Maybe Aragorn would have been better served watching another DVD, Frank Miller’s 300. Then he would have known that he should have attacked the orcs while they were bottlenecked in the gateway, rather than just waiting for them to surround their army on all sides.
It should also be noted that all the horses just disappeared from both armies, and everyone is on foot. I guess Sauron used his magic 8-ball eye to make all the horses disappear.
This scene is so poorly done, it seems silly I have to even point it out. Did no one else notice that during this battle, not only did the horses disappear, not only did Gandalf and Aragorn cede the advantage they had, but the actual terrain changed? They were lined up for battle on a bit of an incline, but when the orcs surround them, this incline has disappeared. What were you thinking, Academy voters?
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It’s pretty obvious that Aragorn just recently watched the DVD of Braveheart. He certainly picked up some tips on how to give a rousing battle speech. The only thing missing is mooning some orcs.
If you pay attention closely, you’ll see that the army rides up on horses. Then when they are going into battle, they don’t have horses. When the orcs are first seen coming through the gate, they don’t have any horses. Yet, when they begin their charge, the orcs now have horses. I guess they stole them from the Gondor army (This was first pointed out to me by this website).
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It seems to me Aragorn could have just gotten the guy to a dentist, rather than chopping off his head. I suppose he probably had some bad breath as well, and he just couldn’t take the smell.
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Aragorn reveals himself to Sauron in the Palantir. Then Sauron shows him Liv Tyler. She looks like she is sleeping. This seems to upset Aragorn, who for some reason drops his little glass necklace thingy that is very important to him. It breaks.
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Gandalf has always been the wisest and most hopeful. But Peter Jackson’s Gandalf suddenly loses hope at the exact moment when it seems like Frodo might actually succeed. The screenplay is horribly inconsistent in the way it treats the characters (unless they are women, in which case they are treated consistently poorly).
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