The Top 20 Gripes I Have With Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy

!±8± The Top 20 Gripes I Have With Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Before I go on ranting about how Peter Jackson and crew bungled on the Lord of the Rings, it's important to begin by saying that I believe they did do an outstanding job. Creating three films at once is a Herculean undertaking in and of itself - especially when the Lord the Rings has been revered for decades.

This article points out some gaffes/oversights (some out of frustration, some for humor's sake) that I was hoping Jackson, New Line and Weta Workshop would look into before filming, "The Hobbit". While I am guessing they weren't waiting to hear from me and my 2 cent opinion, I at least wanted to put it out there...here's what I came up with:

The top 20 things I can't help but wonder, "What the heck were Peter Jackson and crew thinking?"

In the extended DVD commentaries they explain that towards the end of the FOTR, Jackson informs the sound team that the Ringwraths don't sound scary enough so they somehow arrived at using a sound byte from his wife (Fran) screaming instead. While none of us outsiders heard the original sound that Jackson didn't like, I find it hard to believe it was any less silly that what they used. I don't mean to take anything away from Fran Jackson, she sounds like a lovely woman, I just don't understand why they used this sound - it wasn't scary, it was just annoying. Carrying the Ringswraiths point a little further, even their appearance wasn't that scary. Having the experts over at Weta make them (and their robes) a little more wispy and wraith-like would have been a nice touch - I suggest this because I know they had the skill to do it. Right now they look and move like nine ordinary guys riding around with black hoods rather than kings of old that have had their souls and wills stripped from them. Ford of Bruinen: Having Arwen take Frodo on horseback to Rivendell wasn't what I would have done, but I understand it. I just can't help but wonder why they had the Ringwraiths chasing them both in broad daylight. Perhaps they were on a tight shooting schedule but having the Nazgul riding around on a perfectly sunny day just didn't work - I almost expected to see someone walking their dog or throwing the Frisbee in the background. Shooting this at night, at dusk or even during rain would have been preferable, perhaps even the guys doing digital grading could have helped with this. Opening scene of the Return of the King. Hey look, I know Andy Serkis worked his tail off playing Gollum, but it seemed liked Jackson bent over backwards just to get him into the picture. In the extended DVD commentaries, the writers indicated that they wanted to concentrate their storyline on Frodo, but I am not sure how this 5-10 minute Smeagol detour fit into that plan. The Two Towers had a nice opening scene, too bad the Return of the King's wasn't. Orlando Bloom wins the award of the dopiest quote off of the extended DVD commentaries. He makes the comment that when Legolas is on the screen, "...he wants to show everyone that he's capable of taking care of business". Based on reading Tolkien's books several times over, it seems that this is Bloom talking about himself rather than Legolas. The character certainly had a general distrust for dwarves, but I never saw him as arrogant, prideful or conceited about himself. No Bloom, Legolas isn't concerned with showing everyone he can take care of business, maybe that's the way you feel about yourself. This shouldn't have bothered me but it did; it's important that the actors stay true to the character. Bloom's a good actor - I like him, but this was a silly comment. In the extended DVD commentaries, several of the actors praised Jackson and the other two writers for allowing them to contribute and make suggestions about the characters. Being an outsider to the movie business, I can only speculate that this approach is done to build trust and inspire actors - not a bad idea. But when many of the actors indicated that they were unfamiliar with the LOTR (some hadn't even read it, unlike Christopher Lee), why would you let them make suggestions or modifications to the character or scene? John Rhys Davies is terrific as Gimli, in fact I can't imagine anyone else playing him. Still, I wonder if I was the only one that was baffled and somewhat annoyed about the coming and going of his Scottish accent. This isn't on Davies - the directors should have left these Scottish takes on the cutting room floor. Much like the Ford of Bruinen comment, I understand why they tried to weave Arwen into the storyline throughout the trilogy (everything from flashbacks to weird psychic connections), but I didn't agree with it. It slowed the pace of the movie down and just didn't fit well. Thank goodness they didn't include the scenes they shot of Arwen fighting at Helm's Deep, that would have been a disaster. Not sure what they were doing with the Kate Blanchett and the Galadriel character: shooting at a different frame rate, slowing her voice down and shooting extreme close up of her eyes. Hmm, Galadriel was a high-elf, and a powerful force, but she wasn't a sorceress - I wonder why they tried to make her out to be. During the blistering snow storm on Caradhras, you can pick out the few shots that the actors were actually out in colder weather (their faces have a blushing tint to them). Most of