Did you cry during ROTK?

[rafrost]

I didn't during the first time I was it, but when I took my seven year old son, I teared up when the beacons were lite.

Rohan was coming.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

It sorta seems like most of the posters to this thread did not cry, while the majority of those who voted in the poll, did.

I would call ROTK a success simply based on this poll.
Why?
Because when a film pulls you in enough, and you care about what happens to the characters enough, that you cry, then the film really worked.
My opinion only, of course.

 

[Wolf72]

right, I should add I almost cried for the last 20 or so minutes as I waited for the movie to end already ... man, I had to pee ... badly.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Not cried per se but teared up a bit at the whole Eowyn section. That part of the book always got me, dunno why. I like a strong woman, I guess. That and the whole ending with Aragorn, and then again right when they left on the ship. I'm a softy.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

I was crying like a baby before the end of the Gollum scene at the beginning, and never really stopped.

 

[HellHound]

Just got back from it.

I made a conscious decision to be carried away into this film, and brought tissues.

I only actually CRIED at the parting scene at the end.

 

[Aeris Winterood]

Yeah....

I have read the series upwards of 40 times..... and still reading the appendices about the final departures of the fellowship make me well up...

Curious thing is from reading the books, I never cared much for Theoden..... until the movies... Bernard Hill is awesome... and his demise is a sadness I knew was gonna happen! and yes... tears formed...

 

[Aeris Winterood]

The Gondorians are fleeing Osgilliath.
The Fell Beasts are laying waste to their ranks.
The White Rider comes to aid.
The Staff of the White Wizard ignites, and drives the Nasgul off.

I wept at the utter perfection of that scene.

I get a severe adrenaline rush and huge smile when that scene happens..... it was awesome!

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

The charge of the Rohirrim got me. I've always absolutely loved that scene in the book, and I didn't think the movie could pull it off for me. It did. In spades.

 

[D+1]

Yep. Rohirrim charge for one. Faramir's charge/Pippin's song didn't quite do it. Felt more melancholy than genuinely sad to me. Sam and Frodo on the side of erupting Mt. Doom. Theoden's death SHOULD have done it (one of the more affecting parts of the book for me) but didn't quite. As others noted it was about that time that it becomes apparant that material is being Cut For Time, and thus the cuts feel "jumpy". The part that got me most (and is a bit of a surprise given the other opportunities) was Frodo waking up in bed and the Fellowship pouring into the room, and on top of that the look shared between Sam and Frodo. It gets me just thinking about it now.