|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TheBladeGlowsBlue
Rivendell
Oct 25 2012, 12:35pm
Post #1 of 49
(2984 views)
Shortcut
|
|
What made you cringe in LOTR....
|
Can't Post
|
|
For me, whenever PJ departed too far from the text...
The most unpalatable moment for me was the incessant (or so it felt) references to 'dwarf tossing' and when they dragged on the wake for Eomer, with Eowyn singing out of key (CRINGE)...
Any others...???
|
|
|
TheBladeGlowsBlue
Rivendell
Oct 25 2012, 12:51pm
Post #2 of 49
(2343 views)
Shortcut
|
This is not an attack on the Trilogy. It is a work of genius, albeit a flawed work of genius...
This is merely to highlight what didn't work for you.
|
|
|
Magpie
Immortal
Oct 25 2012, 1:51pm
Post #4 of 49
(2305 views)
Shortcut
|
|
How does this question differ substantially from the thread just below 'the most cheesy moments'
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
It would be interesting to see if the list of 'cringe' moments differ from the list of 'cheesy' moments in any discernible way.
As I said in another thread a month back that asked essentially the same thing, I don't have any problem discussing things I don't like in context of larger discussions. To make lists of things I don't like puts too much focus on them. It's just overall not a strategy I employ unless I'm trying to solve some problem or make an important decision.
LOTR soundtrack website ~ magpie avatar gallery
TORn History Mathom-house ~ Torn Image Posting Guide
|
|
|
Shelob'sAppetite
Valinor
Oct 25 2012, 3:32pm
Post #5 of 49
(2258 views)
Shortcut
|
But Weathertop is at the top of the list.
There is certainly a difference between cringeworthy and cheesy. They overlap, but the former encompasses a lot more. Such as scenes you thought were poorly-lit, or had bad CGI, or whatever.
|
|
|
Shelob'sAppetite
Valinor
Oct 25 2012, 3:32pm
Post #6 of 49
(2221 views)
Shortcut
|
Than threads that ask people to describe their favorite moments.
|
|
|
Tigero
Rivendell
Oct 25 2012, 3:42pm
Post #7 of 49
(2282 views)
Shortcut
|
|
Well, battle at black gate for starters
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
Gandalf vs. Balrog has many small faults... hmm... oh yes the part at Isengard after Saruman and Grima are dead (EE) and Gandalf says something like ''Send word to gondor... (Cant remember well)'' Gandalf looks strange, his face look plastic and all the wrinkles are tomato red...
Pessimists have no disappointments.
|
|
|
Kristin Thompson
Rohan
Oct 25 2012, 4:22pm
Post #8 of 49
(2274 views)
Shortcut
|
|
Gandalf hitting his head--twice!
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
First, Gandalf would never hit his head on Bilbo's chandelier or ceiling, even if this was the first time he entered Bag End. He's not a comic, bumbling wizard, at least in the book. Plus he has been in Bag End many times by this point and knows it well.
Second, Frodo rather than Gandalf figuring out the "riddle" on the door at Moria. It's not a riddle. Gandalf has mistranslated a word. Many languages are written without punctuation, and you have to figure out from the context what the sentence means. Is it "say 'friend'" or "speak, friend"? Gandalf assumes the latter, but it's the former. He figures it out himself, because he's the only one who can read these runes. Frodo could never guess this; it makes no sense to have him do so. Phooey.
As you can tell, I'm a big fan of the wizard, so I find these moments that diminish his character cringeworthy. But there are also the unnecessary burps, the dreadful drinking contest, and the more egregious moments where humor is created at the expense of the dignities of Gimli, Treebeard, Merry, and Pippin.
That said, there are so many wonderful things in the film that I put up with these, as, I think, most of us do.
|
|
|
Magpie
Immortal
Oct 25 2012, 4:23pm
Post #9 of 49
(2190 views)
Shortcut
|
I don't find lists of things people like very interesting, either. Lists don't interest me in general. Conversations do.
But, if I am to read or make a list, it suits me more to list funny things, beautiful things, things I'm grateful for, things that I wonder about, things I want to do... than things I don't like.
