lords of the rings part3, THE RETURN OF THE KING. is releasing on 16 december in usa. i am hoping the last and final part is goin to be superb and the visual effects and graphics is goin to be best of this year.
WHAT WAS THE BEST PART U SAW IN THE 2 TOWERS AND WHAT R U EXPECTING IN THE LAST PART?????
mine best part in the 2 towers was the last war between the two armies.:jambo:

it premieres tomorrow December 1st on new zeland so Im not gonna check this thread till after I see the movie (the 16th) so I dont know anything about it :p cya the 16th :)

personally i reckon it should be the best of the 3. but anyway im seeing it boxing day, so im gonna do a hakeem

yeah the media here have already seen it last night but can't release any details yet. there is a function in wellington tonight where VIP's get to see it.
Apparently Peter Jackson hasn't even seen the final product yet cos he sent it to the studio in bits and pieces, so I hope he got everything right :confused:

:confused: geez lets hope they didnt screw it up...

apparently not... everyone is saying it is the best so far...:confused: :p

Well today was the premiere in Wellington. 100,000 people were packed in the streets, me included. I saw all the stars of the film, and peter jackson (H)

Originally posted by Larry
Well today was the premiere in Wellington. 100,000 people were packed in the streets, me included. I saw all the stars of the film, and peter jackson (H)

Hell yeah(H) it was good, except for being crushed and ****... So bloody packed but it was a good occasion.... Saw the stars so it was worth it:)

Yeah, I wondered if you guys were there, I watched it on the news. Looked like nice weather too - and Liv looked pretty hot :p

Originally posted by Larry
Well today was the premiere in Wellington. 100,000 people were packed in the streets, me included. I saw all the stars of the film, and peter jackson (H)

and wellington's only got lyk 300,000 people or something :o

hey anuj!!
me and my friends gonna watch it!
in cinestar (kandivli)

@##$% Modda 2#$@# #%@#%

I feel so sad, i'm going on vacation for a month, starting on the $%$ 11th so i wont get to see it till january 11th. %%#%$

(offer me sympathy)

there there...:|

Originally posted by rhizome17
Yeah, I wondered if you guys were there, I watched it on the news. Looked like nice weather too - and Liv looked pretty hot :p

Yeah, this guy I know hugged her(H)

Originally posted by Parra Power
and wellington's only got lyk 300,000 people or something

Don't forget about all the visiting tourists from all over the world and all over New zealand and also all the visiting media etc...

stop making me feal bad:(

This is going to be the best movie in the world!!

I just got back from it and WHAT A MOVIE!!!!!!!!

I expet the movie to win Best Pic and Sean Austin (sam) a lock for a nom for supporting actor.

amazing battles, excellent acting, quality moments all along.

at 3:20 hrs, I actually felt it was kind of short. I hope the Extended Edition is 5hrs +:rockman: :rockman: :rockman:

Originally posted by Hakeem
I just got back from it and WHAT A MOVIE!!!!!!!!

I expet the movie to win Best Pic and Sean Austin (sam) a lock for a nom for supporting actor.

amazing battles, excellent acting, quality moments all along.

at 3:20 hrs, I actually felt it was kind of short. I hope the Extended Edition is 5hrs +:rockman: :rockman: :rockman:
Extended Edition? What is that?

dvd...

im going to see it friday 19th at 10:00 pm....i hope i dont get crushed......:( :(



They dont have the last part of the book in the film.....where the hobbits go back home and find that bandits took over the town....long story short, the hobbits turn against the bandits...then all the hobbits go back to the elf place and write a book about the war...

hey guys, LotR sucks

Originally posted by Horatiu
hey guys, LotR sucks
No you suck

















Ahmed: so they don't have the part were Saruman dies?:( . That was very interesting in the book and i thought it was very important part, how could they skip it! Lazy bitches:f***: :f***: :f***: . Anyways how can a DVD version be 2 hours more?

saruman will have his scenes in the dvd peter jackson said.