the shots however have actors with warm faces because they were filming under hot studio lights with fake snow that...well, looked fake. In the Two Towers, one of the staff members comes up with the idea of trying to keep the audience in suspense when reintroducing Gandalf by mixing Ian Mckellen's voice with Christopher Lee's, so the audience can't really tell if it's Gandalf or Saruman. One of the production guy's explains the process in the extended DVD film commentary; he said he felt they nailed it. No, they didn't. Not to knock the sound guys for trying - this was just a foolish idea that should have been squashed quickly. All things undead are green. Ever notice that all of the creepy things in Middle Earth are green? The sprits in the water of the Dead Marshes (when Frodo falls in), the City of the Dead and the Army of the Dead, as well as Minas Morgul. What is it about florescent green that is scary? Had I lived in Middle Earth I would have run like hell from anything or anyone that was wearing brightly colored green clothing. When the Army of the Dead storms the orcs on the Pelennor Fields it looks like a child spilled green paint that runs all over the furniture. Future note for, "The Hobbit": florescent green doesn't equal scary. Perhaps they watched too many Ghostbusters movies and figured they'd make everything undead the same color as Slimer. The Weta team did a terrific job with the Eye of Sauron, unlike a lot of the other characters, it actually did look a little spooky. Too bad they had to ruin it with some shots in the Return of the King with a spotlight shining from the center eye. I realize they are helping the audience understand that Sauron is actively looking and seeing things, but it looked light a Black and Decker flashlight coming from the center of the eye. Cheesy. The "Let's show off Orlando Bloom", Legolas' trapeze act in the Return of the King where the character single handedly climbs up, disarms and kills a mûmakil moving at full throttle. Sure, I know Orlando's a hit with the ladies, so showing him off is fine, but this scene was not only blatantly ridiculous, it just wasn't necessary. This one's on the writers - not Bloom. It really was a Crack of Doom. John Howe does a terrific job in designing the door to Sammath Naur, again, it looks scary, but what the heck was the lighting crew thinking about when Frodo and Sam got inside? Look at the flashes on the actor's faces - it looks like there was lightning storm in there...perhaps Gandalf left some fireworks in there that got too close to the lava. Whatever the case is, this looked amateurish and was certainly not necessary. Instead of looking like a place of foreboding and dread, they made the Crack of Doom look like a fun house ride at the county fair. Sam tumbles off a cliff in the Two Towers when he, Frodo and Gollum approach the Black Gate of Mordor. All during this scene you can see they filmed on a bright, sunny day, which doesn't help the idea that Mordor is a horrible, dismal place. Perhaps it is possible for the sun to shine in Mordor, but Sauron could affect the weather (like Saruman could). Perhaps it's me being picky, but I just can't understand why they left the sky a bright blue when right behind the Black Gate was a land called, Udun, which translates to "hell". I don't picture hell with sunny skies, do you? The post production guys should have fixed this, or they should have done something about it when they were shooting. On the Stairs of Cirith Ungol, Frodo has a near psychotic episode where he's duped by Gollum into sending Sam away. In the extended DVD film commentary, the staff seem rather proud of coming up with this idea, they felt that it shows that Frodo is capable of making mistakes. They also indicated that this gives Gollum a payoff, since he's been trying so hard to separate the two heroes, and it increases the tension. This approach in separating Frodo from Sam ate up a lot of film time on screen. The writers tried to get clever here when they should have stuck to Tolkien's script - it was fine. Billy Boyd does a nice job singing in the Return of the King, I don't want to take away from his performance - I am just not sure why it's in there. Much like Orlando Bloom's trapeze act in killing the mûmakil earlier in the movie, this seemed like a contrived effort to showcase Boyd's other talents. The writers had to cram an unbelievable amount of story into just these three movies (and they did an admirable job), why they devoted so much time to this scene is a mystery to me. Having the warg battle in the middle of the Two Towers actually wasn't a bad idea. I think they took the idea a little too far (both figuratively and literally) when they had Aragon fly off the cliff with one of the wargs. Silly. To make matters worse, Aragorn gets out of this mess by having a psychic connection with Arwen and having a horse (with apparently a GPS system because Aragorn looked half dead and couldn't guide him) carry him safely to Helm's Deep. I am not sure what I am more puzzled about: what actually happened during that scene or why it was in the movie at all. The lighting, the lighting, the lighting: in Mordor and the Dead Marshes - in some of the shots you can see that it's sunny out. In many cases you'll notice that the lighting shifts significantly from one scene to another. Come on guys, you went to such great lengths to make sure the props were authentic - why would you neglect the lighting?

