Posted on 12/19/2002 8:14:17 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
My biggest disappointment was that it ended. If the projectionist had yelled, "Hey, I've got "The Return of the King" here, who wants to see it?" I would've have stayed another three hours for that.
Merry Christmas, by the way!
Okay, there are a couple of flaws, but what movie is perfect? Take "The Godfather." Suddenly, with no warning, the Corleones are abruptly moving the clan to Nevada!
The batle of Helm's Deep was the highlight. Best battle scene EVER! Although, Akiro Kurosawa's climactic battle in "Ran" comes close. However, the excitment level for me, and I guess most everyone else here, was greater. Helm's Deep was Good vs. Evil. In "Ran," a family--and a nation--was destroying itself.
I didn't have a problem with the Aragorn dream scene, after all, much of it was taken from the appendix of book three. Frodo and Sam had no business in Minas Tiritn. A better and more chilling ending would've been seeing Frodo captured in Shelob's lair, and skipping the showdown with the "Witch King" Nazgul.
Gollum was brilliant. Andy Serkis, even if he appears voice only, deserves a "Best Supporting Actor" nomination.
But I guess I'm nitpicking. Brilliant. Fabulous. And my wife gave me the box set of "Fellowship" for my birthday last week.
Exactly! I saw the movie today and the first thing out of my mouth to hubby was: "He looks just like 'SerpentHead" Carville. I'm now doing a search to see if others thought the same!!!!!LOL
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