isaac land Or Tolkien had a time travel machine and stole the ideas of Harry Potter. That's pretty much what all Harry Potter-fans think, so you can't convince me.
Chris Stuckmann hello Chris, I am not sure if you're reading this, this is an old video I know. I do hope that you get to read this. I am a huge fan of your work and I try to write some reviews on my own, I absolutely love movies. I recently watched the Dollars Trilogy by Sergio Leone. I loved all of them. Can you please review them, especially The Good The Bad And The Ugly, its one of my favorite movies. I would love to hear your opinion on it.
Seriously, I felt like all 3 movies should have won everything they were nominated for. But the fact that Return of the King practically swept the Oscars was so epic. I mean, not one fantasy movie has ever won an award, or at least, not the Best Picture award. And Return of the King won like 25 awards in one night. The movie was so masterfully done, that not even the dumb, old men of the board on the Oscars could deny it. They should have just given up and handed Viggo Mortensen and Elijah Wood the Best Actor award (and yes, I'm saying they should've made two trophies just for them). But really, every single actor in this trilogy deserved an award. I can't put into words how EPIC and amazing this movie and the whole trilogy are. Whatever I say would be an injustice.
@@Itchy__ , right. For some reason Two Towers and Return of the King came to Netflix for me a few days ago but not Fellowship. And I didnt to watch the trilogy for the first time in the wrong order so I just my sister borrow one one her boyfriends DVDs of it and saw it.
I’m currently watching the series again with a friend who hasn’t seen them yet. The movies are as good today as when i saw them in theaters. We’ve just The Return of the King left and I can’t wait to watch it. My favorite of the trilogy as well!
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Same. I haven't seen Citizen Kane yet (apparently the greatest movie ever(?)), so I have to check it out, but so far, this movie pretty much makes it look like it's The Godfather. Don't get me wrong I saw the first movie and loved it, but even that seems to be a second place compared to Citizen Kane, so that's the only way I could make that analogy. That kind of sucks.
Peter Jackson was super impressed with the contribution of Andy Serkis over the first two movies, so the opening scene of Return of the King was added at the last minute as a little reward/thankyou/recognition for Serkis to have a proper scene where he isn't just mo-capped CGI Gollum.
Return of the King is my favourite of the trilogy too. For me, my ranking goes like this: 1. The Return of the King: 10/10 2. The Fellowship of the Ring: 10/10 3. The Two Towers: 10/10 The Lord of the Rings trilogy is my favourite film trilogy and it's in my top 5 favourite films of all time!
Do you consider all 3 as 1 favorite movie? Or is it 3 of them and two other movies? Also ROTK is my favorite film of all time and LOTR is my favorite trilogy
fellowship: great movie and amazing start to the series 9.2/10 two towers: ups the scale with more darkness and best battle sequence ever 10/10 return of the king: most epic finale to most epic trilogy ever! 10/10 the hobbit: too much dwarves much lighter tone, a little too childish though 8/10
+Castleman Reviews Tolkien originally wrote Lord of the Rings to be a kid's book, but the story grew too dark. Either way, It's never short of a masterpiece.
+Fabricio Garcia mostly agreed, though I would give the hobbit movies no more than B- (it should have just been one movie, really...). And the last one doesn't even deserve a B at all, in my opinion.
I almost think it sucks, but not quite. It is by far the weakest entry. It's a convoluted mess with even more excessive CGI characters that are too obviously so. The whole thing just felt...off.
junior robinson Well... you say that but they showed part of the Ride of the Rohirrim and used basically all of Aragorn's speech in one of the trailers lol
didn't the first trailer for The Two Towers spoil that Gandalf comes back? and all the posters? have you even seen the trailers for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I don't think the trailers have much to do with the quality of the film itself, personally
Such epic movies. And man, towards the end, when Sam is carrying Frodo... Oh man. And the ending. Oh God. I just couldn't take it man. I wanted it to continue on and on and on. Unbelievable trilogy.
No words can describe how good this film is!, not only my favorite part of the trilogy, but my favorite film of all time! From the opening shot of Smeagol/Gollum fixing the worm into his fishing hook to the end credits with beautiful drawings of all major characters and events in LOTR, I was totally blown away! I could watch ROTK a 100 times and still get emotional and enjoy it like the first time!
Is it just me or is there something disjointed about how Aragorn looks during the seven transition from his necklace being broken to him on horseback leading Gondo's army? It strikes me that his hair and beard look longer, even though no real time should have passed in between.
"I can't carry the ring mr Frodo, but I can carry you!" That is totally my favorite line in the whole trilogy!! THE WHOLE TRILOGY!! I cry every. Single. Time.
