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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 1284515" data-attributes="member: 2020">(!)Yes, I'm late.  I just saw ROTK on Tuesday, and with this film being a week behind is like being out of the Stone Age.  Yet, there it is.  ROTK is overwhelming.  Emotionally overwhelming.  It is so overwhelming that I probably will only watch it once (maybe twice) not including the DVD releases.  It does not have the single grand knock out punch of the film Of Mice and Men, but it has a long series of lesser punches that add up.  Jackson's work is staggering, his psychology devastating, his detail and characters and images colossal.  It is whelming.  It is too much.  It is much greater than the effect in FOTR or TTT.  FOTR was a very, very hard hitting film.  TTT was mindnumbing in it's emotional intensity.  But ROTK is just simply overwhelming.  A certain Lady sitting next to me collapsed into tears over and over during the film, using napkins to wipe at her eyes, and she left the theater crying.  (The first, and probably the last, time I will ever see that happen.)  Two people sitting on my other side left their sweaters (expensive sweaters, I would note) in the theater, forgetting them in the emotional tumult of the film.  I just wish they had shown Frodo arriving at Valinor or the Lonely Isle.  That would have been very nice.  For comparison, think of the Millennium 2000 roller coaster at Cedar Point (if you've never been on it, think of the music that acconpanies the Entish assault on Isengard, and the flooding of Isengard, from the TTT.  That describes the ride.)  Or think of the Grand Canyon, upon first seeing it, in person, while standing on the edge of the dropoff with no rail. (assuming you have height phobia or large open space phobia)  Or think of your first trip in a jet aircraft as a child (including the homesickness.)  Think of skydiving, or mountain climbing, or hand-gliding, or skiing down the Expert Slope for the first time.  Think of a brief trip to the Emergency Room.  Think of your very first Christmas you can remember.  Think of being in love.  Think of listening to Wagner, at his most uproarious, with the volume turned way up, for hours.  Think of the film Of Mice and Men, or The Red Pony.  Think of being on-stage in a large theatrical production.  That's the level of emotion I'm talking about here.  ROTK is just overwhelming.  Did I mention it was good?  It was that, too.  It was a 10.  Edena_of_Neith</blockquote>

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