[Diamond18]

Yes! I finally got a chance to watch the movie with the cast commentary. Some of my favorite moments:<P>All throughout the movie Sean Astin keeps saying how jealous he is of Orlando Bloom (good naturedly, of course). In Moria he said, "The jealousy I feel for Orlando Bloom is on many, many levels." And whenever Legolas got to do some awesome fighting, you could hear Sean grumbling in the background. <P>Plus, on Weathertop, when Frodo drops his sword, Elijah remarked how he'd done weeks of sword training just for that one scene, and then he didn't even get to do anything. And then, as Frodo crawls away from the Nazgul, Dom said, "Oh, Elijah, that's just pathetic."<P>I also enjoyed all the parts where they were excited to see cut scenes put back in. I don't know why they weren't prepped for it, or anything, but a certain scene would come on and they would go, "Oh! There it is! Yes! They put it back in!" etc. Or reactions to little parts of scenes that had been cut, like the knife licking. I just found it funny, becaue here these are the guys who were in the movie, and they seem to be enjoying it just like any other viewer would, saying stuff like, "This is my favorite line" or "I love this part!" I usually assume that people wouldn't be able to get that much into a film that they made, just because they know all the "secrets". But I must be wrong. <P>And it amused me when they would say the lines in unison with the film, especially Sean's impersonation of Barliman Butterbur, and then the aforementioned "Lembas Commercial" line.<P>Of course, there were lots more interesting tidbits and funny anecdotes all through the movie, but I can't possibly sit here typing them all out.<P>EDIT: Oh, well, I could just add one more thing. I found it interesting where Orlando Bloom explained his facial expression at Dimrill Dale and then again when Boromir dies. He said he was going for a confused and bewildered look because as an immortal elf Legolas can't comprehend death, and he's trying to understand what just happened. I'm not sure I agree with that idea....I mean, Legolas should be used to seeing death all around him after living for so long in a mortal world. But I always did wonder just what was going on with those expressions, and so now I know.<p>[ January 25, 2003: Message edited by: Diamond18 ]