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Denethor isn't a king, he's a steward. Though he is not really corrupt, he is losing his mind. While the movie show's him in a more negative light, his character in the book was a strong and noble man, however after the many years of war against Sauron and his growing power, Denethor slowly started to sink into despair, the death of his son Boromir only made matters worse, and by the time Sauron's forces descended upon the White City, Denethor completely gave up all hope and sank into madness.
Denethor had a Palantir through which Sauron showed him the vast armies about to be cast against Minas Tirith and he felt doomed, not just in life but in history.
I always thought that all three movies deserved the best picture Oscar, but no way was the academy going to give the same person best director three years in a row, so they figure give jackson best director for rotk to cover all three movies.
I think all of the extended versions are major improvements on their theatrical counterparts. My favourite is "Two Towers" ... the extended version is like binge watching Game of Thrones.
The Fellowshipship of the Rings was the begining, when we start to discover the middle earth and has a more "adventure" taste. The Two Towers was a darker movie where we could saw all the character development and the anticipation to the first epic war. The Return of the King was perfect in the sense that we all feel "this is it", the last stand. Overall a truly EPIC trilogy which set unrealistic stander for future movies. there will bever be somthing as good as this...
Does everyone just ignore the scene where Sam says to Frodo, "I can't carry the ring, Mr Frodo, but I can carry you!" OMG!! I have goosebumps right now!! That is one of the few scenes in a movie where I have to fight tears back SO HARD!!
I love all of your reviews, Chris, but I have to be a geekzilla and point out that Saruman's army was whiped out at the battle of Helm's Deep, so the armies at the Pelanor Fields/Mina's Tirith were Sauron's. I know their names sound similar, you probably meant "Sauran". And this was like 3 years ago, so who cares...
+Tim Walden He also said Eowyn fell in love with Boromir in the Return of the King, when he meant Faramir. We are clearly LOTR geeks who have all read the books 5x, The Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales. Oh, and The Hobbit.
I remember going to see this on opening night, having spent the last few weeks sleeping on a couch recovering from a really bad car accident. Nothing and nobody would've stopped me from this film. I cried at the ending song, and then found out that I could barely get out of my seat. Legs, no workee! Hip, really pissed at me for sitting upright for that long. Set my recovery back about a week. You know what, I'd do it again with a BIG SMILE! Awesome film!
@@Nataton-cg8zo Rotten tomatoes? They gave black panther 97? Since the I have lost all my trust in rotten tomatoes. And empire strikes back isnt even close to any of Lotr movies.
Great Review Chris! - Totally forgot how funny Gimli scene was in the mountain ... trying to blow away the ghosts. Thought it was great comedic moment.
did eneybody notice in the return of the king, the structure of the battle....lets see.... *the bad guys attack with catapults, the good guys attack with catapults back. *the bad guys attack with nazgool dragens,the army of rohan comes from behind. *the bad guys bring giant elephents, we bring a ghost army. you see how the good guys and the bad guys Eeven there power, and every time its a bigger power.
Thats kinda how battles tend to play out in real life too. Commiting the entirety of your war machine to one battle without knowing what your enemies might counter with rarely tends to end with good results.
When she says "courage Merry, courage for our friends ", I bawled like a baby😥 I have watched the movie more than 20 times now, but it still gets me everytime 😫
There is a moment in this film when Aragorn actually fights Sauron with his sword. This was originally intended to be the big ending. However, Peter Jackson felt this strayed too far from the books and took away from Frodo and Sam, so scenes from that swordfight remain but the VFX people put a big troll over the top of Sauron.
Bang on Chris! The best ever review I have seen of Return of the King... Just perfect... infact, when you were referring to those adrenaline rushing scenes, I was getting all pumped up by just remembering those scenes.. The Return of the King is my most favourite film of all time till date.
Hands down best movie known to man. Such a beautiful masterpiece and also a great tear jerker (especially in the last quarter) Thank you Peter Jackson and the outstanding cast. Thank you so much(:
At my local theatre they played all of the extended additions on the big screen saturday. It lasted from 12 in the afternoon till 12 at night and it was EPIC!!! I never got to see them on the big screen until now and it was awesome!
I just got done watching the extended editions back to back to back for the first time. This is by far the best one of the three, each time I watch these movies, I can't help but appreciate how beautiful these movies are. Tears of joy every time.
The extended edition made the movie even better. It even added continuity to the film at one point. If you recall in the theatrical release, I don’t know if you caught it or not, but when Pippen ran to Gandalf to tell him Faramir was going to be burned alive, Gandalf has his staff. But by the time the movie gets back to that whole situation and Gandalf is bursting into the Pyre chamber telling Denathor “stay this madness”, Gandalf suddenly... doesn’t have his staff????!!!!! He instead takes a spear from a guard. The extended edition has a good (and epic) explanation for why Gandalf didn’t have his staff, and without the extended edition, that would have been a movie mistake. The scene was even for shadowed earlier in the film.
