alrighty now i shall post all my grouses abt lotr [haha] that should be ample warning. esp when i nitpick a lot. and i mean a lot. cos when i read the book i don't imagine the kters/places to look like wat they did in the movies. so if u don't wish to get annoyed by me, don't read:)
haha my fren's busy pointing out to me all the blunders in the 3 shows. -very amused-
frodo
he's quite okay actually. looks alright:) n acts quite well too for tt matter
sam
haha i really can't stand the way sam looks. and he's spposed to be nice n respectful n loyal to frodo which he certainly wasn't in the 1st 2 [or maybe only the 1st] but for rotk he was quite good
merry n pippin look a bit weird too
gollum
haha he's good. quite gross tho
gandalf
he doesn't resemble the gandalf on chris' book [haha] and somehow not as nice as the book kter. he sed quite a few sarcastic things in the book. bushy white eyebrows? hmm..
saruman
not bad actually. i thot denethor should look like him. speaking of which let me quote chris "he looks plain evil" which wasnt' spposed to be the case.
aragorn
ah i actually like him:) tho at the end when he was crowned king he started looking a bit diff somehow. n i thot it was absolutely inappropriate for the king to lunge at arwen. although i guess aft such a long absence.. but still.. he's the king! ah nvm. o yes n he doesn't look v good in real life either.
legolas
haha i was really quite amused at the way they just focus on him so much for no reason at all save to let pple enjoy eyecandy. and there was one scene he just sed 2 words n it was =so= extra. but he really looks quite good as an elf. but in real life/in pirates of caribbean, terrible. ah but i liked the scene where he climbed on the oliphaunt n started killing off pple it was v cool:) n then aft tt gimli was like "that's only counted as 1" tt was hilarious:D in fact the pair of them are hilarious. and his shooting arrows are v nice too:)
gimli
nice dwarf. v amusing:)
boromir
looks a bit weird. n faramir too. n not really very tall/proud/distinguished or watever.
elrond
i think they shudn't have gotten hugh weaving to do it. looks absolutely weird. esp aft agent smith like chris sed.
galadriel
haha. spposed to be one of the most beautiful pple. which is. sadly not the case. and she has a weird way of talking. like she has a problem. sounds spasticated really.
arwen
hmm not bad i guess she actually looks kinda elf-like. but not exactly the most beautiful either. and they purposely played up her role [like legolas haha]
eowyn
she looks positively weird too. maybe the narrowly set eyes. but also not "fair" and watever not. n i don't think she was spposed to be looking terrified when facing the lord of the nazgul.
eomer
looks kinda weird somehow. the nose or sth. but otherwise okay.
theoden
not exactly very tall either. n doesn't look v kingly.
rosie cotton looks absolutely old. i can't remember any more kters at the moment so i guess that will suffice.
and they changed quite some parts of the story. which i mind. quite a bit. like the beacons were already on fire when gandalf was riding to gondor. n they didn't need to persuade theoden to help gondor. n smeagol didn't turn frodo against sam. ah too many to list.
but i think their settings were good. tho i didn't imagine a lot of places to look like wat they were like in the movie. n the elves didn't go help them at helm's deep. tho i really like the elf archers:) way cool:) gondor either. but tt was really grand. n interesting. oh n the nazgul. i thot their steeds wud look more like birds. not dragons. although i just realised upon checking the book tt they were spposed to look a bit like bats.
mm the shire was good. very pretty:) looks rather other-worldly
oh the ents! somehow they looked a bit fragile to me. cos they were so thin n stuff. but then again on reflection they're spposed to look like trees like the birch n chesnut n watever which i sppose aren't particularly large in girth. so. sigh. resigned.
ah anyways the fight scenes were good. give them credit for those. esp when they make up the bulk of the 3 movies. ah the sam-frodo-gollum scenes are so draggy. n i don't like those parts in the book either. 3 1/2 hrs! i'll nv watch it again.
i'm actually quite tired and wondering wat i'm doing online. anyways i was having regrets abt ssef n nsts [as usual] but on reading my prof's v cheery reply to my email abt meeting to discuss those 2 things it doesn't seem so bad for now haha.
