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The Recovery of the Monarch
A Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King This one finally explains some of Gollum’s back story. Which I found helpful for understanding his motivation throughout the other films. This one’s really gory in my opinion. I did not like that, but I understand that most of it was probably important to the story This one has more action though, and seemed more interesting to me. Turns out it’s called The Lord of the Rings because whoever holds the “main” one ring controls them all making him, you guessed it: The Lord of the Rings. I still think it’s still a super odd story but…
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Two Parts In
A Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers I just watched the second part of this trilogy with students from the youth group I work with. This one was better in my opinion than the first, but also slightly harder to follow, especially since the characters were in different places. I thought the Gollum character was kind of funny and the trees were kind of endearing, except when they both were kind of annoying. Holy moly though, this one seemed scarier and more gruesome. I don’t know how much to say about this, but I definitely looked away at some parts. This one was funnier overall too,…
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Fellowship for a Movie Night
A Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Movie Review I just watched the first Lord of the Rings movie for the first time. It was good, but it was also very long. Holy moly, so long. But I digress. I appreciate how impressive the cinematography is and how impressive the acting and storyline are. Though I’ll admit it was hard to follow at times. I especially enjoyed learning where some famous memes and quotes came from. That was probably the most fun for me. From “One does not simply…”, to “You shall not pass!”, there are a lot of famous moments in the first movie alone, so I’m…
