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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Midnight" data-source="post: 537673" data-attributes="member: 69">Second viewing, and man, I liked it more this time. It went much more quickly, and I didn't have that jolted sense of Uh-Oh going into the first half-hour. Ahhh... and Gimli just endeared himself further to me. I shouted with glee when he was tossed. Something I didn't mention before, that's almost a nitpick: Theoden under Saruman's spell. From the book's description, I got the impression that Theoden was just feeling and acting older, not looking it at all. I was expecting Bernard Hill to do a fine job of straightening in his throne and making me believe he'd been FEELING older than he was, but the movie gave us the really really (really) old and quite nasty King Theoden. I'm almost disappointed, but I liked the movie's take on it as well. I shrugged and kept on enjoying. Wormtongue- excellent. There's nothing like being in the theater with a good crowd- both times I've seen it, there've been cheers for Gimli's acts, Legolas's horse-vault, and that one flaming ent dousing himself in the flood. It's terrific to watch a movie that way- hearing the gasps, laughs, and cheers doubles the effect for me, and makes me grin like a stupid ninny. EXCEPT- both times, the theater laughed at Gollum's mono-dialogue. I feel like it was a very serious and dangerous thing we were watching (for the most part), and the crowd were chuckling at him like "oh, the silly little imp, ha ha." I'm more and more pleased with this movie. I think at this point I'm as jazzed as I was last year after my second viewing, and that's saying a hell of a lot. I'd love to buy PJ a drink, and I wish his family a very happy holiday season, and many to come. I always get sappy when I'm overjoyed. Smack me already.</blockquote>

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