> Best part about the Ent scenes: > -they looked fantastic. > > Worst parts: > - They used John Rhys-Davies for Treebeard's voice. I'm > thinking "Hey - > it's Tree-Gimli!" Surely they could have found some other > top voice talent > who didn't already have a major role in the movie. > - The change to make Merry & Pippin "trick" Treebeard into going to > Isengard, getting mad, and attacking. How would Pippin know > that Isengard > had pillaged all the surrounding trees, when obviously even > the Ents didn't?
I expect something in TTT:EE to fix that > > That didn't bug me. I didn't miss the stuff about them > seeing Saruman > earlier > and the spooked horses, etc. at all. I'm really not bothered by changes to the story at all. Its really rather interesting, like watching a band cover another musicians hit song. > Fortunately Liv Tyler couldn't > handle swordplay, so they canned > their plans to stick Arwen in assorted battles. If only Tarantino had done the same for Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.. gawd, she was awful. > > > Now they've got to spend a good bit of time finishing book two in > > > movie three and I'm sure they'll have to axe a bunch of stuff out > > > of that to > > > make it short enough. No Scouring of the Shire, I'll > bet, or if it's > > > there it will be severely truncated. > > If you didn't read my last post: The Saruman palantir scene > is now cut out, and the scouring of the shire was never filmed. YAY! Its an appendix/addendum/epilogue, anyway. > > >I feel there is just too much in the last book to do in 120 minutes, > >especially since they have the last part of Two Towers to complete. > >While critics are praising the movie already, I suspect I will be > >disappointed. > > Well, it'll be *at least* 180 minutes. I heard rumors that > it will be more > like > 210! That's plenty of time for the remaining material. Huzzah! -j- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
