I thought that Sean Bean was absolutely brilliant as Boromir. In the book (one of its few flaws), Boromir is sort of the bad guy in the fellowship, even from the beginning. In the movie, they portrayed him as a good guy corrupted by the ring, not a corrupted guy driven over the edge by said ring.
And I loved it when he was teaching the hobbits to fight. That was possibly the best moment in the movie, because it shows that, if it weren't for the ring, all of these people could get along well, and Boromir's a pretty nice guy.
As for Elrond, well, I thought he did a very good job. It isn't his fault that he was in The Matrix. Gotta pay the bills, you know. And for someone who has been alive for thousands upon thousands of years, he is comparatively non-wrinkly.
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If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
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