Return of the King - Spoiler Version

Professor S · 12-19-2003, 06:02 PM

Great movie. I thought the whole Eagle part needed to be explained more fully to the movie audience who were not familiar with the mythos.

A lot of people criticized the length of the end, but I thought it was fitting. This was an epic movie series that deserved an epic ending that tied all the loose strings.

So, after 3 years of waiting this entire series more than filled my expectations, but I am left depressed. Depressed because this was the end. There will be no more Lord of the Rings movies. There is no more anticipation. It is the December 26th of the movie world. I only hope someone has the brains to pay for the rights to The Hobbit.

Ginkasa · 12-19-2003, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by The Strangler

I only hope someone has the brains to pay for the rights to The Hobbit.

Its not that New Line and Peter Jackson aren't willing to buy the rights, its that the Tolkien Estate isn't willing to sell it. The Estate has never supported the movies. The only reason the trilogy was made was because Tolkien himself had already sold the rights to it back in the 60's or something like that.

But Peter Jackson has already said he would like to make The Hobbit and Ian McKellan has expressed interest in reprising his role as Gandalf (and of course New Line would want to make it considering the success of The Lord of the Rings).

*shrugs and walks away*

Professor S · 12-19-2003, 06:35 PM

The Tolkien estate doesn't own the rights, as a animated version of the Hobbit was made long ago, I think someone in Rankin/Bass owns them and is asking for some rediculous price for them. New Line needs to just pony up the dough and make the damn movie.

I read a sad article about the Tolkien's a while back. The grandson was all for the movie versions and offered to help in making them, but his own father disowned him for doing so and now the grandson will receive nothing from the estate. Sad sad tale.

Ginkasa · 12-19-2003, 06:39 PM

That was a TV movie though. The rights for a TV movie and theatrical movie are different I think.

Anyway, here's a link saying that its the Tolkien Estate: New Line Pursues Hobbit Rights

*shrugs and walks away*

DarkMaster · 12-19-2003, 11:31 PM

Has anyone read the Similarion (sp?)? And if so, what exactly is it about? If memory serves me right, it's something like a bunch of smaller stories that take place in the first age of middle earth, or something like that anyway.

Joeiss · 12-20-2003, 01:19 AM

What happened to Sauron? My sister said that they cut out like a 7-minute fight scene between Gandalf and Sauron at the beginning of the movie.. is that true?

Or did he die in the second movie? Because I cannot remember that.

Jonbo298 · 12-20-2003, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Joeiss

What happened to Sauron? My sister said that they cut out like a 7-minute fight scene between Gandalf and Sauron at the beginning of the movie.. is that true?

Or did he die in the second movie? Because I cannot remember that.

I don't think he died. In the first hour or so of RotK, they mentioned that the Tree's had him blocked in. I just don't know why Sauron was never actually shown in RotK. Maybe the extended DVD will clear anything up.

Vampyr · 12-23-2003, 12:28 PM

I finally got to watch the movie yesterday.

I think it was the worst of the three (but Im not really sure...I sprang my ankle really bad right before the movie, and it was throbbing with the pain the whole way through. It really killed the experiance.)

It may have been the worst of the three, but it was still a kick butt movie. Truly awesome. There were somethings that were at tad fuzzy on how they happened...but not too bad. Can you imagine how long the movie would have been if they had shown everything? My ankle could not have taken not moving that much longer.

There are two gripes I had about it:
Dialogue. This last installment had the worst dialogue of any of the three. It was just really crappy at some parts.

Homosexuality. This movie was FULL OF IT! And what makes it worse, Ian McKellan really IS gay. I mean, that scene where they were all laughing in that room, and frodo and merry and pippin are on the bed...that was just wrong.

Also, there were way to many of those: Golden light scenes where everyone is smiling and rejoicing. I mean...the first few were beautiful, but they started getting tiring.