I just got back from seeing “The Return of the King” a bit ago. It was a great movie, but a bit too long. It was about 3 and a half hours long, which should have been shortened. For the last half hour they kept fading away in scenes and everyone kept getting up, but then another scene started. They could have easily made this movie about 3 hours long like the first two and people would have been happy.

That being said…I really enjoyed the movie and I think I need to read the series of books again sometime soon. I really liked the adaption from the books to the movie. They changed a few things that I noticed in the story, but overall the three movies truly are a masterpiece! If you haven’t seen any of them…schedule a day where you have nothing else and watch the first two (extended edition) DVDs and then go see the 3rd movie. I’m not going to give any details on the movie because I don’t want to give it away for anyone who hasn’t seen them.

A few things I have to mention…Today I realized two things about the movie theater:

1) For some reason people think they can show up to a highly anticipated movie a few minutes before it starts and then actually find a good seat. Are they for real? We showed up a half hour early and still didn’t get the greatest seats.

2) How come during a movie you can notice someone walking out to get food or for the bathroom or you notice them coming back in, but you never see them go out and come back in? I guess I really pay attention to a movie. Does anyone else do this?

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