{"id":519,"date":"2001-09-26T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2001-09-26T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=519"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:14:46","slug":"hoo_dee_frickin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/26\/hoo_dee_frickin.html","title":{"rendered":"Hoo. Dee. Frickin’. Hoo."},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of my employer’s broadband connection (and a download of QT5, since QT4 won’t hack it), I am now the proud “owner” of the 30Mb trailer to Lord of the Rings<\/a>. (Both the trailer in various sizes and a static scene-by-scene are available at the site.) This trailer ran on Angel <\/i>on Monday, but now I can play it and play it and play it some more until Margie bludgeons me with whatever she can find.<\/p>\n

In the words of the Knights of the Dinner Table, Hoody-hoo.<\/p>\n

A typical trailer of flashing images, each building more and more excitement. The calm of the Shire. The menace of Sauron (though I never pictured him embodied, clearly he must have had at least one finger at some point). The pursuing Ringwraiths. Endless, marching armies of evil. The hobbits (and the “reduction” technology looks like it’s going to work, folks). Gandalf (Ian McKellan looks like he is going to rock <\/i>in this role). Galadriel (looking as etherially powerful and beautiful as I could have imagined). The Fellowship itself. The pursuit by the agents of Sauron (birds swooping overhead as the Fellowship dives for cover). The Western Doors to Moria (and what rises from the pool). The interiors of Moria (stunning in their decay, their grandeur, their detail, be it a corridor, the Hall of Records, the Great Hall, or the Bridge). Orcs. Trolls. Cruel Caradhras. Arwen (and I’m willing to bend enough to see more of Arwen than in the books). And a fleeting glimpse of the Balrog.<\/p>\n

Oh, and Gandalf. Did I mention Gandalf? Some great <\/i>Gandalf.<\/p>\n

And the rest of the cast looks pretty awesome (when not awesomely pretty), too.<\/p>\n

The movie opens 19 December<\/b>, which is right before when we leave for California for the Holidays.<\/p>\n

I’m already trying to figure out how to take an extra day off to see it that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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