Review : Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

well I can sit here and talk for hours and hours and hours, but that wouldn't do much good

so to make it fairly simple, PJ did a great job he didn't leave out anything that should be included. He didn't give us a Nude Frodo 😄
Shelob fight was done very well (awesmely cool) Minas Morgul was SO F*CKING SCARY.
The Siege on Gondor AWESOME, The Rohirrim CHARGE OMG -I WANT THE DVD-
Denethor going Mad was weird as hell
the army of the dead, damn great CGI

now things that were A BIT sad:
IMO they should have spend more time in saying goodbye to Legolas, Faramir, Gimli and Eomer.
They should have included the house of healing, except that it all rocked 😄

Quite certain those two bits will be on the extended edition

Originally posted by Lord Soth
Two Towers-19/10,

Originally posted by Tricksy Hobbit
I didn't want to leave my seat at the end, could have watched it again straight away.

Originally posted by Fire
now things that were A BIT sad:
IMO they should have spend more time in saying goodbye to Legolas, Faramir, Gimli and Eomer.
They should have included the house of healing, except that it all rocked 😄

Spoiler:
Faramir and Eowyn fall in love

I didn't see it yet...

Originally posted by Schizo_n_me
I didn't see it yet...

You better go! Its amazing!

Two things I would have liked to have seen that were in the book and not in the Movie: Don't worry, this won't spoil the movie, it may spoil the extended version if they add these scenes to it though . . . continue at your on graduer. Like Lord Soth and shadowfxlegolas, I would have liked to have seen the scenes where Faramir and Eowyn fall in love. I also would have liked to have seen the Battle at the Shire which happens at the very end of the book, where Wormtounge Kills Sauruman right after Sauruman tries to stab Frodo, but Frodo's Mithral vest saves him once again. Then the Hobbits shoot four arrows into Wormtongue's back, killing him dead. Also, the scene where the fellowship bumps into Saruman and Wormtongue in the forest on there way to the Shire, where Saruman is kicking Wormtongue and being a sore loser.

Aside of that, I can't complain. My prior wishes weren't enough to even remotely ruin the movie, I must say. The movie was amazing and executed perfectly as far as I'm concerned. It truly captured the flavor of the book and the themes. The battle with the Oliphaunts, which wasn't in the book, was incredible. That scene alone was better than all three Jurassic Parks put together. I found myself lost in this movie. I can't wait to see it agian. I'm still numb by it's affects.

Perfectionist comment-the technical term is Mumakil, not Oilphaunts

Angry comment-

I also would have liked to have seen the Battle at the Shire which happens at the very end of the book, where Wormtounge Kills Sauruman right after Sauruman tries to stab Frodo, but Frodo's Mithral vest saves him once again. Then the Hobbits shoot four arrows into Wormtongue's back, killing him dead.

This sequence, called the Scouring of the Shire, was never shot. Peter Jackson claimed he never liked that part of the book, and come to think of it, neither do I. But it's still part of the book, it shouldn't be dismissed like that

I thought that part kicked ass in the book. It made the story feel more full circle.

well wether PJ liked it or not is very much not the point'.

the scene is

A) not very cinematic, turning violent and stuff all over again after the great wars have ended.
B) a bit confusing for people who have not read the books
C) unnecessairy really
D) very hard to shoot without making it dark and depressing, and I think if they would try the scene would get far to comical

Pretty much what I thought. It's just a sequence that wouldn't work at all in a movie.

The freakin' Ring is destroed, why not just let the hobbits be happy? ✅ ✅

Yeah, well, I would have liked to have seen it.

But seriously, it would have ruined the flow of he film if they kept the Shire Battle.

Plus, the movie'd be about 4 hours long (not that that's such a bad thing 😄)

I heard Saruman will be in the Extended Version of ROTK.

just saw it last night and it was absolutely EPIC. as i was walking out of the theater, the only words i could say were "absolutely amazing." unfortunately, i have never read the books, but i have recently obtained a copy. i'm looking forward to getting through them. also, i read a CNN interview of peter jackson, in it he said he would like to film an adaptation of "the hobbit." if he did, that would rock.

ROTK - best trilogy ending of all time

madsci
hip hop purist

huh?

the only reason why i was disappointed was that it was finally over, and I don't think that we're going to see The Hobbit on the big screen any time soon... 🙁 but i can't wait to see it again!

hey i saw this last night. It was good. To me it made up for two towers. has anyone seen the special edition two towers yet? is there much difference in the added scenes?

Rage it becomes fairly better with the added scenes, but personaly I don't always like the new scenes that much I like the adaptation of the already existing scenes, like the Uruk's meeting the normal Isengard orcs and things like that