they will hold

[threeplusfire]

There are a few movies I cry watching, just about every time. Some love stories, some just sad, some just awe inspiring. But I can't think of any other film that I've cried so many times during, so that I couldn't see the ashtray or my glass on the floor beside me.

I think what makes me cry and laugh the most in this film is the friendship and love so clearly shared, all of the people struggling to hope. It's heartbreaking and idealistic, the sort of thing I have so rarely allowed myself.

Some of the included scenes made Alan & I burst into laughter, especially the ones with Gimli and Legolas or Merry and Pippin finding the kitchen. Eowyn's stew sent us into fits. The new scenes with Boromir and Faramir explained why they choose to show things as they did, and I feel more comfortable with that now.

In short, the whole thing is bloody brilliant. These stories that colored my childhood live on the screen, and I couldn't be happier.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Haha! That was so funny. Who knows, maybe there are some great dwarven anatomists living under the mountains?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

That was a brilliant scene, and I loved Sean Bean in it. I'm so glad they included it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Why is Sean Bean so hot?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Ask Alan. ;)

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

For me, the heart of the trilogy, the scene which pulls at me the most, is Frodo and Gandalf in Moria- "All we can do is decide what to do with the time we are given." It's all about looming terror, and feeling overwhelmed, and wanting to stick your head in the sand, but carrying on; I can't imagine a better- or harder- message to have heard three months after 9/11.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

That carries through when Sam speaks to Frodo after the Nazgul almost gets him in Gondor. About making the choice to carry on, even int he face of incredible danger and fear. I think it's that hope that makes the story so good, and so right for this time.