The Top 20 Gripes I Have With Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy

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10 London Ghosts

!±8± 10 London Ghosts

1. The Cock Lane Ghost

Perhaps the most famous of all London ghost stories began in January 1762 when Elizabeth, the twelve-year- old daughter of a parish clerk called Richard Parsons, seemed to become the conduit through which a murder victim could accuse her killer from beyond the grave. Communicating largely through the standard system of coded knocks (one for yes, two for no), the ghost of Fanny Kent, a former lodger with the Parsons, told how she had been poisoned by her common-law husband, William Kent. The story reached the newspapers and the Parsons' home in Cock Lane, near St Paul's, was besieged by journalists, clergymen and sightseers. For a time Cock Lane became as popular a destination for sensation-seekers as the lunatic asylum at Bedlam. Fanny, or Elizabeth, did not disappoint her audiences. When William Kent was brought to the house, he was greeted by a flurry of knockings, accusing him of doing away with his wife. Unsurprisingly, he denied it all. Visitors continued to flock to the house. One was the writer Oliver Goldsmith, who left an account of what he saw.

The spectators... sit looking at each other, suppressing laughter, and wait in silent expectation for the opening of the scene. As the ghost is a good deal offended at incredulity, the persons present are to conceal theirs if they have any, as by this concealment only can they hope to gratify their curiosity. For if they show, either before or when the knocking is begun, a too prying inquisition, or ludicrous style of thinking, the ghost continues usually silent, or to use the expression of the house, Miss Fanny is angry.' Eventually a committee was formed to conduct a semi-official investigation into the haunting. Members included an eminent physician, the matron of a maternity hospital and the poet, lexicographer and all-round literary luminary, Dr Samuel Johnson. Fanny, in the shape of Elizabeth Parsons, proved largely uncooperative and the committee was unimpressed by the idea that a murdered woman had returned to call for revenge on her killer. As Dr Johnson wrote in The Gentleman's Magazine, 'It is... the opinion of the whole assembly, that the child has some art of making or counterfeiting particular noises, and that there is no agency of any higher cause.' By the summer of 1762 William Kent had wearied of this ghostly attack on his good name and he brought a court case against Richard Parsons and others, claiming a conspiracy against him. A jury returned a verdict in his favour and Parsons was sentenced to spend time in the pillory. The Cock Lane ghost disappeared from the headlines.

2. The Man in Grey Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Most London theatres of any age have at least one ghost which haunts the auditorium or appears suddenly in a dressing room to scare the wits out of an unsuspecting actor. The Adelphi Theatre, for instance, is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of William Terriss, an actor who, in 1897, was stabbed to death by a deranged rival just outside the stage door. The nineteenth-century clown, Joseph Grimaldi, has been seen at Sadler's Wells, still wearing the make-up he made famous. Grimaldi has also been spotted at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, but the most famous ghost seen there is the so-called 'Man in Grey'. Dressed in a long grey coat, and wearing a tricorn hat, the ghost is unusual in that, unlike the majority of spooks, who await the witching hour, it appears during the daytime. Seeing the man in grey at rehearsals for a production is said to augur well for the show's success. No one seems sure who the ghost might be, although some claim he is a man who was murdered in the theatre in 1780.

