the fact it was a bad idea is what makes the end of TTT exciting - you see the uruk hai set their spears and looks like they'll fail, then Gandalf "flashbangs" them at the last second.
at Minas Tirith it's similar with the cavalry except there it's orcs not uruk hai, and orcs are smaller aren't they? you can see on the orcs' faces that even though they have spears the sight of all the cavalry scares the shit out of them - I love that; it's the first time humans are considered strong.
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I liked it, and accept what PJ et al. said in commentary - that he was trying to get to his friend quickly and used his "elf abilities" to do it.
what's the alternative? I think seeing him running down the stairs would be worse. elves are graceful, how do you gracefully run down lots of little steps?
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I liked the jokes, they didn't seem gratuitous - they were always "in character". the rivalry between Gimli and Legolas is one of my favourite things, when they finally admit they're such good friends (ROTK: "die alongside an elf/friend") it's a fantastic moment and it wouldn't have been so good without the "jokes" - Gimli being too proud (TTT: "toss me, don't tell the elf") is a necessary part.
sometimes swearing is completely justified in a song, however songs that do use swearing in a non-gratuitous way will tend to have some artistic merrit and so be incredibly unlikely to be on radio anyway.
in Reloaded I loved the Burly Brawl. it's obviously flawed, but for me it has the same spirit as the original Matrix rooftop scene - pushing the effects to their limits in a way no one else has the balls to try (except now RotK).
I also love how they take "rules" and just disregard them, the simplicity/naivety is wonderful - someone fires a bullet; move out of the way - and in the Burly Brawl how his fighting is initially quite normal but by the end he's just moving his body in whatever way necessary to hit multiple targets, with no concern for gravity, balance, momentum....
I also thought the squids in Revolutions were fantastic - the way they swarmed like a fluid and how they made the face.
but the couple ROTK scenes that involve the dead army contain almost everthing in Pirates.
while I liked Pirates, nothing about the effects really wowed me.
in ROTK, there are many great effects scenes, and the two where the Rohan rode into the orcs, and the dead army galloping across the sea into battle were amazing.
Gollum on his own deserves the Oscar - more believable than most humans!
The battle at Minas Tirith on its own deserves the Oscar.
But both of them in the same film! There's no way they can lose. If they do it'll be the biggest joke ever, and I imagine there'd be more boos than even Michael Moore's acceptance speech.
hmmm... well there was a case a while ago here in UK where a murderer earned a lot of money for the rights to their story (wrote a book IIRC).
I think the law about earning money in this way was changed due to public outrage, but maybe still possible if your crime is "of public interest" and you only claim "expenses", but not sure.
perhaps a prison sentence would be valuable if you were homeless - shelter and food and opportunities to learn and get some qualifications.
whether these are valid counter-examples or not, hopefully it's clear that the original argument of "potentially valuable to abusers" is about as strong as "technology steals your soul".
if they were making it law that phones must be GPS enables AND everyone must own and carry a phone, you'd begin to have a point.
all they're doing is making sure people in need of help (i.e. dialing emergency services) can be located - that phone manufacturers include this safety feature.
you haven't lost anything, unless you also believe that laws requiring guns to have safety catches also constitute a loss of liberty.
oh sorry I forgot, this is a technology thing, and everyone knows that ever since AOL invented the internet in 1995, any technology thing can be "h4xz0r3d" from your desk.
these guys are literally* wankers - intellectual masturbation at its worst.
there are much worse activities in the world than this, but at least people who do evil things probably think they're doing something worthwhile. does anyone think that this is anything but a sick example of western excesses? if you're so keen to get rid of your money then give it to charity you pricks.
every 10 seconds someone starves to death, every line of Amizilla code another parent buries their child.
no, the first available screening where I live was 10:45 Wednesday morning. no one was in costume. they were obviously fans bu not die-hard. I heard the people next to me talking before the film and they weren't completely familiar with all the character names or a few details of the previous films.
