oh. my. god.

[kaydeefalls]

I have seen RotK.

Yes, it's THAT GOOD.

This is not exactly a review, because I've been left rather incoherent. But comparing Fellowship and Two Towers to Return of the King is like comparing the Godfather Part 3 to Godfather Part 1. Like Plan 9 From Outer Space vs. Star Wars. It BLOWS THE FIRST TWO AWAY.

Yes, cuts were made. Gone are the Houses of Healing, the Faramir/Eowyn, any Saruman, and a lot of Merry. And changes? Well, yeah. Pippin AND Merry fight in the last battle (no troll, btw). Frodo fights Gollum a lot more at the end. But fuck that shit, this is solid gold.

We have (as chronologically as I can remember them):
-holy shit Smeagol and Deagol, <3 Andy Serkis liek whoa
-Merry and Pippin greeting Theoden et all in Isengard
-GOLLUM YOU RAT BASTARD
-Merry and Pippin table-dancing again!
-OMG PALANTIR
-Denethor creeps me the fuck out
-the Merry/Pippin separation, cryyyyy
-dude, that
-Eowyn is fucking gorgeous, Aragorn is a dumb fool
-Shelob is the scariest thing I've ever seen
-SAAAAAAAM!
-"Don't go where I can't follow!" OMG OMG OMG
-Gimli's one-liners have gotten a lot better
-the Paths of the Dead are some creepy shit
-SAAAAAAAAM! again
-"You can't go wandering about Mordor in naught but your skin!" um. yes. yes he can. *drools*
-Pelennor Fields is Helm's Deep times a bajillion, holy SHIT
-LEGOLAS AND THE OLIPHAUNT AJSDHUKANXLNAKDUHUFHALUKG
-Elijah is really, really pretty. just sayin'.
-Pippin! Pyre of Denethor! DENETHOR THE FIREBALL FALLING OFF THE CLIFF!
-augh! Theoden! Noooo!
-augh! Merry! Nooooo!
-Eowyn KICKS ASS. "I am no man!" *audience cheers*
-augh! Pippin/Merry! Yesssss!
-holy shit, the dead blokes SWARM
-"I can't carry it, Mr. Frodo, but I can carry you!" OMG SAM! (so THAT'S where the strawberries scene went!)
-last battle asdkjhjdjhasjkdhaudhuk
-FRODO CLAIMS THE RING OMG YES PERFECT
-poor Gollum....except not.
-THE EAGLES!!!!11!!ONE!!
-"I'm glad you're here with me, Sam. Here at the end of all things." THANK YOU PETER JACKSON.
-reunion! hobbitpile! eeeeeeeeee!
-Frodo and Sam are soinlove.
-"You bow to no one." Thank ye kindly, Aragorn.
-eh, the elf bint's not so bad this time.
-Rosie! n'awwwwwwwww.
-GREY HAVENS OMG CRYYYYYYYYY
-they ended it with "Well, I'm back." No stupid-ass epilogue! OMG HEART.

And I'm spent. I literally walked home in a stupor, repeating "Oh, my god" over and over and over. RotK wins. It wins so much. And Sean Astin better clear off a space on his shelf for that little gold statuette...

Comments

[mexskimo-68.livejournal.com]

I just got back too. And. am. speechless.

But, I can agree with you on Sean. I mean, in The Fellowship and Two Towers, it was for me just, "oh, okay. Sam and Frodo. It's cute. That's nice." But this, well, just wow. Their friendship, well, friendship is an understatement. It's just indescribable.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

...yeah. *sighs*

[msilverstar]

I loved it as well. I didn't cry, but I loved it. Most of the Mordor stuff really worked. Frodo at Mt. Doom was perfect. All the characters were fantastic. I thought the Aragorn - Arwen kiss was fabulous. Much as I love both book and movie Eowyn, I don't need her to end up with Aragorn.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

I didn't cry, either, although I came close several times. I think I was too much in awe to cry.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

i agree with you... though my entry about it was too "i'm speechless i am in awe" to really comment on certain things,
like omg merry and pippin are totally high in the beginning! and a friend of mine was commenting that the ring was sort of like an acid trip for frodo, his was constantly not noticing things in front of him (like the corpses hanging from the ceiling by spider webs) and walking brushing away imaginary things in front of his face. which i thought was totally cool because the ring sort of is like a dangerous drug, very addictive, so terrible on them but so good feeling.

"i am no man" i just about died that ruled so much GO EOWYN!!!!!1
there was a part where Gimli (i think) said something and the whole audience laughed like a mad thing, but I can't remember what it was!!!!

waaaah pippin's singing is the only part that made me cry.

<3333 this movie. i want to go again but the lines will be nuts. maybe a matinee?

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

I think I'm waiting 'til Thursday night to see it again. Which is probably all for the best, since otherwise I'd just sit in the theater by myself and bibble.

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

i am totally going to go by myself.... i've never actually done that before, but i would just get sucked right the hell into it, even more, you know? aaaaaah it's so good omg i can't stand it

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

I've gone to both FotR and TTT alone, at times, but for now I still need someone else with me to bibble AT...

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

;_; i think this is the most emotional of them all, most definetely. i never cried at the other ones.

there were certain parts where i thought the other two movies were better, in the beginning of this one, (better than a masterpiece, so it's not saying anything bad about it) but the whole last umm... all of it was the most brilliant thing ever put on screen. yes. imma die.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah.

The beginning felt a little slow to me, but that's mainly 'cause I know the books and all I wanted to see was Shelob and Pelennor and MOUNT DOOM and Grey Havens, so I was like, "Come on, come ON, let's get to the good bits!"

The ending! *wibble*

[wolfsage.livejournal.com]

yes, definetely. hurry up, everything, i wanna see teh GLORY

but holy HELL was it hot in the theatre i was in. the room seems small when it's packed right full, i was dying of heat stroke (or, hyperthermia as i like to call it) by the end.

the ending omg. so so sad. i am permanently depressed in a good way. ;_;

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

Cryyyyy. Yes.