Return of the King Discussion **Spoilers*

34.1 million dollar opening day in the States.

Wow.

-Randy

Well Firegirl, then you wouldn't be surprised! Saturday isn't that far away.

I just got back from seeing it and WOW! I'm ready to go see it again and again and again.

I just loved it...

HUGE THANKS TO PETER JACKSON FOR ONE HELL OF A RIDE!!

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I thought it was easily the best of the three

I loved how the ending dragged on.... after Peter Jackson took us on this three year ride, in the end, I was just hoping for more of the dragging on... it's our goodbye to the carachters, and it was awesome..

after all of the troubles they went through, I thought it was great to see them in a peaceful setting

the battles were easily better than Helm's Deep in TTT.... I was a bit disappointed with Shelob, although she did look very realistic

if one thing was out of place, it was probably the back story of Smeagol and Deagol at the beginning, they could have done without it, it just felt a bit out of place... and they didn't include the part where they were 'interrogating' Saruman after the downfall of Isengard, I really hope that's in the extended edition..

but this was just a perfect final act of the trilogy, I was thoroughly pleased.....

the sketches during the credits were awesome too

when "The End" came up, the whole theater started cheering and clapping... it was awesome

wow, just, wow.

a very solid 5/5 from me

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I'm seeing it tomorrow, and I seriously cannot wait. Seeing LOTR movies is like a ritual for me. I've read ROTK about 20 times, and if this movie is as good as the rest, it wont dissapoint!

I'm watching tomorrow too, and it will be so damn packed. Can't wait too !

Anyone with tickets - GET THERE EARLY!

I bought my tickets early, arrived at the theatre 45 minutes before showtime and I still got stuck in the 6th row. It was packed THEN.

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Originally Posted by Miss Filangi

Anyone with tickets - GET THERE EARLY!

I bought my tickets early, arrived at the theatre 45 minutes before showtime and I still got stuck in the 6th row. It was packed THEN.

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:yeahthat

I bought tickets on Wednesday morning for the 7:00 show. We got there at 5:30 and the line was almost completley around the building! Luckily, the theater they were showing it in has about 500 seats and we got pretty good ones too!

I am a moderator on the message boards at lordoftherings.net. So, I am a HUGE "Ringnut"! I knew of most of the spoilers and details prior, but there were some surprises: (I don't know how to do the highlight thing--so I'll just warn, okay?)

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I knew there was going to be no "Scouring of the Shire" at the end, but I thought the harbor scene was a tad bit too long. IMHO

They did film the Houses of Healing and the scenes of Eowyn and Faramir getting together and was really shocked to not see one minute of it. (WAAAH! :bawl Those were my two favorite parts of the book! I cried!)

I have a pin with Eowyn that I wear to work. (WAL-MART) People have offered to buy it from me and I tell them that the price will go up after ROTK comes out. EOWYN TOTALLY KICKS BUTT!

The flashback of Smeagol at the beginning was absolutely AMAZING! I knew of the flashback, but I had no idea it would follow his digression into Gollum with so much detail.

The way they portrayed the dead was way cool too. I had only seen pre-vis pictures of them and it was amazing to watch them do their thing!

AWESOME! Now I have to wait for the EE to see if they put back in my scenes!

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Worth the wait in line. There were ringwratihs, elves and hobbits in line with us! :up

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Originally Posted by realitycrazmom

:yeahthat

I bought tickets on Wednesday morning for the 7:00 show. We got there at 5:30 and the line was almost completley around the building! Luckily, the theater they were showing it in has about 500 seats and we got pretty good ones too!

I am a moderator on the message boards at lordoftherings.net. So, I am a HUGE "Ringnut"! I knew of most of the spoilers and details prior, but there were some surprises: (I don't know how to do the highlight thing--so I'll just warn, okay?)

:burn :burn SPOILER WARNING AHEAD :burn :burn
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I knew there was going to be no "Scouring of the Shire" at the end, but I thought the harbor scene was a tad bit too long. IMHO

They did film the Houses of Healing and the scenes of Eowyn and Faramir getting together and was really shocked to not see one minute of it. (WAAAH! :bawl Those were my two favorite parts of the book! I cried!)

I have a pin with Eowyn that I wear to work. (WAL-MART) People have offered to buy it from me and I tell them that the price will go up after ROTK comes out. EOWYN TOTALLY KICKS BUTT!

The flashback of Smeagol at the beginning was absolutely AMAZING! I knew of the flashback, but I had no idea it would follow his digression into Gollum with so much detail.

The way they portrayed the dead was way cool too. I had only seen pre-vis pictures of them and it was amazing to watch them do their thing!

AWESOME! Now I have to wait for the EE to see if they put back in my scenes!

:burn :burn END OF SPOILERS :burn :burn
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Worth the wait in line. There were ringwratihs, elves and hobbits in line with us! :up

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I read that the Houses of the Healing scenes would be in the DVD edition. But I don't think they even filmed the scouring of the shire. :(

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Originally Posted by Lucy

I read that the Houses of the Healing scenes would be in the DVD edition. But I don't think they even filmed the scouring of the shire. :(

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You're right Lucy, they never filmed the "Scouring". And they have Wormtongue and Saruman killing each other off at Isengard (Orthanc) instead. (An additional deleted scene for the EE DVD.)

It was also interesting to see that Denethor was going mad without the Palantir in his hand. It looked like just went nuts over the loss of his sons (which is true to a certain point, but the Palantir is the catalyst). I truly despised Denethor from the books and thought they nailed him dead-on in the movie.