If people get their kicks making lists of things they don't like... à chacun son goût
But the original question stands: how is this list different from the 'cheesy' list which is still on page one? Did we need a new one because 'cheesy' just didn't cover enough territory?
LOTR soundtrack website ~ magpie avatar gallery
TORn History Mathom-house ~ Torn Image Posting Guide
|
|
|
Noel Q. von Schneiffel
Rivendell
Oct 25 2012, 4:56pm
Post #11 of 49
(2419 views)
Shortcut
|
I'm of course, as a prophet, legally required to find it all cringeworthy. But my top cringes were, in roughly chronological order:
- Gandalf levitating upwards through Orthanc, which turns out to be just a big hollow tube. (FotR)
- Theoden's Extreme Exorcism. (TTT)
- Arwen's dream kiss for Aragorn, and when she wakes up she changes into a horse. (TTT)
- Treebeard the Idiot, who has no idea that Saruman chopped half his wood down until Pippin tricks him into going and looking. (TTT)
- Denethor messily munching tomatoes while Faramir attempts suicide. (RotK)
- The Battle of Minas Tirith being decided by an amorphous mass of green foam. (RotK)
- Arwen getting ill and nearly dying for no apparent reason. (RotK)
- Aragorn murdering the Mouth of Sauron during a diplomatic parley. (RotK)
The Glorious Truth of J.R.R. Tolkien
Radiates from his Holy Writings
http://www.tolkientruth.info/
|
|
|
Ardamírë
Valinor
Oct 25 2012, 8:06pm
Post #12 of 49
(2250 views)
Shortcut
|
I love Eowyn's singing. It was very raw and poignant.
As for cringe-worthy scenes, I don't have very much fondness for the drinking game in ROTK. Actually, I just don't like Gimli in that scene. In fact, I'm not very fond of most of Gimli's jokes. But I actually do cringe at one scene: Gimli blowing away the ghosts in the paths of the dead. Ugh.
"...and his first memory of Middle-earth was the green stone above her breast as she sang above his cradle while Gondolin was still in flower." -Unfinished Tales
|
|
|
TheBladeGlowsBlue
Rivendell
Oct 25 2012, 10:28pm
Post #13 of 49
(2187 views)
Shortcut
|
I don't find lists of things people like very interesting, either. Lists don't interest me in general. Conversations do.
But, if I am to read or make a list, it suits me more to list funny things, beautiful things, things I'm grateful for, things that I wonder about, things I want to do... than things I don't like.
If people get their kicks making lists of things they don't like... à chacun son goût
But the original question stands: how is this list different from the 'cheesy' list which is still on page one? Did we need a new one because 'cheesy' just didn't cover enough territory?
There are a number of scenes in LOTR that I consider "cheesy" but don't make me cringe... a lot of people consider, for example, Sam's comment on entering the Dwarrowdelf, "now there's a real eye-opener", as cheesy (as do I) but it actually works IMHO, and I do not consider it to be "cringeworthy".
I hope that answers your question.
|
|
|
JWPlatt
Grey Havens
Oct 26 2012, 5:39am
Post #14 of 49
(2202 views)
Shortcut
|
Nothing anyone has ever mentioned on these forums made or make me cringe, with two exceptions. Not the skateboarding, not the scrubbing bubbles, not the undignified behavior, and not the changes to the story. Nothing. I just enjoy the whole thing.
I go to movies and just absorb them at face value, except non sequitur behavior, like Prometheus where Lindelof unintentionally and stupidly wrote scientists being utterly out of character.
So I wasn't made to cringe by anything except, as I've mentioned before, Eowyn's singing which was mercifully short and Aragorn's singing at the end. It's not that it was bad, really. It just made me aware that the actors were trying to sing. It wasn't musical quality and I felt uncomfortable for them. There were other fun songs that were just fine with me, like Merry and Pippin's table-dancing song and Pippin's song to Denethor. There is somehow a difference for me.
|
|
|
Shelob'sAppetite
Valinor
Oct 26 2012, 6:23am
Post #15 of 49
(2164 views)
Shortcut
|
People that can't sing very well, sometimes sing. Doesn't have to be of musical quality.