Saw ROTK...hmm...8 or 9 times in the theater, including opening night. I was in grad school...took my final (rushed through it actually), handed it in, and sped over to the theater to catch the 9 PM viewing, and was thoroughly touched and blown away. Passed my class, btw :)
Hey Chris! Great review, loved this film totally agree with you the whole film was pretty perfect. Is the Skyfall poster in your background new too or am I just crazy?
In my family, LOTR is such a special movie, that we actually only watch it once a year!! And I drool for it just as much as everyone did back in 2003!!
The Fellowship of the Ring: A+ The Two Towers: A- The Return of the King: A+ An Unexpected Journey: B+ The Desolation of Smaug: B- The Battle of the Five Armies: A-
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Sam is a really compassionate guy, he just hates Gollum cause he sees in him the future of his best friend and he can't bear it, witch makes Sam even cuter, if that's possible
And Pippin did volunteer as a servant but not to a corrupt king, but to the steward of Gondor (Boromir and Faramir's father played by John Noble). Aragorn/Stryder is the true king since he came from the a royal bloodline (which he didn't initially want to claim and became a ranger) whereas the steward is not from a royal line, hence only a caretaker :) I'm nitpicking I know lol. But A+++ for the whole trilogy and your reviews Chris!
I remember when I was young and first saw LOTR:ROTK in IMAX with my dad and older sister. I was 7 or 8 but I fully remember the experience. I mean at that age sitting through an almost 3 hour movie and not wanting to take a potty break because you were so inthralled with the visuals and story can only be the work of a great master of cinema that can make old and young be enveloped in such a fantastical journey. Fantastic Reviews for a Fantastic Trilogy.
Fantastic review! I haven't seen it in a while, though. I feel like whenever I watch LOTR again, it will feel like my first time seeing it. btw, I'm going to the midnight release of The Hobbit, my first ever midnight release! So pumped! I'm not rewatching LOTR before seeing it though, simply because I want The Hobbit to feel like the first movie (since it is the first book).
His reviews are point just adding wish now stepping back things weren't so hurried in a film made sense, also just want things to be given more introductions
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) -------------------------- Director: Peter Jackson -------------------------- Producers: Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh -------------------------- Writers: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson -------------------------- Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, John Noble, Andy Serkis, Ian Holm, Sean Bean -------------------------- Composer: Howard Shore -------------------------- Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie -------------------------- Editor: Jamie Selkirk -------------------------- Production Companies: New Line Cinema, WingNut Films -------------------------- Distributor: New Line Cinema -------------------------- Release Date: December 17, 2003 -------------------------- Runtime: 201 minutes 252 minutes (extended) -------------------------- Budget: $94 million -------------------------- Box Office: $1.142 billion
Oh, the only thing that I noticed was different was that the Looper and Skyfall posters were added. Great review and really, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the only trilogy where all three films are equally good! I can't wait to see it again before seeing The Hobbit! Also, once when you review The Hobbit, I wonder if you will compare it to Star Wars Episode 1 because it is a prequel after all.
LOTR makes up all three of my three favorite movies. That being said, there was a lot of characters and plot details that the movies didn't do justice, such as Denethor not being as bad as he was portrayed, or how Merry and Eowyn were able to kill the Witch King. However, this is because they couldn't. If they had tried, the movies would be at least twice as long, so I don't count it as a downside.
I LOLed when you said, "I do not fear death!" You did it perfect! I know you did, because I've watched the movie about 100 times. I'm a LOTR geek too. It's hard for me to get my friends to watch, I think I'll show them your review. ;)
Whenever I watch The Fellowship of the Ring, I absolutely HAVE to watch the rest of the trilogy. I just get so pumped at the end of the first one and they work as one grand story so well that I have to finish it.
A little secret about the film: There is a moment at the very end battle when Aragon fights a massive troll. Originally Aragorn was filmed fighting Sauron... but Jackson felt it took away from the hobbits story and strayed too far from the books, in post they added a troll over the top of Sauron so you cant see him
I guess Return of the King is my least favorite of the Lord of the Rings movie, and I hate to say that because I love it. They're all incredible movies.
One of the best movies of all time. It is my personal favorite(and i mean the whole trilogy) and also Godfather 1 and 2, Dark knight trilogy and Goodfellas.
I just rewatched the trilogy on the cinema after 20 years and I was so emotional. I dont know how many times i’ve watched this movie, but there’s something special about going to the cinema and enjoying it there one more time. I absolutely love this movie! In my top 5!
