Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King movie review

Hard to cover all that is great about "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" in a standard review....so an 18 minute video seems about right. Here is my review for the concluding chapter of the Lord of the Rings trilogy!
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[@mauricer.4873]

Witch King: come at me bro Eowyn: I am no bro

[@jaycievictory8461]

😁

[@trevorthornley8835]

that part is one of the few scenes that I don't like very much about this movie

[@khango6138]

Eowyn is a total badass haha.

[@mojolotz]

More like: I am not your bro, dude. And then Nazghul is like: I am not your dude, man. And then she is like: I am no Man. And he is like: I am not your... wait what?

[@marcomeme4875]

All MRAs simultaneously got a heartattack from that scene.

[@brainwasher9876]

In full agreement with Jeremy here. People always whine about the long ending but I loved the shit out of it. Insanely good music and the only time, ever, where I felt truly sad that a movie ended.

[@matodragonespor5000]

+Andrew Wang And it's funny because that ending is short compared to the book. In the book the ring is destroyed...and there's literally half book left to read

[@RayTube]

+Andrew Wang The hobbit schould have had a longer ending, there were still some scenes i would have loved to see!

[@slipknota7x826]

+Kerzos I have no idea why they didn't touch on what happened to the shire while frodo was gone. Still a big part of the books.

[@mayday4495]

+Andrew Wang i cry EVERY TIME

[@michaelbiland5575]

+Andrew Wang The movie was almost perfect in every way, every scene is amazing in return of the king

[@IronAvengerAssembled]

I think my favourite scene in this movie was when Aragon just became King and when he gets to the hobbits and they bow at him and he says "my friends, you bow to no one" and everyone just bows down before all the hobbits, that scene was just magnificent, I don't think I've had a bigger smile on my face from any film/scene besides this one

[@RoyalPrabhat]

i cried during that scene...Its my favorite scene of all time

[@mayday4495]

+Charlie Giffen YES

[@teenwilliam1000]

I hated how all the people behind the hobbits are on a green screen. It seemed lazy and broke my immersion in the film a bit.

[@playermartin286]

+Prabhat Rayal i cry everytime i see it!

[@johnd.obrien6838]

+Charlie Giffen THIS.

[@janeyrevanescence12]

"Oh wait, the Ring is seven feet from me, otherwise known as the one place it can be destroyed?! Nazgul, get the ***** over there!" I fell out of my chair laughing.

[@GeekyTwilight]

Best moment ever

[@sake.nigiri]

yep, the best part

[@NC-cf7kl]

Me too

[@RyuChief]

janeyrevanescence12 I rewatched it like 3 times and kept laughing every time. Infact, I'm gonna watch it again right now! :D Edit*: Alright, I lied, I rewatched another 3 times, I need to take a Jeremy Jahns break, this guy is too funny for my own health...

[@bellephaba]

I've watched that bit about five times now. I just keep rewinding. Best study break ever.

[@isaacgrajo1292]

"Ride now!... Ride now!... Ride! Ride to ruin and the world's ending!Death!(Death!)Death!(Death!)DEATH!(Death!)" Loved Theoden's speech. Made me wanna grab a horse and ride with them.

[@Str4vv]

+Lars Zingler Do yourself a favor and try to find that speech in german. It is mostly a 1:1 translation (so, you know the words), but the pronounciation and nature of the language makes it even more intense. And I am really the opposite of biased as I 99% prefer the original version and hate most re-dubs. But that speech man... IDK, "Deeeeaaath" has some resemblense of a willhelm-scream to me. The deep "O" sound in Tod (ger. death) just makes you guts resonate!

[@LouiseJayneHudson]

Easily my favourite scene in the entire film, I get goosebumps everytime.

[@LiterallyGod]

Still can't find a better battle scene especially with that pre charge speech

[@MrPobanz]

The german dub of the movies is pretty awesome in general and afaik Tolkien even said himself he prefered some terms in german over the english ones (especially Elves vs Elben, also "Auenland" sounds much better than "Shire" for example).

[@lnobrien21]

No Sam picked up Frodo like a sack of Po Tay Toes

[@timothyacowin9761]

bro tay toes

what is tay toes precious?

[@sharwandsouza1747]

Taters

[@tylermegee3391]

Boil them, mash them, stick 'em in a stew.

