[Amarinth]

ai na vedui, maril! just got off from a 5-day vacation, and i couldn't wait to get on this thread!<P>i totally agree with your list of scenes to cut i am amazed by and salute your perseverence!<P>may i say --<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Cut several seconds of the goblins gathering around them in the great hall. They wait too long to attack, it's not clear why they would wait. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>yeah i agree... maybe maintain the running shot of the orcs moving in on the company, but not really getting to the point where they get them in a tight circle. maybe just as the chase gets close the company suddenly notices the orcs doing a double-take and a shriek and run tail-between-legs to hiding places...then they stop, notice and stand gaping at the horrific shadow and flame threatening at the other end of the dwarrowdelf.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Surprisingly, I find I wouldn't cut one iota of the final battle scene. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>me too! it's outstanding! for me, all the cgi in the movie are second only to that difficult and superlative zigzag shot running down the hills of amon hen.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Gandalf could interrupt the discussion when it started to break into an argument, reading the "one ring to rule them all" in the Mordor tongue, stunning them into silence. <BR>Elrond: "No one has ever spoken that tongue here before."<BR>Gandalf: "Nor will again, I hope. I do not ask pardon. This is the One Ring. There is only one course left to us: it must be destroyed."<BR>Silence...<BR>Frodo: "I will take the ring.<BR>Though I do not know the way."<BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>i see, i see, the dramatic effect of those evil lines can take the place of the shock value of the argument...maybe you can throw in some reference to the dunadan's poem?<P>oh ok, i understand now that aragorn develops more clearly into his ultimate role as king the way he was recast. please tell me, do you know what happened to the reforging of narsil?<P>midgardsormen--now that you mentioned it, galadriel did go green and purple. how about is she just went brighter, larger and more beautiful, the scene sort of shot from the side view with galadriel looming over frodo?<P>kingcarlton-- your absolutely right! have no fear...i myself don't think anyone could have done a better job than pj. i was practically peeving everyone off in another, oscar thread about him not winning that oscar for direction. here, this is sort of just 'helping' pj, you know, post-mortem-like. hail pj!<P>---------------------------------------------<BR><I>every man's life is a path to the truth -- hesse</I>