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Summary: Superb movie but shallow DVD
Review: I have been waiting for this DVD for months. It is one of my favorite movies. It's an absolutely amazing conclusion to a great movie trilogy. It won eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture and deserves all of them. Sean Astin should have won Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal as Sam Gamgee. It was the shining performance of this film. This movie is the most emotionally moving part of the trilogy. Some people complain about the multiple endings but i think they are necessary to wrap up all the story lines. The special features disc lacks the preview for the extended DVD and a music video. The DVD is a must own anyway.
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Summary: Good Job Mr Frodo
Review: Mindblowing. I mean seriously words cant describe how good this movie was so bare with me. First of all i have to say Peter Jackson really outdid himself with this 1 their were hardly any mistakes in "Return" other then the ending which i didnt understand but i wont spoil it for some of you who havent seen it yet. Basically it picks up from "Two Towers" where you find Frodo and Sam getting closer to Mt Doom to finally destroy the ring of power and rid middle earth of evil. Elijah and Sean do a great job in taking us with them on their journey. i felt like i was the 4th person there thats how perfect the acting was. But i strongly suggest if you havent seen the first 2 then dont watch this 1 because you wont have a clue on whats going on. so definately worth owing in any DVD library even if its not the extended version.
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Summary: Love It
Review: not like seeing it in the theater but still great. buy it if you're a fan, otherwise don't.
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Summary: What once was broken, is made as one.
Review: I do not like J.R.R. Tolkein's novels and quite frankly I distrust and feel mildly outraged by the re-enforcement of loosely veiled human cultural and racial stereotypes in novels and movies by established authors. Like Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, Tolkein promoted those horrid old Good British Values, through oblique characterisation, which is really a form of racism and class oppression.
Now that I have that off my chest, I can tell you that I have bought every one of these DVDs and have enjoyed them all. The Return of the King represents the dawn of the DVD as a new AV medium, showing how much more powerful it is than the cinema movie. People watch movies differently in the home and in the public movie theatre - our appreciation of a movie or a play is affected in context of our environment. This is a movie filmed, edited and DVD mastered for the home.
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Summary: AN OVERHYPED MOVIE!
Review: This movie got so much praise that I find amazing. I saw all three movies and thought it was way too long! Too many cgi shots! The battle scenes was already done in the second movie. There isn't a lot of character development at all. Did anyone notice that none of the main characters ever got hurt? Not even a scratch in all the battle scenes? To my mind, this movie cannot stand on its own without the first two movies. A movie that is the best movie of all time should be able to do so. This wasn't the best movie of the year. That honor and the oscar should have gone to Mystic River. If memory serves me right, it also won an oscar for best editing. If this is right, then that is a laugh. Check the ever ending ending as an example why I say this. Star Wars 4 should have been the first special effects movie to win the best picture oscar. That movie is so much better. That said, I did enjoy it, but not to the degree that everybody else is. Anyway, it is too soon the crown it the best movie of all time.
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER CREATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is truly a great movie filled with action and adventure. This is virtually the best movie ever there is nothing bad about this movie for every last moment is my favorite part. Osgiliath is under attack, Minus Tirith is under attack and the black gate is under attack as Frodo and Sam wearily make it through Mordor to "The fires of Mt.Doom." This is truly a great masterpiece making you want to scream "DESTROY THE RING." this is an end of youre seat movie that I will love "Til the end of my day"
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Summary: Good, Too Long
Review: This is a loooong film. Set aside a good couple of weeks before watching. The only part that kept me awake was the amazing battle scenes which are breathetaking. While there is a lapse in action you could try splitting the atom?
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!!
Review: this movie truely was the best film of 2003 if not ever! the conclusion of an amazing epic tale as Frodo destroys the ring and Aragon fights and defends the people's of middle earth. boght it the day it came out and saw it twice in the theaters. you wont be dissapointed!
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Summary: Frodo's Journey Concludes In This Epic Masterpiece
Review: "The Return Of The King" is the perfect ending to the most outstanding movie trilogy EVER made. "Return" picks up right where "Two Towers" leaves off (as did part 2 leave off perfectly from part 1). Frodo's journey to Middle-Earth concludes where he must destroy the Ring of Power. The Tolkien classic stays true to the story and director Peter Jackson paints the silver screen as if he's Rembrandt himself. The entire cast is back... Elijah Wood (as the Hobbit Frodo), Sean Astin (as Frodo's trusted friend Sam), Viggo Mortensen (as the destined king Aragorn), Orlando Bloom (as the elf archer Legolas), Ian McKellon (as wizard Gandalf), and Gollum/Smeagol (the computer animated schizo tour guide leading Frodo & Sam to Mordor). "Return Of The King" is a huge movie of epic proportions. Huge sets, incredible scenery, amazing costumes, a huge cast, and huge computers holding huge amounts of memory for all those eye popping computer-generated effects. The battle scenes are some of their fiercest I've ever seen... and the Dark Lord Sauron and the grunts that make up his army are what some people's nightmares are made of. This movie is about friendship, trust and inner strength... and about three-and-a-half hours long. The 2nd disc features 2 documentaries, a "making of" special, a "National Geographic" special, a "Quest Fulfilled" commentary from Peter Jackson, and an incredible trilogy "supertrailer". Easily the best movie of 2003 (earning 11 Oscar nominations and winning 11 Oscars)... and hands down the best trilogy ever put to film (the complete trilogy earned a record 30 Oscar nominations). Fact: "The Return Of The King" brought in two hundred and fifty million ($$) on it's first weekend of release. Awesome movie and a MUST HAVE for any DVD library.
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Summary: Great Movie-Pointless DVD release (for most fans)
Review: The three stars is for the DVD, not the film. Theres no point in even reviewing this film, its an above average beautifully crafted piece of cinema that concludes one of the greatest stories of all time. But THIS dvd release? The sound and picture quality are about as good as can get, but the extra features are pretty useless. Infact the first two documentaries "The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision" and "A Filmmaker's Journey: Making The Return of The King" use so many of the same images and snipets of interviews that they are almost identicle. They even have the same basic structure. It all depends on how much your into the trilogy, if you enjoyed the movie and want to own it, theres nothing wrong with this release, if your LOVED the trilogy then rent this one, watch the feature and the extras and wait for the extended edition, that will be the version worth owning.
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