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Subject: Lord of the Rings
I saw it and thought it was good.The special effects were incredible and the cast was as great as they were in the prior movies.They had a real genuine feel to them.Some people were saying that this was the movie of the millenium and all that.I disagree with that.Should win for special effectas though.
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Never heard of it.
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Where are you from?YOU NEVER HEARD OF LORD OF THE RINGS!
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Never heard of it.
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I thought it was really good, but not as good as Harry Potter. The end seemed to last a very long time. But the movies did convince me to read the books.
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I saw it and thought it was good.The special effects were incredible and the cast was as great as they were in the prior movies.They had a real genuine feel to them.Some people were saying that this was the movie of the millenium and all that.I disagree with that.Should win for special effectas though.
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Heh heh. Time for a "special LyricBoy moment". :)
The special effects guy for this movie went to high school with me. Studied his butt off. His old man even built an observatory for him in the family home. Newspapers ran articles as to how smart this guy was. He liked to let people know how smart he was.
Come senior year, he would have been the sole class valedictorian by the formula that was then in effect. However, that formula was, let's say, "flawed", because a friend of mine had more A's and less B's than him, yet by the flawed formula was out of the running.
So, the instigator that LyricBoy is, ;D I took this whole situation to the principal to appeal the lack of fairness. Now mind you, the principal never really liked me, but to his credit he was quite upset about the unfair nature of the "calculation" once I pointed it out to him. So he had it changed and we then had 7 Valedictorians. (No, I was not one of them. I screwed off in high school but was at top of my class in college).
At graduation, each valedictorian had the chance to make a speech. Let's just say that this guy's speech was something less than a glowing, sportsmanlike speech and the audience knew it. I laughed my butt off, knowing that it was all thanks to my instigation. :D
Anyway... this guy won an Oscar for the effects in the last "Rings" movie. so all turned out well for him. ;)
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Movie theatre prices are disgustingly high here in the U.S., but I will go to a matinee for it. And for me to shell out the $6.00 for a matinee, it has to be a movie I consider "da' bomb". I'll let ya' know what I think. :)
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I saw the movie last night and it was great!
As for ticket price, the showtime was 7pm on a Mon.
Youth(13-17) $7.91
Tax $1.34
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Total $9.25
The entertainment tax is 17%! That's just too much...
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Never heard of it.
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WHAT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE???????????? :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Anyways it rocked like all of them did.
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WHAT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE???????????? :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Anyways it rocked like all of them did.
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I think that Kenny was being facetious. :)
Subject: Re: Lord of the Rings
Another fantastic movie. So sad to see it end. :'( Someone tell me what happened to Frodo in the end?
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He went with Gandolf and Bilbo with the elves.Why would you leave the movie early?
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Another fantastic movie. So sad to see it end. :'( Someone tell me what happened to Frodo in the end?
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I think that Kenny was being facetious. :)
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Yup... ;)
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He went with Gandolf and Bilbo with the elves.Why would you leave the movie early?
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Maybe because the ending seemed to go on FOREVER...
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I would have left the movie, but I was with other people who actually ENJOYED it. (I only saw the first one.) It was probably the worst movie I'd ever seen.
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It was a horrible movie.
It was horribly LONG.
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He went with Gandolf and Bilbo with the elves.Why would you leave the movie early?
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I didn't leave, I was just wondering where they headed off to.
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Going with the elves to the light. I think he was going to his death. The older guy and Filbo were old. That's my guess :-/.
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Going with the elves to the light. I think he was going to his death. The older guy and Filbo were old. That's my guess :-/.
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That was my guess also. Thanks!!!
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The way I remember it was written, I don't think it was a trip to their deaths, but towards immortality...
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I loved the movie!!! It took my breath away!
But I am a little confused about Frodo and that wizard (forget his name right now :-/ ). I'm assuming that it was symoblic to death and the afterlife.
As for the ending dragging on, I actually don't mind movies that do. I was actually sad to finally see it end. :(
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OK, I haven't seen the film yet, but I'm assuming that in the end, Gandalf, Bilbo and Frodo go off in a little boat or something. In the films it's never made clear, but the elves originally came from another part of the world that was moved by the gods to another plane of existence... that's where the hobbits and Gandalf were going to. They weren't going off to die, they were going to live with the elves. Also, Gandalf (and Saruman, by the way) was actually a demigod who was sent to Middle-Earth to fight Sauron, so technically he can't die.
