I thought that at his coronation, Aragorn looked like Jesus. And Arwen breaks into song: "I don't know how to love him..."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHH! THAT is great!
Legolas was an elf.. they don't attract dirt, they don't sweat and the certainly don't produce sebum! I suppose I should have looked at Aragorn as being realistic.. but they DID have water, so wash your face and neck at least. In the first movie .. or was it the second, it was the second, when everyone was realistically dirty except Eowen and she stuck out as being clean, well in the third, Aragorn stuck out as being too dirty, it was noticable enough to distract me from what was going on.
I was bothered by the loss of The Scouring of the Shire and the death of Saruman. hmm *grin* Not enough violence for you?
If you think about it.. they made a LOT of changed in all three movies with the elves.. The sword is one, they were never at helms deep, whatshisname didn't die, the list goes on and lets face it Elron wasn't NEARLY the asshole he was in the books. Overall they were a lot nicer/less scary/more helpful/a more sympathetic race than depicted in the books.. and you didn't get to see the progression they made to helpfulness. I felt the same way about Merry and Pippin in the first and second movies, you didn't really SEE how bad their behavior was, and didn't see how they developed into decent little hobbit folk and valuable members of the "team". I know it would have been impossible to go into the detail the books did, so that part didn't bother me that much.
I think the reason the Arwen thing bothered me is because she wasn't that big a deal in the books. It bothered me that they knocked out an entire character in the first movie and she took over his role when she took Frodo across the river.. and she was never DYING or attached to the ring etc. It wasn't a change to an entire race.. it was an elevation of a character, and in my opinion THAT was attached to the box office potential of the actress playing that character, NOT a necessity for the story. THAT is more what I object to. Of course is she had done more than sit around and look morose and leak tears, I might not have been so bothered by that elevation.
The level of tears in this movie by her and Sam was too.. much.
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Date: 2004-01-25 10:02 am (UTC)From:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHH! THAT is great!
Legolas was an elf.. they don't attract dirt, they don't sweat and the certainly don't produce sebum! I suppose I should have looked at Aragorn as being realistic.. but they DID have water, so wash your face and neck at least. In the first movie .. or was it the second, it was the second, when everyone was realistically dirty except Eowen and she stuck out as being clean, well in the third, Aragorn stuck out as being too dirty, it was noticable enough to distract me from what was going on.
I was bothered by the loss of The Scouring of the Shire and the death of Saruman. hmm *grin* Not enough violence for you?
If you think about it.. they made a LOT of changed in all three movies with the elves.. The sword is one, they were never at helms deep, whatshisname didn't die, the list goes on and lets face it Elron wasn't NEARLY the asshole he was in the books. Overall they were a lot nicer/less scary/more helpful/a more sympathetic race than depicted in the books.. and you didn't get to see the progression they made to helpfulness. I felt the same way about Merry and Pippin in the first and second movies, you didn't really SEE how bad their behavior was, and didn't see how they developed into decent little hobbit folk and valuable members of the "team". I know it would have been impossible to go into the detail the books did, so that part didn't bother me that much.
I think the reason the Arwen thing bothered me is because she wasn't that big a deal in the books. It bothered me that they knocked out an entire character in the first movie and she took over his role when she took Frodo across the river.. and she was never DYING or attached to the ring etc. It wasn't a change to an entire race.. it was an elevation of a character, and in my opinion THAT was attached to the box office potential of the actress playing that character, NOT a necessity for the story. THAT is more what I object to. Of course is she had done more than sit around and look morose and leak tears, I might not have been so bothered by that elevation.
The level of tears in this movie by her and Sam was too.. much.
I know.. I would have pushed Frodo. *grin*