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Mephisto · #11 December 21st, 2001, 04:35 PM

It might not be in the film but Anduriel, Aragorns sword, is re-forged in Imladris/Rivendell after the council of Elrond and before they go on their journey.

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Originally posted by Puke:
its mildly irritating that Aragorn was swinging a sword around when half his character revolved around his being broken, but i guess thats to be expected from hollywood. i hear JRR Tolkien had the same complaint about a script that was written for the book during his lifetime.

tesco samoa · #12 December 21st, 2001, 08:24 PM

I saw it yesterday as well. And I enjoyed it.
***Begin Spoiler****
You know the coolest thing about the movie.
Legolas and his bow of speed.

Then as an added affect when the Orc's were too close just thrust them manually in their heads and chests.

***end spoiler*********

How was the sound in the theaters??

In the one I saw it the centre channel seemed a little low and alot of the background conversations came from the front right speakers

ZeroAdunn · #13 December 21st, 2001, 11:07 PM

Don't get me wrong, I loved Bad taste and Dead alive (the only movie that I almost lost my lunch during) but it is just looking and those movies, then lord of the rings, Hmmmmm, something doesn't seem to fit.

tesco samoa · #14 December 22nd, 2001, 01:21 AM

That's what happens when you have a CDN / NZ production team.

1 reason to go hmmmm, I am glad its him.

The Hobbit town was built a year before filming so the locals could walk all over it and get that lived in feeling.

Now that is bully.

Bet Jackson than the regular Holleywood types.

Bet you 5 dollars that Lucas could ruin the movie.

Saw a trailer for STar wars 2 Send in the clowns.

Yep They have taken the final dregs of all that was cool about Darth Vadar and finished him off.

Puke · #15 December 22nd, 2001, 07:00 AM

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Originally posted by [K126]Mephisto:
It might not be in the film but Anduriel, Aragorns sword, is re-forged in Imladris/Rivendell after the council of Elrond and before they go on their journey.

really? i thought it was a bit later.. in any event, he pulls the thing out in Bre when they first meet him. the do show the broken sword in Imladris where they refer to it as his fathers sword or somesuch, but to my memory they did not reforge it in the film nor take it with them. I distinctly remember him hiking around in half of the book with a broken sword, and blathering prophecies about wanders not being lost and the broken being reforged and all that. just a nitpick, i didnt really expect the movie to do it any differently, and im fairly impressed they got the sword in there at all.

Mephisto · #16 December 22nd, 2001, 11:22 AM

I was not totaly sure myself so I looked it up in the book. They actually stay at Rivendell for 2 month before starting the journey and in this time they re-froge the sword. I know that you did not bash the film, it was just for your information.

Spyder · #17 December 24th, 2001, 04:23 PM

Ok, saw it on Friday afternoon. I could not have asked for a better screen adaptation. The setting was perfect, the art was great, the camera work unbelievable (making those guys look 'little' was uncanny), the casting nearly perfect....I had a small problem with the Evil guy from The Matrix being Elrond

You MUST see this movie.

AJC · #18 December 24th, 2001, 04:52 PM

Well I saw it and I thought it was excellent and certainly captured the spirit of the LOTR story and the feel of middle earth. I will definately go see it again.

One thing to note is that this movie had some parts of the Silmarillion in it and parts of the Unfinished Tales of Tolkien.

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Puke · #19 December 24th, 2001, 09:21 PM

it did? which parts? (having not read either..)

Im guessing that you are refering to the little explination in the very begining, but you find all that out throughout the book, just not until much later. i think the bit in saroumon's (sp?) tower was out of place, but again, you find out about it later in the Two Towers. same with golloum, out of place, but you find out later. for movie go-ers and continuity purposes, i think they handled it well the way they did.

everything i saw seemed to be a direct adaptation of parts of Lord of the Rings. but, since i have not read either of the books you refer to, id like to hear what i missed.

Atrocities · #20 December 25th, 2001, 03:54 AM

I saw the movie Friday, and I enjoyed it a lot.