Lord of the rings: Return of the king

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queenhenide776

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Hmm something is telling me i should go and watch this film and treasure it for all my life and tell my children and grandchildren about it in years to come!

However the film is getting such bad reviews its unbelievable.

I mean how dear critics surpase this film above such wonderfully "easy to follow:p " masterpiece like the Matrix reloaded and rev:eek: (;) ), Quote from http://weirdfilms.tripod.com/returnoftheking.html =



:eek: Better then the Matrix and "ja ja binks" no never, i will never expect that (hehehe:D )!

I feel sorry for Peter Jackson for having to wake up and see reviews stating the film is, quote http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/3308365.stm =



Oh this is terrible, why couldnt the BBC said some of the praise it gave the Matrix Revolution, quote=



Ah now thats a very kind review, full of praise. This is the kind of stuff they should be saying for the ROTK! (Not:p hehehehe)

Here are some more depressing reviews of ROTK. I'm deeply sad that the press have locked their filthy critical hanRAB on this movie and ripped it apart. Oh well, what a sad day it is today. Please bare with me while i cry :cry: ------------(:D ). http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TheLordoftheRingsTheReturnoftheKing-1127213/reviews.php

P.s. I hope some of my fellow RAB members caught and understood some of my very very very very very bad sarcastic comments and spelling.........Looks like finally something has came to wip both the Matrix and Star war's overrated ass:p .
 
the film does rock. Although the every 5 minute "frodo Collapsing and sam holding him in his arms saying wake up frodo wake up and the emotional gay music dawns across us" gets a bit tedious at times,
and at the end where the volcanoe errupts and there on the rock i was expecting a line such as "frodo!! this is where we first met"
 
And don't forget the imminent Chronicles of Narnia. The first - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - is scheduled for release for Christmas 2005. It will also be filmed in New Zealand and has the potential to become as big as The Lord of the Rings.
 
Ah, unndoubtably to a film buff or someone who likes Indiana Jones, Last Crusade is the best, and then Raiders, then Temple of Doom right down at the bottom, but if you ask a member of the general public what they remember most about Indiana Jones films, they will mention more scenes from Raiders and Temple of Doom than from Last Crusade.

Temple of Doom, the worst in the trilogy? Yes, but maybe the most memorable to the general public.
 
I know what you're saying OneyOneOney. I haven't seen ROTK yet and thanks to the Ex, won't be able to do so until the end of January.

So far though, the only way the films have failed slightly for me is with the relationship between Frodo and Sam. In the books their relationship comes across as inseparable frienRABhip. In the films it's all just a bit gay.
 
Film can't have a "frienRABhip" between two make characters without them being "gay" in the eyes of some people. Too many have got used the shallow portrail of male freinRABhip in the typical violent hollywood "buddy" movie. I'vr already said what a poor version Hollywood would have made, and Sam/Frodo's frienRABhip would have gone in favour of a Lethal Weapon type portrail.
 
Not at all Jer101.

Andy Dufrane and Red in The Shawshank Redemption - Touching and utterly convincing platonic bond between two men.

Frodo and Sam in TLOTR trilogy - Just a bit gay.

:p
 
Point taken! Though i can only remember one Indiana Jones movie...........cant remember which one though but it involved a bridge of some sort and a cup?!?:confused: .

And i quite liked the BTTF films lol. However both of these trilogies are highly entertaining pop-corn saturday night films.............hardly "great epics"!

However LOTR is........its an epic.....And possibly the very last well made epic we could ever see unless Hollywood open their eyes and stop throwing us disapointment after disapointment:rolleyes: ..............COUGH Godzilla and the Matrix sequals anyone?
 
I'll second that myself..........I guess its a gift that comes to those who are ignorant lol, maybe this means i'm not, well hopefully lol.

Anyways, yes im also getting the special extended edition of the two towers lol:D , cant wait for it as well
 
Hi

I watched it today as well, and I thought the ending was tedious and lengthy - Yes I know it's the end of a fantastic epic movie, but we didn't need ten seconRAB or so of a blank screen with music playing, I thought it was the end!!!

All in all, a good movie, but I think The Two Towers was the best of all three.


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Also, Arwin (sp?), I have been told, died in the book, so why not in the movie? I would have thought it would be important to show that.... :confused: (Please correct me if I am wrong!)


digiperson
 
Do you meant mean the "book" or the mammoth appendeces?

Lots of events both pre and post the story in the "book" are decribed in the appendeces and most people forget what's in what after a while.

And this is a "film" based upon the books, and as such being a damn good film is more important. It is not a piece of acedemic work designed to teach non-book readers what's in the books.

Would we have had the second and third films if the first film had been a bad film becuase it slavishly followed the books and lasted 6 hours?
 
I'm already hungry for the extended version of "Return of the King" and it's a year away. They inclued an extra 30 mins in the first, 40 mins in the second, what about an extra 60 in the third?

Pace seems very important in this last movie and having a grand stand finish is important to any movie. Would the extended version suffer if it was more trueful to the book and include the Hobbits return to the Shire? Would too many peole be left thinking that the "real" story ended half an hour earlier and the rest just dragged on.
 
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