i just got back from seeing Return of the King. It was totally amazing. I guess films are going to go on and keep topping each other as time wears on and more money is spent and as technology continues to advance. up to this point, LOOKS-WISE, this is one of the most beautiful movies i've ever seen. all the architecture is georgous, the backrounds are vibrant and alive, but never outshine the actors performances. and, BOY, what an achievement. every single actor is GREAT. to me Sean Astin shines the brightest. he's perfect. he WILL win an oscar. mark my words. and Elijah Wood is great too. slightly underplayed, but mannnn his face told a story of TIRED AGONY. very well done. gollum is CGI too good for words. each moment gollum was on-screen i never thought to myself he's CGI, he's not real. he's so alive and tormented and manipulative. amazing. the effects are just amazing. nothing like 'em anywhere. just astounding. all i gotta say is when you see the Olyphants or whatever you'll almost fall over. everyone go watch it, so we can chit-chat a bit. now i'm going to read the books as soon as i can.
Well, I just got back from watching it now, and while I agree that it was amazing in all the respects you mentioned, I was still a little disappointed with it. I already had lowered expectations of it given that I knew the scouring of the shire was going to be omitted, but they completely omitted anything about the fate of Saruman. As far as the movie is concerned, he's still locked in Orthanc. There were a few other minor things omitted, but the Saruman plot hole really annoys me. But I do have to say that the battle of the black gates/destruction of the ring sequence was absolutely amazing. And the destruction of the witch-king of Angmar was too. Oh, and the Shelob sequence. Actually, just about everything they actually did was amazing; it was just the Saruman omission that bugged me.
If that's the only thing that bugged you, I think the Extended Edition DVDs will satisfy you, as the Saruman scenes will be back in (excluding the shire)
Yup, Yup. It's confirmed.
That's good. I would have liked the scouring to be there, but I guess it really isn't possible to put it into a movie like this since everyone sees the destruction of the ring as the climax. The battle of Bywater would have been cool to see on screen, though.
didja cry at the end?
I got a little choked up, but I don't think I actually cried which surprised me because I really expected to.
i did. like four seperate times over the last 40 minutes. resonance.
cried over lord of the rings ? you knew what was gonna happen right...
fact is--i knew very little of what was gonna happen. i never read the books.
hey! how did u get in a day early? a little sorcery?
anyway, all I've read about this movie is its a MASTERPIECE.
i went to a midnight showing.