This is similar to how certain critics react to poetry in LOTR. Lots of them talk about how bad some of it is.
But Tolkien wrote some of that poetry not to achieve some arbitrary poetical standard, but to say something about the character that was reciting it.
And some of those characters simply recite bad poetry!
|
|
|
ElendilTheShort
Gondor
Oct 26 2012, 11:19am
Post #16 of 49
(2247 views)
Shortcut
|
|
The part for me that had more cheese than a truck load of quater pounders
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
was when Haldir gave his little Helm's Deep arrival speech, not so much the speech, although it was awful, but Legolas in the backround behind Haldir giving thee creepiest or creepy/cheesy intense looks to the camera.
Dishonorable mention goes to "which way to Mordor Gandalf, right or left" I mean....what the flip, is that meant to be skilful script writing..is it, is it realy??
|
|
|
TheBladeGlowsBlue
Rivendell
Oct 26 2012, 11:24am
Post #17 of 49
(2202 views)
Shortcut
|
was when Haldir gave his little Helm's Deep arrival speech, not so much the speech, although it was awful, but Legolas in the backround behind Haldir giving thee creepiest or creepy/cheesy intense looks to the camera.
Dishonorable mention goes to "which way to Mordor Gandalf, right or left" I mean....what the flip, is that meant to be skilful script writing..is it, is it realy??
In addition, what the hell were the elves doing at Helms Deep anyway? This for me, at the time AND in retrospect, was one departure too far... the elves were always aloof, and the first to depart Middle Earth... I could never understand how PJ thought giving them a moral backbone was a good idea.
(This post was edited by TheBladeGlowsBlue on Oct 26 2012, 11:26am)
|
|
|
Elenorflower
Gondor
Oct 26 2012, 12:52pm
Post #18 of 49
(2151 views)
Shortcut
|
the cheesy moments mentioned are down to personal taste, for some Gimli's antics could be seen as cheesy for other people it could be that they find Gimli to be a hearty and salty Dwarf, so it depends on the viewers personal taste.
But the only genuinely cheesy moment I remember personally is the moment when the blonde soldier extra in Minas Tirith says to Gandalf something like 'Long was this doom foretold', or words to that effect. He said it in such a hammy Shakespearian voice that it literally makes me cringe every time.
|
|
|
TheBladeGlowsBlue
Rivendell
Oct 26 2012, 1:13pm
Post #19 of 49
(2128 views)
Shortcut
|
....love it warts and all I mean.
But that doesn't mean it won't one day be superceded by a far better version... one that is 100% true to the true writings, with no Cheese OR Cringe...
Can you imagine?!
|
|
|
Nuradar
Rohan
Oct 26 2012, 4:23pm
Post #20 of 49
(2173 views)
Shortcut
|
- When Gimli says "nervous system" in TTT
- When Gimli says "liquor" in ROTK
- Eowyn's singing in TTT
|
|
|
JWPlatt
Grey Havens
Oct 26 2012, 8:54pm
Post #22 of 49
(2182 views)
Shortcut
|
|
Gandalf karate-kicking Denethor
[In reply to]
|
Can't Post
|
|
Gandalf used his staff, not his legs.
Denethor deserved it. You go, Gandy!
I thought the food was good use of symbolism.
|
|
|
JWPlatt
Grey Havens
Oct 26 2012, 10:43pm
Post #24 of 49
(2096 views)
Shortcut
|
I thought when you wrote "karate kicking" that you meant "karate kicking" and misunderstood what was displayed on the screen because it goes by so quickly. It is for the same reason that when someone talks about an elephant that I believe they are talking about an elephant and not a penguin. Because if they mean penguin, they should say penguin instead of elephant. As difficult as it is to believe, some people just don't picture a penguin when you say elephant. And if you persist in telling people that elephants are flightless birds that prefer arctic conditions, well, you can expect some funny looks. I must say that I get a chuckle out of imagining Gandalf lifting his left to Denethor like some Billy Jack movie.
(This post was edited by JWPlatt on Oct 26 2012, 10:52pm)
|
|
|
|
|
1
