New movie review reveals major changes... SPOILERS

[Elf Girl]

Spoiler-haters begone!




















I don't know if this has been posted before, I did a search, but since 'cut' is too short is wasn't that accurate. The link is http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=16603 .

Apparantly he's cutting Faramir and Eowyn.

I'm going to curl up under the table and hope it isn't true. Bye.

[Katie of the Golden Wood]

Yes, I saw that one too.
There is also another review up with spoilers galore, and there is something interesting there, too...

SPOILERS:

Something about Gollum tricking Frodo into thinking Sam betrayed them. Frodo apparently actually leaves Samwise and continues on with Gollum

Don't know what I think about that...suppose it could be dramatic if done well, and the reviewer says Sean Astin deserves an Oscar for his reaction...

Katie

[Nurvingiel]

What you said above, Katie, is discussed in another thread if you want more information on it. (The one called "Book deviations and movie spoilers" or something.)

Eowyn is not cut, because she slays the Witch-King.

Do you mean they're taking out her marriage to Faramir? Boo and hiss to that!

[Artanis]

Originally posted by Nurvingiel
Do you mean they're taking out her marriage to Faramir? Boo and hiss to that!

Not only the marriage, but the whole romance, as it seems.

[Elf Girl]

Yup.

But I have realized that, thanks to my resignation from all movie debates, I am no longer obliged to watch RotK at all. Which is good, because it frees me from the mangling of Denethor, Gandalf, and Elrond I learned about from another review at: http://www.theonering.net/staticnews/1070750601.html.

EDIT: Whoops, sorry. The link should work now.

[Black Breathalizer]

Actually, I found this review reassuring. It's nice to know what changes to be prepared for. But I totally discount the "sky is falling" scenario the review tried too hard to create. It was written by the same type of individuals that keep telling us all how horrible FOTR and TTT were.

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Black Breathalizer
Actually, I found this review reassuring. It's nice to know what changes to be prepared for. But I totally discount the "sky is falling" scenario the review tried too hard to create. It was written by the same type of individuals that keep telling us all how horrible FOTR and TTT were.

What's wrong with that? Only the "jackson is great" crowd is legitimate?

[Ruinel]

Originally posted by Elf Girl
I don't know if this has been posted before, I did a search, but since 'cut' is too short is wasn't that accurate.

....
Apparantly he's cutting Faramir and Eowyn.

I'm going to curl up under the table and hope it isn't true. Bye.

no NO NO NO NOOOOOOO!!!!


This sucks like ..... like... something I'm not allowed to put here anymore

So, then Eowyn and Faramir don't get to hook up... that's really sad. That's one of the romantic parts of the book that I like to read.

[thranduil]

Originally posted by Ruinel
no NO NO NO NOOOOOOO!!!!


This sucks like ..... like... something I'm not allowed to put here anymore

So, then Eowyn and Faramir don't get to hook up... that's really sad. That's one of the romantic parts of the book that I like to read.

Don't worry. Ha Ha. Hmmm. They stand by each other at the coronation.

[Elf Girl]

Well that's certainly a stunning testimony to their love.

[Nurvingiel]

Originally posted by Ruinel
This sucks like ..... like... something I'm not allowed to put here anymore

I'm thinking similar unpostable thoughts.

Jackson: Wrapping up story arcs is for the weak! Buahaha! Eat this people who read the books!

[Valandil]

Originally posted by Ruinel
no NO NO NO NOOOOOOO!!!!


This sucks like ..... like... something I'm not allowed to put here anymore

So, then Eowyn and Faramir don't get to hook up... that's really sad. That's one of the romantic parts of the book that I like to read.

I'll miss this part too... as with about ANYTHING else that has to be cut. *sigh*... don't suppose they could make it FOUR hours and 20 minutes???

I wonder if Jackson thought it would seem too "sudden" and unbelievable to just throw it in there... it would take a considerable amount of time to depict Eowyn and Faramir moving toward one another to begin with. Without that, for them to just say, "Hey! Why don't WE get married too!???!" could come off as quite silly. The audience will still be quite aware that she has feelings for Aragorn. The sense of time we get in the book would be harder to convey at one sitting of a movie.

Didn't someone here mention that this would make the extended edition? That's one thing I think of when seeing extended edition scenes... they give so much more full of a vision of the whole story. I watch those parts and I just say, "Yeah! That makes it SO much more complete!!" I expect they would have been too scared to try (3) 4 hour movies from the start though... the notion of (3) 3 hour movies was probably scary enough.

Ruinel... I don't think you have to avoid saying ANYTHING! Just because we've gone through "The Scouring of the Moot" Let's all just measure our words and not try to incite anybody...

That old song, "Why can't we be friends?" was going through my mind this weekend.

[Rían]

OH NO! No Faramir and Eowyn romance? No "and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air." ?!
*sob*

[Elf Girl]

Except if it were in the movie it would be golden and golden, and Movie!Faramir's hair is too short to stream.

*sigh*

[Nimrodel_White_Lady]

well... I guess the only thing I can really say is that I have to wait to actually see the movie and see if the spoiler is true. Yet, many thing's have been said about the RotK, which has severly disappointed me. And truthfully, the only reason I am going to go and see it is because of the scene between Eowyn and the Witchking of Angmar, my favorite scene in the book. If the spoiler is true about Eowyn and Faramir... Ill cry ='(