[LotR] My enthusiasm for all other movies will pale in comparison...

[Spatula]

As much as I counted the seconds to FoTR and TT, I just can't get the enthusiam up for RoTK. TT diverged way too much from the true story for me. It was a good movie, and will be a good trilogy, but I'd have really liked to have seen a truer version. I'll be in the theatre Wednesday, but I have a great feeling of trepidation, as if I were going to a funeral.

I was feeling the same, but ROTK is much more faithful to the book than TT - aside from the omissions, of course. It's much more like Fellowship in that regard.

 

[Goodsport]

That's a problem? It means that the party goes on for another year yet!

True, but I've gotta wait almost an entire year before attending that (Extended Version) party.


-G

 

[Olive]

As much as I counted the seconds to FoTR and TT, I just can't get the enthusiam up for RoTK. TT diverged way too much from the true story for me. It was a good movie, and will be a good trilogy, but I'd have really liked to have seen a truer version. I'll be in the theatre Wednesday, but I have a great feeling of trepidation, as if I were going to a funeral.

After watching the extended TTT, I'm nmuch more excited about RotK. Plus the few I know who have seen it say it's better than TTT.

 

[Jarval]

http://www.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=823

That is all

 

[kengar]

http://www.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=823

That is all

Rats! Beat me to it!

 

[WayneLigon]

Going at midnight tonight; can't wait! I have my pre-purchased ticket burning a hole in my wallet. Three hours and 30 minutes of fantasy goodness. Then, when the extended version rolls around... another hour and five or ten minutes added on. It's like getting two movies in one. Well, nothing 'like' about it, is there?

 

[Henry]

http://shop.newline.com/catalog/category.xml?pcid1=2506&category_id=2549

a $15 official poster of their favorite character isn't that much more than a non-matinee movie ticket.

Where I live, a matinee costs $5.00, and a full ticket costs $7.50.

When I say cheap, I mean CHEAP.

 

[Eridanis]

Seeing the movie tonight brings up a lot of feelings that I'm sure I'll be able to verbalize better tommorrow. These movies, and what they represent, have meant a lot to me over the past two years, and I will be torn about seeing the conclusion. What makes me happy, though, is that I'll be seeing the movie with my wife and brother, and we'll get to experience together.

I just hope my cold holds off so I can enjoy it without sniffles and coughs!

 

[EricNoah]

What makes me happy, though, is that I'll be seeing the movie with my wife and brother, and we'll get to experience together.

Yeah that's a big part of it for me, too. I was so thrilled that my wife was with me especially for FotR because at the end I turned to her and said, "See? This is what I like. This is why fantasy is so important to me." And I think for the first time she totally got it.

 

[kengar]

Yeah that's a big part of it for me, too. I was so thrilled that my wife was with me especially for FotR because at the end I turned to her and said, "See? This is what I like. This is why fantasy is so important to me." And I think for the first time she totally got it.

I was with some friends at a bar and the conversation came around to movies. (This was a few months after FOTR came out.) One of the guys starts talking about heroes in film, so the topic swings around to the Duke, war movies, Clint Eastwood, and so on. So the debate boils down to gutsiest move/line in a movie. Patton shooting at the strafing plane, etc.

I'm not a big western or war movie buff, so I'd been pretty quiet up to this point on the subject. Then I pipe in:

"I will take the Ring to Mordor... though, I do not know the way."

There's a moment of quiet and the guy who had been arguing for the scene in "A Bridge too far" where James Caan is driving his wounded buddy through hordes of Nazis, stops and says "Oh yeah, a little guy like that taking on a job like that? Frodo had b*lls that CLANKED!"