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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 1278043" data-attributes="member: 6791">Just saw it again. Was surprised to find it better the second time. I still hold to my first review that was posted earlier in this thread. Although, I suspect no one read it because of the huge amount of spoiler black out lines.I add some more tid bits about the movie.First time I watched it, everyone laughed and cheered at the appropriate scenes. Second time was a little different. No one ever laughed at either Pippin or Aragorn singing. But...the inappropriate laughter came in on the second time I watched it. Some uncontrollable laughter erupted from two guys during the scene where Frodo wakes up in bed after being rescued by the eagles. They laughed when Legolas appeared at the door. Then when Aragorn appeared. Then they started to attempt to be quiet...but lost control again and laughed when Sam showed up. I assume its the nature of the dreamy lighting and the slo-mo that made them laugh. Probably misinterpreting the scene to be 'romantic like entrances' rather than just good friends entering a room. The slo-mo doesn't help I admit. On another note, ever cheer at a part that no one else cheered at? Like your mind cheered on impulse without first waiting to hear if anyone else was cheering. Thus, you ended up being the only one cheering and slightly embarrassed. Well, I did a small cheer at a part no else cheered at. But didn't mind. I wasn't embarrassed or anything. It was when Rosie threw the flowers and Pippen caught it instead of the girl next to him. Then the girl next to him gives him this look, suggesting to the audience that Pippen may find a romantic interest next. At that I did a small cheer. A little "Yeah!" Speaking of Eowyn vs. the Witch King. Indeed, Eowyn is one of my favorite characters. I too felt a tad let down on PJ's version. Not totally so much to dislike the scene entirely...but I just wish it was better. Yeah, the staging was very undynamic and so was the cheoreography. And I love Miranda Otta to pieces, but her fighting stance was poor and so was her warcry. I kinda wished that she didnt' do any warcry before thrusting her sword through the Witch King's head.Having listened to the commentary and hearing Miranda yearn for some fighting time on screen (much like Eowyn), .......I expected her to be really physically ready when it came time. It didn't seem like it. She seemed to somewhat fight like a girl who's about a week into self-defense class at the local community center. Now, to be fair....the fault may not be in Miranda's performance. It simply could be the way PJ directed her to move or the stunt coordinator telling her to do this or that. Who knows. But the end product wasn't completely to my liking. Having Faramir's character have extra depth in the movie version made me even more excited about seeing him and Eowyn find each other. So, yet another little disappointment when I don't see them in that moment when the talk to each other. Here's another thing. Where were the Easterlings? Maybe in the book they don't show up at Pellenor Fields, but since they were shown in TTT.........shouldn't they have made an appearence?</blockquote>

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