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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 1274899" data-attributes="member: 5834">Needed to be four movies...The Return of the King was the greatest visual spectacle in the history of cinema and I will be surprised if it will be surpassed anytime soon. It blows away the Matrix and Star Wars for special effects and eye candy.That being said, I must confess that Return of the King was choppy in terms of plot and character development. Certain parts weren't edited particularly well such as Eowyn killing the Witchking and then speaking with Theoden, way too short to capture the emotional impact I was hoping to feel when seeing it. Not to mention the horrendous changes to Theoden's character that made him seem less noble and loveable than the Theoden I know from the books. Luckily, PJ gave him back quite a bit of his nobility in the Return of the King, but still not quite enough to make him the character Tolkien made him.Some parts were corny and contrived, like when Aragorn waited for the orc army to surround him before charging and when Frodo fell for Gollum's simple tricks. Sam's and Frodo's friendship would never be so easily sundered and Aragorn definitely wouldn't have been that poor a battle commander.I really feel the majority of the blame isn't so much on PJ for certain poorly done parts. I think it is because he needed one more film to do the series proper. Hindsight is 20/20 and there is no changing things now. Overall, the film is very good. Much too light on emotional weight for my tastes, but the battle scenes are absolutely awe-inspiring. I wanted to run an epic D&D war when I watched the charge of the Rohirrim. Just unbelievable.It was a good end to the trilogy, though I know it will still leave me disatisfied when compared to the books. Far too many changes to parts of the story that I hold dear.</blockquote>

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