[@morgandurance8113]

Yeeeesss

[@ExtreemHakmes]

RIP Christopher Lee, you played Saruman so well and therefore you will be remembered for quite some time in the movie industry

[@jacklame7464]

Quite some time? FOREVER

[@ExtreemHakmes]

Yeah he'll for sure

[@nicksd007]

He'll be remembered for way more than just that

[@daddydangerous20]

Only a spawn of MORRRRDORRRRRR remembers Saruman

[@neilpeartspurplenose8739]

He was also awesome as Count Dooku.

[@maxharrison4708]

"Oh wait, the thing is SEVEN FEET from me, otherwise known as the ONE PLACE IT CAN BE DESTROYED?!?!?! NAAAAAAAZZZGGGUUUUULLLL, GET THE FFFFFFUCK OVER THERE!!!!!!" - Best JeremyJahns quote ever.

[@SuperGodlike101]

A man agrees.

[@connieallen6804]

Max Harrison a woman agrees

[@Jinokilja]

Max Harrison aquire

[@ruththompson7816]

7:44 Fun fact: In Shakespeare's "Macbeth," the witches tell Macbeth that "no man of woman born" can harm him. At the end he dies to Macduff who was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped." Tolkien felt that Shakespeare missed an opportunity, so he made Eowyn.

[@little_tish8452]

that's really interesting thank you. (not being sarcastic I mean that)

[@RubALamp]

I always thought Merry was the one that made it possible for Eowyn to kill the Witch King of Angmar. If Merry didn’t stab the Witch King, Eowyn couldn’t have killed him.

[@davidjones272]

@@RubALamp you are right, the daggers that merry and pippin have were taken from a barrow on their journey to rivendell. These barrows were the burial sights of warriors from the ancient Kingdom of arnor, (the northern equivalent of gondor) which aragorn's ancestors ruled. The kingdom fell into ruin because they were at constant war with the witch King, who controlled angmar, a northern orc territory. The weapons in the barrow were enchanted to be effective against the nazgul, because they were created in this time.

[@mordirit8727]

@@davidjones272 Yes; that prophecy is constantly mistaken for a *power* , which it really is not. There *were* ways to kill the Witch King, enchantment on weapons to reach and harm the nazgûl even if they barely had a physical body in the material world. Many people seem to think (and even the Witch King made this terrible mistake, which ultimately cost him his life) that he *can't* be killed by humans, or male humans... But that is not it at all. The whole deal with the prophecy was, king Eärnur of Arnor and Glorfindel had *just* finished fending off the Witch King, and he was fleeing; Eärnur wanted to go hunt him and kill him for good, but Glorfindel caught a small glimpse of the future: "he will not fall by the hand of man". This, many people (again, even the WK himself) think means "he can't be killed", but that is literally not what he said, just that whenever he *did* get killed, it wouldn't be a man doing it. Merry stabbed the fucker with the Barrow Sword which, lo and behold, had an enchantment to momentarily make a nazgûl "corporeal" again; then Eowyn sealed the deal with the face stab; a hobbit and a woman killed him, so he didn't fall by the hand of man... In the books there is a nice bit of narration as Merry and Eowyn pass out in the ground from the nazgûl's dying power, talking about how, if the person who forged the dagger had known what end it would have come to, they would be very glad; I think that, in the movies, that is the worst consequence of removing Tom Bombadil: all the meaning of Merry's dagger is lost. Maybe they could have shoed in a scene of someone in Rivendell giving the daggers to the hobbits and explaining why they were useful?Idk

[@james-97209]

@@mordirit8727 it also known that the witch king was afraid of 2 individuals the first was king eanur of gondor who the witch king managed to ambush and kill him the 2nd one was Boromir the 1st a Stewart of gondor who ruled some 1300 before denethor and he was a total badass he had crushed the armies of mordor time and time again and he died due to the effects of an old battle wound after ruling gondor for some 78 years (if I remember correctly )

[@Tardsmat]

You really, REALLY should not compare the 3 Movies and say "this one is better" for me, it is just one 12 Hour Movie.

[@alejandrovega8370]

Tardsmat yes

[@xlara87x]

Exactly! Why does no one get this ?! :D

[@earendilthemariner5546]

Theres also not 3 books. Lord of the Rings is one story, just in different parts

[@leonedralev3776]

Tolkien presented the manuscript of LOTR to the publisher as a single 3000 page or so book. The publisher rejected that instead they divided the book into three parts.

[@brandonryder5873]

Same here

[@amitabhmishra7401]

The Return of the King is literally the most epic fantasy movie ever 17 years on and nothing really comes close

[@Ghaffar_KH]

For Frodo....

