The Reel Rejects - THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:35 She's juicing over here. All right. I don't think I can wait any longer. Are you ready for the Lord of the Rings? The return of the king. Don't forget to get your Rejectnation shop.com. I'm wearing this right now, but pop up, we got a holiday sweater. It will probably be up on the screen right now by the time this comes out.

Starting point is 00:01:52 So get it. By the time the third one is out, you guys might be in the thick of the actual holidays. Totally. But it's still worth it. with it to buy, I feel like holidays last through February, right? Absolutely. It's chilly out, you want to be in your holiday spirit. But now it's time for the Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King, supposedly the best one

Starting point is 00:02:12 of the franchise. I don't even know how that's possible. Here we go. Just so you guys know, if you're watching this right now, Tara and I watched all three of these in one week. We have not uploaded any of them, so there was no time for us to course correct or pivot. If you guys are screaming things at us, like, that's Carl Urban. Right.

Starting point is 00:02:37 We weren't able to see those comments because we did all of these before the holiday season. Also, if you're watching this or you're listening right now, don't forget, five star on Apple, Spotify. If you are on YouTube, let us know how you guys felt about this journey. Are you excited to go on the Hobbit journey with us? Is that something you want to do? and make sure that you give us some love in there. Okay, so you were answering my question that I rudely interrupted.

Starting point is 00:03:03 Were you satisfied with the ending? Let's hear it. Oh, yes, absolutely satisfied because this story really is about love and friendship and the way that we really traveled with that was through Sam and Frodo. And Frodo's ring would have never made it into the fire if it wasn't for Sam.

Starting point is 00:03:22 I mean, like, it's insane how Sam protected the ring. Like you called that when he snagged it from him. He was able to give it back from him. But like for him to climb the mountain on his own and like kill the spider and he's just like always there for him. Like no matter what giving him his water, his food. I mean, that's like he is the purest example of how friends sacrifice for other friends. And then when you're accused, there's nothing worse than being, knowing you're doing the right thing, knowing you're doing the right thing. knowing you're being a good friend or person and then being accused of the opposite and you're like what I gave my life to this

Starting point is 00:04:02 and that's when Ghalam is like he ate the food and it's like we already saw Sam skip out on dinner to give Frodo dinner. So we already know, yeah, but just yeah, sorry, keep going, keep going lady. No, I mean, like absolutely. I think, you know, the thing that will really stick with me is, you know, yeah, I can't carry it,

Starting point is 00:04:24 but I can carry you. and that's what true friends do when you are down on your luck or going through some shite your friends can bring you up can like carry you up the hill like that was the purest example of what really true strong friendship is and i just feel like that's exactly what this this movie's about totally you can't carry somebody else's burden but you can help carry them yeah um when they need it and yeah it was so beautiful I was actually glad to see when Sam did take the ring, though, that even he struggled with it. Yeah. Because this really is, the whole time, you're kind of wondering, like, why isn't Sam, maybe they should switch off? But this really is Frodo's journey. Like, this is, I know this was called the Lord of the Rings, but it might as well have been called Frodo. He is in this, he's the holder of the ring.

Starting point is 00:05:20 And this to me was very similar. you know, I don't remember a lot of Harry Potter, but one thing we do know is that Daniel Radcliffe is Harry Potter and the movies are called in the books Harry Potter and the and he's at the center. It's interesting

Starting point is 00:05:36 these are similar time periods here Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood very different very similar looks, very similar types of leading man energy with groups of friends around them. And I think that's why both these have been so successful as well.

Starting point is 00:05:52 is about friendship and but one person's journey and this was Frodo's journey and everybody at the end played their part because I was kind of wondering this after the last movie I loved the last movie but I was like how much is this about the ring anymore like with the two towers we're fighting wars

Starting point is 00:06:11 but really Sam's the only one helping anymore with the ring even though the wars are about the ring but in this one when we get to a diversion it is everybody's doing their part in a different way people are on the ground they're in the air they're fighting however they can to help with Frodo's journey

Starting point is 00:06:31 to destroy the ring which just like was not a second too long like no part of me was like I want less of this right one minute throughout the entire so this was a nine and a half hour run right with all three movies combined right and it's just one journey

Starting point is 00:06:50 of a man to destroy a ring true and every minute was engaging every battle every character even the characters I couldn't stand Theodon my apologies you ended up getting there whatever that other dude's name is Can't stand you Denethor you suck bro

