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⌈ Secret Post #2189 ⌋

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Comments

[mekkio]

They miss Aragorn.

Oh, Viggo Mortensen, you are the man who launched a million man-crushes.

Seriously, though. I don't get it either. I loved it. It's one of those movies that you have to watch it in a theater to get just how stunning it really is. You can't wait until it hits the dvds.

[ariakas]

Now Viggo Mortensen is most definitely a fine male specimen and all, but surely Richard Armitage launched a few man-crushes of his own?

I don't get it. Every review is heaping praise on all of the performances, but wah wah the special effects are so distracting it gets a negative score? What the heck, people.

[mekkio]

Armitage is hot. No doubt. But Mortensen just seems bad ass on and off the screen. Like this quiet, cool that goes beyond looks. Strange enough, their characters fitted this difference too.

Thorin has a chip on his shoulder that Aragorn did not have. That could rub people the wrong way. Both were exiled princes but only Thorin seemed to have a bitterness and arrogance. Aragorn was more, "Yeah, yeah, I come from not just a royal bloodline but the royal bloodline of Man. But you know what? Screw it, I am happy to be Strider, a Ranger. Now, if you excuse me. I gotta go kill some Orcs. And do so without messing my hair."

[ariakas]

Bah, character flaws to overcome just make Thorin hotter. One thing I never cared for about Aragorn, on screen or in the books, is that he seemed to have very little to overcome aside from some angst about fulfilling his awesome destiny of awesome as the king of awesome. Thorin's got some real prejudices and a bad attitude.

That being said, we do not yet know if he's got Aragorn's abs. That could be a deal-breaker.

/queues up Eastern Promises >>

[brooms]

But Mortensen just seems bad ass on and off the screen. Like this quiet, cool that goes beyond looks.

he's a respected, critically acclaimed, legitimate Actor receiver of multiple prestigious awards. EASTERN PROMISES.

he's the second best main (so excluding beloved cate blanchett) actor in the lotr trilog bar only mckellen.

i love armitage, but he's not going to quite fill the aragorn (+boromir amalgamation) shoes. and freeman doesn't have leading man gravitas.

[mekkio]

Thing is, it doesn't matter how well respected the actors is. You can't drop in some other just as respected actors into the part of Aragorn and not get that magic you got with Viggo. Would Aragorn have been the same if he had been played by someone like Daniel Day Lewis? Or Liam Neeson? Or Ralph Fiennes. All of them are Oscar winners and are acclaimed. I doubt it.

Viggo was the perfect actor for Aragorn. He gave Aragorn the right attitude that connected with millions across the globe.

[brooms]

Viggo was the perfect actor for Aragorn.

i agree? i brought up mortensen's acclaim to back up why some critics may find the hobbit lacking in a leading presence like his. because the hobbit IS lacking in a leading presence like his.

[tabaqui]

YES. He so was. The man went out camping in his gear, he friggin' lived with that sword, he *wore* Boromir's bracers after he died.....

He was just...he *lived* the role.

[(Anonymous)]

Richard Armitage and Martin Freeman were actually sort of attractive in this. Not too much, though.

I think they felt they had to make the dwarves more attractive in this movie because more of the important characters were dwarves. When there was only one main dwarf character, it was fine to have him look all dwarfy, but you can't have most of the major characters in the movie looking like Gimli.

[ariakas]

I don't think they were wrong in that call, either. There's nothing in LotR canon that states dwarves are necessarily ugly, after all. And plenty of stocky dudes with beards are hot. Thorin needed to be striking and charismatic, and they definitely did a good job with that.

[(Anonymous)]

I recall being in highschool and two friends getting into an argument over who was hotter, Viggo or Orlando. They wanted me to choose so one of them could "win"

I hadn't come out yet, so I just said Aragorn because he was my favourite in the books

:S