ROTK exceeds very high expectations

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2003)

Having been looking forward to these movies for years and having read the series approximately 8 times, I went into opening day for each of the movies with very high expectations.
Fellowship met my expectations.
Two Towers was slightly below expectation, mostly due to what he chose to do with Famamir. Although I own the extended version of Two Towers, I chose not to watch it and saved it for Trilogy Tuesday. After seeing the additional 45 minutes of coverage, I was very impressed and now Two Towers has met and slightly exceeded expectations.
Return of the King highly exceeded my expectations for two major reasons.
1) The emotions that were brought out during the movie, both joyous laughter and tears.
2) His loyalty to the third book.
I still have goosebumps