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It's alright.
Not the best film I've ever seen, not even the best film I've seen this year.
But it's alright.
Needed more monkeys and boobs.
Seriously though, it was alright.
I'm not even slightly a fan of beardy fantasy stuff, pixies make me angry. But I enjoyed this one. Don't have a burning need to see it again but it's certainly worth a watch.
Good things:
Christopher Lee throwing down in a wizard fashion.
Viggo Mortensen whupping orc-ass with fire.
The Balrog
The Cave Troll
The overall imagery - incredible effects that don't look like effects and sets.
The Mines of Moria. These things are MASSIVE
Bad things:
Liv Tyler - What was the point of her being in it? For 1:15 screen time?
Sean Astin's big fat ginger face
Elves - They look poncy and look like they've escaped from a Poison video.
Agent Smith. In drag.
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I think my viewing was ruined by the utter chimps in the cinema.
These are people that clearly went because it was an evening out and The Sun called it "one of the best movies of the year".
They had no idea of what the film was about, had never heard of Lord of The Rings and just fidgeted because Bruce Willis didn't blow anything up.
Two blokes behind me stood up and said "What a crap ending. They didn't get rid of the ring".
After a brief chat with them, I learned that they had never heard of the book, had no idea there are another 2 films to come and came because "there were swords in it, like Braveheart and stuff"
I nearly set them on fire.
So, Fellowship of The Rings.
It won't cure famine, it won't bring world peace.
It's a good movie with pixies and elves and beardy wizards riding eagles.
It's alright.
Not the best film I've ever seen, not even the best film I've seen this year.
But it's alright.
Needed more monkeys and boobs.
Seriously though, it was alright.
I'm not even slightly a fan of beardy fantasy stuff, pixies make me angry. But I enjoyed this one. Don't have a burning need to see it again but it's certainly worth a watch.
Good things:
Christopher Lee throwing down in a wizard fashion.
Viggo Mortensen whupping orc-ass with fire.
The Balrog
The Cave Troll
The overall imagery - incredible effects that don't look like effects and sets.
The Mines of Moria. These things are MASSIVE
Bad things:
Liv Tyler - What was the point of her being in it? For 1:15 screen time?
Sean Astin's big fat ginger face
Elves - They look poncy and look like they've escaped from a Poison video.
Agent Smith. In drag.
--
I think my viewing was ruined by the utter chimps in the cinema.
These are people that clearly went because it was an evening out and The Sun called it "one of the best movies of the year".
They had no idea of what the film was about, had never heard of Lord of The Rings and just fidgeted because Bruce Willis didn't blow anything up.
Two blokes behind me stood up and said "What a crap ending. They didn't get rid of the ring".
After a brief chat with them, I learned that they had never heard of the book, had no idea there are another 2 films to come and came because "there were swords in it, like Braveheart and stuff"
I nearly set them on fire.
So, Fellowship of The Rings.
It won't cure famine, it won't bring world peace.
It's a good movie with pixies and elves and beardy wizards riding eagles.
It's alright.
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I recommend Ghost World, best film I've seen Steve Buscemi in since Resevoir Dogs.
My vein hurts. :-(
Did someone mention weed?
One more thing, I haven't seen ghost world Stryke, but annoyingly my sister has, and she doesn't even like films. She said it was very good, unfortunately in the Warwickshire backwaters obscure films don't get cinema releases of more than a week and I usually have to wait for them to come out on DVD. Ah well, Ghost World should be out fairly soon because it didn't get a very widespread release.
Oh and Snuggly I expect to see a full staff review of Mallrats.. very soon...
Everyone's going through a bit of a group hug session at the moment!
So for the record,
1. I got "holier-than-tou" about the beastie boys because a guy named Jericho insulted them, people named after WWF wrestlers have zero-credibility. People who like WWF should also be disenfranchised, apart from Ant, but he's a notable so that works in his favour.
2. Also, Ant said that he hadn't heard of them so they can't be influential. There I targeted the misconception that because you haven't heard of someone they cannot be influential. I probably mixed this with some Jericho-related abuse but that wasn't targeted at Ant. Even if he does like Bon Jovi, who is the stain on the y-fronts of the universe.
In unrelated abuse this week...
3. How is Luke Skywalker meant to learn about the force from a puppet with Jim Henson's hand up his a**e?!
4. People who run around dressed as wizards are geeks, people who go to Star Wars conventions are geeks, people who like kevin smith films are film geeks. So we're all geeks.
5. Every list has to have at least five points or else it isn't really a list. Oh, one thing I really need to make quite clear is that I do not like Robson and Jerome at all, I own the album because one of my relatives thought it would make a great christmas present a while back. I have an entire sub section of cds from this relative, including such luminaries as Wet Wet Wet and the Spice Girls.. By far the most embarrassing album I own, which was also the first album I bought, is *cough* Jason Donovan *cough* it's on tape, so it's old because I was young when I bought it... oh the shame!
So for the record,
1. I got "holier-than-tou" about the beastie boys because a guy named Jericho insulted them, people named after WWF wrestlers have zero-credibility. People who like WWF should also be disenfranchised, apart from Ant, but he's a notable so that works in his favour.
2. Also, Ant said that he hadn't heard of them so they can't be influential. There I targeted the misconception that because you haven't heard of someone they cannot be influential. I probably mixed this with some Jericho-related abuse but that wasn't targeted at Ant. Even if he does like Bon Jovi, who is the stain on the y-fronts of the universe.
In unrelated abuse this week...
3. How is Luke Skywalker meant to learn about the force from a puppet with Jim Henson's hand up his a**e?!
4. People who run around dressed as wizards are geeks, people who go to Star Wars conventions are geeks, people who like kevin smith films are film geeks. So we're all geeks.
5. Every list has to have at least five points or else it isn't really a list. Oh, one thing I really need to make quite clear is that I do not like Robson and Jerome at all, I own the album because one of my relatives thought it would make a great christmas present a while back. I have an entire sub section of cds from this relative, including such luminaries as Wet Wet Wet and the Spice Girls.. By far the most embarrassing album I own, which was also the first album I bought, is *cough* Jason Donovan *cough* it's on tape, so it's old because I was young when I bought it... oh the shame!
Yes, we're all geeks, movies or gaming. Can we PLEASE now pretend to be hobbits and smoke some that delicious Shire weed? And I want some made up fireworks. And a beard. One of those massive, plaited beards that hide things like horses in them. Can I get one from SR?
Stryke wrote:
and Goatboy can be the fat little
> Astin guy. :-D
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Yay! I get be a fat ginger midget with repressed feelings for my mate called "Frodo".
Hurrah!
and Goatboy can be the fat little
> Astin guy. :-D
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Yay! I get be a fat ginger midget with repressed feelings for my mate called "Frodo".
Hurrah!
I'm a geek.
I'm a movie geek 100% and a music geek. If the movie is in black and white with subtitles, I'll watch it and pretend I loved it.
Er..that's not right.
I'm not a geek, I dont have a beard (well a goatee) and I never play in the woods.
I'm a movie geek 100% and a music geek. If the movie is in black and white with subtitles, I'll watch it and pretend I loved it.
Er..that's not right.
I'm not a geek, I dont have a beard (well a goatee) and I never play in the woods.
Superb. For the record, I think you play games too much ;-) Now grow up, and you can be the beardy wizard, I'll be the goblin, and Goatboy can be the fat little Astin guy. :-D
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