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the height of cinematic achievement.
Hugo Joubert except for the third one (even though it's good on it's own right), the godfather trilogy takes that award :)
isaac land agree to disagree ?
isaac land nice
Hugo Joubert Nope. That's Harry Potter. I don't care what the Academy says, it's Harry Potter than defines fantasy cinema.
isaac land Or Tolkien had a time travel machine and stole the ideas of Harry Potter. That's pretty much what all Harry Potter-fans think, so you can't convince me.
My apologies for accidentally saying Saruman instead of Sauron.
Chris Stuckmann hello Chris, I am not sure if you're reading this, this is an old video I know. I do hope that you get to read this. I am a huge fan of your work and I try to write some reviews on my own, I absolutely love movies. I recently watched the Dollars Trilogy by Sergio Leone. I loved all of them. Can you please review them, especially The Good The Bad And The Ugly, its one of my favorite movies. I would love to hear your opinion on it.
I grew up with the Lord of the rings
Understandable. You were Christopher Leed.
Hey Chris, how about a re-review of this trilogy? Now you are a filmmaker and have more experience :)
I forgive you
thumbs up if the gollum transformation scared you to bits when you were a kid
I always fast forward that part. Even to this day, and I'm 18!
Saw LOTR for the first time a few weeks ago...that scene creeped me out so much but I love it
kylo ren I was scared of that part when I first saw it when golum strangled his friend.
kylo ren It still gives me chills, and I was in college when it came out.
Director Orson Krennic I was scared as a late teen lol
i cried like a bitch at the end of this movie..... like every ending it had i was crying...
Bro, I bawled like a bitch after the movie! It's human to do so!
I love Frodo! So underrated
I feel you, brother
@@darthnihilus7603 The ending where Frodo leaves middle earth gets me every time
You should read the book and find out what happens after. I cried even more. LOTR is seriously amazing.
I'm not gonna lie the ending made me a little teary eyed
Your not the only one my friend!:(
Holy shit Jack Nicholson one of the greatest actors alive respond back to me :0
Hello my good fellow!:D
I think it did that to everyone who loves the movies.
"A little tears eyed"?
I FLOOD EUROPE WITH TEARS WHEN THE END COMES.
In my opinion, Return of the King is the greatest film ever made. It ticked all the boxes which makes a film and end to a trilogy so epic
Agreed.
Elia Henden Nygård
So many endings lol
Caldor3 100%agreed
Caldor3 absulutely not. The empire strikes back is better
john doe pathetic troll
Seriously, I felt like all 3 movies should have won everything they were nominated for. But the fact that Return of the King practically swept the Oscars was so epic. I mean, not one fantasy movie has ever won an award, or at least, not the Best Picture award. And Return of the King won like 25 awards in one night.
The movie was so masterfully done, that not even the dumb, old men of the board on the Oscars could deny it. They should have just given up and handed Viggo Mortensen and Elijah Wood the Best Actor award (and yes, I'm saying they should've made two trophies just for them). But really, every single actor in this trilogy deserved an award. I can't put into words how EPIC and amazing this movie and the whole trilogy are. Whatever I say would be an injustice.
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Sean Astin too
Nataton3000 only 18 oscars. But there’s a lot of other awards they got
Ian McClellan is chief among the deserved.
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For me, The Lord of the Rings will always be one movie, split in three chapters.
+Tim Walden That's exactly how I feel. Even the extended editions is a masterpiece.
+brazwen Which is why those are what I own!
That's how Tolkein wanted. There are no 3 parts in the Book. The Lord of the Rings is one single book divided into 3 sub titles.
I basically is. Can’t watch the second film if you haven’t watched the first one! It isn’t allowed!
@@Itchy__ , right. For some reason Two Towers and Return of the King came to Netflix for me a few days ago but not Fellowship. And I didnt to watch the trilogy for the first time in the wrong order so I just my sister borrow one one her boyfriends DVDs of it and saw it.
For Frodo.............
yeahrrrgg
Even to this day I yell with them as they charge at Saurons army after that one line lol FOR FRODOOOOO YAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
+Sean Johnson (dragon fo eva) "But it's not this day! This day WE FIGHT!"
Sean Johnson hey, what about Sam. If it weren't for Sam, Frodo would be dead a thousand times over.
The most epic line in the history of movies
I’m currently watching the series again with a friend who hasn’t seen them yet. The movies are as good today as when i saw them in theaters. We’ve just The Return of the King left and I can’t wait to watch it. My favorite of the trilogy as well!
I have watched it 7 times already, and looking forward to multiple times.
Oh I forgot to tell that, I have done a marathon with Hobbits for 2 times.
