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Summary: The Grand Finale
Review: Before I saw this movie I've heard a lot of good things about it, so I must say that my expectations were high. Usually, when I feel like that the actual thing turns out to be worse than I expected. But ROTK didn't let me down. It was merely awesome! The cast was so well-picked, that there wasn't a slightest doubt in my mind that nobody else could've done a better job. Especially to me stood out Sam and Pippin. Billy Boyd just blew me away with his performance and how he showed the arc that Pipin's character had overgone.
Elijah Wood has done his job well also. He managed to capture both the evilness of his ring-possessed self and the pure innocence of his old self.
Visually the movie was captivating, the scenery and battles were grand and beautiful. And as bored as I usually get while watching the battle scenes, the ones here had nothing extra that would make, me at least, go to sleep.
The plotline was very intruiging, but rather sad at the middle. I cried at least 5 times during the movie, and that tops all other movie I've watched.
So, now I can only add, that this is a great movie, definatly one of the best movies made so far!
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Summary: A classic of classics
Review: This is by far the best movie I have ever seen. One couldn't and shouldn't expect less knowing that the story was based on one of the best books ever. It is the movie that most closely follows the book. With the exception of the addition of scenes that belonged to the Two Tower's book, the absence of Saruman and the Scouring of the Shire, and the use Aragorn gave to the Army of the Dead, everything was there. Minas Tirith, The Passing of the Grey Company, The Muster of Rohan, The Siege of Gondor, Ride of the Rohirrim, Pelennor's Field, Denethor's story, The Black Gate, Cirith Ungol, The Land of Shadow, Mount Doom, The Fields of Cornallen, The Gray Havens. Even the ending was exactly what I expected. You couldn't ask for a better movie. As far as the lack of introductions to characters or all those things, I suggest that if you haven't seen the first two movies, you shouldn't see the third one first. It is after all a trilogy.
I read someone criticizing The Return of the King for its similarities with Star Wars. I don't know what he/she finds to be the problem with the special effects, but my suggestion is that if he/she was around 20 yrs ago making better special effects, he/she should get out more and move outside of the Star Wars and see the War of the Ring, the real war. No clones here!
The only one of the original Star Wars I've seen is the Return of the Jedi and I really don't get the whole story. It just doesn't tell you everything. The Return of the King is 3hrs 20min long; 3hrs were already given to the introducing characters and places in the Fellowship. It would have been the worst movie ever if we had to sit through Peter Jackson's attempt at telling us where Frodo came from, who was Sam father, how Gandalf came to Middle Earth, who is Sauron, what's Osgiliath, who's Faramir, why are there an elf and a dwarf following Aragorn. Honestly, this is one of the best if not the best movie trilogy of all times. However, if you think it is a waste of time to watch 6hrs of the Fellowship and The Two Towers before watching the Return of the King, you shouldn't waste your time trying to understand what took more than 500,000 words to tell and 9hrs and 20min to show.
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Summary: lord of the rings
Review: it was billent and it was cool when frodo and gollum bites his finger and it was horrible when it started to bleed so badly and it was great and i liked the part when gandalf came and picked up frodo and sam and the back of the eagles and it was perfect when aragon chose to become king of gondor and save his girlfriends life
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Summary: I would rate it higher if I could!
Review: I LOVED this movie ( & the whole trilogy ). I can't remember a movie I did like like this! Usually, I see a trailer & if it is good, I think that would be a good book & am disappointed by the movie. I read this book because my family liked the 1st movie & I thought it would be a good book, but for once, I feel the movie is actually better than the book. There were so many points in the book that went off in tangents, but the movie lasts over 3 hours & left me wishing they had shown the scouring of the shire & the things left in the appendices. It absolutely needed all of the many endings & I would have loved to see more. I know why they were left out-for pacing reasons but miss them.
