WOWSERS! Just saw Return Of The King! (No spoilers)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

They're right-- it IS the best of the three! Although there are some obvious gaps which will no doubt be filled in when the extended DVD is released, the story otherwise follows the book even more closely than I had inticipated.

Nonstop action, incredible battles, and a growing into final maturity of all the characters-- this and more marks the end of the Trilogy as a definite winner.

I've waited my entire adult life for this story to be told properly on film, and IMHO it's finally happened with a vengance. Gigantic kudos to all those wonderful folk involved in bringing this magnificent tale so fully to life, and my personal thanks and gratitude for a job very well done. It was well worth the thirty year wait.

Frodo lives!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

1. amen

incredible. I don't know if God has seen this movie yet, but I think Jackson just bought his way to heaven with this trilogy.

[velocity]

2. I just got home from the ROTK it was greattttttttttttttttt

:)

[NashVegas]

3. Same Here

Man, you just know the New Line guys got major chubbies when they saw the first screening.

This movie is so huge it would be Texas if Texas weren't so fucked up.

Minor spoiler:

Did you notice the snot that got left on Frodo's cape near the very end? I died. (forgive me, I got 20 minutes of sleep last night.)

[DS1]

4. battle scenes were too much to take in for one sitting

drool

[NashVegas]

7. If I Were a Guy

I'd have gotten major woodies from those scenes.

BTW - Eowyn kicks MAJOR ass!

[EV1Ltimm]

9. i had to take a cold shower when i got home.

... mainly because my wife has a hard time imagining me as viggo mortenson, so she didn't want to waster her time...

[NashVegas]

13. The Thing About Viggo

You'd think they would have given him good hair after giving him a crown, but nooooooo.

[DrWeird]

10. That's just about the best recommendation I've ever read.

At least I think.

[NashVegas]

12. =) You Will Understand

When you go see it. It's just so HUGE. And I saw it on the big mofo widescreen.

I'm still absorbing it.

I am a major fan of the books, too, read them every year. After seeing this movie, I've forgiven PJ for all the deviations in TTT.

[citizen snips]

5. Is it a long movie?

?

[DrWeird]

6. 3 hours, 20 minutes. That's after they cut an hour and a half.

I get to see it tomorrow morning! I'm playing hooky! Woohoo!

[Dudley_DUright]

8. Nell and I just got back from seeing it

We give it two big thumbs up :thumbsup: :thumbsup: and one of the two thumbs comes from a Tolkien fanatic (me) that has read the trilogy 30+ times.

[EV1Ltimm]

11. it was awesome...

there were several points in the movie where people were clapping, cheering and whistling.

The payoff was definitely worth the build up.