Ring Ring... musings on LOTR

[mrhjpotter]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> Ah!  Back to my delightfully squalid flat once more, having seen 
the famed LOTR last night (opening night in Australia, sigh.  Is 
there some good reason behind these staggered international release 
dates lark??)
> 
> Some films I walk out of with a definite opinion, good or bad, some 
films I walk out of with my mind a blur of no concrete opinion.  FOTR-
LOTR was of the latter category.  <snip> yadda, yadda, yadda...


I totally agree with you but I must add one thing (I have had death 
threats for saying this!). Gandalfs performance didn't do the book 
version of the great wizard any justice! IMO the film Gandalf could 
do with spending a couple of terms at Hogwarts...during the fight 
scene with Saruman he managed a couple of disarming spells, he 
couldn't do a simple summoning charm to get his staff back (its quite 
documented that spells etc. can be done without a wand, they just 
provide some "focus".) and when poor Frodo was stuck on that 
crumbling staircase he could have done a simple levitation spell just 
like our Hermione!

The man needs time with Flitwick if you please and just so he hasn't 
got to resort to a sword when fighting orcs, some time with Lupin too 
I think!