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dimejinky99 wrote:
Wow. Pillar of strength and not one joke. He's a tower.
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If what you crave is a Lord of the Rings sequel featuring a sight gag wizard with bird poop in his hair who rides a rabbit sleigh, orcs (or like creatures) who deliver one-liners after being disemboweled, humorous beheading sequences played for cheap laughs, extended dish-cleaning footage, and lots of fight-scene ideas lifted straight out of Pirates of the Caribbean...this is your movie.
Honestly, though, it was enjoyable enough. Not worth seeing twice (unless the sequels rock muh socks, in which case I could see doing the "let's just watch the set" thing next time my wife is pregnant and ruined), and not up to the standards of the previous trilogy, but not a Phantom Menace or Crystal Skull level destructive. Just cornier and plodding. If you view the original trilogy as THE story, and this movie as ancillary or bonus material, it's fine. If you try to think of it as an equal part of the telling of the story, the comparison hurts it.
Bonus: one of the two very bored guys sitting in front of me offered the following thought as the credits rolled: "Shit, white people is weird." The more I think on it, the more this summarizes Lord of the Rings entirely. And maybe Tom Cruise, too.
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My brother said watching this in HFR 3D was like watching a really long Xena: Warrior Princess episode. Minus all the cool lesbian overtones, of course.
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im not sure why, because i love Jackson and the LOTR triolgy was super cool, but i dont care for this one. I even read the Hobbit a long time ago, and its pretty good too...but this one..i just dont care. I would like Peter Jackson to make a film without special effects....please make another Bad Taste.
It was my fault, wasn't it? It was the promise of sight gag side characters with rabbit sleighs. The world does revolve around me, so.
Well, I hope you especially like the very long scene where he leads the bad guys in a random chase scene in a continual circle around our heroes, causing them to do the classic Lord of the Rings run in an unending back and forth that would have actually made for a halfway decent SNL skit mocking the series.
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