Best of the three...

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2003)

Not that the others were bad in the slightest. My girlfriend knows the theater owners here so I got to go in for the employee screening at seven last night. Nice to see it in a theater not packed with people although the crowd would have made the battle scene more intense.
I have new respect for Sean Astin after this one, he and Elijah (sp?) Wood both did fantastic jobs. The rest of the cast performed beautifully as well, but all 4 of the hobbits were done exceptionally well.
Tears welled in my eyes as the Rohirian joined the battle at Pellenor and at the confrontation between Eowyn and the Nazgul King.
The scene at the crack of doom was wonderfully shot and the deviations from the books were more than acceptable.
I don't have the words yet to describe the feeling leaving the movie last night. I wanted to tell all the folks standing in line in the freezing cold last night that it is all worth it.
I really hope this tops "Titanic" on the all time money list though I doubt it will. Peter Jackson and everyone involved deserve every bit of praise offered to them. I might even go see "King Kong" just because of him.