Originally posted by ishan1990
@##$% Modda 2#$@# #%@#%

I feel so sad, i'm going on vacation for a month, starting on the $%$ 11th so i wont get to see it till january 11th. %%#%$

(offer me sympathy)

we gee, i could rabbit on like you for a while on the tragedy of the situation, or:

thats just too bad

:funny: :funny: :funny: :evil:

Originally posted by Hakeem
saruman will have his scenes in the dvd peter jackson said.
So the DVD version has more scenes in it and is longer because of that? THat's bad, movi-makers just want people to watch a movie and then buy it agian for dvd:kader:

yeah, just like the other 2.

its not his entire fault, the studio just wont release a 4hrs plus movie. only true fans would go. so they make him cut scenes and then he can put those in the dvd.

if they added that part they would need like 40 extra mins. and maybe some people would get bored(not me), i read the trilogy 2 times and a very good adaptation , few details i hated like 20 minutes of crying but i give an A+ to this movie. And the guy that made the role of Sam he was great!!

Ive heard some critics like they skip some "impotant" details, but i think you go to the movies to relax not to get confused, very dificult to make a movie of any book but spetially LOTR

And every one that hated when always Aragorn,Gandalf,Sam,etc. "saved the day" and all the main characters finish the quest alive,read the book ;)

Ive just started reading RotK and for Ive heard, the part with sarumans death in the shire is important, but I think that if it'd be in the movie, it would've been kind of consfusing, cause it happens after the climax of the battle and aragorn's crowning, and make another fight after that would've been too much.

I think the theatre's cut is great. they also missed eowen and faramir hooking up but its ok. the relashionship that mattered was aragorn's and arwen's.

Lord of The rings (I do count it as a whole movie) is now my favorite of all times :rockman:

I haven't seen it yet and i already know that it's gonna be atleast the best movie of the decade. And btw from now on, i am getting a DVD version for all 3 movies.
Just one question, there is a special DVD player needed for it or not? Or i can just insert the CD into my computer and enjoy?

my friends trying to convinse me to watch the fotr/tt/rotk marathon at the movies..... i dunno........... 10 hours of watching lotr could get a bit boring..... with its fairly slow pace and everything :(

Originally posted by Parra Power
my friends trying to convinse me to watch the fotr/tt/rotk marathon at the movies..... i dunno........... 10 hours of watching lotr could get a bit boring..... with its fairly slow pace and everything :(

Get some new friends ;) :p

nah, come on. if they had the tickets already you should've gone.

here there were just 100 or so theatres showing the marathon and tickets were sold out the first day :(

it hasnt been yet....... 28th ;)

i might go.... but it means missing out on a nights sleep :p

9pm-7am :o

so its the australian premiere right? it gonna be great:rockman:

I actually thought abput going to the marathon here last tuesday but on wenesday I had to work from 5am to 2pm and Return of the King would start at 12am and end around 3:30 am, meaning that I wouldnt have any sleep time so I chose to just go see the movie on wednesday and not lose a day at work. but if I wouldnt been working, Id be there in a second :p :)

nah.... not the premier :crazyboy: two days after it :p

i will go a few days after it is released.

Ill get the DVD.....but did the tree monsters take isengrad in the second film or the 3rd, because they cut right to after the tree monsters won the fight in the 3rd film. Its been a long time since i have read the books or seen flims 1 and 2. I also want to go see the marathon.

what 3 monsters? Ive never read the return of the king and Im halfway in TTT so I dont know about those 3 monsters :p

.......tree...not three :p

The big walking trees that were at the start of the 3rd film...at isengard when mary...or that other hobbit got that globe.

oops:p

yeah, the isengard battle with the Ents was at thge end of the second film, at the same time as the battle of Helm's Deep.

I saw this yesterday and i have to say it was a very good movie... I've only read FOTR and TTT so it was a bit weird seeing the Shelob scene like half way thru this but i guess it was the best way to portray the story for the film. The visual effects were amazing and the acting was good. Generally a good film all round:)

i cant wait either,
2 towers i liked the last war between the 2 armies,though i watched the movie in a japenese version(but iv read the book so i understand;) )

longest 3 hours of my life... extremely disappointed

maybe it's because I watched it at 10pm and it finished at 1:30am and I was just tired and cranky, but I hated this movie.. 75% of it was put in slow motion, and if it wasnt, the movie would probably be about 2 hours :rolleyes:

it took FOREVER to end... every time you think it's over, a new scene pops up, that happened for 15 minutes.. 90% slow motion :kader:

and is it just me or does anyone else ****in HATE Frodo? :|

what a waste of $14... I could've been at home sleeping or something

Originally posted by rony31
longest 3 hours of my life... extremely disappointed

maybe it's because I watched it at 10pm and it finished at 1:30am and I was just tired and cranky, but I hated this movie.. 75% of it was put in slow motion, and if it wasnt, the movie would probably be about 2 hours :rolleyes:

