Wow.

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2003)

This movie is good. It is now my all time favorite movie. I had extremely high expectations for these films. I like to read, and LOTR is my favorite book, so I didn't want them to F it up in movie form.

I thought FOTR was good, but not quite as good as I was hoping. TTT was awesome, and a little better than I was hoping. ROTK is incredible, and is obviously the best movie of the three. The only thing that might make it not the highest selling movie ever is if people didn't like FOTR, or didn't see one of the other two, because you kind of need to see those to get what's going on. Ya know? Anyway, if I was going to die right now, and someone gave me the option of watching one movie before I sail into the West, it would most definitely be the Return of the King. This movie is 3 hours and 20 minutes of brilliance. The whole entire thing.

IF, and I mean IF, I had to pick a scene or confrontation that I thought was the least well done, I would have to say the whole part with the dead army. I would have liked to see a bit more hopelessness with that part. But I guess when I read the book, I didn't feel hopeless there, either. I'd say the best part for me was the Crack of Doom, and the cathartic moments between Frodo and Sam before Gwaihir comes, and any time the Nazgul are cruising. Amazing.
SEE THIS MOVIE. 10/10, and then some. Makes the Godfather look like the Grandfather. Makes The Empire Strikes Back look like the Phantom Menace. You get the point.