Amazing, magnificent, stupendous

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2003)

I saw this last night at at special reserved showing full of gamer geeks. ROTK was so incredible that FOTR and TTT pale by comparison. I didn't think any villain could've been scarier than the Balrog of Morgoth, but Shelob the First Spider sent chills up my spine and unholy slimy things crawling down it! The burden of carrying the One Ring really takes its toll on Frodo, Sam and even Gollum, if you thought that Gollum could not appear even more f*cked up the head, just wait til you see him. The epic battle scenes in ROTK are quite possibly the best I have ever seen, with Aragorn's forces and Sauron's armies beating seventeen shades of hell out of each other, with each side gaining and losing the upper hand several times, and hordes after hordes of reinforcements for both sides appearing again and again. The battering ram Gron was unbelieveably creepy-looking and totally cool at the same time, it looked alive and like it had been coughed up straight from hell. I give this 10 out of 10 because that is the highest score available when it actually ranks around a 12.
The only gripe I have about ROTK is
POSSIBLE SPOILER FOLLOWS
cutting Saruman out of the theatrical release completely. But he will be in the extended DVD come November 2004.