The Official Return of the King Discussion Thread

**BlackRavyyn** · 01-04-2004, 07:36 AM

So I finally saw the movie on New Year's which is later then the first time I saw the other two.

Just to clarify some things. For one, Christopher Lee's footage was cut our BEFORE he was bitching about it. Jackson thought the final scene with Sauron wasn't important to the rest of the movie and will leave it in the extended version (that's going to be 4 hours isn't it?). Also there was several glaring missing scenes but I have heard that the whole scene when Frodo and Sam return to the Shire to see "someone" has changed it, won't be added to the movie as it is in the book.

And the romance of Faramir and Eowyn appears likely in that scene with Aragorn so oh well, it's an afterthought.

I loved the beginning, the scene where Merry and Pippin are welcoming the others to Isengard and the battle scenes were phenomenal!! I nearly lost it a couple of times but I thought it got a bit mushy. Kudos to Sean Astin, great performance and once again, great CG work on a lot of stuff that didn't appear fake.

Of the three, I prefered the first for wow factor, the second for the battle of Helm's Deep and the third for the characters. Still, the Balrog is the ultimate creation by the team that made this movie with Minas Tirith a close second.

01-04-2004, 07:36 AM	#33
BlackRavyyn Posts: 4,526	So I finally saw the movie on New Year's which is later then the first time I saw the other two. Just to clarify some things. For one, Christopher Lee's footage was cut our BEFORE he was bitching about it. Jackson thought the final scene with Sauron wasn't important to the rest of the movie and will leave it in the extended version (that's going to be 4 hours isn't it?). Also there was several glaring missing scenes but I have heard that the whole scene when Frodo and Sam return to the Shire to see "someone" has changed it, won't be added to the movie as it is in the book. And the romance of Faramir and Eowyn appears likely in that scene with Aragorn so oh well, it's an afterthought. I loved the beginning, the scene where Merry and Pippin are welcoming the others to Isengard and the battle scenes were phenomenal!! I nearly lost it a couple of times but I thought it got a bit mushy. Kudos to Sean Astin, great performance and once again, great CG work on a lot of stuff that didn't appear fake. Of the three, I prefered the first for wow factor, the second for the battle of Helm's Deep and the third for the characters. Still, the Balrog is the ultimate creation by the team that made this movie with Minas Tirith a close second.