should have just slept at the theater

[phineasjones]

what? it's not like i can just go to bed now. is it?

i don't know what to say. if there's anything to say yet. that's the longest shortest three hour movie there ever was. i am exhausted and hyper and weepy as all get out.

i need to see it again. like, right away. as soon as i can. i wonder when that will be. must find out.

ok, maybe just a few, very vague comments...

legolas/aragorn. never cared before. but omg. why didn't they just kiss? like, a lot?

frodo and sam. this goes so far beyond slash and sex and all those things that i love so much. they just... they leave me teary and speechless. "your sam" ::weeps:: i forgive the non-existent herbs and stewed rabbit bit bc there's so much to make up for it elsewhere.

faramir made me a little sad. he wasn't the things i loved him for in the book. i mean loved him for. but i will not mope around complaining about this. there must be something there, more purpose to this characterization that i don't yet grasp. bc pj is smart like that, yo. he doesn't do these things for no reason.

i really like the arwen parts. and eowyn. i can't wait for her parts of the next movie.

gollum was perhaps the most incredible thing achieved thus far on film. completely amazing. i hated book gollum. and now i pity him, laugh at and with him... feel so so sad for him. yeah, that would be pity. astonishing.

yes. i think that's all i have to say at the moment. there's so so so much more. but i will not necessarily feel compelled to comment on that anyway.



um. i need to see return of the king. like, right now.

Comments

Let me just say . . .

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

I agree with everything you just said. Right in the middle of writing up my own comments as well-maybe I'll just direct folks here *g*. I've seen it twice now, and the thought that I might have to wait ten days to see it again is nearly unbearable!

Re: Let me just say . . .

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

ooh, cool. nice to be agreed with. :)

i saw it again yesterday. thank goodness. i thought i would die if i didn't see it again. i hope i can see it once more before christmas at least. because... yeah. meep. also, the things that bothered me the first time bothered me a little less the second - i think because i was prepared for them.

still disagree with sinister faramir though. ::grumble::

Re: Let me just say . . .

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

So glad you got to see it again. I think the second viewing is really important because I think so many of us were too keed up the first time to truly absorb everything. And yes, quite a few things bothered me less the second time around. That was the case with FOTR, too.

I heard some good news re: Faramir today, but can't remember where I read it. Ack! TTT publicity overload! *g* I think it was an Elijah interview and he discussed how much had been cut from the Faramir scenes. He said that many of the original scenes established Faramir's difficult relationship with his father and his ambivalence towards Boromir. Hence, his need to win his father's approval by sending him the ring. Obviously, a lot got cut. So now, I'm pinning my hopes on the DVD and just on PJ's ability in general to resolve everything to my satisfaction so far.

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[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

i really hope that's true... that there's more faramir to come.

also read an interview with pj where he talked about why he couldn't make faramir as good as he is in the book - bc it would make the ring seem less powerful and yada yada. i guess i can see that. i still wish there were a little more of book!faramir in there. so noble, so wise. ::sigh::

[wildgreentide.livejournal.com]

legolas/aragorn. never cared before. but omg. why didn't they just kiss? like, a lot?

Yes, yes, and hell yes!

I totally agree about Frodo and Sam, too. Love, love, love.