[@Zm598]

Gets me every damn time

[@xLightcrystalx]

+Kebaburrito I know that's old but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHA

[@Ringsfan1]

For SAM!!!!!!

[@samerna5776]

And The Braveman SAM

[@xlara87x]

...and for Sam... (he should have added)

[@johngleason1776]

I saw Return of the King for the first time today, and I'm in shock. I've never cried during a movie before. Never. And I was choking up from the moment Sam picks up Froto to the end credits. I still can't believe how amazing this movie is. Just... wow

[@MagicAccent]

Froto

[@everythingisawesome2903]

FOR FROTO!!!!

[@shreyasiroy3579]

@@everythingisawesome2903 well... this movie was sooo grand... I watched it almost 3 days ago and I can't recover....😂😂😂 ...I'm at aww...

[@elderadult8544]

This. This is good.

[@PatrickProductions12]

"NAZGUL GET THE FUCK OVER THERE" I'm dying xD

[@alyinchains]

+PatrickProductions12 This is why he is the only movie critic I actually enjoy watching. Amazing.

[@AzguardMike]

+PatrickProductions12 the one thing that can kill me is 7 feet over there!? Zazgul get the fuck over there!"

[@tjjordan4207]

I think I nearly died of laughter when I first heard that.

[@jasonisntreallyhere]

+PatrickProductions12 I just died as well ahaha

[@drumaticpageofmusic4148]

I was, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD XD XD

[@LouiseJayneHudson]

The best scene in ROTR in my opinion is when King Theoden gives that epic speech and the Rohirrim (Rohan army) charge into battle screaming "Death" over and over again with the awesome music in the background. I get shivers down my spine and goosebumps every time.

[@alexanderdaviescastle8134]

+LouiseJayneHudson Same for me, that's my favorite scene of anything.

[@JayHuey]

I do too, EVERY TIME... Can't explain why

[@ChinmayDhake]

same here

[@gustavobarron2948]

agree

[@elmertjee]

Jep, one of my favourite scenes of all time.

[@TrueRomancer04]

The lack of "My friends! You bow to no one." hurts my soul. That line, totally created for the movie, makes me bawl like a baby every time.

[@kurisucosmo7954]

SAME! I've watched the LOTR trilogy about 10 times now, and every time it gets to the part when Frodo reunited with his friends had me choking up to hold back the tears. But that SPECIFIC moment when Aragorn and the world acknowledged what Frodo did releases the waterworks and it's a brutal mess of snot, tissues, and tears

[@Renoulee]

TrueRomancer04 Agreed tremendously! Every single time.

[@usamazahid3882]

Yeah, makes me wanna salute to them, and have a single tear drop from my eye, kinda like how Big Boss did in MGS3.

[@ZHike360]

LOTR trillogy is the only trilogy that i can think of which the third one is the best! For me it's the perfect trilogy.

[@asnlunatic]

So true.

[@TyroneDeMarcusWilliams3rd]

Indiana jones and the last crusade? Because there is ONLY 3!

[@speedy3702]

I think the same applies to "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", if you consider the "Dollars Trilogy".

[@Javianimation]

Pedro Gonçalves STAR WARS and TLOTR for me

[@speedy3702]

Javianimation I think "The Empire Strikes Back" was much better than "Return of the Jedi".

[@Jamespolanc]

Did I just spend almost 40 minutes watching you talk about lord of the rings? I think I did, I say Jermy Jahns reviews are...Awesometacular

[@tjjordan4207]

Agreed!

[@kylebeck3607]

***** All three lord of the rings reviews together.

[@SpaceKatzle]

Kyle Beck Me too :D I just like to hear when Jeremy talks about movies which he love :) Its awsome.

[@FilipCodes]

I just did too. he's awesome

[@liam95red]

​@@kylebeck3607🎉 11:50 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂m😅😊🎉gf🎉😊😊

[@shikharpriyadarshi3537]

LOTR review = superawesometacular

[@JuanPablo-rf4vo]

Outstawesometaculantastic

[@glanknightfalcon4246]

LOTR review = the bible of ultra-awesometacular.

[@voldy3565]

it's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[@ANT96-x8d]

Fun fact:The Lord Of The Rings trilogy is the highest grossing film trilogy of all time, with only the original Star Wars trilogy at second place.

[@SWEGTA]

These reviews are probably the best thing you've ever done on your channel. I love the enthusiasm and investment that you put into this and it reminds me of why I'm still subscribed years later. Rock on, Jeremy.