You should definitely do a lord of the rings piano medley or something. I reckon you’d do an amazing job
My favorite movie of all time. Legendary and epic!
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Hussain P mine too.
Same. I haven't seen Citizen Kane yet (apparently the greatest movie ever(?)), so I have to check it out, but so far, this movie pretty much makes it look like it's The Godfather. Don't get me wrong I saw the first movie and loved it, but even that seems to be a second place compared to Citizen Kane, so that's the only way I could make that analogy. That kind of sucks.
Citizen Kane was good, but I like return of the king much better
I think we all can agree that return of the king beats citizen Kane to bits!!
Peter Jackson was super impressed with the contribution of Andy Serkis over the first two movies, so the opening scene of Return of the King was added at the last minute as a little reward/thankyou/recognition for Serkis to have a proper scene where he isn't just mo-capped CGI Gollum.
Return of the King is my favourite of the trilogy too. For me, my ranking goes like this:
1. The Return of the King: 10/10
2. The Fellowship of the Ring: 10/10
3. The Two Towers: 10/10
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is my favourite film trilogy and it's in my top 5 favourite films of all time!
I go Spinal Tap on the LOTR movies. They all go up to 11
Do you consider all 3 as 1 favorite movie? Or is it 3 of them and two other movies? Also ROTK is my favorite film of all time and LOTR is my favorite trilogy
@@ryanmuller1994 I consider the trilogy as one favourite film.
Agreed
It's in my top 3 along with Forest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption. ✌
I would ride with Theoden to the gates of Hell itself after that speech.
I’m riding wit Aragorn all day
💯
I'm surprised that he never mentioned how he cried like a baby at the end when Aragorn and everyone kneeled before the hobbits. I cried.
Alec McGrath ‘My friends. You bow to no one.’
fellowship: great movie and amazing start to the series 9.2/10
two towers: ups the scale with more darkness and best battle sequence ever 10/10
return of the king: most epic finale to most epic trilogy ever! 10/10
the hobbit: too much dwarves much lighter tone, a little too childish though 8/10
My problem with it was that it wasn't childish enough. It's based on a kids book! True you have to make the tone fit with
+Castleman Reviews Tolkien originally wrote Lord of the Rings to be a kid's book, but the story grew too dark.
Either way, It's never short of a masterpiece.
When Aragorn said "for frodo", i wanted to jump into the movie and help them kick ass
Fellowship Of The Ring: A+
The Two Towers: A+
The Return of the King: A+
An Unexpected Journey B+
Desolation of Smaug B+
Battle of the Five Armies: B
+Fabricio Garcia mostly agreed, though I would give the hobbit movies no more than B- (it should have just been one movie, really...). And the last one doesn't even deserve a B at all, in my opinion.
AmIgOltu Yeah. i don't know, BOTFA was worse than the other ones, but i liked it anyways, it was a decent ending to a decent trilogy.
+Fabricio Garcia I thought BotFA sucked.
I almost think it sucks, but not quite. It is by far the weakest entry. It's a convoluted mess with even more excessive CGI characters that are too obviously so. The whole thing just felt...off.
+Caerere You didnt just think it...it did sucked...
The reason why it has those "YES" moments is because they didn't ruin it in the trailers or tv ads...like the movies today !
junior robinson Well... you say that but they showed part of the Ride of the Rohirrim and used basically all of Aragorn's speech in one of the trailers lol
Kyle Robinson They also blew that Gandalf returns in the Two Towers Trailer, which I wish they hadn't.
***** yeah dude but that's like one out of many....
+iforgot87872 I'm glad I never saw those trailers. :)
didn't the first trailer for The Two Towers spoil that Gandalf comes back? and all the posters? have you even seen the trailers for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I don't think the trailers have much to do with the quality of the film itself, personally
Such epic movies. And man, towards the end, when Sam is carrying Frodo... Oh man. And the ending. Oh God. I just couldn't take it man. I wanted it to continue on and on and on. Unbelievable trilogy.
Theoden's speech is the best part man, got me goosebumps each time...
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No words can describe how good this film is!, not only my favorite part of the trilogy, but my favorite film of all time!
From the opening shot of Smeagol/Gollum fixing the worm into his fishing hook to the end credits with beautiful drawings of all major characters and events in LOTR, I was totally blown away!
I could watch ROTK a 100 times and still get emotional and enjoy it like the first time!
+89edipus89 Fellowship was better.
Is it just me or is there something disjointed about how Aragorn looks during the seven transition from his necklace being broken to him on horseback leading Gondo's army? It strikes me that his hair and beard look longer, even though no real time should have passed in between.
Tim Walden I also don't like the range in his voice. It changes frequently.
+Moonawrathic they're all good.
