Return of the King: Extended Edition

[Moose Lady]

Glad you love them, like I do. I swear...I watch them and get so emotionally attached to the characters...to Theoden's charge and death scene...to Samwise picking Frodo up and carrying him...etc. Mike

Thank you for saying that about getting attached. I thought I was the only one. Actually sitting on the edge of my chair for most of the movie. The character that I found to be intriguing, don't know exactly why, is Legolas.
I should be getting my trilogy with 12 discs soon. I'm waiting to see all the behind the scenes stuff. Should be very entertaining.

 

[FischerKing]

Thank you for saying that about getting attached. I thought I was the only one. Actually sitting on the edge of my chair for most of the movie. The character that I found to be intriguing, don't know exactly why, is Legolas.
I should be getting my trilogy with 12 discs soon. I'm waiting to see all the behind the scenes stuff. Should be very entertaining.

new line did a fantastic job on the extras for these discs - i'm guessing that you'll really enjoy them.

shawn

 

[Chaplin]

Thank you for saying that about getting attached. I thought I was the only one. Actually sitting on the edge of my chair for most of the movie. The character that I found to be intriguing, don't know exactly why, is Legolas.
I should be getting my trilogy with 12 discs soon. I'm waiting to see all the behind the scenes stuff. Should be very entertaining.

Legolas was pretty cool, but personally, I didn't think he was as much a character as he was a charicature, just like Gimli. Especially after the first movie, Legolas became a background character who would say things every so often and then disappear. I think in Two Towers, they had to give him something to do (argue with Aragorn) to make the audience be reminded that he was just more than someone who was really good at shooting arrows.

 

[Moose Lady]

Legolas was pretty cool, but personally, I didn't think he was as much a character as he was a charicature, just like Gimli. Especially after the first movie, Legolas became a background character who would say things every so often and then disappear. I think in Two Towers, they had to give him something to do (argue with Aragorn) to make the audience be reminded that he was just more than someone who was really good at shooting arrows.

Just as a general note about Gimli. He was the dwarf played by John Rhys-Davies. I think Gollum is who you are refering to. And wasn't that awesome, the way they could make Gollum look so real. For a while during the movie, I actually thought he was real. I know it was computer generated but still...................haven't seen anything that spectactular ever.

 

[Chaplin]

Just as a general note about Gimli. He was the dwarf played by John Rhys-Davies. I think Gollum is who you are refering to. And wasn't that awesome, the way they could make Gollum look so real. For a while during the movie, I actually thought he was real. I know it was computer generated but still...................haven't seen anything that spectactular ever.

No, I know who Gimli was, and he was a characiture (BIM) as well. Basically, someone who doesn't do a lot -- usually cliched.

 

[Moose Lady]

Thanks Chaplin, guess I was thinking about it differently. Have anyone here read the book(s)? I haven't so I'm wondering if the 3 movies followed the books somewhat? I know I've heard from several people that there were a few things that they shouldn't have omitted. As far as charactors, I'm just wondering if Gimli, Legolas had a larger part in the book vs the movie. I was completely entralled with all the movies.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Thanks Chaplin, guess I was thinking about it differently. Have anyone here read the book(s)? I haven't so I'm wondering if the 3 movies followed the books somewhat? I know I've heard from several people that there were a few things that they shouldn't have omitted. As far as charactors, I'm just wondering if Gimli, Legolas had a larger part in the book vs the movie. I was completely entralled with all the movies.

For the most part, they followed the books...pretty closely, and in a ton of places, using actual text from the book for the characters lines...

But they did change things of course....however, Gimli and Legolas were portrayed about the same as they are in the book...yet at the end of the book, they talk about travelling middle Earth together to show each other their homelands...i wish they had that in the movie.

Mike

 

[Stout]

For the most part, they followed the books...pretty closely, and in a ton of places, using actual text from the book for the characters lines...

But they did change things of course....however, Gimli and Legolas were portrayed about the same as they are in the book...yet at the end of the book, they talk about travelling middle Earth together to show each other their homelands...i wish they had that in the movie.

Mike

Ah, bzzzzzzzzz! Incorrect! Legolas did not read as a gay elf with no character and Gimli was not just a complete laughingstock character. I mean, everyone I know mocks Orlando Bloom for that so much...he looked 'hot' for the women, he did some circus moves, and...well, that was about it. Gimli was reduced to being an idiotic little dwarf to try and make the audience laugh. Now, they worked all right in the scheme of the movies, but they weren't really like the books at all.