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Return of the King
Just got back from RotK (and dinner at an Italian restaurant afterwards). It was wonderful, beautiful, spectacular, and in places (several high ones) very unnerving to a person scared of heights. Amazing, stunning sets and SFX. Minas Tirith was breathtaking as were the battles scenes. Huge seige engines, animals as big as Star Wars walking tanks, and trebuchets (Trebuchets! I love trebuchets!), Legolas and Gimli still keeping count, and everything and everyone the way I'd imagined them. No -- better!
Greg ruined one scene for me though. When Sam was fighting Shelob for his life he said, "It beats Brian the Spider," and I laughed. He was right though.
Oddly enough I was quite dry-eyed at the end. The bits that got me were earlier.
Greg ruined one scene for me though. When Sam was fighting Shelob for his life he said, "It beats Brian the Spider," and I laughed. He was right though.
Oddly enough I was quite dry-eyed at the end. The bits that got me were earlier.
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Oh, yes, I can see how that would be.
Star Wars walking tanks
Funnily, I thought of that Star Wars scene, too! But this was much better.
I love trebuchets!
Aren't they fantastic? Such a simple elegant principle.
Yesterday evening, scant hours after seeing RotK, we were watching a documentary about mediaeval warfare, and they were demonstrating a trebuchet. The local expert chap was talking about what they used as missiles, and he specifically mentioned heads of captives.
Legolas and Gimli still keeping count
Hilarious!
*twang* "Eighteen!" *twang* "Nineteen!"
[collapsing mumak]
"That still only counts as one!"
Brian the Spider
Oh, the filthy swine! But yeah, he's right :)
The bits that got me were earlier.
Again, me too :) I'm a sucker for a big battle scene. Or anything with a big buildup to it (shuttle launch, that sort of thing). sobsobsob. I think after all the drama of the film, up to the reunion of the Fellowship, the following scenes just let my emotional tension ebb away gently, so by the time the big Grey Havens moment came I had calmed down again. Still very moving, though.
(I'm thinking about Theoden riding along touching his sword to the Rohirrim spears, and the monitor seems to have gone all blurry...)
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Oh, yes! But I'm still in awe of what Star Wars did way back then, just before B7 was made. Their SFX have stood the test of time.
Yesterday evening, scant hours after seeing RotK, we were watching a documentary about mediaeval warfare, and they were demonstrating a trebuchet. The local expert chap was talking about what they used as missiles, and he specifically mentioned heads of captives.
They used plague victims too. In RotK they fired the heads from catapults very like Roman ones. Gondor's trebuchets were amazing devices to throw the huge chunks of masonry they did. I wish I'd seen more of them
"That still only counts as one!"
Oh, yes! I loved that bit! Hell, I loved all of it!
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Yeah, the original biological weapons!
I also loved the way they were using chunks of their own walls as ammo. "You wanna knock our city down? Fine! We'll throw bits of it at you!"
Hell, I loved all of it!
Wanna see it again! Gonna see it again!
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*blinks stupidly at the screen*
Guh. Aaargh.