Rate Return of the King

[Truth Seeker]

Definitely a 10. I was a little skeptical during the first 20 minutes or so, but shortly after I was blubbering like a baby throughout the rest of the movie.

Yeah, I'm a geek.

Yeah....GEEKS rule!!!! (sniff, sniff)

 

[Stormfalcon]

I ranked it at 9, since there were some empty spots in the story that the Extended Edition should fill in quite nicely (and that version will get the 10).

 

[Spatula]

I give the theatrical version an 8, because of the missing scenes (that will presumably be in the extended edition), and because of the poor editing of Eowyn's big moment (a scene which will hopefully be fixed in the extended edition).

 

[Hand of Evil]

I gave it a 10, maybe would have gone with a 9 but felt it had did it all for me as a movie.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

If I had never read the book, I would have given it a 7, as is, I give it a 3. For an alternate universe version in which it deems to have been written by George Lucas instead of Tolkien, it was a pretty darn good movie.

 

[Merlion]

I gave it a ten. It was the single most amazing movie I have ever scene. The trilogy has inacuracies, and some that annoy me (the extra time spent on the Arwen/Aragorn thing for instance). But I believe it was a very good adaptation of the story, because it conveyed the themes and overall feel of the books very well.
There were a couple scenes that werent in the book, but probably should've been

such as:

Denethor: Abandon your posts! Flee for your Lives!

SMACK!

SMACK!

SMACK!

Gandalf: PREPARE FOR BATTLE!

 

[hong]

If I had never read the book, I would have given it a 7, as is, I give it a 3. For an alternate universe version in which it deems to have been written by George Lucas instead of Tolkien, it was a pretty darn good movie.

D00d! You say this like it's a negative thing?

(James Earl Jones voice)
Come not between the Nazgul and his prey!

 

[Gnarlo]

Graded it an 8, expecting it to jump to a 9 on the release of the DVD. TTT went from a 7 to a 9 with it's extended version.

10 is reserved for FOTR

 

[Eternalknight]

And it hasn't changed much with an extra 50 votes - it
s now 9.08.

By the way I voted 9.

 

[reapersaurus]

Apparently they thought they could rewrite entire sections of the story better than Tolkien did.

But anytime a director, producer, writer, etc. takes a classic work and says to himself, "Gee, I can do much better..." I groan.
It's a pity the makers of the movie felt it necessary to "improve" upon the original.

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.