obligatory post

well, i couldn't really count myself a man if i DIDN'T make some mention of that movie we saw last night, so here we go.
although i can't say i was acutally as sensitive as kyle, and acutally made with the crying, i can say that i DID get pretty damn misty a couple times. and of course i just about wet myself over aragon's little "there may come a day when the courage of men fails...but today is not that day!" speech. i guess i'd really have to say that this movie is what great movies aspire to be. although i don't want to just reiterate what kyle pointed out, i, too, noticed the excellent use of color. he used alot of excellent adjectives that described this use quite well, so i won't try and top them, but i will say that there were a few instances where i especially noticed how excellent the colors were. specifically, when smeagol takes the ring from deagol, and when the riders of rohan show up at minas tirith (i'm sorry if i spelt any of that incorrectly). when smeagol decides he wants the ring, the ambient light slowly, and almost imperceptably, changes from a natural sort of golden, the a forboding and frightening green. the use of sound here was also pretty cool, even though it was more of less just a standard heartbeat sort of thing, it still worked very well. as for when the riders of rohan show up to help turn the tide of battle, i may have just been me, but i noticed that the light of the faces of the defenders of minas tirith was the same golden light that broke over the mountians on the dawn of the third day in two towers, when eomer returned with those loyal to him to push back the uruk-hai and save helm's deep. i just thought that was pretty cool. speaking of things that were cool, minis fucking tirith. i haven't read the books in forever, or perhaps i would have been slightly less surprised by its, for lack of a better word, majesty. the massive slab of rock, with the courtyard on it...simply fantastic. anyway, i'm running out of things to say now, and i don't want to ruin any (more) of the movie, so i'll just sign off for now. final words: go see return of the king. it rocks everything that is capable of being rocked.