I'm sorry but if the ending to this 12 hours or so of film was the ring being destroyed, then Gandalf turning up and them flying to safety, that would be the most pathetic thing ever.
everything else obvious? it wasn't to me as I haven't read the book. I'm very glad to have learned what happened to everyone. Frodo et al. leaving on the ship was anything but obvious. if it weren't for the ending, I think everyone (or at least me) would leave thinking "so do Bilbo and Frodo turn into Gollum or what?" and several other questions. although they don't give details about where they're sailing too, it's obvious that it's some kind of sanctuary and that Bilbo and Frodo don't just automatically live "happily ever after" after being touched by the evil of the ring.
who said the film should end on a climax? this isn't some typical 90-minute POS, it's a film adaptation of a very long book. although it doesn't have time to cover everything in the book, it starts at the book's start and ends at the book's end including info from the appendices along the way.
sorry but you sound like a spoiled brat. I went to the first available screening. I knew about the long ending beforehand, but it was a bit of a surprise for some others. however, no one was groaning or anything like that, and when The End came up everyone applauded in appreciation of a genuinely amazing film experience.
in the conext of ~12 hour trilogy I feel the ending was completely justified. everyone knows the ring wlll be destroyed, so ending on that would be crap. I'm glad we saw what happened to the characters.
everyone knew it was going to be over 3 hours, so I didn't have a drink during the film. if you can't go a little while without stuffing your face or exercise a bit of common sense and go the toilet before the film then that's your problem not the film's.
imo the people you say were groaning were incredibly rude. if you don't like it, fuck off, no one's forcing you to watch. there are plenty of people who would have been more than happy to have your seat instead.
I think RotK is the best of the 3 films, and together they're the best movie experience ever, and likely to have that position for a very long time.
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the fact it was a bad idea is what makes the end of TTT exciting - you see the uruk hai set their spears and looks like they'll fail, then Gandalf "flashbangs" them at the last second.
at Minas Tirith it's similar with the cavalry except there it's orcs not uruk hai, and orcs are smaller aren't they? you can see on the orcs' faces that even though they have spears the sight of all the cavalry scares the shit out of them - I love that; it's the first time humans are considered strong.
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I liked it, and accept what PJ et al. said in commentary - that he was trying to get to his friend quickly and used his "elf abilities" to do it.
what's the alternative? I think seeing him running down the stairs would be worse. elves are graceful, how do you gracefully run down lots of little steps?
I liked the jokes, they didn't seem gratuitous - they were always "in character". the rivalry between Gimli and Legolas is one of my favourite things, when they finally admit they're such good friends (ROTK: "die alongside an elf/friend") it's a fantastic moment and it wouldn't have been so good without the "jokes" - Gimli being too proud (TTT: "toss me, don't tell the elf") is a necessary part.
between "very blatant" and "obvious" ?
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care to explain the diference between geostationary and geosynchronous satellites?
sometimes swearing is completely justified in a song, however songs that do use swearing in a non-gratuitous way will tend to have some artistic merrit and so be incredibly unlikely to be on radio anyway.
in Reloaded I loved the Burly Brawl. it's obviously flawed, but for me it has the same spirit as the original Matrix rooftop scene - pushing the effects to their limits in a way no one else has the balls to try (except now RotK).
I also love how they take "rules" and just disregard them, the simplicity/naivety is wonderful - someone fires a bullet; move out of the way - and in the Burly Brawl how his fighting is initially quite normal but by the end he's just moving his body in whatever way necessary to hit multiple targets, with no concern for gravity, balance, momentum....
I also thought the squids in Revolutions were fantastic - the way they swarmed like a fluid and how they made the face.
but the couple ROTK scenes that involve the dead army contain almost everthing in Pirates.
while I liked Pirates, nothing about the effects really wowed me.
in ROTK, there are many great effects scenes, and the two where the Rohan rode into the orcs, and the dead army galloping across the sea into battle were amazing.
Gollum on his own deserves the Oscar - more believable than most humans!
The battle at Minas Tirith on its own deserves the Oscar.
But both of them in the same film! There's no way they can lose. If they do it'll be the biggest joke ever, and I imagine there'd be more boos than even Michael Moore's acceptance speech.
never heard of London (congestion charge)?
I think you're ignorant.
hmmm... well there was a case a while ago here in UK where a murderer earned a lot of money for the rights to their story (wrote a book IIRC).