3. 50 Berkeley Square

Once described as London's most haunted house, 50 Berkeley Square was reputed to be home to a supernatural creature so horrible that it drove those who saw it insane. The most frequently repeated story tells of two sailors who, some time in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, broke into the then unoccupied house in order to find a place to sleep. They had chosen their resting place unwisely. In the morning one of the sailors was found dead, impaled on the railings outside the house. The other sailor was still inside the house but had been reduced to a babbling lunatic. Further stories of foolhardy individuals agreeing to spend the night alone in the house and being found as gibbering wrecks were told in Victorian books and magazines. Various theories were advanced to explain the ghost. Perhaps it was the spirit of a former tenant, a Mr Myers, 'an odd cross between Scrooge of A Christmas Carol and Miss Havisham of Great Expectations', who had become a miserly recluse after he was jilted on his wedding day. Perhaps it was the ghost of another tenant's lunatic brother, who had been shut away in the attic. The trouble with all the stories about 50 Berkeley Square is that they owe more to literature than to historical reality. Lord Lytton's story, 'The Haunted and the Haunters', first published in 1859, with its tale of a man agreeing to pass a night in a haunted house that sounds remarkably similar to 50 Berkeley Square, may well have influenced later stories told as if they were fact. 50 Berkeley Square is currently home to the antiquarian booksellers, Maggs & Co, and they report no supernatural activities on their premises

4. British Museum Ghost

Lurid tales of a mummy's curse and the spirits of long-dead Ancient Egyptians haunting the rooms of the British Museum have been told for decades. One particular mummy, that of a young girl who served the god Amon-Ra, has been the focus of many stories. Security staff claimed that, during their night patrols, they could sense a horrible presence close to the mummy. A photographer who took pictures of the mummy's case killed himself after he developed them in his dark room and saw what the camera revealed. The old British Museum Underground station, no longer in use, was also reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an Ancient Egyptian, inadequately dressed for English weather in a loincloth and ceremonial head-dress.

5. Tower of London ghosts

So many people have been imprisoned in the Tower and so many have been executed either within its walls or on Tower Green, that it is little wonder that the place has so many ghost stories attached to it. Among the more famous of the Tower's reluctant guests who have been spotted still walking its rooms and corridors are a headless Anne Boleyn, Sir Walter Raleigh, Guy Fawkes and the Princes in the Tower. The most dramatic of the Tower's multiple hauntings is the ghostly re-enactment of the bungled execution of the Countess of Salisbury which is said to take place on the anniversary of her death in 1541. The elderly countess was condemned to death by Henry VIII, largely because of her son's treason and because she had a remote claim to the throne. She went to her death very unwillingly and had to be chased around the block by the executioner, who struck at her repeatedly with his axe before she finally fell.

6. Ghost of a Bear in Cheyne Walk

Not all London ghosts are human. A ghostly bear was regularly seen in the garden of one of the houses in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. The creature was supposed to be one of the bears baited to death on the site in the sixteenth century but the story may have its origin in the menagerie of exotic animals kept at 16 Cheyne Walk in the 1860s by the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Rossetti owned kangaroos, armadillos, zebus, a Brahmin bull and a somewhat mangy black bear, all of which had the run of the garden of his house. Tales of the poet's weird pets may have contributed to the sightings of a spectral bear padding around the back gardens of Chelsea.

7. University College Hospital - Ghost of a Nurse

Unsurprisingly, hospitals regularly attract ghost stories. Most seem to be nurses returning to their old workplaces. The Grey Lady of St Thomas's Hospital appears to patients who are about to die and is usually seen only from the knees upwards, supposedly because she materialises in a ward where the floor levels have been altered over the years. University College Hospital in Gower Street also has its own spectral visitor. Said to be the ghost of a nurse who accidentally gave a patient an overdose of morphine and was so traumatised by her mistake that she killed herself, the spirit regularly shows itself to both patients and staff. Dressed in a noticeably old-fashioned uniform, the ghost still has the best interests of the patient at heart and many have praised the kind treatment they have received from a nurse that no one else can see.

