Many of these were Pride and Prejudice feelings. In high school, I started collecting copies of P&P just so I could read the introductions/editorial content and see what other people thought about it, since nobody I knew IRL cared about it the way I did.
This is downright so cute! Like, in a nerdy way, obviously, but it is just so delightful!
It was definitely a very good film (I still think it’s the best of the LOTR movies, actually)
I do agree with this, although once I got my VHS copy (ye olden times) I actually spent an afternoon logging how many times Frodo falls down in FOTR (it's 34 times, iirc all these years later, but close to that number +/-2) and ranted at anybody unlucky enough to be in my radius about how this was a travesty of filmmaking and was sending cues to the audience about how Frodo was incompetent and unable to handle the burden of the Ring and completely ignored his bravery and fortitude and - you see how this is coming out again like it's a practiced speech? It's because I haven't let it go 2 decades on. FOTR is still the best of the 3, but damn if he didn't do my Frodo dirty from the start. /sidetrack>
I didn’t even particularly like the handling of Éowyn, which gets much less criticism these days. Miranda Otto’s Éowyn was sympathetic and compelling, but I felt she was already far too warm and approachable for the ultimate payoff of her arc, and that it was amping up Aragorn/Éowyn vs Aragorn/Arwen in a kind of cheap way that did little service to any of the characters involved (particularly Arwen)
Cue similar rant about Éowyn cooking a meal for Aragorn on the road ffs -
thought Frodo and even to an extent Sam and Gollum were horribly mishandled by the script
+1 to all the Faramir commentary on TTT/ROTK, but I had to pull this section out because OH MY GOSH YES. And the last 20 years of discourse over how Sam is the real hero has only been worsened by the PJ adaptation. Where's the gifs, where's the GIF -
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This is downright so cute! Like, in a nerdy way, obviously, but it is just so delightful!
It was definitely a very good film (I still think it’s the best of the LOTR movies, actually)
I do agree with this, although once I got my VHS copy (ye olden times) I actually spent an afternoon logging how many times Frodo falls down in FOTR (it's 34 times, iirc all these years later, but close to that number +/-2) and ranted at anybody unlucky enough to be in my radius about how this was a travesty of filmmaking and was sending cues to the audience about how Frodo was incompetent and unable to handle the burden of the Ring and completely ignored his bravery and fortitude and - you see how this is coming out again like it's a practiced speech? It's because I haven't let it go 2 decades on. FOTR is still the best of the 3, but damn if he didn't do my Frodo dirty from the start. /sidetrack>
I didn’t even particularly like the handling of Éowyn, which gets much less criticism these days. Miranda Otto’s Éowyn was sympathetic and compelling, but I felt she was already far too warm and approachable for the ultimate payoff of her arc, and that it was amping up Aragorn/Éowyn vs Aragorn/Arwen in a kind of cheap way that did little service to any of the characters involved (particularly Arwen)
Cue similar rant about Éowyn cooking a meal for Aragorn on the road ffs -
thought Frodo and even to an extent Sam and Gollum were horribly mishandled by the script
+1 to all the Faramir commentary on TTT/ROTK, but I had to pull this section out because OH MY GOSH YES. And the last 20 years of discourse over how Sam is the real hero has only been worsened by the PJ adaptation. Where's the gifs, where's the GIF -
Anyway, very cool history <333