beyond hope wrote:The film did seem a bit disjointed to me: one thing I noticed about the extended version of The Fellowship of the Ring was that they cut a *lot* of exposition out of the film that made things flow better and gave you a better grasp of what was going on. Most of the interplay between Gimli and Legolas was cut, for example, as well as some of the scenes that made Boromir a more human and tragic figure. I'm hoping the same will be true of The Two Towers (and I'm reserving my judgement on it) until the inevitable Extended release comes out.
That leads me into a rant all it's own, however: why should we have to wait for months after the release of the movie to see the *real* version?
Blame New Line and the Theater owners. 90% of theaters in the US wont show anything longer than 3 hours , and even then New Line had to twist Lowes/Sony Theaters and Cineplex to show the movie at the three hour mark(this was for FotR). This forced Jackson to cut the film for time, but to save and finish important scenes for the extended edition DVD. I know it sounds shitty, but before the DVD age, all we would have ever had was the theatrical version , and after watching the ExDVD, that would have been a damn shame. Of course the decision to release both versions is a purely money driven concept , but if you asked , this is more New Lines doing rather than Jackson and Wingnut Films idea. I'll be content to wait for next years Extended edition Gift set like the one they had this year with the Argonath Book ends in it. They are ever so cool on eiether side of my monitor.....
Im hoping that they do a set with Orthanc and Barad-Dur in it for next Christmas.
SylasGaunt wrote:
Actually I thought they bore a rather strong resemblance to Hyenas myself.
Indeed. What were they though, exactly? I can't remember.
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fgalkin wrote: How strange, I don't remeber Frodo being a teenager in the books.
If you don't, then it's obvious that you haven't read them. He was considered to have finally become an adult by the time he left, and hobbits regularly live to 100+ in a medieval agricultural society. Since humans live to ~40-50 in such a society, a 50 year old hobbit is about the same age as a 25 year old human.
It seems that it's you who didn't read the books. Frodo became an adult when he turned 33, on the day of Bilbo's farewell party. When he was 50, it was considered to be middle-aged among the hobbits.
