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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anti-Sean" data-source="post: 1282268" data-attributes="member: 11797">I've only seen RotK once so far, so for now, I'm going to have to go with The Two Towers as my favorite. For me, the movie is all about Theoden King. His character resonates for me on so many levels in this movie, in so many ways that he never did in the books. Watching him restored, and his slow journey back towards the man and king that he once was is simply amazing. (And he has a sword named Herugrim, how can you not love a guy with a sword like that?) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> His scene on the walls of Helm's Deep rallying the troops, and calling Aragorn to the carpet for lowering their morale... watching him choke back his rage at his sense of abandonment by Gondor... I nearly leapt out of my seat and shouted along with him - 'Forth Eorlingas!' - as he lead that last, desparate charge out of Helm's Deep. wow.As much as Theoden does for me in this movie, however, I'll love it for all time just for the segment PJ shot leading up to the battle, during Theoden's "where is the horse and the rider" monologue. The shots of the old man looking back forlornly as he's pulled away to fight...the boys who can't be a day older than 11 or 12 being readied to fight and die. The fear in the eyes of the boy being handed an axe, the look on the face of the next boy as they place a helmet on his head, the boy picking up a shield, resigned to his fate - it breaks my heart every single time I watch it. If PJ gave us nothing else with these movies, he gave us this one sequence, which speaks volumes about the sacrifice and loss inherent in every war, no matter how noble or ignoble the cause may be. It provides a moving and necessary counterpoint for the massive battle that follows. My hope is that as people watch the battle unfold with unbridled glee (and I'm right there with them!), that the sequence that came before it sticks somewhere in the back of their mind, subtly reminding them that war isn't just a videogame.Dang, now I need to go home and watch it again <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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