Post by Andrew on Dec 17, 2003 5:00:53 GMT -5
Whoo … I’m writing this at 4:38AM Wednesday morning after drawing today’s comic after getting back from watching the midnight showing of the third part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. So hopefully it will remain coherent and readable. If I can wait for two hours for a movie to start (a bit of that because they had to hold off from playing the movie till someone got their car out of the way of the people leaving), then you can read through this.
This movie is awesome. Just as good as the other two, and then some more in the special effects area. The battles are breathtaking with way more going on then you can see all at once. And you thought the battle in the second movie was great. Wait till they toss in the huge elephant creatures and the dragon riders (YAY!). We also get a unfortunately short look at the latest villain, the Litch King, or something like that. Although he was in all three movies, it would’ve been nice to have acknowledged him a little more. Of course, the whole series had a habit of just tossing new things at you so oh well. They lead up to the fight with the mother of all spiders (literally) pretty well. Speaking of which, the second time that spider attacks Frodo a woman in the theater gasped so loud the entire theater just started laughing. Almost as funny as the “That still only counts as one” line.
The only complaint I can really think of was that the ending kinda dragged on for a little bit. But hey, for what’s really a ten hour movie all together it’s not that bad. Also, the flashbacks they added from the first movie here and there were nice. Heck, if you were watching all three in one marathon it still would’ve been six hours since you saw that scene. Something I’ll have to do once all three are out on extended version DVD.
So all in all a very nice movie to end a very nice trilogy. Though now we have nothing to look forward to each Christmas, besides the obvious of course. But all good things must come to and end, and thus it has. Now we can just hope they decide to make a movie out of The Hobbit, which is slowly sounding to me more and more promising to be.
Oh yeah.
This movie is awesome. Just as good as the other two, and then some more in the special effects area. The battles are breathtaking with way more going on then you can see all at once. And you thought the battle in the second movie was great. Wait till they toss in the huge elephant creatures and the dragon riders (YAY!). We also get a unfortunately short look at the latest villain, the Litch King, or something like that. Although he was in all three movies, it would’ve been nice to have acknowledged him a little more. Of course, the whole series had a habit of just tossing new things at you so oh well. They lead up to the fight with the mother of all spiders (literally) pretty well. Speaking of which, the second time that spider attacks Frodo a woman in the theater gasped so loud the entire theater just started laughing. Almost as funny as the “That still only counts as one” line.
The only complaint I can really think of was that the ending kinda dragged on for a little bit. But hey, for what’s really a ten hour movie all together it’s not that bad. Also, the flashbacks they added from the first movie here and there were nice. Heck, if you were watching all three in one marathon it still would’ve been six hours since you saw that scene. Something I’ll have to do once all three are out on extended version DVD.
So all in all a very nice movie to end a very nice trilogy. Though now we have nothing to look forward to each Christmas, besides the obvious of course. But all good things must come to and end, and thus it has. Now we can just hope they decide to make a movie out of The Hobbit, which is slowly sounding to me more and more promising to be.
Oh yeah.
