Trilogy Complete

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2011)

The third is simply an undeniably great movie. The enormous length of it is pretty interesting thru out and it certainly qualifies as one of the most epic films ever unleashed onto the mainstream audiences. Its epic battles and dazzling shots will mesmerize and quite a bit happens. The composition of music by Howard Shore is beautiful as ever, but aside all this I want to comment on the theatrical cut. It had no business existing, seeing as there are so many gaping holes in the theatrical cut. The fate of Christopher Lee's Sarumon is pushed feebly to the side and the love story between Faramir (the great David Wenham) and Miranda Otto comes completely out of left field, much to my distaste. The biggest disappointment is with the Witch-King. There is a bad-ass scene where an underling asks the shadowy figure of Gandalf's fate, to which the Witch-King replies "I will break him". It was so awesome, and you get the foreshadowing an epic battle is to take place. And yet in the movie this is completely ignored, what the f*ck?! Basically the only true way to watch "Return of the king" is to purchase the uncut version. The theatrical cut is just an abomination that exist solely to please the mainstream audiences. This angers me when you think of all the awards the film won; all that praise for basically a sell-out version. If you're going to have all this build up in the previous films, please don't allow me to walk into the theater to have my expectations shat on. Especially concerning the duo of Frodo Baggins and his constant counterpart Samwise Gamgee. There's such a strong homosexual innuendo the relationship between them is laughable, and then out of nowhere at the end Peter Jackson thrust into Sam's wedding. When it's all said and done though the movie is one I recommend, but to don't say you've seen the film if all you saw was the theatrical cut. The theatrical cut is a damn lie.