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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')."

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  2. me first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eat it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    My fetid shit, I mean.

  3. When's a bad time at the Bush household? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When the big hand touches the little hand!

    booya!

  4. matrix by twistedcubic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    O.k., after hearing all the negative reviews, I went to see Revolutions, and it was not the disappointment everyone said. In fact, it was more or less what I expected. Actually pretty awesome if you can ignore the few cheesy sympathetic moments.

    Sorry to bring this up. Oh wait, I didn't.

    1. Re:matrix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Does it hurt to be simple?

  5. think someone already uploaded it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    \\cinema1\exchange\movies\avis\lotr3.avi

  6. Matrix wreckage? by Da+VinMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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  7. everyone please die by iradik · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    thank you

  8. dammit timothy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cant you keep your dumb ass comits out of the write up. Just stay in your parents basement and masterbate to you lotr dvds.

  9. Captain's Log: My Anus is too Fucking Tight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One day Captain Kirk was maiming his cock with a horseshoe when suddenly Mr. Spock ran up to him and shoved his pointy ear up his butt. "What is this for!" the fag captain said. "FAGS FOR YOU AALL!L!!!" the ancient alien howled as suddenly he farted and Captain Kirk twirled around in a daze and his foreskin twisted and his kidney stones turned into wooden beads. He pulled out his pistol and shot lasers at his chastity belt and suddenly he hurdled his dick into Captain Kirk"s bellybutton and it tore his flesh while Spock fucked his stomach. Kirk hollered out loud and Mr. Spock threw his shoes to the floor and wrinkled his penis until Kirk bellowed out to make it stop. A maelstom of shit whizzed around the ship and suddenly a giant fag appeared out side and the U.S.S. Enterprise went up his butt. "Oh what the hell have you gotten us into NOW!" Captain Kirk said as he oozed a condom back on his dick and put his panties back on. "OOH!H!!!!!!" Mr. Spock started fucking him again and shoved his phazer up his butt. He dissolved his glands and exploded his turds and finally a queer klingon hurdled through the door and smashed Kirk with his butt hairs. A maniac sucked his dick and suddenly Mr. Spock fagged Kirk so hard that his intestines burst open and he died.

  10. Re:The matrix. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    aw, you really do care.

  11. Paths of the Dead by awebus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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?

  12. Ugh... Matrix Haters by crashnbur · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ...we can all still smell the smoke from the wreckage of The Matrix.

    What wreckage? The movies, all three of them, were brilliant. Regardless of how they compared with viewers expectations or how well the average viewer understood them, the movies were simply brilliant. The Matrix movies were both visually and mentally stimulating, and those who chose to devote some of their spare time to looking beneath the surface found a wealth of entertainment value where others only see flamboyance and fluff.

    I can't help it if you didn't like the conclusion of the Matrix "trilogy", but could you please recognize the movies as brilliant for what they are? No other scifi thriller has come anywhere close to doing what the Matrix has done, and the Wachowski brothers are only just beginning.

    That said, I expect nothing short of brilliance from the final installment of Peter Jackson's Tolkien interpretation, and I expect to be among the first in line when it hits theatres in three weeks.

  13. Re:Is it just me or.. by 1lus10n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    typical /. rant ......

    So we should boycott the reviewers ..... they are trying to make money off of us poor hard working soul's ......

    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 ....

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  14. well at least it has to be better than matrix rev. by RouterSlayer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

    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!" :)

  15. Matrix was not THAT bad by coolmacdude · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only one that actually liked Revolutions?

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  16. OK, I'll be the one to say it this time... by ader · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I dunno, something about Darl McBride being Sauron and the Ring is his IP rights or something equally hilarious...
    </SCO joke>

    There, we can end this story now.

    Ade_
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