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Just wondering the general consensus
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Return of the King is my #1 movie of all time. No shit

Fellowship and Towers are pretty equal IMO but I enjoyed Fellowship a bit more (like 99.99997% to 99.99996%)

1 > 3 > 2

I always prefer adventure over war
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Fellowship of The Ring (cause it's closest to the book both in what's shown and the spirit of it)
Return of The King
The Two Towers
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For me, 2 > 1 > 3
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Man it's been so long since I've seen Towers and Return. I've seen Fellowship several times in the last few years though. It just keeps happening to be on TV or Netflix or whatever.
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I loved the beginning of Return of the King when I first saw it. I'm glad Peter Jackson decided to add it to the beginning of that movie instead of right after Gollum's full introduction in Two Towers.

It surprises me how much people disliked Two Towers. Battle Of Helm's Deep is some of my favorite sequences in film. The sense of dread and hopelessness of war is just awesome.

The you have the Last March of the Ents and that sequence always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
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2/3/1 for me
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

It surprises me how much people disliked Two Towers. Battle Of Helm's Deep is some of my favorite sequences in film. The sense of dread and hopelessness of war is just awesome.

The you have the Last March of the Ents and that sequence always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

I loved Two Towers, but I just didn't love it as much as ROTK. It's in my top 15 movies of all time for sure, but ROTK is #1.

SuperExcitebike posted...

1 > 3 > 2

I always prefer adventure over war

Southernfatman posted...

Fellowship of The Ring (cause it's closest to the book both in what's shown and the spirit of it)
Return of The King
The Two Towers

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cmiller4642 posted...

Return of the King is my #1 movie of all time. No shit

Fellowship and Towers are pretty equal IMO but I enjoyed Fellowship a bit more (like 99.99997% to 99.99996%)

This exactly
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I'm glad the correct answer is in the lead.
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More votes!
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I can't tell them apart, they all blur into kind of just one long movie. Probably because I marathon them whenever I watch them.
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

It surprises me how much people disliked Two Towers. Battle Of Helm's Deep is some of my favorite sequences in film. The sense of dread and hopelessness of war is just awesome.

The you have the Last March of the Ents and that sequence always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

'Dislike' is painfully inaccurate; all three flicks are god-tier filmmaking.
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Fellowship
Return
Towers
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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

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When I was young I thought it was easily ROTK. Then later after rewatching the extended editions I changed my mind to Two Towers being my favorite. Now I'm not so sure. It's difficult to rank them.

I guess if I really had to order them, I'd say ROTK > Fellowship > Two Towers.
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There are no rankings. It's one long movie.
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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

When I was young I thought it was easily ROTK. Then later after rewatching the extended editions I changed my mind to Two Towers being my favorite. Now I'm not so sure. It's difficult to rank them.

I guess if I really had to order them, I'd say ROTK > Fellowship > Two Towers.

If the extended cuts are in play, then RotK has one of the best extended editions I've ever seen. A conclusion to Saruman's arc that was left dangling in the theatrical, Mouth of Sauron, greatly improved editing of the scene cuts between Merry / Gandalf and the Ride of the Rohirrim, a setup for Faramir and Eowyn's romance (whereas to the movie-only audience they were randomly shipped during the ending), and a couple others that slip my mind.

Even if some additions were still superfluous and others made unwelcome changes from the source (like Gandalf facing the Witch-King), it was overall a very positive series of additions and changes imo.
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Fellowship always has a special place in my heart. The other two are equal
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Return > Fellowship > Towers.

The good points about Return have already been mentioned in other posts, I think, so I won't repeat. The excision of the Scouring of the Shire, while regrettable, is understandable from the viewpoint of making a movie since it's not a good idea to introduce a whole new bout of conflict at the very end and hastily wrapping it up. Better to finish Saruman off like done in the extended edition.

Fellowship suffers from the fact that its first half was originally the weakest part of the books in the first place. Still, it manages to be solid.

Towers... I won't say I dislike the movie as a whole, because I certainly enjoyed it generally. But there are a few points where I disagree with how the production went. I won't complain about the added minutiae here and there, such as Lothlorien archers appearing as support forces in Helm's Deep, or Eomer subbing in for Erkenbrand instead of fighting off the siege with Aragorn and Theoden as in the book. The details of the Entmoot are also changed, it's portrayed as if they only newly realize what Saruman has been doing to their forest, when originally they should've been stewing in their anger for quite some time with Merry and Pippin only providing the tipping point to it. I would have preferred more detailed descriptions into Ent life, but eh. This version is still acceptable.
The most egregious thing I fault is the portrayal of Faramir in Towers(no problem with him in Return), which directly contradicts the book's description of the character. The whole scene in Osgiliath should have never happened in the first place. He was supposed to be wholly different from the other Men of Gondor, a glimpse into what the old Numenoreans were like, and that sets him apart. In this movie, he's essentially a copy of Boromir, someone who's supposed to be portrayed as the paragon of the 'modern' Man of Gondor, until he randomly gains some insight post-battle for no reason and decides to let the hobbits go. This is not just merely added material, it's added material that runs counter to the book's intentions and it haunts all of Frodo/Sam/Gollum's portions of the movie past the 3/5 point. To me, that docks enough points from Towers to make it the least of the movie trilogy.
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Distant_Rainbow posted...


What you said is why I put TTT last.

There's so much unnecessary scenes in it that weren't even the books. I think they should have taken all those scenes out (Aragorn being separated from the group, Elves in Helm's Deep, Frodo in Osgiliath) then had Frodo and Sam get all the way to Cirith Ungol and the movie end with Frodo being captured like the book.

At least if it wouldn't make the movie overly long.
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