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I am enjoying it immenisly. I think rotk might actually be worth watching, which is good because its not good to have fotr and ttt and never watch rotk.

3. i'd like a six parter. I just thought since there wasn't enough time they should have cut it, and used the time for character devlopment. Like Eomer.

6. it was tense. but I didn't want to laugh there. It was a serious scene, and not supposed to be funny.Although i'm not sure what could have been done.

7. so why were they in the city?

8. I like it in the book better. I think id like to soo this part again before i make another comment about it.

10. All the movies were hardened and not as soft as the books. Which I thought was so great about the hobbits. Merry and Pippin after they were captured in TTT were joking and as T put it 'if you had been listening you would not have known that they had just been in the jaws of death' (not exact words). But I guess it wasn't that way to show how the Ring was killing frodo, kind of turning him into a wraith, without the hobbity sweetness.

12. Ok i understand now. But as someone commented; why is there a need to change who Denethor is simply because it is a movie and not a book? That question was not directed at you. Because they did not ask me weather or not I liked it.

15. I didn't find Shelob scary at all, so I think it was important to show that she was indeed deadly.

19. I always liked merry and it was very good in ROTK how both Merry and Pippin matured.

21. Perhaos thats true. I think id like to see this part again too, before commenting.

22. I don't remember what this was even about. Oh yea How Saruman lied. Um I wish they had made it more clear. After all everyone dosen't have freepers to explain it all. ;)Thanks.

23. As long as it can actually happen.

24. I was not! i think I should see this part again too.

25. I think the message could have been delivered just as affective with out having to see it. Who dosen't get that the ring is totally evil and Gollum is hopelessly emmersed in it? Although that scene did drive the point home.

26. true. I think it the eye should have gone through some king of change during its destruction. So it coulod be determined that Sauron was actually being killed.

27. well they had to die some how.

28. I didn't mind the eagles picking him up off the rock, it was the next part that i didn't like.

30. yes and there usually assoiated with Laura and Mary and, going west to find a better life... NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO. It wasn't really that bad just slightly shocking.

31. It was shocking to see him so ugly. It was like a different hobbit.

32. I want to see this part again also. But it still had a bad acting (on the part of the elves)and cgi feel to it.

1. It is, and i will enjoy the DVD where I won't have to watch it. Oh and one other thing, when I said it was like a horror movie i didn't mean scary but gory and sick. I thoght some scenes could have been handled with out the gore and would have been just as affective.

I saw almost no gore, and the only sickness I saw was a few very compelling portrayals of the sickness of addiction. I think a lot of gore is SUGGESTED but it's not actually there outside the imagination of the viewer.

3. i'd like a six parter. I just thought since there wasn't enough time they should have cut it, and used the time for character devlopment. Like Eomer.

They used a LOT of time for character development.

6. it was tense. but I didn't want to laugh there. It was a serious scene, and not supposed to be funny.Although i'm not sure what could have been done.

I didn't laugh there. Nobody in either of the showings I was at laughed there.

7. so why were they in the city?

Because they live there. Because they had lived in Osgiliath which was being sacked. Because they had lived in near-by farms which were defenseless once Osgiliath was overrun. That's the nature of Medieval society, when the feces hits the rotating device flee into the largest walled city you can get to (or past it completely if possible... which given the mountain range it largely wasn't). The difference between a fortified city and an inhabited fort is the number of women and children.

10. All the movies were hardened and not as soft as the books. Which I thought was so great about the hobbits. Merry and Pippin after they were captured in TTT were joking and as T put it 'if you had been listening you would not have known that they had just been in the jaws of death' (not exact words). But I guess it wasn't that way to show how the Ring was killing frodo, kind of turning him into a wraith, without the hobbity sweetness.

I'm confused by the people that think the books were soft. I see the story as very dark with the moments of lightness being foxhole humor men who are about to die use to stay sane.

12. Ok i understand now. But as someone commented; why is there a need to change who Denethor is simply because it is a movie and not a book? That question was not directed at you. Because they did not ask me weather or not I liked it.

Because books and movies have different needs from their characters. Really there wasn't a direct need to change Denethor but there was a need to change Faromir, to give him an arc. Denethor needed to be changed to facilitate giving Faromir an arc. All that is necessitated because movies need a regular pulse of peeks and valleys in tension that books don't need. Books can travel a flatter emotional path because there's an assumption that the audience will walk away and come back (how many people can read all of ROTK in one sitting). Movies the assumption is exactly the opposite, they're single sitting events and must hold the audience the entire time, in order to do that movies need a pulse, they need tension to be built and released, false climaxes, and characters to develop.

15. I didn't find Shelob scary at all, so I think it was important to show that she was indeed deadly.

It was a 12 foot tall spider with a stinger as long as a hobbit's arm. Seems pretty deadly to me.

25. I think the message could have been delivered just as affective with out having to see it. Who dosen't get that the ring is totally evil and Gollum is hopelessly emmersed in it? Although that scene did drive the point home.

In a wierd way Gollum was rewarded, he got to die happy. Not many characters in LOTR get to die happy.

26. true. I think it the eye should have gone through some king of change during its destruction. So it coulod be determined that Sauron was actually being killed.

It was twitching around really fast. Looked to me like Sauron was trying to figure out WTF was going on.

27. well they had to die some how.

Also notice only the orcs got taken out, when Sauron exploded the first time it took out both armies. Sometimes there's just no good way to do something.

28. I didn't mind the eagles picking him up off the rock, it was the next part that i didn't like.

I think that was primarily to give a nice cut.

30. yes and there usually assoiated with Laura and Mary and, going west to find a better life... NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO. It wasn't really that bad just slightly shocking.

I usually associate them with going to Tombstone and taking the wagon tour. Guess I live in wagon country.

31. It was shocking to see him so ugly. It was like a different hobbit.

It was shocking, but remember Bilbo is aging rapidly now that he's out of the influence of the ring. The ring had kept him artificially young and the years were rapidly catching up to him... which also tells you just how close to the action Gollum had been staying since Bilbo took the ring.

32. I want to see this part again also. But it still had a bad acting (on the part of the elves)and cgi feel to it.

Yeah it had a cgi feel but it looked nice. I had a long discussion with a few sci-fi artists last month about why photorealism isn't all it's cracked up to be. A lot of times making things look real also makes them look dead, taking a step back and allowing it to breath isn't always a bad thing, especially in elf country.