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It was great and definately worth the wait, but I can’t say that it was my favorite movie of the year or anything like that. Peter Jackson’s imagination painted a fabulous picture of the end of an age in Middle Earth. The special effects were again groundbreaking and more than believable; the CGI Gollum and sweeping scenes of the battle at Minas Tirith were my favorites.

On the other hand, the acting left much to be desired. I’ll have to break from the pack and say that I don’t think that ROTK is worthy of all the Oscar buzz it’s generating. Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf) and Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee) captured their roles well, but Viggo Mortenson (Aragorn) and Elijah Wood (Frodo) left me unconvinced.

And what was that deal with that one Urak-Hai commander who looked just like Sloth from The Goonies? (Sean Astin was in that flick too, maybe he pulled some strings. . .)

Before ROTK, the theater showed a trailer for an interesting film called The Butterfly Effect. So far, it looks like something in between Vanilla Sky, Donnie Darko, and Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind. Vanilla Sky was based on a Spanish film called Abre Los Ojos, but this film is apparently not based off of the Spanish film of the same bame (El Efecto Mariposa). I may just pardon Ashton Kutcher for all of his stupid movie roles to see this one.