In honor of Return of the King, which opened this week, I'm recommending two fun LotR parodies: Once More, With Hobbits, a musical (lyrics only so far) to the tunes of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode Once More, With Feeling; also, the very naughty, hilarious Secret Diaries. [via MetaFilter]
And speaking of RotK, which clocks in at a zaftig 3.5 hours, it was no Matrix Revolutions-style third episode disappointment. It's great fun, and the battle of the Pelennor Fields is particularly moving. Even so, I liked the first two movies more. I suspect the eventual "extended edition" DVD with a few key scenes reinserted will play much better (especially the Saruman bits). I was, however, mildly disappointed that my favorite moment in the trilogy ("I am the Mouth of Sauron") was left out of the film version, although I suspect that was a victim of the screenplay adaptation, not the cutting room, so I am not holding my breath on its DVD restoration....
Being the kind of geek who 1) knows the LotR 2) not only has seen the Buffy episode "Once More with Feeling" but has seen it often enough to know the songs and 3) is somewhat into musical theatre, I liked this. I'm simply amazed that there are enough people who have these same overlapping interests that this website exists at all.
Posted by: Virginia | 2003.12.22 at 18:57
As someone in the MeFi thread said, this is maximum nerdcore.
Posted by: mg | 2003.12.22 at 21:50
Well, there is hope after all. It seems that Bruce Spence was cast as the Mouth of Sauron, so I assume the scene was cut, and now I am really holding out hope for the extended edition dvd.
Posted by: mg | 2003.12.23 at 13:08