8. Collins Music Hall, Islington Ghost

Sam Vagg was a London chimney sweep who reinvented himself as an 'Irish' singer called Samuel Collins in the pubs and music halls of mid-Victorian England. In 1862 he took over a pub called The Lansdowne Arms on Islington Green and re-launched it as Collins Music Hall. Although Collins himself died three years later, at the age of only thirty-nine, his theatre thrived and most of the great names of music hall played there at some point in their careers. Gracie Fields made her London debut at Collins in 1912. For many years the founder seemed unwilling to tear himself away from the theatre that bore his name and his ghost was regularly seen in the offices where the day's takings were counted. Collins was destroyed by fire in 1958 and never rebuilt. A branch of Waterstone's now stands on the site.

9. Bank of England Ghosts

In 1933, during excavations connected to the rebuilding of the Bank, a coffin was unearthed in the old Garden Court. Seven-and-a-half feet long, the coffin belonged to a clerk at the Bank called William Jenkins, who had died in 1798. Unusually tall for his time - he was over 6 foot 7 inches - Jenkins had been obsessed during his final illness with the idea that body-snatchers would seize his corpse for its curiosity value and sell it to surgeons for dissection. His friends persuaded the Bank's directors that, as a long- serving employee, Jenkins deserved the Bank's protection post mortem, and he was buried in the Garden Court one morning before business began. Jenkins's tall ghost is still said to walk the Bank's corridors.

Outside the Bank, in Threadneedle Street, late-night passers-by have occasionally been confronted by a woman in early nineteenth-century dress asking whether or not they have seen her brother. This is the ghost known as 'the Bank Nun'. In 1812 a clerk at the Bank called Whitehead was tried for forging a bill and hanged. For twenty-five years after this, his sister Sarah, driven insane by her brother's death, came each day to the bank, convinced that he still worked there. She became a familiar sight to the bank workers, who dubbed her 'the Bank Nun' because of the long black dress she always wore. Sarah Whitehead's ghost has also been seen in Bank Underground station.

10. The Phantom Bus of Ladbroke Grove

One of the longest-lasting urban legends of west London tells of a ghostly bus that, in the mid-1930s, was frequently seen careering along the roads of Ladbroke Grove in the early hours of the morning. The bus was usually sighted at the junction of St Mark's Road and Cambridge Gardens and dozens of people claimed to have seen it. 'I was turning the corner,' one witness said, 'and saw a bus tearing towards me, the lights of the top and bottom decks and the headlights were full on but I could see no crew or passengers.' The junction, with a blind bend in both directions, had a reputation as an accident black spot and, initially, the phantom bus only added to this. Several car crashes were blamed on the shock drivers experienced when seeing it. Eventually, the council straightened the road at the junction and the ghostly red double-decker was seen no more.

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blowers or leaf blowers are handheld, self-contained units but there are also backpack mounted units with handheld wands. This is the more ergonomic type for prolonged usage.

There are also units that can suck in small twigs as well as leaves with the use of a vacuum and then, shred them to a bag. These units are called "blower vacs".

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Since blowers or leaf blowers are commonly used for gardening purposes, there have been issues about its noise levels. In fact, there are cities and towns now that have established laws regarding its usage. With this in mind, make sure you get updates about its use and restrictions before you buy an electric leaf blower or gas leaf blower.

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If you're all set on buying a blower, you can first head to Lowes, HomeDepot or any household power tool supply store. This way, you'll have a better idea when it comes to the features, weight and noise levels of your prospect. For Stihl products, only Stihl dealers can sell them.

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Modern technology has certainly made our day-to-day lives easier, but a house full of gadgets inevitably results in shockingly high electricity bills. Luckily, the latest advanced in green energy means that there are now a range of intelligent home devices that can actually help to save you money, whilst giving the planet a bit of a break too.

Vampire Power

Even when you hit the 'off' button on your gadgets, most of them continue to guzzle electricity. This is known as 'vampire power', which can make up a significant proportion of your yearly bill; most of us will find it a pain, however, to unplug our appliances after each use. Smart plugs like the Belkin Conserve socket and the Bye Bye Standby system can stop your gadgets from drawing vampire energy from the wall socket.

