Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Return of the King opens on Wednesday!

I agree. I'm also actually envious of all of you who haven't yet seen it.

Juan, did you attend the Trilogy Tuesday like Jeff did or just the midnight showing of Return of the King? The gift was for those who bought tickets for the Trilogy Tuesday showing.

Oh, I see. No, I just went to the Return of the King. I wish I had thought about going to the marathon, though, the idea just never crossed my mind. Oh, well.

Juan

$34 million on its opening day! WOW!

This busts the previous record for a Wednesday opening (held by the Phantom Menace.) To put it in perspective... does anyone remember the frenzy of that day? All the showings every hour on the hour? People standing in line for weeks? Well, Return of the King just kicked The Phantom Menace's butt!

Here's the link (another one of my very favorite sites)

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/

$8 million just from the midnight showings. I think they are predicting RotK to surpass Titantic and hit the $1 BILLION mark worldwide.

Hopefully these movies'll inspire today's kids to pick up a book instead of a PS2 controller.

Now for some Fox Trot moments:

Omigod!

Gollum Rap!!

I forwarded that on to my housemate at work...

THAT was COOL! I don't know how you found it Jeff but I'm glad you did.

i saw it yesterday, it was AWESOME, was it just me or was there a a very certain part of the book missing, a certain battle? i thought i saw the "battle" part in the ad, or at the least the beginning of the "battle"

Largest worldwide opening ever. 226 million! Take that, Matrix: Retarded!

Grrrrrrr Grrrrrrrrr

Rassin frassin real life. mumble grumble mumble

I cant belive I STILL have not got to see this yet. I see the adverts and it looks Who double booked this damn stoopid christmas thingy anyway

It was AMAZING.

SPOLIERS-------------------

Legolas and the giant Elephant was great and his and Gimli's dialogue was entertaining as always. Gimli is the obvious comic relief. Merry and Pippin shine and Eowyn gets to redeem herself to me when she confronts a certain super-baddy. I didn't like her from part 2 because she was putting the make on Arwen's man.

Beginning to end -I thought it was BRILLIANT!!!

I saw Return of the King yesterday. It was amazing. The LOTR trilogy has now supplanted Wizard of Oz as my favorite movie(s). I just want to go back and see it over and over and over.

Finally seen it and I was absolutely blown away. This was a film which lasted over three hours and yet it seemed to just fly over. The special effects were, well, special. It was almost impossible to see where the computer generated fx joined the real world. This was promoted as the best of the three and boy were they right. I hope (but don’t really believe) that this one sweeps the board at the Oscars. At the very least Andy Serkis deserves an award for Gollum. I was totally swept away forgetting that Gollum was not “real” just a load of pixels, and most of that is down to Serkis voice performance.

I do wonder how non Tolkien fans reacted to the ending. There were any number of points where a film maker would have ended this story, none of which would be anywhere near the true ending of the book. But as a fan I was glad to see all those little vignettes which just helped to wrap up the story. I was particularly pleased to see Sam’s last lines just as they were in the book.

Perfect.

well
ya know
all those movements that gollum does are actually Andy Serkis making the movements. He has a suit on that has tiny electrodes in it that basically send the movements to a computer, so its actually him doing it, just an animated character doing the parts on film.

Lab

I saw that on the DVDs How they changed the look of Gollum to match Andy's face because he put so much into it. Just another reason he should get an award