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Hardcore fans will of course have seen this material via the extended edition DVDs and Bluray of ROTK over the years, but many fans will likely never have seen the extended edition in a theater, on the big screen. Perhaps most exciting is the fact that the theaters will be showing the truly epic extended edition of Return of the King, in all its 260 minute, 4+ hour glory. This special event seems to be limited to Cinemark and Regal Cinemas, specifically, with show times beginning to appear via those companies. This is the best of the three, redeems the earlier meandering, and. But 'Return of the King' dispatches its characters to their destinies with a grand and eloquent confidence. The second film was inconclusive, and lost its way in the midst of spectacle. I admire it more as a whole than in its parts.

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It was, as Faramir would put it, “a mighty gift.”Īnd what better way to give thanks than by catching The Return of the King on a big screen for the first time in two decades? The trilogy capper will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in December, but it’s headed back to theaters for one day only a little bit sooner than that, on April 13. At last the full arc is visible, and the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy comes into final focus.

Film fans need to accept that we were gifted an adaptation of this series that probably couldn’t have happened at any other time in the early 2000s, and be thankful for what we’ve already received. Our stance on this is not hard to suss out–more LOTR movies will likely be a disaster, given that the original trilogy was an incredibly improbable miracle in the first place. The Dark Lord has risen, and as he unleashes hordes of Orcs to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into his realm in Mordor. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. and New Line were working on new LOTR feature films of unknown inspiration. The Return of the King is the third part of J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings has been zipping through the news cycle once again recently, starting with the surprising news that Warner Bros.