"I can't carry the ring mr Frodo, but I can carry you!" That is totally my favorite line in the whole trilogy!! THE WHOLE TRILOGY!! I cry every. Single. Time.
More like an A++
Greatest film ever made. Nothing will ever touch this trilogy
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Denethor isn't a king, he's a steward. Though he is not really corrupt, he is losing his mind. While the movie show's him in a more negative light, his character in the book was a strong and noble man, however after the many years of war against Sauron and his growing power, Denethor slowly started to sink into despair, the death of his son Boromir only made matters worse, and by the time Sauron's forces descended upon the White City, Denethor completely gave up all hope and sank into madness.
Denethor had a Palantir through which Sauron showed him the vast armies about to be cast against Minas Tirith and he felt doomed, not just in life but in history.
LivingInVancouverBC I know. That was the main part in his downfall into despair.
there will never be anything as good as this. best trilogy ever made, i think lotr is at a point where taste doesnt matter. this IS mindblowing.
I always thought that all three movies deserved the best picture Oscar, but no way was the academy going to give the same person best director three years in a row, so they figure give jackson best director for rotk to cover all three movies.
+Joseph Van Buren Even though ROTK was the weekest of the three movies. It's still an A+ movie, but I thought the first two were better.
The extended verson of Return of the King is my all time favorite film
I think all of the extended versions are major improvements on their theatrical counterparts.
My favourite is "Two Towers" ... the extended version is like binge watching Game of Thrones.
Same
The Fellowshipship of the Rings was the begining, when we start to discover the middle earth and has a more "adventure" taste. The Two Towers was a darker movie where we could saw all the character development and the anticipation to the first epic war. The Return of the King was perfect in the sense that we all feel "this is it", the last stand.
Overall a truly EPIC trilogy which set unrealistic stander for future movies. there will bever be somthing as good as this...
Sauron's armies btw :D
Does everyone just ignore the scene where Sam says to Frodo, "I can't carry the ring, Mr Frodo, but I can carry you!" OMG!! I have goosebumps right now!! That is one of the few scenes in a movie where I have to fight tears back SO HARD!!
I love all of your reviews, Chris, but I have to be a geekzilla and point out that Saruman's army was whiped out at the battle of Helm's Deep, so the armies at the Pelanor Fields/Mina's Tirith were Sauron's. I know their names sound similar, you probably meant "Sauran". And this was like 3 years ago, so who cares...
we care...we care
The cares! The cares!
He also called Karl Urban's character Theoden's son in The Two Towers review...but who's keeping track?
+Tim Walden He also said Eowyn fell in love with Boromir in the Return of the King, when he meant Faramir. We are clearly LOTR geeks who have all read the books 5x, The Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales. Oh, and The Hobbit.
*Sauron**
I remember going to see this on opening night, having spent the last few weeks sleeping on a couch recovering from a really bad car accident. Nothing and nobody would've stopped me from this film. I cried at the ending song, and then found out that I could barely get out of my seat. Legs, no workee! Hip, really pissed at me for sitting upright for that long. Set my recovery back about a week. You know what, I'd do it again with a BIG SMILE! Awesome film!
In my opinion. LOTR trilogy is one of the few movies that is better than the book.
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+Noah Hutchinson nice name dude
+Noah Redfern shut the fuck up
+Cran KaDub ???
but why?
AUJ-7.5
DoS-8.2
BotFA-7.9
FotR-9.9
TT-9.8
RotK-10
agree
this is the greatest film every made, period. aragorns speech at the black gate brings me to tears every time
Best movies of all time. If you think differently then.... You're wrong
Dethklok2266 Empire Strikes Back and The Godfather are better you’re wrong actually check rotten tomatoes
Plebs
@@Nataton-cg8zo Rotten tomatoes? They gave black panther 97? Since the I have lost all my trust in rotten tomatoes. And empire strikes back isnt even close to any of Lotr movies.
@@Nataton-cg8zo Empire strikes back pales in front of the monolith that is the lord of the rings
Personally I don't rely on a website that gave Ghostbusters 2016 a higher rating than Forrest Gump!
The battle song scene chills me every time. One of my favorite parts.
Great Review Chris! - Totally forgot how funny Gimli scene was in the mountain ... trying to blow away the ghosts. Thought it was great comedic moment.
This is my favorite movie.
Same here
The Lord of the rings are the best movies of all time
did eneybody notice in the return of the king, the structure of the battle....lets see....
*the bad guys attack with catapults, the good guys attack with catapults back.
*the bad guys attack with nazgool dragens,the army of rohan comes from behind.
*the bad guys bring giant elephents, we bring a ghost army.
you see how the good guys and the bad guys Eeven there power, and every time its a bigger power.
