I'm going to see LOTR TWO TOWERS AGAIN this Tuesday!!!!!!

bbchris

Cause it was SO GOOD on Friday night! Long live Treebeard! :banana

Hey Debbie, sorry that I didn't call you about Friday's show! As you know I saw Abe outside the cinema........ :banana

Jane Eliz|Blah Blah|Thinking Out Loud|Today's Song|

Jorn Lavoll · Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 197

seeing it again tonight

in about 4 hours. :racing

debbie mannas · Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 1352

This time I was smart - I booked 2 towers in advance for monday and then harry potter tomorrer at 1. Wheeeeeee.

You going for the Wanchai Road Party?

Last night I watched Bridget Jones Diary for the 4th time and still laughed and laughed. Have you seen Lagaan? I have it at home and havent got round to watching it yet.

Anyhoo, gotta dash now, have a great weekend pal.

xx

d

LarreeMP3 · Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 1935

I am going again on Monday or Tuesday !!!!!

PANick11 · Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 402

I've watched em twice now, spellboud....stunned....amazed..

even though they did some odd things

Like...well...what Joseph Campbel wannabe decided to Through Aragorn into the river with a wolf and have him "rise again" to fight at healms deep?...I guess they were going for the dying and resurected king thing to show where he goes from being Strider to Aragorn, heir of the thrown of Gongor. Tolkien wrote it much better and with far more subtlty in the scene where Aragorn Takes the seeing stone from Gandalf when they part and says.."when have you ever known me to be hasty?"

hmmm

and, why were there woodland elves fighting on the walls of Helms Deep?...To my mind this trivializes the heroism of Legolas!!...he was the one Elven Arccher who stood by the cause of middle Earth!!.....that's the whole point!!..Legolas, side by side with a dwarf still amazed and touched by the cause while the other elves are heading to the west...

AND!!!

what the hell was that about Faramir taking Frodo and the ring to the white city????

this trvializes Faramir!!...he's the more clearsighted brother who, even upon discovering that frodo bears Isildors Bane chooses to aid him on his way rather than be seduced by the ring.....This is what sets him apart from Boramir!!....as is shown in Tolkiens eloquent lines for Faramir...like, "I love the arrow not for it's swifteness and the sword not for it's sharpness, but for what they can defend"

sigh...

still....I've never been more moved by film in my life....really...spellbound...and I suppose that writing a screenplay for an epic like this must be pretty daunting.

PANick

Yj2

I just had my 4th showing and I think it won't be the last!

:aw

Sebastian

LarreeMP3 · Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 1935

"what the hell was that about Faramir taking Frodo and the ring to the white city????"

The ONLY reason I can think of for this part of the screenplay would have been to add just a little more action for the character. And of course, the more battles the better !!!

LarreeMP3 · Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 1935

And I think there should have been more ents. I wanted to see the whole forest move !!!

Edited by: LarreeMP3 at: 1/11/03 7:49:08 pm

PANick11 · Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 402

yes...it's the trees who are supposed to save the day at helms deep!!

oh well.....I guess I should stop bitching..

I still think these are the most magnificent films of all time...

PANick

Jorn Lavoll · Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 197

ahhh.. just came home from watching it a second time

need... to... go.. many .. more times.

good for me: on the way i walk home from work, i walk past one of the largest cinemas in bergen.. and there's usually a show there

just pop in for a movie on my way home.

debbie mannas · Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 1352

I have a cinema round the corner from where I work, but rarely have the time to watch a movie. I've decided I'm going to make some more chill time for me this year.

I don't know how anything can compare with the book, but they did a damn sight better than what I was expecting the first time around. So I'm really looking forward to this one.

cheers

d

bbchris

Jorn!!!! hahahahahahahaha WHere's Bergen???

Debbie!!!! Smart girl!!! Harry Potter is Fabulous too!

Panick! Now you've ruined the film for Debbie!!!!! hahahahahahahahahaa

Well I've NOT read LOTR so I don't care if it's like the book or not!!!!! hahahaaha I have to say it's a FANTASTIC film! Those scenes are so awesome on a HUGE cinema screen. I was talking to a negative soul yesterday who said oh 'I'll wait for it on DVD' and 'I don't like cinemas' - those people are CRAZY! hahahaha I love going to a film and disappearing inside the movie :banana

I want to see a movie EVERY Friday night now - hahahahahahaha :banana

Jane Eliz|Blah Blah|Thinking Out Loud|Today's Song|

PANick11 · Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 402

Ooops...sorry Debbie..

pay no attention to those silly lies I posted..

:eek

:.....

as usual, I type faster than I think..

(and I type very slowly...if that gives you any indication ...)

but to be honest....I could tell you the whole screenplay and it wouldn't take awa from these films..

they're extrordinary....a devoted rendering of THE great mythological epic of our times...

You'll be stunned....I guarentee it!!

PANick

debbie mannas · Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 1352

Chris!

debbie mannas · Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 1352

Chris! You MUST read the book(s) including the Hobbit. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. They're a serious thrill. I read em for the first time when I was about 12 and then about three times since then. But I dont have em here in HK, damn.

PaNick - no worries, I was about to hurl some abuse at you, but I went to mass instead hehehe :lol

Cheers all, have a fantastic week.

d