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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6061923" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>The wife and I saw it Saturday night.</p><p></p><p>It was long, but we liked it.</p><p></p><p>The begining scene with old Bilbo and Frodo served a couple functions. 1) it gave elijah wood a chance to be Frodo again after 10 years. 2) it also let old Bilbo set up the deviations in the film from the book when he says "I never told you everything that happened"</p><p></p><p>Since we know this tiny book has been split up into a trilogy, it explains why we got the extra scenes with Radaghast and the Necromancer. That stuff wasn't really in the book. But now we got those scenes, because you can bet, one of the movies will focus on the taking out of the Necromancer, where in the book, it was "Gandalf went out and did some stuff involving a necromancer, but he's back now"</p><p></p><p>the Pale Orc is really just the same trick Jackson did with the leader Uruk Hai in Fellowship, or the big fat general in Return. He gives us a singular, recognizable villain to hate, rather than a plain mass of never ending orcs.</p><p></p><p>last on my list of observations is this. When Fellowship came out in December 2001, we were all pretty bummed about 9/11. We were fixing to bomb Afghanistan back into the stone age. When I watched that film, Gandalf's monologue to Frodo bore some relevance to the situation (scene where Gandalf is pondering which way to go in Moria).</p><p></p><p>Once again, some tragedy has struck and Gandalf once again has some wisdom for us when he tells Galadriel that he eschews Saruman's strategy of seeking power to combat evil with force. He says that it is the small acts of goodness that tip the balance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6061923, member: 8835"] The wife and I saw it Saturday night. It was long, but we liked it. The begining scene with old Bilbo and Frodo served a couple functions. 1) it gave elijah wood a chance to be Frodo again after 10 years. 2) it also let old Bilbo set up the deviations in the film from the book when he says "I never told you everything that happened" Since we know this tiny book has been split up into a trilogy, it explains why we got the extra scenes with Radaghast and the Necromancer. That stuff wasn't really in the book. But now we got those scenes, because you can bet, one of the movies will focus on the taking out of the Necromancer, where in the book, it was "Gandalf went out and did some stuff involving a necromancer, but he's back now" the Pale Orc is really just the same trick Jackson did with the leader Uruk Hai in Fellowship, or the big fat general in Return. He gives us a singular, recognizable villain to hate, rather than a plain mass of never ending orcs. last on my list of observations is this. When Fellowship came out in December 2001, we were all pretty bummed about 9/11. We were fixing to bomb Afghanistan back into the stone age. When I watched that film, Gandalf's monologue to Frodo bore some relevance to the situation (scene where Gandalf is pondering which way to go in Moria). Once again, some tragedy has struck and Gandalf once again has some wisdom for us when he tells Galadriel that he eschews Saruman's strategy of seeking power to combat evil with force. He says that it is the small acts of goodness that tip the balance. [/QUOTE]
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