I watched Lord of the Rings Return of the King today. It’s SOOOOOO LOOOOOOONG. I feel like I’ve woken up from a coma. But it’s enjoyable and epic and it really holds up all these years later, the odd bit of dodgy green screen aside. The battle stuff, like in Two Towers, is superb and well thought out, well staged and well paced. You can see the strategy and it feels believable, even when we’re looking at fantasy stuff.
Odd though, looking back on these, that the whole first movie is about setting up that singular mission for Frodo but he’s kind of sidelined after that and it’s only every now and again that the others wonder how he’s getting on. And he fumbles it when it comes down to it. Aragorn’s lot feel caught between being secondary characters and yet actually the two latter film’s main characters. They’re always more entertaining though, as much as I love seeing Sam as the heart of the movies.
I enjoyed revisiting these after all these years. Epic movies and there probably isn’t anything like them. There certainly wasn’t before and I can’t think of any since.
Odd though, looking back on these, that the whole first movie is about setting up that singular mission for Frodo but he’s kind of sidelined after that and it’s only every now and again that the others wonder how he’s getting on. And he fumbles it when it comes down to it. Aragorn’s lot feel caught between being secondary characters and yet actually the two latter film’s main characters. They’re always more entertaining though, as much as I love seeing Sam as the heart of the movies.
I enjoyed revisiting these after all these years. Epic movies and there probably isn’t anything like them. There certainly wasn’t before and I can’t think of any since.
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