it took FOREVER to end... every time you think it's over, a new scene pops up, that happened for 15 minutes.. 90% slow motion :kader:

and is it just me or does anyone else ****in HATE Frodo? :|

what a waste of $14... I could've been at home sleeping or something

yes i agree with you. for all the freakin hype this damn movie got it SUCKED:kader: . That was 3 and a half hours of utter crap lets just say. The story was so predicatable, it was slow as you have said, and it never ended:f***: omg i as just about to leave the theater at the end because it took so freakin long to end. I only liked the special effects and those ghots where freakin tight:mrpimp: ( they raped that one big ass elephant lol ). But over all i give it 2.5 out of 5 starts. For anyone that is about to watch it ... dont it aint worth your money just wait for 1 dollar theater to watch it or till it comes out on movies.

Overall this movie was a dissapointment:( i would tell everyone not to waste there movie on this movie.

Also that damn Smegal or watever was so freakin anoyying somone should of capped his ass:| dman anoyying little basterd. And yes Frodo is stupid as well

So to sum it up this movie was CRAP.

Originally posted by rony31
longest 3 hours of my life... extremely disappointed

maybe it's because I watched it at 10pm and it finished at 1:30am and I was just tired and cranky, but I hated this movie.. 75% of it was put in slow motion, and if it wasnt, the movie would probably be about 2 hours :rolleyes:

it took FOREVER to end... every time you think it's over, a new scene pops up, that happened for 15 minutes.. 90% slow motion :kader:

and is it just me or does anyone else ****in HATE Frodo? :|

what a waste of $14... I could've been at home sleeping or something

Just aswell I can never be arsed to sit in a hot sweaty cinema. :p

you guys are crazy. first of all, it would be predictable only if you had read the book and knew what was coming.
and the pace was the same as in previuos movies, so maybe if you didnt like the others then why watch this one, after all, its just one whole big movie.

and about the endings, its all nessesary, in fact, more endings have to be added in the extended edition, as you still dont know what happens to gimli and legolas (they end up going on adventures together in the book) and also eowen andfaramir (they end up romaticaly together) and also with aragorn and arwen after they're established as king and queen. not to mention the end of saruman.

so, if dont want to know all those things, then it means that you didnt care for the story, so why go see it? to see the effects. go see matrix again for that.

LotR is about the story and its one of the best of all times. Im just sad that after having news and rumours about the movie and lotr stuff for almost 5 years, now its over :( :( :(




ps: in fact it'll be over or 'paused' in between the release of the extended DVD and when peter jackson gets to make The Hobbitt :rockman:

I liked the first movie on special effects. The second one was kind of boring for me, but after i decided to read all 3 books and read them before ROTK, then i liked it. I think the problem for you guys is that you don't really understand the plot and why something happens and where does something appear form, that makes a movie really boring.

nah, that scripting the books was a really hard (alomost impossible to make it good) job, but they did it excellently.

if you check their interviews in the dvds, you understand the changes they made from the book, even if you didnt like them.
the story ended up extremly well with minor cuts from the books and that's what matters. plus with the extended editions you get to see all the other stuff thats missing.

Originally posted by Hakeem
you guys are crazy. first of all, it would be predictable only if you had read the book and knew what was coming.
and the pace was the same as in previuos movies, so maybe if you didnt like the others then why watch this one, after all, its just one whole big movie.

and about the endings, its all nessesary, in fact, more endings have to be added in the extended edition, as you still dont know what happens to gimli and legolas (they end up going on adventures together in the book) and also eowen andfaramir (they end up romaticaly together) and also with aragorn and arwen after they're established as king and queen. not to mention the end of saruman.

so, if dont want to know all those things, then it means that you didnt care for the story, so why go see it? to see the effects. go see matrix again for that.

LotR is about the story and its one of the best of all times. Im just sad that after having news and rumours about the movie and lotr stuff for almost 5 years, now its over :( :( :(






ps: in fact it'll be over or 'paused' in between the release of the extended DVD and when peter jackson gets to make The Hobbitt :rockman:

No i have never read any of the books but damn this movie was boaring. I liked the first one for the story the second was also good but this one was too long and too day boaring:f***: Damn i had to freakin piss like 5 times throught the whole movie:| I went becuase everyone told me its the greatest movie and alot of my friends were going to so i joined em and omg it was crap. I even fell asleep becasue i got so board in the movie. I slept like 10-15 minutes and was like god this is boaring. Only part that was good was that big as battle of when the elephants and all was there but thats all that was really good.