[@tmj0431]

+SWEGTA you got to watch the dark knight review that one is pretty good too

[@pablopinedarivera9961]

I absolutely agree, I watch them every year.

[@toxenzz]

I love you Swegta. Every night I think to myself how nice it’d be to have a Bully 2. But then I realize we live in hell and are expected to buy Shark Cards for life

[@tristanmatheny2361]

The Lord of the Rings is my favorite film of all time.

[@ft9640]

you sir have taste

[@SpicedGold]

+KipperBill You sir, don't *know how to spell *know*

[@nicksketch7122]

Tristan Matheny 1. LOTR / The Shawshank Redemption 2. Citizen Kane 3. The Godfather Part II 4. The Godfather Part I 5. The Empire Strikes Back

[@glanknightfalcon4246]

I don't blame you dude. It really is my favorite film of all time.

[@imsentinelprime9279]

Tristan Matheny films?

[@Kerek77]

Greatest trilogy of all time, hands down, nothing even close... Not even Star Wars. The casting, the acting, the screenplay, the dialogue, the cinematography, the score, the visual effects, the costumes, the filming locations, the action, the chemistry all EPIC. Such a huge feat in film making, so groundbreaking, never to be repeated or matched. Job well done Peter Jackson...

[@justaguyyy]

Completely agree.

[@nicksketch7122]

Kerek Man True, although 'The Shawshank Redemption' is simply the Greatest film of all time.

[@trequor]

Star Wars isn't a masterpiece. There are reasons why it is beloved, but those movies are a fucking mess (with the exception of Empire). Lord of the Rings is one of those rare times where the stars aligned to create a perfect masterpiece. Everything from costuming and cinematography to acting and music were all as good as they could have been.

[@TheNerfPlayer12321]

Ehh Sci fi vs fantasy. I'm glad you enjoyed this more than star wars but you can't really compare the 2. Not to mention one is 3 decades older at a time when everything was honestly kinda new for filmography wise.

[@velkylev4217]

Lol " not even Star Wars " . Star wars is overrated crap , fun to watch but it's not even 50% of Lotr goodness

[@dshav9093]

My friends. You bow to no one

[@fiercedietyfan]

i just finished it and that literally made me cry

[@mexicanadian0846]

D Shav I love that seen so much. It makes me giddy every time.

[@Jacklanton]

+D Shav best scene. goosebummpssss never stop

[@chappellgroan]

I cri evrytiem

[@sandythemaster6898]

Dude, I got goosebumps JUST by reading the comment. MAN, this movie's great.

[@kiantamar]

Aragorn telling the hobbits *"My friends, you bow to no one."* It was one of the greatest moments in cinema history!

[@G.S.Productions]

I’ll finish Aragorn’s line for you: “You bow to no one. We bow to you.”

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

"NAZGUL, GET THE FUCK OVER THERE!" That needs to be in some parody version of Return of the King XD

[@wArtWig]

LOL 14:30-14:33 best part of the whole video

[@martinnguyen2458]

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is my favorite movie of all time.

[@leagueoffortune1808]

Martin Nguyen yeah

[@spencerstabio5936]

Martin Nguyen hell yeah man!

[@jayzee3600]

It’s the greatest film in cinematic history!

[@trequor]

I love Eowen's story. It's such a nuanced and thoughtful breakdown of not just the feminist narrative, but of something much deeper and older. The warrior-maiden is an archetype of humanity. Some women want to fight like men and be heroes in that way. What Tolkien did was show that doing so, that for a brave, free-spirited woman to become a warrior was good and could lead humanity to victory. But then Eowen learns that glory in battle is not the end all be all. She learns to be gentler and to embrace her feminity and that doing so was also good and virtuous and would lead to great things. I love that Tolkien gives Faramir and Eowen very similar arcs: they both see dying in battle as their destiny (for different reasons), but then they both learn to accept their gentler nature and to be nurturing.

[@panokostouros7609]

Beautifully balanced treatment of feminism and the shield-maiden.

[@manavbhalla2861]

Marvel should take notes, but they won’t

[@artsyafroqueen]

You know it's serious when you're listening to Jeremy talk about this film and you start tearing up just visualizing the parts he's talking about. It's been so long since I've watched these movies. It's time for a nice long visit.

