The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

[Destro777]

Finally saw this today. I watched the first 2 extended edition movies earlier this week so i was pretty pumped to see it.

Best movie ever and best trilogy ever.

Now we can only hope Mr Jackson makes the Hobbit.
I cant wait for the 5 hour ROTK extended edition, i just dont want to wait till next november

[voltz]

Now we can only hope Mr Jackson makes the Hobbit.

Weird thought, but I'd like to see him make Lodoss war afterwards.

[MarsVolta]

Jackson is making the Hobbit, however it might be some time before that one comes out because he's re-doing King Kong right now i think.

[jonas]

Saw it. It was good.

Sam a bit too good at killing orcs, though.

He had the ring. Pay attention!

[Mzo]

W/e, in the book he put it on to sneak past most orcs, then killed like one IIRC. I think they mistook him for an elf warrior because of his cloak, too.

Here, it was dodge, kill, dodge, kill, dodge, kill.

Also, every scene with Liv Tyler made me want to kill myself.

The Nazgul's rides were scary. I jumped when one of them swooped at the screen.

[jonas]

Adaptations from book to movie will ALWAYS have things changed.
There are some things that will not explain themselves as well on the bigscreen than in your imagination.

At first they did mistake him for a powerful warrior because of his shadow that they saw but in the books he did have the ring. I believe he even used it MORE in the books than the movies.
Hopefully the EE will explain it a bit more.

[Mzo]

I'm just saying that he used it to sneak past the orcs, since he's not a warrior. In the movie, he was like an action hero in the way he fought Shelob and the orcs. Just a weird thing to change, is all. Still an excellent movie.

[Anthony]

In the books, Sam wasn't bad at fighting vs shelob at all. Excellent scene, if done any differently, i wouldn't have been as happy.

[BioMechanic]

At first they did mistake him for a powerful warrior because of his shadow that they saw but in the books he did have the ring. I believe he even used it MORE in the books than the movies.
Hopefully the EE will explain it a bit more.

Yeah, that old extended edition is gonna be quite an interesting piece of work.

Sam did wear the Ring in the books after Frodo was taken, and definitely slew an orc or two - he had Sting, which was no ordinary blade, and that undoubtedly helped him against them and Shelob, just as it helped Bilbo and Frodo. I also think that Sam's sheer determination had a lot to do with his combat success.

And yet, in the Tower of Cirith Ungol, the orcs actually saw Sam as a huge menacing hooded figure with a painfully glittering sword, and they started thinking there was some sort of Elven warrior on the loose - some sort of illusion created by the Ring, I suppose. Sam actually pretended he was an elf-warrior ("Tell Captain Shagrat that the Elf-Warrior is coming, and his Elf-Blade too!"), so maybe that had to do with the illusion's projection... I dunno.

I guess the shadow-on-the-wall bit in the film was meant to be that part, but I don't think Sam ever actually wore the Ring in PJ's version. If he had, Sauron would have known where the Ring was instantly, and the game would be up.

Hopefully, again, the EE will clear some of this up.

(Now that I think about it, I recall a couple of occasions in the third book where Sam saw Frodo as a beady-eyed slobbering little beast when Frodo was obsessing about the Ring....interesting....but again, not in the theatrical version.)

[Drewbacca]

Didn't this movie take 3 years to film? I guess that's what shows you the difference in mentality to this over a one that takes a month to film with 1/4 of its budget.