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.