Words escape me!

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2003)

I saw this on Trilogy Tuesday...I was a bit bleary eyed after sitting through almost 8 hours of film so I'm not sure how well I took in the ROTK...even with this handicap I must say I was blown away. Of course the movie wasn't perfect, it had it's moments that I thought were just awful..

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They eye of Sauron....please, it isn't a spotlight. But for those who say they wished Sauron would have come out and fought Aragorn...it doesn't happen...in the books Sauron has not quite regained his full strength...why do you think he wants the One Ring? Duh!
That one orc, someone compared him to Sloth in Goonies...my daughter and I thought the same thing.
Denethor was disappointing.
No Houses of Healing
But...on the other hand...for the most part this movie was grand, it was emotional, it was spectacular. Am I biased because I have been a huge Tolkien fan for almost 30 years? Yes...and no...I'm somewhat of a purist. But I realize that Jackson made this partly out of love for the story. It is his vision and in so many places his vision matched mine. It doesn't matter what he did, someone would always complain. If he stuck too closely to the book some would have called it boring. After all PJ had to satisfy both the fans of the books and the general movie going public...and we know how hard it is to satisfy the general movie going public. If you don't have a few crotch kicks, curse words or loads of sex they just don't want to see it. I think PJ did just fine without those (although I do recall a crotch kick in TTT)
Jackson rates pretty high in my book just for taking this project on...the actors too! He is the One Director to Rule them all!!
Now to see it a second time this weekend on the IMAX screen!! And I can guarantee that the DVD EE will blow the theatrical version away!! I can't wait!!