Good Movie

Rating: Null/10 (31 December 2003)

I won't say that this is the best Movie in the world. It was definitely a very good movie which had some flaws but still was overall a satisfying experience all told. The battle scenes and strong cast/acting kept it from falling on its face and I liked the back and forth pace of the action. I think this was probably the hardest of the movies to get right which Jackson mostly does with some reservations but I'm a nitpicker I'll admit. Still a much stronger movie than any of Lucas's last attempts. I'm going to have to re read the book and post again because in some aspects it seemed to change things that I didn't think it had to from the books. I'm not going to complain that ROTK was too long. They chopped a lot and the movie could have been much longer, especially if they had filmed the original homecoming to the shire. I don't recall Gandalf doing martial arts in the book, I thought he was riding around more on Shadowfax using magic against the Nazgul and directing the battle more than anything. Some things I would have liked to see were the scenes in the houses of healing, more with Shadowfax, Gandalf's amazing horse, and a better, more galant portrayal of Faramir (one of my favorite supporting characters in the books). Faramir was the intellectual yin to his more warlike brothers yang in the last two books. He definitely got the short shrift in the adaptation. Just to recap, a good movie and a mostly capable tying up of the series. I will post again once I have re read ROTK and watched the movie again a time or two.