Rate Return of the King

[JoeGKushner]

10.

I thought that the ending started to drag a bit but felt that it brought a lot of power and majesty to the story through its visual storytelling.

 

[kengar]

Dude - Tolkein's books are far from perfect.
There are well-known storytelling mistakes he made.

Furthermore, it's unfilmable as is. There are so many plot problems that PJ and Co fixed to make the movies as good as they are that I'm shocked that anyone can reasonably say that it isn't a wonderful adaptation.

An unequivocable 10 from me. Easily the best film ever made.
I say that in all seriousness, and I've never been able to say that about any movie before in my 33 years.
I'm not kidding.

I rated it a 9 after 1 viewing and was unsure whether it beat out FOTR. After the 2nd viewing I give it a 10. It is definitiely the best of the trilogy. As to best film EVAR? Not sure, I would argue that LOTR as a whole is the best "film accomplishment" ever. It's hard to lift one of them out of the group and say that it is great as an individual film.

Also, I think almost every change PJ & crew made was justified. While I may not have agreed with every single choice, I do understand what they were trying to do, and it wasn't change for change's sake, Sir W. I'd say less than 5% of the changes in all 3 films bothered me at all. The only one that made me grumble (and the EE fixed that) was Faramir in TTT.

 

[Krug]

9.09 after 163 votes..