AlertMe Energy Home Hub

This intelligent system plugs onto your fusebox to monitor the electromagnetic field in the wires coming from it, and uses a transmitter to send the information to the central hub. This then connects to the internet using your home router and gives you access to your electricity usage via an online dashboard, a handheld controller or smartphone app. The AlertMe hub can even talk to smart plugs, switching them on or off remotely.

PassivEnergy

If smart metering seems a bit too much effort, the PassivEnergy management system can cut your electricity bills with minimal effort. The system takes control of your central heating and hot water controls, with in-room thermometers and a wireless hub working to manage your energy consumption more efficiently. The initial set up involves telling the handheld controller about your normal home routine, such as preferred temperature and when you go to bed, but then it quickly starts to monitor what you do to learn your habits in detail.

Draft Detectors

Chilly drafts are not only uncomfortable; they also waste expensive energy. Hunting for the weak spot in your windowpane can often be a frustrating task, but Black & Decker have brought out the handy Thermal Leak Detector to make it easier. The gadget contains an infrared thermometer that detects slight shifts in temperatures.

Smart Power Strips

Whilst working at your desktop computer, you're probably also using a few other additional devices such as an extra monitor, speakers, printer and hard drive. But when you turn off your PC, there's a good chance you leave these extra gadgets running continually. Smart power strips tell all of the local sockets to only switch on when the master socket (connected to the computer) is in use.

Smart Fridge

The national electricity grid works by predicting how much electricity the UK needs at any one time; if the amount produced exceeds the demand, then energy goes to waste. Several power stations are therefore kept running at 50% capacity, ready to be fired up or throttled down to match unexpected surges or lulls in demand, which is a highly inefficient solution. Smart fridges, however, can help relieve the pressures of the system by feeding information from the grid to cool food more efficiently. The fridge monitors its internal temperature as well as the status of the national grid, and if the grid needs help and the food is at the correct temperature, it will turn its motor off earlier than it otherwise would have done.

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If you're looking to buy a flashlight and you're tired of buying the plastic variety that barely illuminate the ground a few feet in front of you, there are a few things that you should know.

The light that a flashlight puts out is measured in "lumens". A lumen is a measure of how much light is produced by a light source.

To give you some perspective:

A 50 watt light bulb has about 540 lumens.

A 60 watt light bulb has about 850 lumens.

The typical cheap flashlight that you can buy at any corner store only has in the area of 30-60 lumens. They're not very powerful and if it's truly dark out, they're not going to help you much at all.

Need to see what's rattling around in the garbage cans outside your house? A drugstore flashlight with its weak pale beam is not going to help you until you're already outside and practically right on top of those garbage cans.

Want to take a walk at night? If you want to be able to see more than a few feet in front of you, a cheap flashlight will, pardon the expression, leave you in the dark - and likely to trip. You certainly won't know what's out there in the dark until you've walked right up to it.

So how bright is the brightest flashlight in the world?

One of the top contenders is the Vector Power on Board HID Spotlight, which has a blazing 3,500 lumens, marketed by Black & Decker. In fact, it may be one of the brightest HID (which stands for High Intensity Discharge) flashlights in the world.

The Polarion Flashlight has 5,200 lumens - but it costs more than ,000. That's a lot of money for a flashlight. Most people will never need that much illumination from a flashlight!
At under 0, the Vector Power on Board may be the brightest flashlight for the price anywhere.

It has 70 minutes of run-time after being charged up for just two hours. It can be plugged into a typical wall outlet or into a car's cigarette lighter, using an adapter, which makes it perfect for camping trips, and it is rechargable. And with the power of its beam, it can light up the darkness in a way you would have to see to believe.

It also has a white light, unlike traditional halogen lights which have a yellow tinge to them. The light is so bright that if necessary you could shine it in the eyes of an approaching, unfriendly animal - or person! - and temporarily blind them. It's also an ideal light to bring on a camping trip, where you may want to walk around at night in the woods and won't want to trip over tree roots or run into any startled, defensive wildlife.

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