Also that ending was not nessesary cmon they could of freakin ended it in 5 minutes instad of extending ending to freakin 50 minutes:|.

Overall this was a dissapointment for me.:(

as I said, it was the same pacing in the 3 movies, so you must've noticed the sometimes slow motion in the other movies too.

and for the ending, if you read what I wrote, its all about ending the story for all the different characters. and more werent shown.
you didnt care for them, so you didnt like the multiple endings.


but hey, im not gonna change your mind so whatever, I know I loved it. peace :)

What a fantastic film :rockman:

Hakeem: like I said, it probably seemed extra long and ****ty for me because I watched it at 10pm :|

and yes, I understand the plot just fine, but it didnt intrigue me. too slow, too predictable

i saw the return of the king on sunday!!!

it was soooooo great! :evil:

I can't wait! I have no cash at the moment so i cant see it until next week! :p

This is definitely the best film I ever saw. The ending was a bit confusing. Where were frodo and bilbo going in that ship?

Originally posted by wat3rf0x
This is definitely the best film I ever saw. The ending was a bit confusing. Where were frodo and bilbo going in that ship?

i think that they are leaving witht the elves.... ;)

The battle scenes were great and it didn't hurt that i got to see it for free. (H)

Originally posted by Lilianna
i think that they are leaving witht the elves.... ;)
Ah but to where?

Originally posted by wat3rf0x
Ah but to where?

i'll ask my best friend.
she's obssesed with lotr and ás soon as she tells me i'll tell you!

they went to the 'paradise' (I cant remember the name) where the elves go so they can live etternally.
(where arwen was supposed to go)

It's called the Gray Havens and it's been formed in the First Age, but i still don't know anything about the place, except its name.

its what Gandalf describes to Pippin when they're waiting to battle the orcs entering the city before the Rohirians got there

What a movie!! I got to say it's the best film ever...haven't seen it yet tho :p

hell, movies get released in Egypt like 1 year after the official release date..what a shame!

i thought the movie was great, loved the battle scenes

the only part i found a bit stupid was the long gay smiling scenes in the end.. haha it was funny, but a bit stupid and long..

great movie anywayz

This movie is going to be one the top ten movies of 2003 according to BBC. It was even chosen top ten before came out.

Looking forwad to see this movie next week.

they say is going to be the second most grossing movie of all times worldwide after Titanic. its suposed to pass the 1 BILLION dollars (titanic has 1.8 billions)

of course number 1 of the year and hopefully they won the oscar (damn Cold Mountain :f***: )

Originally posted by Hakeem
(damn Cold Mountain :f***: )

Movie looks good but i dont want to really spend money to watch it... i would watch it for free but for money nah...

Originally posted by Hakeem
its what Gandalf describes to Pippin when they're waiting to battle the orcs entering the city before the Rohirians got there

they are going to the undying places....

i wish this place would exist in real life.....

ok saw it today, as it just came out here...one word to advice to moviegoers in the melbourne area, dont go to greensborough hoyts on boxing day, shockin service

anyway i thoroughly enjoyed this movie. the battles were mind blowing, there was little comedy moments, only problem is ending dragged on a tad

but i recommend it, not that anyones gonna read this post anyway

what about victoria gardens tomorrow eh budge?
BTW i'm the aussie dude from centre-spot who goes for united if you don't know who i am :)

nah just go to crown, they go alright. problem with greensborough was that the movie started at 9 30, but they didnt open the place till 20 past 9...funny walkin out and seein tha queues tho...

oh and rob, that kfc near you at mill park is ****e...:p

hiya c-b...i know who u r...hehe

the moment i laughed a lot was when legolas killed the elephant and gimly told him:this counts as 1!~!!!

Yeah that's some funny ****! Gimly and his corny jokes...

merry and pippin are probably the best for me...gimlis alright, legolas is good to watch fight

i liked the ghosts too...

shelob was great

cant understand why do u care ppl ?

Originally posted by TottiNZidaneR#1
No i have never read any of the books but damn this movie was boaring. I liked the first one for the story the second was also good but this one was too long and too day boaring:f***: Damn i had to freakin piss like 5 times throught the whole movie:| I went becuase everyone told me its the greatest movie and alot of my friends were going to so i joined em and omg it was crap. I even fell asleep becasue i got so board in the movie. I slept like 10-15 minutes and was like god this is boaring. Only part that was good was that big as battle of when the elephants and all was there but thats all that was really good.

