read the books, so I couldn't get disappointed... Also, I generally prefer to have a movie make the first impression on me (I can watch a movie, then go read the book, and end up liking both, but it rarely happens the other way around.)Second: Just a list of cool scenes:- First, the dwarf-tossing... MAN. It was like a bomb went off when he landed. As in the first one, they really did a good job portraying just how insanely skilled the members of the Fellowship are, yet at the same time, still making it feel plausible somehow...- The ent-battle, I imagine, was better in the book... The "ent rage" could have been done a lot cooler, judging by people's responses, but nonetheless, having not read the book, the ent battle rocked. They made them seem a little silly rather than ancient and majestic (understandable, considering it's hard to put talking trees on film and not have them seen silly), but they still knew how to totally thrash things around when it came down to it.- One or two bonus points for giving the orcs individual personalities this time around... They're still plain evil, but somehow I can accept that a little more if you show the in-fighting et cetera.- They came very close to letting Smeagol become Jar Jar Binks, but the Gollum side actually made that work... Round of applause to that. Still under-impressed with the computer graphics in the movies (which isn't to say they're bad, but they're still far too distinguishable from the live-action stuff), but for Gollum it seemed okay... I mean, he looked cartoony, but the character is pretty cartoony to begin with, so I can deal with that.- Other stuff? I think the only part of the film that really bored me was the love story... Not that I'm entirely anti-love story, and it did add a certain sense of sacrifice to the battles, but I felt it was drawn out way too long, very over-emphasized. So everything but those sequences, I'm at the very least okay with.Good movie. Enjoyed it more than the first on some levels, although the first one did have more of an adventursome feel to it that felt lacking this time around (aside from Frodo and Samwise). There was also a lot less depth that we saw in the characters, although they showed more personality as well.Anyway, now I've got to wait a year to see just how Frodo and Samwise are going to make it through Mordor alive. Must not give in yet... must not read the books... must not...</blockquote>

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