The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King

Kal · December 17, 2003, 03:20:07 AM

I just came back. I have to get my thoughts straight, but I think that this may be the best movie ever made. I think there is nothing negative to say about it, not even that it is too long, because its perfect.

This movie should win all the Oscars, including Best Film, Best Director, and most of them should get a special Oscar for acting, because they were all amazing... especially Sam.

The movie has everything you can ever want in a movie and its so well done that it blows your mind. I'm extremely happy about it.

I didnt sleep last night so I've been without sleep for about 40 hours now, and I was so exited that I didnt want it to end and as soon as I got here I needed to write this about the film. I have to add that Im not a LOTR fan, I wasnt excited at all when the 1st one came out (I was after I saw it), and I didnt read the books until this year.

THE MOVIE IS FUCKING EXCELLENT!

SHAFTR · December 17, 2003, 03:40:30 AM

Quote from: RaikusAmazing. 44 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes so far and none of them bad. Has a movie every garnered a 100% rating?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TheLordoftheRingsTheReturnoftheKing-1127213/

Yes, quite a few. Most noteable is Toy Story 2 with a 100% after 111 reviews.

Here is the link to the top movies.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt_year.php

Just Withnail · December 17, 2003, 04:42:54 AM

SPOILERS

And since I know no one can stear away from the text directly underneath the spoiler sign, I wrote this.

REAL SPOILERS

Favorite moments (not in ant particular order):

* Lighting of the beacons

* Gandalf putting his arm around Pippin. Actually, the whole father/son relationship

* "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you"

* Pippin's drunken Withnail imitation at the start

* Confrontation w/ the Witch King

* Pippin's singing montage

* Sam and Frodo talking "At the End of All Things"

* The Smeagol/ Deagol flashback

I'm forgetting so much. I seriously need to see it again.

kotte · December 17, 2003, 05:17:00 AM

Quote from: Withnail
* Pippin's singing montage

Agree. Very powerful.

This film just blew my mind. Makes me proud of cinema.

ShanghaiOrange · December 17, 2003, 10:54:10 AM

Lord of the Rings? More like Lord of the Boring Overblown 3 and a half hour crap.

This was a good movie. Yah!

Pirates was better though.

Seriously.
If Johnny Depp had played every part in Lord of the Rings (and he could have, too) it would have been really good.

Banky · December 17, 2003, 11:03:37 AM

seriosuly this was a good movie but not the perfection some make it out to be

Gamblour. · December 17, 2003, 12:59:07 PM

It's funny...thinking back on moments in the film makes me want to cry more than I wanted to watching the film. I need to see this one again and again. This is not the best movie ever made, but it's a damn good one.

modage · December 17, 2003, 01:16:39 PM

i thought it was good, but i dont know if i was just tired or what but i didnt enjoy it any more than either of the first two. i also thought the ending, ending, ending, ending was just terrible. good for the extended dvd, but really who gives a shit? it just went on for far too long i thought. could've ended really as soon as SPOILER the damn eagles picked up Frodo and Sam or any of the closest endings to that END SPOILER i dunno, i need to see it again. i was really tired. the battles were pretty cool. i also kinda felt like (as in matrix 3) a lot of the middle of the film i was watching the 'secondary characters' and not frodo or aragorn or anyone i really cared about. also, liv tyler was in the film about 3 minutes, why does she have her own poster? also, i was under the impression from the talk about the film being powerful and everyone watching with tears in their eyes and some major players not living, that some of the MAIN characters were going to die. but everybody really important survived. i hadnt read the books so i thought it was possible frodo would bite it, or maybe one of the other hobbits or legolas, or shit SOMEBODY in the fellowship. i liked it a lot, but the structure seemed to be too slavish to the book to cram in all this stuff and not enough of a movie plot. i dunno. i need to see it again.

kotte · December 17, 2003, 01:31:46 PM

Quote from: themodernage02i also thought the ending, ending, ending, ending was just terrible.

It's been three films. A proper ending is in it's place. I admit it would've been nice with the end after the long 'fade to black' but I would've felt cheated. All that struggle. 10 hours of magic cinema. Huge battles in amazing locations. All the agony...all that struggle...Frodo destroys the ring. THE END.

Cheated.

modage · December 17, 2003, 01:41:14 PM

well howabout when Viggo gets crowned? or when they all bow down to the hobbits? or any of endings before the final one? did we really NEED to see sam getting married ANYWHERE but the extended dvd? i dont think so. pj just went a little crazy towards the end there and forgot that he still needs to trim his movie of the fat.

kotte · December 17, 2003, 01:45:53 PM

Quote from: themodernage02well howabout when Viggo gets crowned? or when they all bow down to the hobbits? or any of endings before the final one? did we really NEED to see sam getting married ANYWHERE but the extended dvd? i dont think so. pj just went a little crazy towards the end there and forgot that he still needs to trim his movie of the fat.

Viggo get's crowned? Well the title is Return of the King.

I see what you're saying but it's been a long journey.

Find Your Magali · December 17, 2003, 03:15:00 PM

There are some diversions you can make from the book (and they made plenty, which is fine) but the person who had the very last line in the book HAD to have that last line in ROTK. THAT's the ending. My two cents.

More thoughts after I let it all sink in some more....

kotte · December 17, 2003, 03:26:56 PM

Quote from: Find Your MagaliThere are some diversions you can make from the book (and they made plenty, which is fine) but the person who had the very last line in the book HAD to have that last line in ROTK. THAT's the ending. My two cents.

More thoughts after I let it all sink in some more....

Never read them. Who has the last line in the book?

Just Withnail · December 17, 2003, 07:55:41 PM

I think this is true:

Quote from: Bankyseriosuly this was a good movie but not the perfection some make it out to be

And this is true:

Quote from: GamblorIt's funny...thinking back on moments in the film makes me want to cry more than I wanted to watching the film.

modage · December 17, 2003, 10:45:11 PM

thought of something else: am i wrong or is Bilbo writing his book ONLY in the extended Fellowship of the Ring? because that means for everyone who hasnt seen the extended version (or read the books), Frodo 'finishing' the book at the end of King is completely pointless. because they never saw Bilbo writing in it in the first place. is PJ THAT tired? or did he not realize that?