Also that ending was not nessesary cmon they could of freakin ended it in 5 minutes instad of extending ending to freakin 50 minutes:|.

Overall this was a dissapointment for me.:(

I might have taken you seriously if you could spell "boring."

The problem is that, those who didn't read the book, didn't know when the movie will end and will think that it was boring, but those that read the book knew perfectly when it will end, so it was a great movie for them

Well, I read the books and didn't know exactly HOW they were going to end it. So it was kind of suspensful when they would fade out those three times not knowing if it was how they would end it. I thought they might have left a few things out but was happy they put it in at the end. I think the whole Scouring the Shire chapter would have ruined the effect the movie created once Sauron was defeated and the ring destroyed.

hey guys i have posted this thread a long time ago how did it came back??????????:rolleyes:

do you think that the academy is going to give this great movie the best movie of the year??

they should.

cold mountain is the only other movie capable of getting the award but I think that both the movie and peter jackson will be rewarded this year. its the end, its a whole big movie and it has to be rewarded having in mind that its a massive worldwide success, has made new standards for movies in terms of effects, and they havent rewarded it yet (and jackson didnt even get nominated last year).

so for me, it has to win the best picture (though I have yet to see cold mountain) and best director.

Originally posted by anuj_parekh
hey guys i have posted this thread a long time ago how did it came back??????????:rolleyes:

because the movie is just coming out for some of us u tool...

word of advice, dont ever create a new thread again, sadly this will be ur shining light

I havent even seen the first movie yet :(

dont even try to see 2 or 3

Peter Jackson must win best director he made a superb work

saw it today......... great movie :rockman:

Seen all three of them at the movie marathon sunday night... went for 10 hours and was apparently the longest in history according to the cinema manager... haha..

The first one was alright, bit boring, the second was good, the third was great.

They seemed to get better, the fight parts in all the movies were excellent. I liked the war in the second movie the best, how the wizard comes up over the hill with all the others and the claim victory (H) really awesome.

And when the wizard uses his power (he should have done this more) while riding his horse to get rid of the the flying dragon thingies is also cool (H)

The war in the third movies is really good, when they are fighting for the city and the pirate ghosts come and invade and win it for them. Really awesome. :)

I thought it was weird how it had about 5 different endings at end of the third movie though... It was like they got in about 5 different alternative endings then chucked them all in together lol. But I guess thats just the way it goes in the books and all, so it was sorta good. But I havent read the books so I dont know, but I still enjoyed the movies.

Good movie none the less, not the GREATEST EVER, some parts were boring, but the action parts were fantastic. :)

I was surprised I stayed awake throughout all the movies though... I slept all day and night monday though :p :)

this is a great movie, its so good that i have now actually started reading the books!!

IT'S THE BEST FILM I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!!!!! :rockman:

No film has ever offered more entertainment, or such an emotional rollercoaster, it's a 5 star film, 6 star if they'd allow it! :O

It's bloody brilliant!! (H)

NK.

Originally posted by butkis
this is a great movie, its so good that i have now actually started reading the books!!


lol, cool!

I could've cried in parts of that film, but being the hard ass I am...I held it in! (H) lol. :crazyboy:

*stars to cry* :(

NK.

I did cry when Sam said to Frodo: "I can't carry The Ring... but I can carry you"

GO SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMM:rockman:

Got to see it last night with one of my best friends. He had never read or seen either the Hobbit or the first two parts of the triology. He was lost and kept bugging me with questions. Anyways I'd have to say that this was probably the second best in the triology. I liked the Two Towers better. Best part for me is when Pippen sang the song and it flashed to Faromir leading his meager forces into battle. The Minos Tirith battle didn't compare to Helms Deep for me. However, I still loved the movie even with my annoying friend bugging me.

That sucks i have only seen the Two Towers in the theatre once and i remember almost nothing form it. I can badly remeber the battle in there, that's why i can't compare the those two battles. Yeah when Pippin sang a song it was pretty good moment, but i should say that the best for me was when the those 3 went to the Paths of The Dead and met those dead ppl there.

this is the only one ive seen but it was excellent.

The last 30 minutes werent really needed.

The bit when they all bowed to the hobbits, was the best bit. Brought a tear to my eye

did u read the book ogsimon??? :rolleyes:

Originally posted by i_am_budge
ok saw it today, as it just came out here...one word to advice to moviegoers in the melbourne area, dont go to greensborough hoyts on boxing day, shockin service

I was there the day after Boxing Day (was at the cricket on Boxing Day) and the service was crappy, took half an hour to get a small popcorn, priced at $5.00!!!! It's small for bloody sake.

