Saw The Return of the King at last. It’s been running for three weeks and the theatre was, of course, still full.
Wow. Three+ hours just flashed by. A captivating movie, with something very good (the trickery of Gollum), some unanswered questions (how did the palantír end up in the pool?), some silly heroics (again by Legolas), something strange (Denethor eating), and something that luckily did not happen (Faramir getting almostkilled in a battle against some hero orc).
The extended edition has a lot of potential for being absolutely wonderful movie – Saruman, Aragorn doing the healing and receiving even some sort of recognition in Minas Tirith, and adding some square kilometers to Mordor (it seems that Frodo and Sam walk from Minas Morgul to Mount Doom in a couple of hours) are things I hope to see.
posted on 5 January 2004 at 23:17