Wednesday, December 15, 2004

satisfied in the end?

I got my copy of Return of the King Extended DVD yesterday in the mail and watched it last night. It had a lot of extra scenes, although none of them so important to the storyline that you felt like you were watching something new (not like The Two Towers where storylines were way better explained by the extra scenes). Is it just me or was anybody else extremely disappointed that Aragorn ended up with Arwen? I remember being not to happy with that turn of events the first time I saw the movie and last night was no different. I don't mind the predictable "the good guys always win" storyline but I cannot stand the predictable "meant to be together" love-story bullshit. I guess I'm too jaded. I prefer my love-stories to be like Romeo & Juliet, somebody had better die. If you ask me, love stories where one of the protaganists die are better because you (the viewer) knows that the living person will always remember the other person as beautiful and lovely, perfect even. But when they get together in the end I always think, "Yeah that lovey-dovey stuff isn't going to last. She'll get tired of his farting in bed and start spending money to fill the emotional void. He'll get mad when her ass gets bigger and her sex drive slows down and go find a twenty-four year old stripper." Yeah, cynical, definitely the word-du-jour.

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