April 2 movie: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Good golly this backing up is taking a long time. I can't much use my computer while I'm doing it either. Nothing to do but watch movies while I watch the status bar. We're supposed to go to a party in a couple of hours and here I sit, burning backup CDs!
This is my least favorite of the three Lord of the Rings movies. When I saw in the theater, I remember being really annoyed at some changes that didn't really make sense to me (unlike the changes in the first movie, which mainly seemed sensible & flowed well with the original story).
I'm up to the big battle scene now -- I think this is the first time I'd done a write-up of a movie while still watching it -- and I'm enjoying it more this time. I think it's because I already knew about the changes, so instead of sitting there thinking "where the heck did that come from?" and being annoyed at the divergance from the book, I can enjoy it more on its own terms. Don't know if that makes sense.
Seeing the additional scenes on the DVD helped too. Although one thing confused me: They show Merry and Pippin drinking the Ent draught and getting taller, but I distinctly remember the four hobbits standing together at the end of the third movie and all being the same height. I guess by then they knew that scene with the Ent draughts wasn't going to end up in the theatrical version, so they didn't want to confuse people with the height difference. I wonder, in the DVD of the third movie, will they redo that scene with Merry and Pippin taller? Or just gloss over that bit.
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