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December 13, 2004
ROTK EE Impressions
There be spoilers here boys and girls, so if you don't want to know about the EE, don't look in this here post. This is being updated live.
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Saruman scene is kind of week. A cheesy camera shot and the nasty way in which his staff breaks took me out of the scene. Plus the death is very Mortal Kombat-ish. I think I understand why this was cut.
Elf vs. Dwarf Drinking game: hehe.
Eowyn dream - a nice addition to her character, though I believe it was a Faramir line originally.
Aragorn and Merry chatting on the tower - funny stuff and a nice moment between them.
Gandalf and Pippen discussing Gondor/Minas Tirith - very awesome. One of the best scenes I've seen so far as far as conversation regarding background of the story.
Gollum on tea: "We're not in, decent, places." Awesome. The forest that this setting is in with statues and such is pretty cool, very scenerific.
Additional river sequences as Faramir fights the enemy - most excellent, added a lot more to this battle in terms of setting it up and explanation and shows the ambush/reversal.
Preparing to leave Rohan: including Merry offering his services for war and Gimli chatting about wanting dirty dwarves to fight.
Faramir gets bitched out: a cool scene regarding Faramir letting the hobbits go. Johnson leaned over to me and said, "isn't this out of order? They haven't even done the scene with Gollum at the pool." "Dude, that was in Two Towers." "Oh, right. Doh."
Faramir and Pippen have a nice little chat. I think that's my favorite part of these EEs, the extra little one-on-one conversations that are had.
The paths of the dead receives lots of new stuff. More on the mists, more Gimly being more than just a little afraid of the underground. Mists and lots of skulls! And Aragorn is going to have to do a bit more convincing of the King of the Dead.
Battle of Pelenor Fields.... Just waiting for Gandalf vs. Witch King. Much more Gandalf kicking ass, some other random fight scenes so far. Still waiting for the good stuff. Lots of arrows into the battering rams. Before they bring up the big Wolf's Head.
INTERMISSION... dammit, must see Gandalf.
We start with a new scene of Aragorn vs. the Pirates. Great stuff.
On the road to Gondor with Merry and Eowyn, great little conversation and an update on where the battle at Minas Tirith is during the ride from Rohan.
More fighting, more death in Gondor. HERE IT IS!! Gandalf's confrontation with the Witch King... solid stuff... very cool.
Eowyn on battlefield after killing Witch King, being chased by Orc leader. Shows her trying to get to a weapon and Aragorn getting there just in time.
Battlefield dead sequence on the fields. Pippin finds Merry's cloak, Eowyn is found. Then to the Houses of Healing with a new song. Pippin searching the fields looking for Merry into the night and finding him under a body.
Aragorn picks up the Pilantir to show himself ot Sauron in order to attempt to get Suaron to take the bait and distract the forces from Frodo and Sam's passage. Cool sequence.
Faramir and Eowyn in houses of healing. Holding hands now and gazing into each other's eyes.
Frodo and Sam getting whipped and beat into a line of marching orcs. This from the book but not shown in the original film. They get into a bit of an orc bitch slap fight.
The Mouth of Sauron: Awesomely creepy sequence. Agressive negotiations.
Smeagol Lied. Heh.
All in all, very nice. Also nice, for those of us who have bought the EEs already, we can get the slipcase the boxed set comes in for just the cost of shipping - 3 bucks.
Anyways, now I must go home and sleep before an 8 hour shift tomorrow followed by more final studying. Wheee for a 30+ hour work week during Finals!!!
-Will
Posted by badwillhunting at December 13, 2004 09:37 PM