December 21, 2003
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Return of The King
(our two cents)It’s everything you expect it to be. Bigger and better than LOTR 1 and 2. The landscapes are stunning, the creatures and battles are awesome. The CGI-enhanced New Zealand landscape is amazing. However there were many times when too much was too much. Like the relentless overbearing Celtic soundtrack (depends on whether you like this genre of music and it’s not really our cup of tea); the drawn-out looks between characters (like “Kiss him already!”) and what was with that ending (or endings, rather)?
Mod stuff
© Oni Press websiteCurrently reading: Scooter Girl by Chynna Clugston Major. I’ve been searching for these comics ever since I came across this article. (Newsarama) Finally bought Issues 1-4 yesterday.
Seeing that we both have a thing for the Mod subculture: its music, fashion, street culture, scooters (the 60′s British stuff, not the 80′s revival), it’s interesting to see a manga-ish styled comic book series that pays homage to this subculture… and from a distinctively American teenage perspective. There is a soundtrack which is more Blur and Oasis than 60′s Ska (there are some references, though). Lots of lambrettas…union jacks, guys in suits, girls with slick bobs and miniskirts. I can see why today’s Mod kids would love this stuff.
* We’ve been collecting Subculture links and references HERE in the ‘GB Links’ list. (To access this site, enter username: fwak; password: grabbag)
Comments (4)
by “kiss him already”, you are referring to the hobbits? that look between sam and frodo in the bedroom was pretty intense!
what bothered me the most (and i realize this is just a personal pet peeve!) was the poor military strategy. defending a prepared position is supposed to give you an advantage – what happened to boiling oil and moats?! the humans should have had kill-zones to keep retreating back to. not to mention, the rohan calvary’s entire strategy seemed to be: “let’s take our entire force and charge the orcs, even though we know we don’t have enough soldiers to win”.
but yah, the visuals were awesome – and the movies were incredibly faithful to the book, all things considered. i loved the horror-movie spider sequence – so well done. i will probably see it one more time on the big screen, just to enjoy it again!
Yeah, the hobbits! Now if Sam hadn’t gotten married…
That’s a good point about the military strategy. I actually thought that the battle in the second movie (Two Towers) was more interesting & complex than this one….
yah sam’s “marriage” was the biggest hobbit coverup in the history of the shire!
i thought this was a pretty interesting article on the subject:
http://www.bagendinn.com/features/musings/hobbitlove.asp
Whoa! That’s a very in-depth article on the subject, and it makes total sense. Female characters (& male/female relationships) inTolkein’s world are pretty much one-dimensional. So all the major bonding and emotion is between the guys…