Starting point is 00:07:07 We didn't see the white wizard in the end in this one He sucked too though I saw him on You suck bro But so many interesting characters Gallum Smeagall's fascinating character like just they didn't go wrong with a single frame a single second perfection across the board and they ended this perfectly just perfect i agree i i also found it really moving especially when gim gimley says um death is certain but uh i forget what the the latter part of it is but when

Starting point is 00:07:44 they they are like cool we're going to take them on so froto can finish this mission Them saying they'll take it on is knowing that their death is certain. I mean, when Aragon, Aragorn pitches that to them, they know that death is waiting at their door, like, as an absolute and they still do it. And we just see, like, time and time again how all of these friends, these people who have each other's backs rise to the frickin occasion. And then luckily, you know, Frodo gets it done and they're saved. I love how the land collapsed under all the orcs and then didn't collapse under them, which was great.

Starting point is 00:08:25 But just before that, the major sacrifice that they were going to make was a beautiful sacrifice for, like, the greater hole of what they were searching for. And you wouldn't, you just wouldn't normally find that, I don't think, in a lot of stories where you wouldn't be able to go, nah, they wouldn't do that. What are they doing? in this you're like they would absolutely do that they would absolutely do that they would absolutely go death is certain we're going to do it anyway because they have proven that throughout all of these movies in the way that all these characters are written and it's just brilliant i do want to watch the extended editions i am so curious what else was cut out because yeah one of the things um not that i don't even want to call it being nitpicky because i do think that these movies were perfect but i really liked um um um um um uh Galadriel and was so curious about her story. Yeah. I was like, Galadriel seems like, you know, in the moment that Galadriel doesn't accept the ring,

Starting point is 00:09:26 I was like, wow, where is she come? What is her deal? I want to know more. Her story. And I, and of course, I wanted more time with Arwen and Erichorn. So, like, I am curious if there is more of that in the extended edition, do we get more Galadriel? Do we get more Arwen?

Starting point is 00:09:44 because like the fact that in on all the covers they're on the covers they are but it's not they're not in that much and even in this in this this this one I am curious if in the extended edition of leg loss is in there more because leg loss was kind of not not heavily involved in this final movie family was more involved in legoloss I felt so maybe more in the extended edition of that right but I understand why they made if they if it is more an extended edition I think they cut down the perfect version because you can't put out a theatrical release that's longer than three hours and 20 minutes no you really can't people are gonna be like nope yeah so it's just make like you can't you're not put down a four hour movie so right yeah I think that they just made

Starting point is 00:10:27 perfect cuts you know what we can actually do this time though Tara true yeah yeah because yeah we we're not worried about spoilers anymore got there here we go one more time everybody feeling fine um oh man he took away the charger again again bro you everybody on my shit list yeah you got to do it okay yeah I'm at 6% and I got to get home here's the charger okay let's do this all right okay sir Christopher Lee Saramon read the Lord of the Rings once a year until its death in 2015

Starting point is 00:11:15 and had done so since the year it was published. He was also the only member of the cast and crew to have ever met J.R.R. Tolkien. Who was it? Christopher Lee who played Sarmon. Yeah. Sarmon, right? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:32 Director Sir Peter... Oh, read it every year. That's nuts. Until his death. Director Sir Peter Jackson gave one of the rings used in the movies to Elijah Wood and Andy Circus as a gift when the shoot was finished. They both thought they had the only one. That's amazing. I will say those are the two to give it to.

Starting point is 00:11:55 We didn't talk much about Gollum's demise, and I think that that was brilliant what ended up happening. Because there was good in him, but it kept getting eaten at and eaten at. I know I keep going back to the addict, the comparison. Yeah, but it's very similar. If you let it get the best of, if you don't fight it, if you don't try to stop it, then it will take hold of you. And eventually, he thought he had the last laugh. He bit the finger. Yeah.

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Starting point is 00:14:37 We did. And that was, that was, when I said in the beginning, I was like, I'll be sad to see him if he dies because we had gotten the sweet side of him and a lot and two. But the ring was obviously his demise and he had to go down with it. Otherwise, it just would probably, you know, eat him alive.

Starting point is 00:14:56 Gandoz's painful encounter with a ceiling beam in Bilbo's Hobbit hole was not in the script. Sir Ian McKellen banged his forehead against the beam accidentally. Oh, my God. Sir Peter Jackson. and thought McHellon did a great job acting through the mistake and kept it in. That's hysterical.

Starting point is 00:15:13 I love that. Let's see if I... That wasn't in this movie, though. No, it was in... Because I wanted to go to the first one first and then get to this one and seeing if the... I think just hit us with the trivia from this one. Hopefully we'll have all the stuff in it. Like the ending stuff.