anyways. rotk! i shall critique it tmr. haha just ask chris i have so many criticisms to make. i guess i always prefer my imagination. but there're always gd things abt e movie. time to sleep!
ah i forgot to add. the static in LV is horrible! horrible horrible horrible! i hate getting electric shocks! bah. oh yes and its refreshingly cooling here in spore aft being over-cold in vegas n japan. alritey back to writing my journal [yes i decided to somehow, procrastinating with regards to hw:p]
and also i've found my lovely song! carol of the bells!:) yay! thanks to the bellagio website.. grateful for a good website haha:D
ahh. am trying to look for this christmas song which i've heard soo many times but can't put a name to. choral one. terribly frustrating!
anyways its so early.. only cos i slept at 9.30 haha. 1st thing i appreciated was spore's greenery when i got back. LV is like a real desert.. there's practically no greenery at all save the palm trees they planted for aesthetic purposes.. and they're everywhere.. but that's still kinda diff in the end.. its still artificial.. and in the outskirts its really all little grey shrubs and cacti. really ugly to me but parents didn't think so.
the hotels. well. when we first drove into aladdin i was like whoa.. its so grand.. and inside.. the decor and stuff.. but actually after a while the grandeur wore off. and seeing the hotels consisted of like visiting the casinos [haha] cos they always make u walk thru the casino to get to wherever you wanna go. my dad was saying its their ploy to make u spend money before you get to yr destination.. cos everytime we go for buffets [which was really rather often i must say] we'd to go thru this whole long walk
oh yes and i also appreciate spore's rules abt smoking.. they can just smoke anywhere in vegas.. even in aircon areas.. which is totally sucky. and that happens sometimes in france too.
so now i can name most of the big hotels. like in alphabetical order. anyways each hotel had shopping, casino and sometimes attractions like shark reef n stuff. so everytime i went to the shark reef/secret garden/dolphin habitat n etc i'd want a tiger/lion/dolphin n so on. the dolphins were really sweet tho:) n they're so smart!
okay i feel kinda robotic now. but anyway. there was horse riding too [happily;] western! i don't think i've ridden western before. major was a good horse but he didn't seem to like me very much. v easy to get him to trot:) and cheyenne [i think its a v nice name but it'll just proly get mispronounced all the time] was absolutely naughty. refused to stop! horrible mare. hmph. she'd like turn her head ard n stare at me. somehow she felt quite lazy at the beginning. and at the end she'd keep trotting. just to annoy me. cos she's not spposed to.
o yes v glad my bro came along:) he's hilarious.. he said he watched pirates of the carribean at least 10times thruout finals week.. just put it on replay and listened to the dialogue. and then he was imitating johnny depp occasionally it was quite amusing:)
ohhhh!! the shows! okay free shows were fun but the 2 others i watched were way cool:) cirque du soleil's 'o' [thanks to jane:] and the magic of rick thomas [whom my bro sed reminded him of chow yun fat] i wanted to go watch mystere at treasure island too but i guess hafta be a hse guest to get the gd seats n stuff. sigh. 2 resident shows at LV! how cool is tt. n i can never figure out how magicians perform their stuff.. he was quite funny tho kept saying he hated birds although he was working with them.
o yeah and its like on 13 dec leann rimes was performing at aladdin [while i was still on the plane grr] and then 20 dec mariah carey was performing at aladdin while celine dion was performing at caesar's palace.. actually not that i wud have watched them [i think] but just think there're so many pop concerts in vegas it really lives up to its name of entertainment city
okays am at this yahoo cafe which is free! woohoo~ at japan airport waiting for flight back. haha i found it quite amusing we go to vegas with 2 pieces of luggage and one bag each, come back with 2 luggages, 1 box, 2 bags each. anyways this jap keyboard is a leetle bit weird. therefore cant figure out the punctuation and this looks like the way jiahui smses haha:)
too lazy to type anyth more at the moment so.. shall wait till when i get home and am super bored