Saw "Return of the King" today.

[villager]

No, not the cartoon, I mean the real McCoy.

Fucking. Great.

[flamingyouth]

1. I am so JEALOUS!

I can't wait to see it. Would you say it's the best of the trilogy, and if so, by how much? Oh, so many questions!

:hi:

[villager]

5. hey, Flamingyouth!

We're gonna miss you tonight at the El Lay gathering...!

Yeah, I'd say in terms of sheer emotional impact, and Jackson arriving, in the last installment, at his best ever balance of gigantic spectacle balanced with human (er, Hobbity? Elvish?) stakes, this provides an entire symphony of "good notes" for the trilogy to go out on...

[flamingyouth]

10. Oh, I'm gonna miss being there!

You make sure to hug and kiss everyone for me!! :evilgrin:

Please give my regards to all. I can no longer, for reasons I'm sure you understand, use the phrase "I'll be back," but I promise to return down there and we will (sigh) have to have yet another get together!!!

Oh, I'm so glad you got to see this film early on... I absolutely cannot wait, but I won't have the time until after Christmas. Oh, can't wait, can't wait, can't wait...!

[villager]

11. shall we toast you with a margarita, FY?

:toast:

[flamingyouth]

13. LOL - make it a DOUBLE

Oh, wait ...

:hangover:

[INTELBYTES]

2. I didn't think it opened until the 17th!

nt

[rucky]

3. How?

Wow.

[JackSwift]

7. It's open in New Zealand, I think

.

[villager]

9. from the news coverage, it was an NZ...

...national holiday, if not a recreated Beltane Fires celebration!

[MoonAndSun]

4. Was it a special preview??

Do tell us some details please.

[villager]

6. Yeah. One of those advance screening deals...

I don't wanna be coy, and wanted to post here because I know a number of DUers have been waiting for this and yer not gonna be let down . Oh no.

But I don't wanna give everything away -- whadya wanna know going into it, that will sweeten the anticipation but no spoil the surprise?

[chookie]

12. Can you compare it to the others, please?

Just how blown away will be be?

Baconfoot of DU also saw it already (another Dirty Dog like you :-) ) and warned us that it will make EVERYBODY cry.

I already can't sleep or eat out of excited anticipation of Dec 17 -- am I not nearly excited enough?

Just how great do Viggo and Orlando look in this one?

Any chance that Boromir appears in a flashback, for we Sean Bean fans?

Are Liv and Miranda and Cate even more unbelievably gorgeous in this one?

Stuff like that....

I am going to button up my overcoat, eat an apple every day, stay away from frozen ponds, stocks and bonds, etc -- so I will be safe and well and sure to see it Dec 17.

[villager]

8. hey, I've been duped!

Pleasantly so, by Baconfoot, who evidently saw the film in Palm Springs today and got an LOTR thread up n' running...

[flamingyouth]

14. Alas, this is a dupe - Locking

Didn't catch it earlier. Please, all, continue here! Thanks!

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