As for Samwise Gamgee... he's the man! His character went through the biggest changes from the first film.

As for the long ending, well the 3 films are meant to be one, a half hour ending is quite short for 8 hours+ of film.

One thing that bugged the crap out of me.... why doesn't Legolas run out of arrows?

he actually did run oput of arrows in Two Towers and then he used his little swords for a while before collecting more arrows.
didnt happen in this one but show it again? I guess it was ok.

Samwise Gamgee was the hero

yeah he really was, whats the name of the actor he did the best job in the film in my opinion

Sean Astin. Known for his performances in Rudy but my favorite performance came in The Goonies.

It is a great movie, but the end is a bit crazy loadz of smiles in slow motion. ne way it is my fav film.
I gotta agree sam was the hero.(Y) :hump:

Overall, I think the 3 movies are very good, the last is my favorite one, I just saw it and the battles are amazing. The ending is way too happy, but I guess that's how the book ends but I would have been cool if Frodo died or something like that.

Great movie and Legolas is da man!!:rockman: (although is a Link ripoff)

cool if frodo died? no way. plus Gollums death was amazingly cool :rockman:


im gonna go to the threatre right now for a second viewing. Im planning to see it in the threatre at least 3 times :p

Originally posted by Caponedawg
Sean Astin. Known for his performances in Rudy but my favorite performance came in The Goonies.
RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!


BTW did you know that the real Rudy was standing right behind his dad in that movie, while Sean soaked that QB?

i saw the movie last night beautiful movie graphical and everything just awesome movie, the good thing about these three movies is that the next one is better than the last that is very rare i hope that they give them the oscar for best movie this year at the oscars they freakin deserve it i mean all three have been nominated there has never even been a second sequel to be nominated so thats something to be proud of.

and the top oscar award goes to THE RETURN OF THE KING.(LOTR):rockman:

Originally posted by Hakeem
cool if frodo died? no way. plus Gollums death was amazingly cool :rockman:


im gonna go to the threatre right now for a second viewing. Im planning to see it in the threatre at least 3 times :p

im gonna see it for second time with my girlfriend, we both saw it so....(thank god is a 3:20 hour movie :hump: )

just got back from the movie.

great second viewing. I think I actually saw some new scenes :p

and the best thing is that the most touching parts still almost made me cry. what a movie :rockman: (Y)

Originally posted by Caponedawg
Sean Astin. Known for his performances in Rudy but my favorite performance came in The Goonies.

He, you're forgetting his 'fabulous' performance in Encino man :p :crazyboy: :mrpimp: :rockman:

Originally posted by Gareth
He, you're forgetting his 'fabulous' performance in Encino man :p :crazyboy: :mrpimp: :rockman:

LOL I know but man Goonies is class.

Ok, so I watched it this tuesday and still think about it all the time.

I'm a late LOTR fan; I remember everybody going to the theaters for the first two episodes of the saga and not really understanding the excitement, and my friends talking about dwarfs and orcs and thinking they lost their minds somehow. What's up with them, I thought? Kind of expected it to be a grown up version of Harry Potter, since I didn't even know the books.
I finally saw TFOR 3 months ago, on DVD, but fell asleep midway through it. I said to myself I was right all along. Eventually, a friend of mine lent me the extended DVD one week later. I gave it another chance, but first saw the making of included in the aforementioned dvd, which allowed me to understand where Tolkien was coming from and what he intended to do with his story. Strangely, the film seemed much more interesting in this second showing, and I felt anxious to watch the second movie.
The same friend gave me a VHS copy of ttt the next week. I went out that day, spent all night with friends, and the feeling that I had to see this movie started kicking in. Drove home at 1am and saw the entire thing. One of the best movie experiences in my life. I don't know if that night really changed me, but certainly turned me into a LOTR inconditional fan!

Where was I? Oh, so the Return of The King. I'll only say that we're very fortunate to have watched the best movie saga of all time in our youth! These 3 are the movies of our lifes. In 20 years time they'll still be admired and looked upon as a landmark. Perhaps like the Lucas' Jedi trilogy, but better in every aspect we can think of (except talking robots...)

Oh well, now I'll have to wait for the 3 films DVD box. I'm sure they'll release one sooner or later.

Sorry for the long and boring post. Take care!

Hugo