Holy Mother of Half-Elves!
Dec. 17th, 2003 04:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
buggeryI can't begin to tell you all how good Return of the King is. If you, too, went to an early screening, you know. If you haven't seen it yet, all I can tell you is, GO SEE IT.
Even if you weren't planning to.
Even if you haven't seen the first two -- there's a reason the only previous attempt at a film adaptation of Lord of the Rings only tackled RotK. Jackson's version is orders of magnitude better, of course, but my point is: while of course you'll be missing some of the backstory, it is actually possible to see Return of the King on its own and enjoy it.
Even if -- especially if -- you were planning to wait for it to come out on DVD. Yes, I know, the "extended edition" blah blah cutscenecakes. But. There are things you will miss watching this film on the "small screen." Even if you have a plasma screen bigger than the one in Bill Gates's bedroom. I can't remember the last time I saw a film that really, truly made use of the scale a theatre screen provides the way RotK does.
I'll be posting some commentary on the actual content of the film...probably hopefully sometime later today. Certainly no later than right after I get home from seeing Return of the King a second time, myself.
It really is just that good.
Even if you weren't planning to.
Even if you haven't seen the first two -- there's a reason the only previous attempt at a film adaptation of Lord of the Rings only tackled RotK. Jackson's version is orders of magnitude better, of course, but my point is: while of course you'll be missing some of the backstory, it is actually possible to see Return of the King on its own and enjoy it.
Even if -- especially if -- you were planning to wait for it to come out on DVD. Yes, I know, the "extended edition" blah blah cutscenecakes. But. There are things you will miss watching this film on the "small screen." Even if you have a plasma screen bigger than the one in Bill Gates's bedroom. I can't remember the last time I saw a film that really, truly made use of the scale a theatre screen provides the way RotK does.
I'll be posting some commentary on the actual content of the film...
It really is just that good.