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Summary: To all those who hated this movie
Review: To all those people that said that The Lord of the Rings was a piece of junk that nobody should waste their time on, let me just say 17 total Oscars. If they are so terrible, why are they some of the highest grossing movies ever? People don't go to bad movies, if they did Gigli would have made a ton of money too. I dont get people who say the acting was terrible also. Ian McKellen was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Two Towers. Sean Astin was being considered for Best Supporting Actor for Sam in RotK. It was a collective effort by the cast, they each contributed something. As far as things that arent in the movies that are in the book, you cant have everything in the movies that were in the books. For those of you that complain the movies are too long, if they included every detail from the books each movie would have been 10 hours long. Film and text are different mediums that require different aspects of the story to be emphasized. I would love to discuss the movies with anyone that disagrees at champ2g@comcast.net
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Summary: Superb
Review: I loved this movie and am anxiously awaiting the release of the DVD. As soon as it comes out, we're going to do a LOTR marathon. All three, back-to-back.Mr. Money bags. I hope you were beging sarcastic, if not, I feel sorry for you. 1. If you watched the second or third Star Wars movie without seeing the first one, you would be totally lost. 2. The Lord of the Rings was written many years before Georege Lucas was born. 3. I think that the actors did an AMAZING job. I can't believe you are criticizing them. 4. Umm, total ignorance. Watch the making of it, Gollum was completely computer animated. The movie was not at all pixelated at all, it was amazing clear. Maybe you saw it on a bad screen. 5. You've got it exactly opposite. Dragonlance got the stuff from the Lord of the Rings, not the other way around. LOTR was written long before.
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Summary: One Movie to Rule Them All
Review: ROTK is, without question, the best movie I think I've ever seen. I generally don't like fantasy as a genre, and I don't cry when I see movies, but the ending of this film had me in tears. The last 30 to 45 minutes of ROTK is about the most incredible thing ever put on the "silver screen." It deserved all 11 Academy Awards it got, ESPECIALLY Best Director for Peter Jackson (move over, Mr. Spielberg!).
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Summary: Whoa Leggy!!
Review: Like so many LOTR fans, I was sobbing way before the end credits started rolling. I think the first tear fell at Aragorn's coronation and it kept going while at the same time getting louder. I loved the multiple endings. It gave closure to many of the questions I had for I had never read the books (although I am doing that right now starting with "The Hobbit"). Truthfully, I didn't want it to end. I was afraid for it to end. But when it did, I cried all the more harder. RotK is the most dramatic of the three. It really tears at your heart. Although the movie is three hours long, it really just felt like it was only an hour and a half long. From the very beginning you're engrossed in the film. This movie is that captivating. Favorite Shot: The Legolas "hero" shot, aka when he killed the oliphant and slid down its body. Ah, EXCELLENT!
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Summary: loved it and hated it
Review: Okay I love these movies dont get me wrong but I dont think this deserves a 5 star rating neither do any of the other. They are nothing like the book Sam jackson butchord the story. It would have been great if he had called it a remaging instead of lord of the rings. How can any one who has read all 4 books and I do not mean audio books. Even say these movies are close to the book dont get me wrong i loved them and I own them all but not worth a 5 star
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Summary: Never, ever, has a movie been this intense.
Review: The final chapter of the fantastic epic The Lord of the Rings, as expected, was just INCREDIBLE! What Peter Jackson pulled off was a movie of such grandeur, nobility, beauty and perfection that it is hard to desrcibe. It is by far the best epic ever filmed. I also thought that the triangle Frodo-Sam-Gollum/Smeagol was an improvement from that of the book; this was a real triumph of the writers and director.
The only flaw, if I daresay, I found -well, at least I didn't like it that much, I think P. J. should have been true to the book on this one- was the scene with Aragorn and the army of the dead saving the day at the Pellenor Fields. In the book, Aragorn becomes the leader of men by building an army of MEN to save Gondor; he only uses the ghosts to free the men enslaved on the ships of the army of Mordor. With this ex-slaves, he builds an army and goes in the aid of the Rohirrim. Now that is how he becomes the leader of men.
Sticking to the book, in this case, would have been a better choice. But who knows why they made this changes, maybe they just couldn't tell all these events and stick to the running time of 3 1/2 hours that the movie lasts. Again, because of these changes, I found the way Aragorn becomes King, rushed, sudden. But, anyway, it is a minor flaw to me, considering the magnificence of the entire movie. And the music, as always with the great Howard Shore, was incredible; the best score of the three. The bitersweet ending, and the several closures of the diferent stories, were just beautifully crafted. Advise: if you haven't seen it yet, take a couple of handkerchieves with you... .
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