{"id":4119,"date":"2004-01-07T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2015-01-18T00:17:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T00:17:44","slug":"4119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/2004\/01\/07\/4119\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy: We disappear in the film for fifty minutes.<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: And that is probably some of the darkest piece of cinema, that you&#8217;ll see in those 50 minutes.<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: I think it&#8217;s actually a storytelling device. That it makes people get sadder and sadder.<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: Just long for Pippin and Merry.<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: Yeah, they&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;I&#8217;m missing something here. I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m missing.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: &#8220;There&#8217;s a piece of my life, a shard of my heart, has been torn out.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what it is!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand what it is.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: And then, there&#8217;s the two little buggers up a tree!<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: Ah!<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: Ahh, that&#8217;s better, eh?<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: Like a new sunrise!<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: Ah, it&#8217;s beautiful. Like someone&#8217;s just given you a cake.<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: Yeah. Or candyfloss. Or cotton candy, as you might say in America.<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: Mmm, cotton candy. Or a big bag of popcorn!<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: Or pumpernickel!<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: Ahh, pumpernickel. Rocky road.<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: Baby Ruths. You just get sudden chocolate bars then.<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: Mmm.<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: I look like my brother there.<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Dom: I think maybe &#8220;The Two Towers&#8221; should have been called &#8220;The Adventures of Merry and Pippin.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: We shall rename it. Because I think we spoke about&#8230; I lost my train of thought. Say something for a minute.<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: I really like eggs in the morning. And bacon at night. Is that wrong?<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: No! Carry on, carry on!<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: When I was seven, I used to eat ants.<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: Got it! We were talking about&#8230; em&#8230; lost again.<br \/>\n<br \/>(They laugh)<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: It&#8217;s quite incredible, isn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: It was probably a lie, Billy.<\/p>\n<p>*SO MUCH LOVE* <\/p>\n<p>And I love how they provide commentary on each of the actors as the credits roll. It&#8217;s so MST3K!<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: Viggo Mortensen!<br \/>\n<br \/>Billy: Mad as a fish.<br \/>\n<br \/>Dom: Smells a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>So much better than the Elijah\/Sean\/Andy commentary, which has a lot of bickering and talking over one another, and the Orlando Bloom, which is essentially just fanboying of his fellow actors. OR1337!!1! (Though John Rhys-Davies and Christopher Lee and Sir Ian rock my socks.) <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Dom and Billy. *happysigh* Stream of consciousness. So hilarious. And if you find someone in the world with a cuter accent than Billy, I will eat my laptop. (Yes, I still love you, Alan Cumming. But Billy never did &#8220;Spy Kids&#8221; or &#8220;The Mask II.&#8221; Shame, Alan. Shame.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, today&#8217;s Bad and Wrong Yet Absolutely Hilarious award goes to PointlessWasteofTime.com for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlesswasteoftime.com\/film\/returnoftheking.html\">these<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlesswasteoftime.com\/film\/lotrgroin.html\">two<\/a> articles. Please don&#8217;t visit these links, Mom and Dad. (I need to set up a &#8220;No Children Named Emmy&#8221; system like Sam. That would be helpful.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy: We disappear in the film for fifty minutes. Dom: And that is probably some of the darkest piece of cinema, that you&#8217;ll see in those 50 minutes. Billy: I think it&#8217;s actually a storytelling device. That it makes people get sadder and sadder. Dom: Just long for Pippin and Merry. Billy: Yeah, they&#8217;re thinking, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/2004\/01\/07\/4119\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}