Starting point is 00:15:33 Yeah. Okay. I was curious. Here we go. Thank you, boo. I have no phone. I'm helpless. You're all good. One second.

Starting point is 00:15:46 Just let me get to it. Okay. Since John Rize Davies suffered constant rashes from wearing Gimley makeup, the makeup department gave him the opportunity to throw his Gimley mask into the fire on his last day and pick up photography. He didn't hesitate a moment to grab it and burn it. John Riz-Davis is so good in this role, bro. He's so good. To get enough extras for the battle of the Black Gate, a few hundred members of the New Zealand army were brought in. Shut up.

Starting point is 00:16:14 They apparently were so enthusiastic during the battle scenes that they kept breaking the wooden swords and the spears they were given. It's amazing. That is awesome. The last shot of principal photography was when the newly crowned Aragorn bows to the four hobbits. Although Vigur Mortensen did not need to be on set for that day, he nevertheless insisted on attending. He didn't have a crown.

Starting point is 00:16:37 it wasn't necessary he wasn't being filmed so he fashioned one out of paper with each successive take the crown was becoming more ornate and sillier as crew members kept decorating it so the four actors playing the hobbits often had difficulty suppressing their giggles dude oh my god that is what like a family set is is like that's the purest example because you know he's not being shot like he did not need to be there. Yeah, but then he's distracting the other actors, which is hilarious, but also I would be like, stop, bro. Totally. That's amazing, though. It's awesome. We know the rings thing. Let me see if I can get to some spoilers, how they were both given a ring, and it was identical.

Starting point is 00:17:23 They thought they had the only one. Oh, my God. Y'all, this trivia page is... What do you want, IMDB? A mile long. Like, I've never seen... Are you on IMDB? There we go, yes. I always just look for the one with the most likes. Yes, that's what I was reading at the top.

Starting point is 00:17:41 But I was looking for spoilers now. So, um, okay. Hold on. Each of the cast members was given a gift on their last day of shooting, usually a prop that was significant to their roles. Miranda Otto received one of Eowen's dresses and her sword. Liv Tyler received Arwin's dying dress. Orlando Bloom got one of Legolas's bows.

Starting point is 00:18:03 One of Legolas's what? His bows, like his bow, sorry, bows. bow and arrow. I was reading it as about. I thought you were saying bowel like poop. I was like, oh, my God. While filming Sarmon's death scene, Sir Peter Jackson tried to tell Sir Christopher Lee

Starting point is 00:18:19 how to react and breathe after he was stabbed in the back. Lee, a World War II veteran with British Special Forces, assured Jackson that he knew what a man sounded like when stabbed in the back. Yeah, imagine trying to tell him that.

Starting point is 00:18:35 He would have been so, I would have been so annoyed if I was him. Wow. So Sauramon, we, I was kind of expecting to see something about like a reference to him or anything, but there really was not. There wasn't. I'll read two more. For the scene where Frodo gets pierced by Shalab, Elijah Wood, had two Alka-Seltzers hidden under his tongue, which he chewed to create the white foam. Oh my God. That's awesome. That is so cool. Okay, last one. He was probably like trying not to smile when it worked. like yeah that's cool right sir ian mckellan's first day of shooting on the trilogy with gandolph's first scene arriving in hobbiton his second day of shooting was gandolph's final scene of this movie at the gray havens wow that's crazy that's insane that's filmmaking for you that makes sense for location stuff but that is so that's wild yeah to have to go beginning and the end right the next day are you 10 out of 10 on this franchise absolutely yeah it's just like

Starting point is 00:19:35 unbelievable so many great lessons love it uh yeah i i will watch the extended edition maybe i'll probably wait a little bit but then i'll jump in for it because i am super curious we're not over yet though guys we are going into the hobbit movies um and i'm guessing based on the book that those are prequels okay yeah i don't know based on billbo writing them oh yes of course based on the book that we've seen the movie that's my guess yeah that billbo wrote the hobbit tale so that's probably what the movies are yeah um so maybe we get a younger bilbo going through life

Starting point is 00:20:07 that'd be cool he had the ring I like that oh yeah then we would get to follow him and see like him getting it from beginning until when he doesn't have it these movies although I did not remember any a single frame of them but I did see them when I was

Starting point is 00:20:23 like in fifth grade or something the Hobbit movies I never saw okay yeah I've never seen him all right well thank you guys for being here with us on this epic journey we'll see you soon for The Hobbit and check us out all things shejacks. We've got our awesome apparel, rejectnation.com. Rejectnation shop.com. Also check us out on the interwebs, on social media. We're making sure that we post things every day

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