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First Review Of Return Of The King
dipfan writes "Newsweek has a first review of the third instalment of LOTR - and gives it two thumbs up: "Judging from a recent Newsweek screening in New Zealand, The Return Of The King is a sure contender for best picture. More than that, it could be the first franchise ever that didn't, at the end of the day, let audiences down--either because of laziness, pretension, greed or other phantom menaces. This is an especially poignant possibility at a time when we can all still smell the smoke from the wreckage of The Matrix." Fingers crossed. There's also an entertaining piece on LOTR gaffes with comments from Peter Jackson (such as 'Well, it's too late to fire anyone,' and 'We didn't think Elijah looked very good with pus')."
Does it hurt to be simple?
What exactly was wrong with the ending of the Matrix anyway? I keep hearing about "how bad" it was, and I don't think I agree. Granted, it had a tough lead to follow with the first two movies (especially the first one), but that doesn't make the last movie a stinker.
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When Aragorn took his tumble into the river and was assumed dead in Two Towers, I took it to mean that he wouldn't be taking the Paths of the Dead and assumed dead in RotK. The article mentions the beginning of this scene in the movie. Knowing this, is there any reason the river scene was added to the two towers except as a lapse of judgement?
typical /. rant ......
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So we should boycott the reviewers
taking it one step further
we should boycott movies
(another person chimes in
P2: YEAH !!!
P3: but then we cant see liv or natalie
All in unison: DOH!!!
I think that sums up our options
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." --Albert Einstein
Then again, anything could beat that pile of cow turds. omg the matrix revulsions was so horribly bad, and I don't mean that in a good way.
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There were many times I wished I had a "fast forward" button, many times...
And is it just me or did the actors look totally BORED and completely lacking any energy or enthusism? I mean, really, there are so many scenes where it just seems like the actors are saying "ok, let's just get this overwith so we can all go home", really!
One great example of this is Agent Smiths final speech to Neo (near the end of the movie, of course, you'd have to wade through all the other muck in this film to get that far). His delivery of these lines is so lifeless, and it's actually broken up a few times (pauses in the wrong places). Where it seems like he just couldn't give a damn about saying the line or not...
I remember several of the more "dramatic" or "serious" conversation scenes, where the entire audience actually broke up laughing hysterically, many times.
Also, many times throughout the movie audience members actually got up and walked out. Many times... I considered it myself, but figured I might as well see just how bad it could be...
Ed Wood could have done a better job, on a better budget too. sheesh. And that editor/reporter who said that the Ewoks could have made this movie better was RIGHT! omg it stunk so bad!
Many of the plotlines and stuff just didn't make sense, or were just so completely wrong, it was just unbearable after a while. I could name things, but that'd be considered some serious spoilers... Neo's abilities, his "disconnection", I mean, come on. puh-leeze!
omg the ending was lame. They should have hired some real writers and done something decent with it, it's hard to imagine that #3 is actually worse than #2 (returded)... yuck...
I will end this like many editorials do:
"at least its finally over!"
Am I the only one that actually liked Revolutions?
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I dunno, something about Darl McBride being Sauron and the Ring is his IP rights or something equally hilarious...
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There, we can end this story now.
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