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Jan. 3rd, 2004 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blodeueddWaaah, my freezer is almost empty! Must... buy... more... fish sticks!
Saw The Return of the King for the second time and I pinned down what bugged me so much about movie!Denethor. Empty the city, you git! Send the women and children away! I mean, come on. In the book, by the time Gandalf reaches Minas Tirith with Pippin, the women and children are already gone and anyone left is safely behind the walls, or almost. Having the women toss flowers at the knights going off to war is moving, but it just makes the Steward look like a twit: movie!Denethor, despite claiming that he knows so much and that Gandalf has no wisdom, just sits there and does absolutely nothing except send Faramir to certain death again and again.
Also, where did the horses disappear to in front of the Black Gate? One minute Gandalf, Aragorn & Co. are falling back to the line on horseback, the next they're charging the hosts of Mordor on foot. What gives? They're literally encircled, with no way to get out and don't even try telling me Shadowfax would accept another rider. Unless he sprouted wings, suddenly?
Saw The Return of the King for the second time and I pinned down what bugged me so much about movie!Denethor. Empty the city, you git! Send the women and children away! I mean, come on. In the book, by the time Gandalf reaches Minas Tirith with Pippin, the women and children are already gone and anyone left is safely behind the walls, or almost. Having the women toss flowers at the knights going off to war is moving, but it just makes the Steward look like a twit: movie!Denethor, despite claiming that he knows so much and that Gandalf has no wisdom, just sits there and does absolutely nothing except send Faramir to certain death again and again.
Also, where did the horses disappear to in front of the Black Gate? One minute Gandalf, Aragorn & Co. are falling back to the line on horseback, the next they're charging the hosts of Mordor on foot. What gives? They're literally encircled, with no way to get out and don't even try telling me Shadowfax would accept another rider. Unless he sprouted wings, suddenly?
