{"id":1989,"date":"2003-11-30T10:53:39","date_gmt":"2003-12-01T02:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/30\/first-lotrtrotk-reviewalmost\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:57:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:57:48","slug":"first-lotrtrotk-reviewalmost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/30\/first-lotrtrotk-reviewalmost\/","title":{"rendered":"First LotR:TRotK review&#8230;almost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12740,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nzherald.co.nz\\\/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3536880&amp;thesection=entertainment&amp;thesubsection=film&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041105103054\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nzherald.co.nz:80\\\/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3536880&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 01:39:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 15:56:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 15:56:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A reporter from the New Zealand Herald got to see an advance screening of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and has posted &#8212; well, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3536880&amp;thesection=entertainment&amp;thesubsection=film\" title=\"The Return of the King too precious for words\">not really a review<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The Return of the King is &#8230; sorry about this, but we&#8217;re not allowed to tell you what we think of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King until next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  So we can&#8217;t actually say whether it was the single most amazing cinema experience of our recent memory or not.<\/p>\n<p>  Neither can we say in which bits we may or may not have got more than a little weepy, or whether we were emotionally affected at all. And we certainly couldn&#8217;t even hint at which film is clearly the best in Peter Jackson&#8217;s trilogy now that we&#8217;ve seen all three.<\/p>\n<p>  We probably need a second look at The Return of the King to decide for sure. Or maybe a third or a fourth&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something tells me they liked it. ;)<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it&#8217;s three weeks until LotR:TRotK opens here. Next weekend, I&#8217;ll be seeing the Extended Edition of LotR:TFotR at the Cinerama. The next weekend, it&#8217;ll be the Extended Edition of LotR:TTT. And finally, the weekend after that, LotR:TRotK.<\/p>\n<p>My precious&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Return of the King is &#8230; sorry about this, but we&#8217;re not allowed to tell you what we think of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King until next Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,1853,2412],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings","tag-the-return-of-the-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}