1. Oliphants!! 2. Witch King!!! 3. Black. Gate. Opens. !!!! They even managed to include my favorite line in only partially mangled form -- "No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades." All in all, ROTK = rocked. But, a general complaint: why in the name of all that is holy did Peter Jackson inject so much sentimentality into an already sentimental story? Do we REALLY need to see a shot of a mother tearfully clutching her baby before every freaking battle in the trilogy? We. Get. It. Already. Other than that, it was cool. I will see it again. (Oh, and don't I ever catch a break? I saw it by myself to avoid sitting next to an annoying couple I know...and I ended up sitting next to an annoying couple I didn't know.) |
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