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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lady Starhawk" data-source="post: 540114" data-attributes="member: 441">Well, just got home a bit aog from seeing it.  I loved it!!! It was everything I hoped it would be and more.  I can't wait to see the next one.Not sure if anyone else noticed this, but throughout most (if not all) of the movie Gollum speaks of himself as 'us',  'we' and such...but his last line of the movie (after he said 'We'll take them to her') was "follow Me".  As if he was finally a whole being again after making his decision.  MAybe I'm trying to make something of nothing...but it struck me.I loved Gimli.  He's just so great!  I didn't mind the dwarf jokes, I thought it made the characters seem a bit more realistic.  I mean every group of freinds has at least 1 person that gets ribbed all the time (IME).  It broke the tension and let you know the characters are really freinds in that they can mess around even in the middle of dire circumstances.Tolkien was a lousy writer.  Brilliant man, but lousy writer.  He had a wonderful story to tell, but he did it in such a dry, textbook way.  (I know he was a linguistics professor, but I read novels to ESCAPE from my textbooks.)  And yes I did read the triology...but it was a very difficult, dry read to this dyslexic.  I liked the books all right, but it took a lot of work, and a lot of help, to get me through them.Overall I liked the chagnes from the books.  I didn't really think of the book at all when I was watching because to me film and the printed page are such diffrent mediums they really can't and shouldn't be compared.  I had some trouble pinning down some of the characters and their motivations, but hopefully future viweings will sort everything out for me.  It was so much to take in at once.I didn't leave the theater feeling quite as jazzed as I did a year ago.  Last year after seeing 'fellowship' I was floored at the wonderful film making and the different emotions I went through during the film.  I was not moved to tears today.  In fellowship I ended up actually crying during the movie.  It absorbed me into the story and the characters so much that I felt the losses.  Now, perhaps I didn't get the same feelings because I have read the books and know that (for instance) Aragorn doesn't die.  so some of the shock isn't there as it was in Fellowship.  But sometimes when I actively watch my DVD of fellowship I can find myself moved to tears to this day for Gandalf and/or Boromir.All in all a wonderful movie.  I was impressed and amazed at every turn, but I was a little disappointed that I wasn't as emotionally drawn into the film as I was with the first one.  It didn't take me through the range of emotions, so I left feeling a little flat, full and satisfied, but just a little 'blah' emotionally.But as with the new Star Wars movies, I am going to reserve my final judgement for after I have seen all 3 and know WHY certain things were done.  (But I have a feeling LOTR will fare better than the prequel SW movies)Just my thoughts,  I am still going to see it again <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Lady starhawk</blockquote>

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