Thats kinda how battles tend to play out in real life too. Commiting the entirety of your war machine to one battle without knowing what your enemies might counter with rarely tends to end with good results.
The only nerd and geek associated movie trilogy that can make full grown toughest men shed tears.
When she says "courage Merry, courage for our friends ", I bawled like a baby😥 I have watched the movie more than 20 times now, but it still gets me everytime 😫
There is a moment in this film when Aragorn actually fights Sauron with his sword. This was originally intended to be the big ending. However, Peter Jackson felt this strayed too far from the books and took away from Frodo and Sam, so scenes from that swordfight remain but the VFX people put a big troll over the top of Sauron.
I always drop some tears when i see the charge of the rohirim and frodo's departure.
Bang on Chris! The best ever review I have seen of Return of the King... Just perfect... infact, when you were referring to those adrenaline rushing scenes, I was getting all pumped up by just remembering those scenes.. The Return of the King is my most favourite film of all time till date.
Hands down best movie known to man. Such a beautiful masterpiece and also a great tear jerker (especially in the last quarter) Thank you Peter Jackson and the outstanding cast. Thank you so much(:
Great job on the background chris!!! I honestly couldnt tell the difference! oh and nice hair.
This, Star Wars ep 3, Harry Potter movies, man this time in film history was so good
Am I the only one who cringed when he said Saruman's armies? I mean Saruman was defeated in The Two Towers.
Don't worry buddy, me too
At my local theatre they played all of the extended additions on the big screen saturday. It lasted from 12 in the afternoon till 12 at night and it was EPIC!!! I never got to see them on the big screen until now and it was awesome!
I just got done watching the extended editions back to back to back for the first time. This is by far the best one of the three, each time I watch these movies, I can't help but appreciate how beautiful these movies are. Tears of joy every time.
When Aragorn says you bow to no one. Who cries like a baby?
When the beacons are light, who's jaw is on the floor?
The extended edition made the movie even better. It even added continuity to the film at one point. If you recall in the theatrical release, I don’t know if you caught it or not, but when Pippen ran to Gandalf to tell him Faramir was going to be burned alive, Gandalf has his staff. But by the time the movie gets back to that whole situation and Gandalf is bursting into the Pyre chamber telling Denathor “stay this madness”, Gandalf suddenly... doesn’t have his staff????!!!!! He instead takes a spear from a guard. The extended edition has a good (and epic) explanation for why Gandalf didn’t have his staff, and without the extended edition, that would have been a movie mistake. The scene was even for shadowed earlier in the film.
Your videos deserve way more views, one of the best movie reviewers that I know of
great review chris- i was hoping it'll be longer but this was brilliant :)
Saw ROTK...hmm...8 or 9 times in the theater, including opening night.
I was in grad school...took my final (rushed through it actually), handed it in, and sped over to the theater to catch the 9 PM viewing, and was thoroughly touched and blown away.
Passed my class, btw :)
I really like your enthusiasm Chris!
I'd love to see your review of the Godfather trilogy :)
Aragorn: "My friends, you bow to no one"... Everyone kneels to the hobbits, instant goosebumps
I love the background of your video!
Where do you buy your movie posters?
Journey: 6
Desolation: 4
Battle: 4
Lotr 1, 2, 3: 10
Lotr book: 11
Silmarillion: 11
Unfinished tales: 11
Children: 11
Hobbit book: 9
Hey Chris! Great review, loved this film totally agree with you the whole film was pretty perfect. Is the Skyfall poster in your background new too or am I just crazy?
In my family, LOTR is such a special movie, that we actually only watch it once a year!! And I drool for it just as much as everyone did back in 2003!!
The Lord of the Rings movies is the reason cinema exists.
The books are incredibly well written.
The Silmarillion is the definition of "Epic"!
The Fellowship of the Ring: A+
The Two Towers: A-
The Return of the King: A+
An Unexpected Journey: B+
The Desolation of Smaug: B-
The Battle of the Five Armies: A-
What a great channel!!You are doing awesome job and you are very entertaining :)I watched a lot of your old videos there are just great :).Keep going and am looking for more and more videos.
I really like your channel you're entertaining and you have interesting points
Sam is a really compassionate guy, he just hates Gollum cause he sees in him the future of his best friend and he can't bear it, witch makes Sam even cuter, if that's possible
And Pippin did volunteer as a servant but not to a corrupt king, but to the steward of Gondor (Boromir and Faramir's father played by John Noble). Aragorn/Stryder is the true king since he came from the a royal bloodline (which he didn't initially want to claim and became a ranger) whereas the steward is not from a royal line, hence only a caretaker :) I'm nitpicking I know lol. But A+++ for the whole trilogy and your reviews Chris!
