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I really liked this film, but yet another thumbs down for the shaky camera. It would've been so much better had the action been directed like the first one.

Am I the only one that read the Mary Stewart books? I thought that was an interesting take on the Merlin/magic angle.

Where the protagonist has lost his wife/girlfriend/child/bad guy in a crowded area (like a mall), the camera focuses on someone who looks just like them from the back, the protagonist runs up to them, grabs their shoulder, turns them around ... SURPRISE, it's somebody else in the exact same...

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SACD/DVD-A mostly, including Nightfly, Beggars Banquet, and Rumours.

I think the Reagan comment was a play on the line where Cypher says, "I don't want to remember anything". Switch is white, because she's, well, Switch.

I walked out of seeing ROTK the first time thinking exactly what you've written. Without FOTR and TTT, ROTK could not have had the emotional impact that it did; however, ROTK as a payoff movie certainly delivered. It's simply a testament to great filmmaking.

Phil, I wonder if Jackson left it out intentionally, so as to not cause potential confusion in the film as to who (as between Merry and Eowyn) truly dealt the Witch-King's death blow.

Phil, In the book, Aragorn found the weapons in the bodies of the orcs that had captured Merry and Pippin. The orcs did not want to hang on to the weapons because they were the work of the "Westernese, wound about with spells for the bane of Mordor".

She wears contacts for perfect vision, it's just that I get eye fatigue if I wear glasses through a 2 hour film no matter where I sit in the theater.

Because I attend movies with my wife, who doesn't want to sit so far away. :)

Granted that many theaters have problems with focus, but could there be other factors at work here, such as (1) the inherent nature of film vs. other sources that we as consumers are used to, namely video and DVD; or (2) eyesight? Personally, I am nearsighted and have to wear glasses to...

In the movie, we see the Nazgul moving towards Aragorn at the Black Gate. I interpreted this as more evidence that Sauron thought Aragorn had the ring.