> > He's not bad, certainly. Better as Boromir than as himself, imho.
> 
> she likes a man 'cased in LEATHER.... whooo!

Heh.... yup. Though it was the hair and beard that I was actually
referring to; I *love* long hair on men, and beards/goatees on
many of them. (Some men should never wear them; some should never
go without them.)

> (I dunno, he was pretty damn fine as Sharpe, too....)

Which movie was this? I don't get the reference.
 
> >  Good thing indeed. :) I love JR-D's voice.
> 
> resonance

That British-Stage-Actor's voice. Probably what gets me about
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan, too.
 
> > > > he's not exactly as young as Elijah Wood. (Who's only 21;
> > > > waaaaah!)
> > >
> > > you like the SOULful eyes, huh?
> >
> > I do.  Which may be part of why I liked Orlando Bloom (Legolas)
> > so much; he adds a depth to the Elf character, which isn't an
> > easy task.
> 
> and here I thought THAT was the ears....

Nah. He's just plain *pretty*. (Though in real life looks much
more the "bad boy" than Viggo, at least as far as I could tell
from the interviews.)
 
> [Too much the actress, I paid attention when they said how fragile the
> ears are. So here's Aragorn and Arwen having a clutch, and his hand goes
> to caress the ears and you see this "oops, don't touch"
flinch away from
> them. Subtle thing.... such a pain to watch a show and be thinking as
> much about HOW the delivery goes as what the message might be.]

Missed that one, but caught a few others. Overall, though, the
acting and editing was so good that I didn't catch too many. (Or
maybe I was just too involved in the story!)
 
> Speaking of movies, How to Lose Your Boyfriend in 10 Days is a nice light
> romantic comedy worth the trouble if romantic comedy falls in your
> tastes. Sure, you know how it's going to end, but, otoh, the digressions
> they take getting there are nicely thought. [Or maybe I just spent too
> much time in publishing/advertising....]

I've thought about seeing that; I do like romantic comedies. 
BTW, _Catch Me If You Can_ is amusing, too.
 
> > Then, of course, there are Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin
> > (Billy Boyd), who are purely amusing. :)
> 
> In #1, yeah, but their characters are maturing quite well.

They do in the books, as well; though in the books, they were
never quite as mischievous as in the movie. A lot of that came
from the actors. (You should listen to the cast commentary of the
movie sometime, if you have the Extended DVD version. Dom and
Billy had me rolling on the floor.)  I'm reading _Return of the
King_ now; wonder how they're going to get their final maturation
into the next movie.

> Their brand of black humored comic relief isn't as, well, lathered on as
> poor Gimli.... But maybe that's because they don't have so much STUFF on
> 'em so the facial closeups of glittering eyes and grim lips plays better.

Slightly different comic relief, too; the hobbits' senses of
humor aren't as black as Gimli's, ever.  Gimli did, however, have
some *great* scenes in _The Two Towers_; and the friendship
between him and Legolas is growing nicely. I loved the look on
his face when Legolas defended him among the Riders of Rohan. :)

> I do feel their casting is 2nd only to the guy playing Sam, who is
> spot-spot on.

He is, that. In fact, I have no quarrel with any of the casting.
I know there are some who don't care for Elijah Wood as Frodo,
but personally, I think he was well-cast; he shows very well the
progression of carefree young hobbit to careworn Ringbearer, with
continued flashes of himself (though less and less frequent as
the story wears on).  

The problem with these movies is that the cute guys are either
too old for me (e.g. Viggo, born in 1958), too young for me (e.g.
Elijah Wood, born in 1981), or married (e.g. Sean Astin). Grrrrr!
 
> > Lissa GreatFilms,Those Wingling
> 
> They've done ok....

Well, I never got into the books until after I'd seen the movies,
so I came into them with no preconceptions of "what should be." 
Personally, I think they're amazing.

> I do love the state the film industry's come to.... woooo. Eye candy!

And decent scripts (well, many of them, at least).

> Hope there will be enough with will, means, and good scripts (looking how
> Star Wars still pretty much stands alone in the Space Opera that meets my
> preferences), tygress

Lissa Hear,Hear! Wingling

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