Sat 30 Dec 2006
I’m finally catching up on the extended DVDs of the Lord of Rings. I actually sat through the marathon of the 3 normal length ones when the third one came out, from memory I think it started at 9pm and went until 7am the next day. It was brilliant, but horrible getting home afterwards. I was planning to do a marathon of the extended versions but it didn’t really happen, I’m part way through the first disc of third part now. During the second part, I had this annoying half song playing in my head but I couldn’t put my finger on the tune, all I knew it was one of those viral videos a while ago so I went and did a google search “lord of the rings remix” and it was the first link that turned up - They’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard by Erwin Beekveld. Then strangely enough, a minute later the scene turns up. Aragorn: “What do your elven eyes see?” Legolas: “The Uruks turn Northeast. They are taking the hobbits to Isengard!”. I couldn’t stop laughing. It’s a very silly movie.
Here’s the video:
December 31st, 2006 at 4:41 am
It is a very strange movie and it must be hard for people who have not read the books to work out what is happening. Our young people became very impatient with the first film because they wanted to see massed battle scenes. Actually it is not easy to follow if you have read the books because the plot has been fiddled so much.
January 3rd, 2007 at 11:35 am
Yes, some of the changes are annoying so there were lots of “WHAATTTT? WHHHHYYYY? That’s so dumb” and the some of the effects are hokey along with much of the acting but I love them all the same. It’s just such a great world, I was so happy to see it, it would have taken a lot more stuffing up to wreck it for me. To tell the truth, half of the fun is laughing at the silliness.