I remember when I was young and first saw LOTR:ROTK in IMAX with my dad and older sister. I was 7 or 8 but I fully remember the experience. I mean at that age sitting through an almost 3 hour movie and not wanting to take a potty break because you were so inthralled with the visuals and story can only be the work of a great master of cinema that can make old and young be enveloped in such a fantastical journey. Fantastic Reviews for a Fantastic Trilogy.
Fantastic review! I haven't seen it in a while, though. I feel like whenever I watch LOTR again, it will feel like my first time seeing it. btw, I'm going to the midnight release of The Hobbit, my first ever midnight release! So pumped! I'm not rewatching LOTR before seeing it though, simply because I want The Hobbit to feel like the first movie (since it is the first book).
No movie has brought me closer to tears than ROTK
i really like the new set up....i like how close it is to you
Hey Chris, remember when you did that long review of The Wicker Man? Can you please do another one? That was so entertaining and friggin hilarous.
His reviews are point just adding wish now stepping back things weren't so hurried in a film made sense, also just want things to be given more introductions
This is one movie series that seriously needs a remake.
GOTCHAS!!! (I could feel your keyboards about to overheat from the furious typing.)
Did you get better lighting for the new apartment? The quality is really good.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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Director: Peter Jackson
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Producers: Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh
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Writers: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
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Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, John Noble, Andy Serkis, Ian Holm, Sean Bean
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Composer: Howard Shore
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Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
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Editor: Jamie Selkirk
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Production Companies: New Line Cinema, WingNut Films
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Distributor: New Line Cinema
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Release Date: December 17, 2003
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Runtime: 201 minutes
252 minutes (extended)
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Budget: $94 million
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Box Office: $1.142 billion
I just finished the trilogy for the 1st time & Idk why it took me so long
These movies are life altering. Absolutely beautiful & inspiring.
that's a fine job of recreating the location. it looks almost exactly the same sans the placement of a few posters
This, Apocalypse Now, Godfather 1+2, some of the only films to really rise to the name of masterpiece. imo at least
Oh, the only thing that I noticed was different was that the Looper and Skyfall posters were added.
Great review and really, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the only trilogy where all three films are equally good! I can't wait to see it again before seeing The Hobbit!
Also, once when you review The Hobbit, I wonder if you will compare it to Star Wars Episode 1 because it is a prequel after all.
Will the Q+A be coming anytime soon?
LOTR makes up all three of my three favorite movies. That being said, there was a lot of characters and plot details that the movies didn't do justice, such as Denethor not being as bad as he was portrayed, or how Merry and Eowyn were able to kill the Witch King. However, this is because they couldn't. If they had tried, the movies would be at least twice as long, so I don't count it as a downside.
I LOLed when you said, "I do not fear death!" You did it perfect! I know you did, because I've watched the movie about 100 times. I'm a LOTR geek too. It's hard for me to get my friends to watch, I think I'll show them your review. ;)
Can you review the After Earth trailer? It looks really interesting and has me really confused right now.
The best of an awesome trilogy. great review, Chris
Whenever I watch The Fellowship of the Ring, I absolutely HAVE to watch the rest of the trilogy. I just get so pumped at the end of the first one and they work as one grand story so well that I have to finish it.
You're hilarious! My husband and I are nerds in this sense and share your taste in movies and games.
A little secret about the film: There is a moment at the very end battle when Aragon fights a massive troll. Originally Aragorn was filmed fighting Sauron... but Jackson felt it took away from the hobbits story and strayed too far from the books, in post they added a troll over the top of Sauron so you cant see him
Nice job with the new room- looks exactly like the old one :)
Thanks for not whining about the multiple endings, I hate hearing people do that.
I guess Return of the King is my least favorite of the Lord of the Rings movie, and I hate to say that because I love it. They're all incredible movies.
They're all incredible, I like ROTK more than the other two, it's my favorite movie of all time. But if you prefer the first, that's fine :)
+KnifingGame Or the second, who knows
As Feud Nation said, it's quite something when your least favorite LOTR movie is still a 10/10
One of the best movies of all time. It is my personal favorite(and i mean the whole trilogy) and also Godfather 1 and 2, Dark knight trilogy and Goodfellas.
I just rewatched the trilogy on the cinema after 20 years and I was so emotional. I dont know how many times i’ve watched this movie, but there’s something special about going to the cinema and enjoying it there one more time. I absolutely love this movie! In my top 5!
This has got to be the greatest film trilogy ever made
+Chrisstuckmann any thoughts on the extended versions? They changed the trilogy in a better way for me.
LOTR trilogy- A+++++++
Unexpected journey- A-
smaug- A
battle of the five armies- B-
Where do you get your posters mate? Do you print them yourself?