The real review - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Reviews

I have have skimmed past about 600 reviews and I was disappointed to see only one review that even attempted to explain the inadequacies from the movie as compared to the book. Most of the reviews were saying that if you haven't read the books then don't see the movie because you won't like it, well thats a load of crap. Anyone who has read the books well more than likely be very disappointed. Well heres a real review. As a movie, the Lord of the rings trilogy including the ROTK was awesome. Besides the violence which I don't mind since its all war, its very refreshing to see a movie without a ton of sex, profanity, and mindless junk. So as a movie it was superb. I have read the books and I while I liked a few scenes that were true to the book there were at least 4 major parts that were messed up along with many many smaller things. I would be here all night if I was to try and explain them all but I will try to remember as much as I can. First off, at the very beginning of the movie Gandalf was supposed to confront Saruman in his tower were he shows how Sarumans power is gone by breaking his staff. Pippin then gets the seeing orb because Wormtongue through it at Gandalf or Saruman(Apparently he didnt know what he hated more). This important scene was cut out completely, very dissappointing. I know how hard making a book into a movie can be so I don't whine over small inadequacies like a lot of people do but there are some things that you just don't leave out. The movie could have at least attempted to explain how they had to retake the shire because Saruman and a bunch of orcs were throughout the land. The ending, or endings were ridiculous with a bunch of sappy junk aside from the book that wasted a lot of time they could of used to put in some important things like the scene I mentioned at the begginning. They completely deleted one of the best scenes from the book when Aragorn, Gandalf and the armies are in front of the gates of Morder and the Mouth of Sauron comes out and confronts them. That would have been an incredible scene for the movie but I guess they didn't have time for that because they need 10 more minutes of Frodo and Sam staring at eachother. I know that two friends can become very close but that got pretty ridiculous. One of my biggest complaints with the all of the movies and mostly ROTK is how they have Gandalf do practically nothing. The book is full of Gandalf using his powers yet all he does in ROTK is fight with his sword/staff, talk to people, ride on an eagle, and he scares away the nazguls by the light on his staff. I am glad that they at least had him scaring the Nazguls off but thats basically all he did with his magic. The last thing I will get into(since this is a long review) is concerning Frodo and Sam. I knew that the movie would be different at there seen with Shelob, but I thought it was written badly. Frodo never ever would have told Sam to go home and then left him there, Gollum's lies about the food and lies to Frodo about Sam wanting the ring were completely made up. They all should have gone in together like they did in the book but I will give the movie credit for keeping the basic plot of that scene with Sam stabbing the spider and then Sam thinking Frodo was dead etc etc. The other thing with Sam and Frodo I did not like is that when they were getting close to destroying the ring Sam had a great opportunity to kill Gollum, he then has mercy on Golum and lets him live. Obviously had he not done that then they never would have completed their mission. In conclusion I never said how much I loved many of the fight scenes especially how awesome legolas was in killing the Oliphant thing and how Aragorn sprinted straight into the army that was great. overall I did like the movie and I can say that because lets be honest people, despite the inadequacies with the book, Tolkien didn't write it to be a movie, it was a masterpiece as a book its impossible to get the same thing in a movie because not everything can be explained. Ok Im done, God Bless.