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A random selection of girls in my dorm (including me and Ellen--the fanfic reader) have decided to do all of LoTR in a week.
Tuesday--Fellowship of the Ring, extended edition
Thursday--The Two Towers, extended edition
Saturday--Return of the King, Valley View Cinema edition
Behold how nicely the schedual dovetails with Angel (Wednesday) and WA Squared (anime club, on Friday) meetings.
We just finished The Fellowship of the Ring (skipping the commentary) and I enjoyed seeing it again (I hadn't watched it in almost a year) immensely. As my fellow watchers could probably tell by the little bounce and squeal of "It's Boromir!" the first time Sean Bean appeared on screen and frequent comments such as "Sit down. You are blocking my view of Aragorn."
I really like the extended version. The added scenes bring many more small details from the book into the film, and clear up a couple of little holes/fuzzy points. And they give you lots more Aragorn & Boromir interaction, and more of either of them is a good thing.
There's more Sam, too, which is also good. The more I watch the films/read the books, the more Sam grows on me.
On the less bouncy side, it was kind of sad to watch the characters (especially the hobbits) being so innocent and unscarred again. Having so recently seen Return of the King, I found the contrast between, say FoTR Merry & Pippin and RoTK Merry & Pippin, for example, sort of bittersweet and almost ache-inducing at times, because while they've grown by the end of the story, they've also lost a lot and suffered a lot along the way, and looking at the happy-go-lucky, exuberant hobbits of the beginning again really reminds you how much.
Boromir still has one of the coolest death secenes in fiction. The desire to make JK Rowling watch it over and over agin and then force her to rewrite the painfully rushed-feeling, meaningless, anti-climactic death scene in Order of the Phoenix is very strong.
Tuesday--Fellowship of the Ring, extended edition
Thursday--The Two Towers, extended edition
Saturday--Return of the King, Valley View Cinema edition
Behold how nicely the schedual dovetails with Angel (Wednesday) and WA Squared (anime club, on Friday) meetings.
We just finished The Fellowship of the Ring (skipping the commentary) and I enjoyed seeing it again (I hadn't watched it in almost a year) immensely. As my fellow watchers could probably tell by the little bounce and squeal of "It's Boromir!" the first time Sean Bean appeared on screen and frequent comments such as "Sit down. You are blocking my view of Aragorn."
I really like the extended version. The added scenes bring many more small details from the book into the film, and clear up a couple of little holes/fuzzy points. And they give you lots more Aragorn & Boromir interaction, and more of either of them is a good thing.
There's more Sam, too, which is also good. The more I watch the films/read the books, the more Sam grows on me.
On the less bouncy side, it was kind of sad to watch the characters (especially the hobbits) being so innocent and unscarred again. Having so recently seen Return of the King, I found the contrast between, say FoTR Merry & Pippin and RoTK Merry & Pippin, for example, sort of bittersweet and almost ache-inducing at times, because while they've grown by the end of the story, they've also lost a lot and suffered a lot along the way, and looking at the happy-go-lucky, exuberant hobbits of the beginning again really reminds you how much.
Boromir still has one of the coolest death secenes in fiction. The desire to make JK Rowling watch it over and over agin and then force her to rewrite the painfully rushed-feeling, meaningless, anti-climactic death scene in Order of the Phoenix is very strong.