I think the law about earning money in this way was changed due to public outrage, but maybe still possible if your crime is "of public interest" and you only claim "expenses", but not sure.
perhaps a prison sentence would be valuable if you were homeless - shelter and food and opportunities to learn and get some qualifications.
whether these are valid counter-examples or not, hopefully it's clear that the original argument of "potentially valuable to abusers" is about as strong as "technology steals your soul".
what "liberty" is being traded?
if they were making it law that phones must be GPS enables AND everyone must own and carry a phone, you'd begin to have a point.
all they're doing is making sure people in need of help (i.e. dialing emergency services) can be located - that phone manufacturers include this safety feature.
you haven't lost anything, unless you also believe that laws requiring guns to have safety catches also constitute a loss of liberty.
oh sorry I forgot, this is a technology thing, and everyone knows that ever since AOL invented the internet in 1995, any technology thing can be "h4xz0r3d" from your desk.
um, so "able to call regardless of credit" is enabled for 911/999, so "able to call regardless of credit" is enabled period?
woot, FREE CALLS FOR EVERYONE!!!!11111
please name a single thing in the whole world that ISN'T "potentially valuable to abusers"
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the usual privacy nuts objecting that it means and end to civil liberties as we know it.
I think it's a Good Thing.
there were the usual retarded complaints such as "your boss will know if you're lying and skipping work!!!!" and "peadophiles can track your kids!!!!"
jeez, if license plates were invented today they'd be screaming the same arguments and claiming they too will bring free society to its knees.
yes being a student most of the above applies
these guys are literally* wankers - intellectual masturbation at its worst.
there are much worse activities in the world than this, but at least people who do evil things probably think they're doing something worthwhile. does anyone think that this is anything but a sick example of western excesses? if you're so keen to get rid of your money then give it to charity you pricks.
every 10 seconds someone starves to death, every line of Amizilla code another parent buries their child.
*by literally I mean metaphorically literally
cos they're raising prices every night
no.
the patch isn't GPL anyway.
of course not, this is the same law but not the same violation.
once you get out of jail for murder you don't have a license to kill.
no, the first available screening where I live was 10:45 Wednesday morning. no one was in costume. they were obviously fans bu not die-hard. I heard the people next to me talking before the film and they weren't completely familiar with all the character names or a few details of the previous films.
I'm sorry but if the ending to this 12 hours or so of film was the ring being destroyed, then Gandalf turning up and them flying to safety, that would be the most pathetic thing ever.
everything else obvious? it wasn't to me as I haven't read the book. I'm very glad to have learned what happened to everyone. Frodo et al. leaving on the ship was anything but obvious. if it weren't for the ending, I think everyone (or at least me) would leave thinking "so do Bilbo and Frodo turn into Gollum or what?" and several other questions. although they don't give details about where they're sailing too, it's obvious that it's some kind of sanctuary and that Bilbo and Frodo don't just automatically live "happily ever after" after being touched by the evil of the ring.
who said the film should end on a climax? this isn't some typical 90-minute POS, it's a film adaptation of a very long book. although it doesn't have time to cover everything in the book, it starts at the book's start and ends at the book's end including info from the appendices along the way.
sorry but you sound like a spoiled brat. I went to the first available screening. I knew about the long ending beforehand, but it was a bit of a surprise for some others. however, no one was groaning or anything like that, and when The End came up everyone applauded in appreciation of a genuinely amazing film experience.
in the conext of ~12 hour trilogy I feel the ending was completely justified. everyone knows the ring wlll be destroyed, so ending on that would be crap. I'm glad we saw what happened to the characters.
everyone knew it was going to be over 3 hours, so I didn't have a drink during the film. if you can't go a little while without stuffing your face or exercise a bit of common sense and go the toilet before the film then that's your problem not the film's.
imo the people you say were groaning were incredibly rude. if you don't like it, fuck off, no one's forcing you to watch. there are plenty of people who would have been more than happy to have your seat instead.
I think RotK is the best of the 3 films, and together they're the best movie experience ever, and likely to have that position for a very long time.