This
past Tuesday i had the distinct pleasure of taking in one of only
twenty "Trilogy Tuesday" showings in Canada. For those
not in the loop... this was a showing of the extended editions of
both Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, and Lord of the
Rings: The Two Towers... followed by the first public showing of
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King in all of North America! Needless
to say, this was one hell of an incredible way to spend a tuesday!
These films are plain and simple masterpieces, destined to be looked
back on in generations to come as true landmarks of film, true classics!
My hat is off to Peter Jackson, previously unknown kiwi director,
for undertaking such a monumental task, and succeeding brilliantly!
I
also have to give a very special thank you to good friend and Co-worker
Mark, for being sick enough to be first in line on a friday evening
to get us all tickets, and for being one of the first in line this
past tuesday morning so we could get our kick ass seats! You set
the bar high mr. J.
also
some cheers out to by good buds who shared in the event... Jonny
the tactical
action hero (see the link highlight below), Jondre the
gnarly cue ball!, Kev of notanywhereland3,
My gal Sarah, Mark, and Kev's gal pal Emma... it was a great crew
of folks, and a damn good time at the movies... on to my thoughts...
as copied from my post over on dvdverdict:
Seeing
each of the LOTR flicks back to back really adds perspective to
the whole thing... you get a great feeling for just how epic these
films really are as a single whole... The first two films were shown
in their extended versions... i hadn't watched The Two Towers:EE
before going in, WOW! It played like a different film, the hyper
kinetic intercutting between groups was all but gone... very impressive...
Fellowship was Fellowship, one of the single best films ever churned
out... say what you like about the following chapters, but Fellowship
for me was just plain perfectly executed...
On
to Return of the King:
I
don't want to get heavy here as many of you probably haven't seen
the film yet and i don't want to be the one to ruin it. For me it
was a fantastic experience! It follows in line with the book much
more closely that TTT, with the exception of how it deals with Aragorn
recieving the re-forged Narsil, in a midnight meeting with Elrond,
and the abandoning of "The scouring of the Shire", which
Jackson had said was gone since day one anyway. The paths of the
dead are here, Pippin's brush with the Palantir, Shelob! There of
course were some changes to the narrative (Gimli and Legolas walk
the path of the dead with aragorn, while i'd thought they remained
with Theoden in the book - my mind is a bit fuzzy there-). Pelennor
fields... my god... you thought Helm's Deep was something!!! Legolas
really gets a moment here which had the audience cheering! (though
if you really detested the "surfing shield" moment you'll
probably groan rather than applaud). Finally...to address the "multiple
endings" claims i've read in a review or two... rubbish! The
ending works brilliantly in my opinion... and the entire theatre
seemed to agree with me judging by their response... The film ends
the same way the Fellowship opened... small and intimate...it just
all clicked...
One
glaring problem i have... the aforementioned nightime meeting between
Aragorn and Elrond does deliver one newly invented plot point regarding
Arwen which was both cheap and needless...PJ, stop trying to sell
us on this cheap drama! Luckily it doesn't play any sort of signifigant
role after that, which comes off as somewhat sloppy really, but
i'd rather it be that way than if it had focused any longer on said
point... which makes me wonder why the hell he even threw it in
to begin with as it made no sense whatsoever... i'm sure most of
you will recognize it when you see it...
In
the end, PJ does bring it all together and really wraps the trilogy
up with style... while there are one or two misteps in the second
chapter, and one stumble in the third, the whole story ends up being
a beautiful package... i can't wait to sit back in the comfort of
my own home, where i can Truely emotionally invest myself, and enjoy
this story in it's entirety.
Aside
from the Lord of the Rings madness i haven't had time to catch jack
shit this week save a solitary episode of Battlestar Galactica...
which kicked ass!
Every week i'll be highlighting one of the links to my right and
giving you a little background...
This weeks choice cut:
Tactical
Action Hero - the art of Jonny Zero!
A
good friend of mine named Jon has recently set up his own little
home on the web! Rather tha ablog or waste of space like my own
site Jon has chosen to focus on his art. The guy is a talented fella,
currently studying Animation here in Sin Jawn's... I have to give
him credit for putting himself out there like that... i stand in
fucking awe :)
found
a cute little quiz online, answer a few questions and they tell
you which Finding Nemo character you are. Turns out i'm Dory, which
is cool enough i guess, she had me laughing my ass off in the movie...
kind of sucks that i'm a blue female fish though... the lesbian
part is kinda cool i guess...
props
to Kev over at Notanywhereland
for digging this up.
