Return of the King

[boann]

just got back from seeing this
took off work early

AWESOME just awesome

[Donegeal]

Excellent. Go see it on the big screen as soon as possible.



PS- Did I mention that it was good?

[Ned]

I just got back too from seeing it. This is a truly great film. Truly great!

(Caveat: I have not read the book. My daughter has - and she was disappointed because it did not emphasize the story of the Hobbits as much as in the book. Still, in my view, the relationship between Sam, Frodo and Smegal was the best part of the movie.)

I will see this film again, and perhaps a few more times after that.

I also have the soundtrack on CD. It is also something.

RoTK!

[David Floyd]

Wonderful movie!

[Ned]

I really enjoyed the performances of Frodo, Sam and, of course, Gandolf. The best of the series. They should be considered for academy awards.

[Sprayber]

Awesome movie. Great end to the triliogy. Now I can actually read the books.

One thing I remain clueless on is the Scouring of the Shire in the book. I've heard people talk about it here and there but the only thing in the movie was a case of what might be if the ring isnt destroyed. If the Shire was scoured, Why does it look so great when they return or is this something that happens afterwards. Or maybe the movie version acts like it never took place to begin with..

[Drake Tungsten]

Or maybe the movie version acts like it never took place to begin with..

Bingo.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Or maybe the movie version acts like it never took place to begin with..

Bingo .

Or so I've heard (and read).

Tragic really, because Tolkien, himself, considered it to be one of the most important parts of the book. He had concieved of it when he started writing and the events led up to it. As he says:

... it has been supposed by some that 'The Scouring of the Shire' reflects the situation in England at the time when I was finishing my tale. It does not. It is an essential part of the plot, foreseen from the outset ... The country in which I lived in childhood was being shabbily destroyed before I was ten ...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Damn you Drake! I had to add explination .

[Guynemer]

Tolkien may have considered it "essential," but in reality it is a tooth-grinding, show-stopping, endless portion of the epilogue; the films are much better for having left it out.

[Carolus Rex]

A question to all who've seen it (I haven't yet, but I soon will...).

I fear the end is too sentimental as I've read advice about bringing handkerchiefs when seeing it. Is it?

Sentimentality is something I absolutely hate... For instance, the scene in Matrix Revolutions when Trinity dies... Patetic! People were laughing out loud in the cinema because it was so corny...

I'd hate it if there's the same drivel at the end of ROTK... Please, tell me it isn't so...

Carolus

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Dissident
Did I hear 2 names for elf locations? I thought I heard Rivendale and one other.

So Archie and Jughead are Elves? That explains a lot.

[Q Classic]

Smegal

smeagol. iirc, wasn't he also at one time, before the ring warped him, shirefolk? i can't remember...

[Theben]

Originally posted by Carolus Rex
A question to all who've seen it (I haven't yet, but I soon will...).

I fear the end is too sentimental as I've read advice about bringing handkerchiefs when seeing it. Is it?

Sentimentality is something I absolutely hate... For instance, the scene in Matrix Revolutions when Trinity dies... Patetic! People were laughing out loud in the cinema because it was so corny...

I'd hate it if there's the same drivel at the end of ROTK... Please, tell me it isn't so...

Carolus

You'd have to not have read the books and be uber-girly to think the ending is a handkerchief moment. As you're from Sweden, you've got about a 50-50 chance.

[Sikander]

Well, I just got back from the movie with my girlfriend, and I have to say that I'm more than a little disappointed. Sure it had plenty of star power, and the performances were pretty good overall. But the film seemed like a bunch of trite revisionism to me, simply another vehicle for its overblown star. And what's so great about Julia Roberts anyway? Sure she's cute if you like huge mouths and big t!ts on skinny women, but her acting range is limited to these sorts of predictable Hollywood productions. Bleh! I'd rather see her co-stars in their own films any day of the week. Fortunately I hear the Return of the King is opening soon, so perhaps I'll be able to wash the memory of this film from my mind with more savory fare.