SirDennisC
Gondolin
Sat, 3:34am
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It’s nice to see you too dernwyn!
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Well the plan was to see them one per night, in order, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. It snowed mightily every one of those days, with Wednesday (so Two Towers) snowing so bad we had to put it over to Saturday night — thankfully there were tickets left.
The films were glorious to experience again, and weirdly looked better than they did 20 some odd years ago. I think they regraded them, with some of the dodgy scenes greatly improved (e.g., when the column falls with Aragorn and Frodo during the flight to the bridge of Khazad-dûm scene; or when Isildur puts the ring on in the flashback to his death scene). There seemed to be far more detail than I remember, even from countless viewings at home.
Though I love the movies, I don’t think we could have done them all in one day. Seeing them all in one week, with one or two day gaps between showings was gruelling enough. Strangely, although I experienced flashes of nostalgia—and euphoria at appropriate moments—the thing that was missing was the anticipation that built from having to wait a year between releases. It was fine that we ended up seeing them out of order; Towers is probably my favourite of the three lately so ending there was kind of nice.
Snow? I think we were up to 3 feet (about 90 cm) of the stuff by the time it settled down. Not quite “it will be the death of the hobbits” amounts, but a lot for these parts, more than we’ve seen in a couple decades. We’ve had a bit of rain, sometimes freezing rain, in the last couple days, but bitter cold and more snow is on the way next week. So it’s still soup weather, which is fine with me!
(This post was edited by SirDennisC on Sat, 3:47am)
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