Honestly, I don't know how people were caught off guard on this ending as the first half of a two-parter. They ALREADY announced beforehand in the media that the two would be released months apart during the spring and fall of 2003; I even remember seeing the early teaser trailer for both movies early on as part of the previews for another movie, so I knew already it was going to be a two-parter. This movie and the second half may have had their problems, but they weren't bad at all either individually or collectively, and I'm NOT going to add being a two-parter to the list of shortcomings!!! Hell, seeing the two in theaters months apart marked an interesting point in my life, seeing the first half when I was 17 and the last half just after I turned 18, during which in-between I was really a young homeschooled cinephile building my own film collection, taking dual enrollment courses in preparation for college the year after, and even taking a 5-week summer filmmaking course for high-school students at NC-School of the Arts in Winston-Salem during that same year (before it became part of the UNC system). Honestly, HOW many people can YOU ask that had an experience like that!? I fondly remember these two as major movie events back then that became a major part in a transitional period in my life, and for whatever their problems, I would rather watch THESE two on the big screen again rather the vadt amounts of shit being churned out!!!

59:34 honestly, while more complicated, cloning Joe Pesci and raising him in a virtual environment with the real Joe Pesci’s memory is still more possible than time travel. So go with that.

Watched it off itv. Itv kept cutting stuff so it kept getting out of sync. Oh well. The movie sucked but the commentary is good

Not going to lie, I'm so thankful for you two. As a 34-year-old who has been going through a lot of hardships recently in life after losing a best friend unexpectedly, you all make me laugh so hard and has been such a blessing.

Is anyone else really happy after reading this title?

Wait, did Kite Man kiss batman or something? Another too hot for TV moment? hell yeah?

Gandalf in the book has a way easier time with the Witch King. He's a lesser being. They give it more tension for the movie, but I don't like it really.

I'd watch it just for Sophia Botella. That being said; I never saw it.

There's an interview with Don Dump's mom from around this time. He told his mom he was going to be in a Spielberg movie. Always lying.

The scale on that fish isn't off, it dragged Deagol out of the boat and then pulled him bodily even while he was compete submerged in the water. It's a big ass fish. Also, it's completely fine to watch the theatrical cut for the first two, but you gotta do the extended for the last one, if nothing else, so you can see Saruman bite it. It's not a complete story otherwise.

Bring back Runk!!

As always, thank you for this christmas gift!

If they were chasing snow why didn't they just fly to Canada it's always snowing here.

It was a sausage-fest and I didn't like it

6:14 something crook 😂😂

Christmas vacation? Must be nice

Lol it's like y'all don't even watch the movies or maybe it's you don't remember them, because you're old.

As a teen, my takeaway from this was that Jasmine was the first Disney princess to wear pants.

Merry xmas rodney

32:28 joke's on you, Rob Schneider was in BOTH Judge Dredd AND Demolition Man.

not edgy enough ... 👎

What’s worse: Ezra Miller, or being turned into a skeleton?

Can we get a full episode of Mason as Gandalf talking to old lady Rey Skywalker? You could even turn it into a 10 hour loop, I need the therapy

Crikey!!

exactly when the f do we press play?! it's not always the same...so dont expect us to just know...I'm pissed now...

Mathew Painting.

Don't the aliens choose to look like video game characters? They're not naturally q-bert? There is no q-bert DNA to overwrite josh gad's DNA. IF there is an alien womb, it was a choice to make them all look like q-berts. More than likely there is no alien womb and the alien just replicated some nonsense. It was either a crib full of tiny q-berts or a crib full of tiny sexy ladies.

I'm listening to this without Home Alone 2 playing. alongside. It's weird.

Editing is top tier once again!

In a later Home Alone film, Buzz has a brief appearance as a cop/security guard and he references Kevin who apparently got rich making McCallister brand home security systems. As I recall, it is the only remotely-clever part of the entire movie.

I like how James basically combines his countdown into a single word: threetwooneplay!

Okay, this has been driving me nuts every time I watch these videos, you always mention the “Blue Harvest” joke. It’s the fake working title for RETURN OF THE JEDI not the original Star Wars. Stop saying that. Thanks, love your videos.

I cant even tell its james cause hes not even cracking open a can of ice cold sodie pop

Nah bros they shouldn't killed Gollum, he's the entire reason Frodo didn't walk the ring right back to Sauron by the end! I mean it's not a redemption, but if he wasn't there..

I don’t have this movie…is it okay if I just listen to you guys instead?

Oh no

BUSHWHACKED IS SO GOOD.

Lazy content

14:45 SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE RING IS GONNA ROLL YA!

13:25 This is what happens if you spend too much time talking to dodgy people on the Internet.

Listening to a Home Alone 2 commentary with two guys from Australia while I play Space Marine 2-- the future is now, this IS the year 40,000

HOME ALONE 2!..?........Oh my. 🤧🤮...i bet you love on Rob Schneider

Kraven was actually good (for the action)

23:00 I think this second one has generally been my pick for weakest of the trilogy, partly because it has the most significant changes from the book.

20:40 Worth pointing out here that Arwen is nearly 3,000 years old. (And Aragorn met her when he was 20 and fell instantly in love!)

12:20 Ah, the grand tradition of using quarries for sci-fi/fantasy locations (cf. Doctor Who).

Who else is watching the movie while listening to their commentary?

4:50 "Tolkien's mentioned it a couple of times" - I like how this makes it sound like Tolkien is still around and has a podcast or something.

2:00 "There were very fine people on both sides of this screaming fall two and a half miles down into the depths of the Earth."

Actually people are encouraged to feed them bread and stuff again if you got it because not enough people where giving them seeds and they became so reliant of bread and people that alot of them ended up just starving to death so it's encouraged again