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yakalskovich) wrote2003-12-18 08:21 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2003-12-18 08:21 pm
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How the Little Cosmonaut saved his space ship...
http://www.freshsensation.com/samorost.swf
An incredibly cute Czech animation/game. Click on the turret and start; try clicking everything that shapes the cursor to a hand, and you will prevail.
Remember those Czech fairy tale movies from the seventies and eighties? It's a bit like those, just in space and seriously weird, as if the kids had grown up and found some mightily strange pipe weed in the flotsam and jetsam...
Speaking of which, I have just watched LOTR 3. Am seriously bowled over: GOOOOD!!!
They did leave out that thing with Saruman in Isengard when Grima throws the palantir, the whole thing with the Houses of Healing and the athelas leaves and Faramir and Eowyn falling in love - you just see them in the end, at Aragorn's coronation, standing beside each other and looking deliriously happy. Also the Scouring of the Shire (when they come home and all is not well), and Legolas taking Gimli with him on the Last Ship; there was a figure in blue there that could have been Legolas, but was not closer referred to. I liked the Havens; they were unlike anything I'd imagined, but impressive. More fjord than beach. Cirdan got himself a rather stately place there...
All these things, though, I fully trust we shall see in the Extended Version. The sister of one of the Metropolitans is going to the LOTR megathon thinggie where they have all three extended versions in a row, so I shall be able to ask whether I was right.
Unrepairable: not Elladan, Elrohir and some rangers come, but Elrond alone, and Aragorn goes to summon the dead with just Legolas and Gimli. Denethor eats small tomatoes when the battle of Minas Tirith begins - what in Arda was PJ trying to tell us with that?? Eowyn never pretends towards Merry that she is anyone else than who she really is; no "Dernhelm". The ship Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf, Elrond et. al. leave is the Last Ship, so Sam will never get to go to Valinor after his long and happy life, for having carried the Ring for a while. And the Oliphaunts are a bit too much - simple elephants would have sufficed. Tolkien never describes these beasts in a way to suggest they are anything but elephants - they're just big and exotic to the small, homely hobbits.
In any case, I enjoyed the movie tremendously, noted with glee how close it stayed to the book in many instances, having quite some dialogue verbatim etc., and will see it again soon.
An incredibly cute Czech animation/game. Click on the turret and start; try clicking everything that shapes the cursor to a hand, and you will prevail.
Remember those Czech fairy tale movies from the seventies and eighties? It's a bit like those, just in space and seriously weird, as if the kids had grown up and found some mightily strange pipe weed in the flotsam and jetsam...
Speaking of which, I have just watched LOTR 3. Am seriously bowled over: GOOOOD!!!
They did leave out that thing with Saruman in Isengard when Grima throws the palantir, the whole thing with the Houses of Healing and the athelas leaves and Faramir and Eowyn falling in love - you just see them in the end, at Aragorn's coronation, standing beside each other and looking deliriously happy. Also the Scouring of the Shire (when they come home and all is not well), and Legolas taking Gimli with him on the Last Ship; there was a figure in blue there that could have been Legolas, but was not closer referred to. I liked the Havens; they were unlike anything I'd imagined, but impressive. More fjord than beach. Cirdan got himself a rather stately place there...
All these things, though, I fully trust we shall see in the Extended Version. The sister of one of the Metropolitans is going to the LOTR megathon thinggie where they have all three extended versions in a row, so I shall be able to ask whether I was right.
Unrepairable: not Elladan, Elrohir and some rangers come, but Elrond alone, and Aragorn goes to summon the dead with just Legolas and Gimli. Denethor eats small tomatoes when the battle of Minas Tirith begins - what in Arda was PJ trying to tell us with that?? Eowyn never pretends towards Merry that she is anyone else than who she really is; no "Dernhelm". The ship Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf, Elrond et. al. leave is the Last Ship, so Sam will never get to go to Valinor after his long and happy life, for having carried the Ring for a while. And the Oliphaunts are a bit too much - simple elephants would have sufficed. Tolkien never describes these beasts in a way to suggest they are anything but elephants - they're just big and exotic to the small, homely hobbits.
In any case, I enjoyed the movie tremendously, noted with glee how close it stayed to the book in many instances, having quite some dialogue verbatim etc., and will see it again soon.