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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gnarlo" data-source="post: 1287804" data-attributes="member: 2995">Finally got to watch the movie yesterday afternoon, leaving in about an hour for viewing number two <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Loved it, other than for feeling a bit rushed and disjointed. The EE will cure that, as it did for TTT. Only three parts bugged me a bit:1) Never pictured Dunharrow looking like Bluffside. The image of it at the top of the cliff with the zigzagging path climbing up to it just looked to me like "how exotic a location can we make this appear." Of course, I drag out my books this morning and read the arrival of Theoden to Dunharrow, and Pippin describes it exactly as looking like that, so oh well <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  It won't bother me now the next time I see it.This also brings up a related musing of whether PJ has/JRRT had acrophobia. I've lost count in the trilogy of how many times we are standing on a precipice/tower/cliff looking down into the depths. Reminds me a bit of a critic I read remarking how Lovecraft seemed to be scared of fish and fishy smells.2) Denethor's run. I would have liked to have seen Denethor's death scene be a little bit more of him leaping back into the flames rather than Gandalf knocking him into the pyre, but that's a matter of taste. What did bother me was then watching him do a 300 yard dash engulfed in flames; running that far drenched in oil and looking like Jonny Torch? Jarred me out of my belief in the movie for a few seconds.3) Did the scene with Frodo lying in bed and the Fellowship coming into his bedroom remind anyone else of the Wizard of Oz? Especially with it being color-graded into that golden sepia-like tone; I was expecting them to come in dressed in overalls and straw hats. A friend of mine got the same impression, he said he was waiting for Toto to come running in and jump on the bed at any second.Minor niggles though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> To be bothered by less than 1% of 3 1/2 hours entertainment in a conclusion to a movie you've been waiting 26 years for is a stellar performance in my book. Bravo!</blockquote>

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