Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Having not read the book ... so where the hell did those skeleton guys comes from in LOTR 3?
Oh, right, someone went and got them to come...
This was a simplified story line for the movie. In the book the skeletons killed all the Corsairs down south, and then got to go finish dying with honour never to be seen again.
Because all the corsairs were dealt to, the Southern Gondorians who had been stuck down south to match up to them, got to come up north to Minas Tirith in the Corsairs' ships. And make the decisive turn in the battle.
The movie skipped over this whole other army down south, and just brought the dead people.
Which lead to stupid scenes where the undead did nothing for 5 minutes while Legolas killed 20 guys and the giant elephant they were riding on, and then the undead overran the whole city in 5 seconds flat.
I find it interesting to watch deleted scenes with commentary, if only to see why the scenes were pulled, or the different directions they thought about going in.
Also the movie will differ in order to get a theatrical rating of pg13, as compared to a dvd rating which might end up at M (with the same group of kids watching both).
In LOTR:TTT they couldn't show the shot of the orc's head on a Rohirrim spear on the outskirts of Fangorn forest in the theatrical version. This might have pushed the film's rating up a notch. It only made it into the extended edition.</fanboy>
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it is a rather undignified stunt while the new Cabinet is being sworn in.
It's not possible that it doesn't have anything to do with the new government?
Given that she stops being Prime Minister when the new one is sworn in, that's when she leaves. No doubt the Labour party spread the message around the staff and the media when she'd be doing this, but isn't it just possible that the reason they did it is that they respect her, are sad that she quit, and wanted to show their support for her?
And no speech, someone gave her flowers, and she went straight to her car and drove off. Some stunt.
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This is also why missed games are not represented by zero.
I feel that games where players subbed on or off should either not be included, or their numbers should be compensated up in some way.
After all, if you're on the field for 10 minutes and people were to look at your stats and say "man, you only made three tackles in a whole game of rugby?" you'd be pissy.
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And Haydn, aren't you impressed that we're ignoring all your data and conclusions that you put so much work into, and arguing about what sort of graph you should use?
Next time you post about the All Blacks, right after they've got the Grand Slam, we'll kidnap the comments into a discussion of the inaccuracies of the meaning of the words 'grand' and 'slam', probably in relation to tennis.
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I would say for it to be a line, there should be uncollected data in between.
Either, a game every week, but we're only sampling one a month.
Or, six years of games, and we're showing the average for each year. The line (in theory, it doesn't actually) shows a moving average.
There is no possible relationship between points, nothing happened between the points where more data could be.
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And while we're saying nothing nice about not-so-special features on DVDs, has anyone ever seen a deleted scene or "extended cut" that actually enhanced the reputation of a film.
The Star Wars ones were generally awful. I remember seeing them and getting exciting at seeing a new scene in a movie I'd seen a dozen times, and then after a few thought "umm, these are shit, and some don't even make sense".
The more I see the prequels (with my son, who loves them) the more I think that all three should be considered deleted scenes from 4, 5, and 6.
I prefer the extended LOTR movies. They are closer to the books and actually make more sense.
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And talking about pomp and circumstance, am I the only person who thinks this is just a wee bit OTT:
Looks like a bunch of her supporters turning up to farewell her officially leaving her job and the building. What does it matter? Doesn't look like extensive taxpayer money went into it.
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Did you also watch the extended credits?
The extended credits include all the members of the club that paid $200 US or something to get a set of magazines and their name put at the end of the extended DVD. I fastforwarded to make sure my friend was there, noted that most of the cast seemed to be in it as well, and then pushed stop.
I did listen to all four commentaries though. Sean Astin is a whining self-important twit (his book on the movie and his life up to it is even worse), and Merry and Pippin don't just have comedy together on screen.
What do I win?
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There are 4 different commentaries on the extended edition of LOTR. Cast, director/writer, design team, production team.
Having listened to all four, it was too much. The last two should have been merged together. The cast one was the least informative, but if you were a fanboy/girl, entertaining.
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I'm told good things about his joint commentary on Conan the Barbarian.
I'm not sure if Conan the Barbarian needs dialogue, let alone commentary.