That's quite a confusing explanation, isn't it? ;)
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Nope not confusing at all....you have enlightened me. Thank You. :D ;)
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I didn't get to see it because I'd gotten sick. Once I fully recover I intend on seeing it. I have one question though....
Please, someone tell me -
Is Christopher Lee in it?
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No he is not.His character died when their compound was flooded. I heard it was edited out....hmm I wonder why?Maybe because the movie was long enough?Whenever the extended DVD version comes out its a 20 minute scene.
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I didn't get to see it because I'd gotten sick. Once I fully recover I intend on seeing it. I have one question though....
Please, someone tell me -
Is Christopher Lee in it?
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I didn't get to see it because I'd gotten sick. Once I fully recover I intend on seeing it. I have one question though....
Please, someone tell me -
Is Christopher Lee in it?
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Lee's scene were cut, and he wasn't very happy about it. It's never made clear then whether Saruman and Wormtongue are actually dead. Gandalf tells Treebeard that he doesn't have any power any more, but that's it. We never learn what actually happens to them. In the book, Gandalf lets them go and they go off to cause all sorts of mayhem in The Shire, but that doesn't happen in the film.
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Goreripper's right, in the book, Saruman and Grima (Wormtongue) are not killed at the ruin of Isengard but escape and cause a lot of vengeful destruction in the Shire, only to be defeated once again when Frodo and the other hobbits return after the destruction of the Ring. Wormtongue in the end turns against Saruman and kills him by cutting his throat, and is in turn killed by the hobbits' arrows.
It's a shame Christoper Lee's parts were edited out of "The Return Of The King", personally I could have done with a bit of Saruman and a bit less Gollum. I just can't take the Gollum character seriously because his voice is identical to a character in a kids' TV show in the UK (The Tweenies).
Having said that, The Return Of The King is an outstanding film, the special effects are groundbreaking. I thought the Ride of the Rohirrim was just spectacular, it was my favourite chapter in the book and I was concerned that the film scene wouldn't do it justice but I was wrong. Also the part where the eagles come and grab Frodo and Sam off the rock, the gentle closing of their talons on their bodies was perfect, I thought, you just couldn't believe it was not a real giant eagle!
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That's a darn shame. :-/
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I don't think that's the case. You're talking about the flooding in the end of the second movie, right? IMO, the water would have never reached a high enough level to cover/flood the tower which housed Saruman.
Thanks for your input though. :)
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I can't believe Christoper Lee was filmed for the third installment and then cut, completely removed in that manner. >:(
As annoying of a fact as that is, I'm sure the movie turned out beautifully just the same. I'll be checking out that matinee soon.
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I liked how Jackson added a touch of the Battle of Five Armies to the end of the film when Merry and Pippin start shouting "The Eagles have come!" :)
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goreripper, you're right again that the eagles took part in the Battle of The Five Armies in "The Hobbit" but checking back in my well thumbed copy of "Lord Of The Rings", they also appear in Chapter IV Book VI, "The Field Of Cormallen", and the text reads pretty much as it was in the film:
"...straight down upon the Nazgul they bore, stooping suddenly out of the high airs, and the rush of their wings wide as they passed over was like a gale."
Pippin also says "The eagles are coming!" before passing out under the body of a dead troll at the end of the chapter "The Black Gate Opens".
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You know, you're right. I forgot about that. It's been a couple of years since I read the book and my memory of the Field of Cormallen is fuzzy. I couldn't remember whether there actually was a battle there. I remember a lot of sabre rattling from Gandalf, Aragorn and the Mouth of Sauron, but obviously they actually did fight. :)
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I think that Kenny was being facetious. :)
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oh....... :-[
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Yeah, I forgot too, I had to look it up in the book. There were a few other things I saw in the film that I wasn't sure if they were true to the book but when I looked them up, they were. The major change was bringing back the army of the dead from inside a mountain rather than from the Marshes of the Dead...I wonder why they decided to do that?
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from inside a mountain rather than from the Marshes of the Dead...I wonder why they decided to do that?
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Because it's right. ;)
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Ah - I am undone!
I just read it again....and indeed the film is accurate and my memory is faulty, no surprise there really. I got it mixed up with the bit where Frodo, Sam and Gollum pass through the Dead Marshes.