[@piggledinosaur]

There's this one scene in The Lord of the Rings movies that really sticks out when I think about them and that has to be the Boromir and Faramir scene in Return of the King (I think- could be TTT). You can see how much Boromir loves Faramir but hates Dickathor and also how much he cares about Gondor- and we also see that much of what he said about using the Ring comes straight from his father's words in this scene! Also the line "Remember this day, little brother. Today, life is good." kills me every time.

[@claudiaunderwood2675]

i know them feels

[@felixvergro]

Two towers

[@Sun_Downer]

Honestly I'd rank these movies even higher, like these movies NEED to be archived and saved for when the apocalypse comes so the people of then can experience one of the greatest movies mankind ever made.

[@shamelabaza3572]

it's 2016 im still watching this trilogy over and over again

[@charlmane1995]

the deadpool im also watching this trilogy of reviews over and over again

[@thenerdyboii6436]

the deadpool Why don't you watch your own movie? It's also freakin' awesome.

[@ogbee9690]

@@thenerdyboii6436 no its not

[@FilipCodes]

Its 2021 and Im still watching this trilogy over and over again

[@ogbee9690]

@@FilipCodes you’re a good person

[@urdnotstark8270]

Anyone ever come back to this review just because of Jeremy's "Oh wait, the Ring is seven feet from me, otherwise known as the one place it can be destroyed?! Nazgul, get the *** over there!" because it's one of the funniest thing's he's made

[@banje72]

Me...it's one of my favorite things on KZbin.

[@shreyasiroy3579]

Up up down down left right left right ba boom I broke the game I cheated I won..😂😂😂😂😂

[@LouiseJayneHudson]

No matter how many times I watch this trilogy I always dread watching the Return of the King, not because it's bad or anything (it's probably my all time favourite movie) but because I don't want the trilogy to end. I'm always overcome with tears at the end as well as the bit where Aragorn tells the hobbits they "bow to no one", I just cri evrytiem. No film or series of films will ever deliver that same emotional impact.

[@henrietta9206]

Louise Hudson agree! 😊💐

[@lucidgames2580]

did you watch the hobbit trilogy miss?

[@Nihilist_Porcupine]

Listening to you talk about this movie is almost as good as watching it. That means a lot.

[@unkellgrga9223]

"I cant carry it for you Mr Frodo , But I can carry you" I cry everytime, One of the simplest lines that yet has such deep emotion behind it

[@Feskprins]

You forgot the best line ever in all of cinema: *"My friends..... you bow to no one."*

[@blackmantis3130]

Almost cried at that scene

[@maelleth1]

Sam is like: no! And you're like: NOOOOO! "Nazgul get the fuck over there!" :D

[@fudgmonkeys34]

I laughed so hard I got light headed and could not breath

[@maelleth1]

hahaa me too :D

[@mathieuvanleeuwen7127]

priceless indeed :-)

[@andrewjohnson8919]

The LOTR trilogy is the best movie trilogy

[@Daktomere]

The second is the Dark knight trilogy

[@angusbhattacharya2734]

Elder Trolls no

[@Daktomere]

angus bhattacharya um yeah

[@andrewjohnson8919]

I assume you mean batman and no way

[@angusbhattacharya2734]

rybrentmannftw the man with no name yeh i suppose. But i think that the best Spaghetti western is Once upon a time in the west that film is just mythic.

[@RoyalPrabhat]

LOTR is the greatest movie ever made

[@joshuailes7040]

TRUE

[@ft9640]

indeed the best

[@biggie321hp]

+Royal prabhat Yep!

[@WaKandaIRE]

+strontiumXnitrate You think the room is on the same level as LOTR ROTK? haha funny

[@felixvergro]

o WaKanda z he's obviously kidding, dipshit

[@BiggestRedditor]

You’re completely right about the female characters in this film. They were perfect. They were part of the group, they fit in perfectly and it wasn’t all about them being females with something to prove. People will claim that people like me are sexist when I don’t like a movie like Ghostbusters(2016) or Ruby Rose’s Batwoman because I’m “sexist and afraid of strong female characters” are forgetting this film. Nobody complained that one of the strongest characters, Galadriel was female because she was done perfectly. When I watch these movies I don’t even think about their gender. They didn’t tear down the male characters to build up the female characters, each one had their own unique skills and the male and female characters fought side by side. I absolutely loved that scene where Eowyn killed the Ringwraith and said “I’m no man” and it was one of my favorite scenes but now that scene would be political and turn into something feminist. Nobody had a problem with the scene.

[@Darksky1001able]

Not just any ringwraith, The Witch King of Angmar.

[@trevorthornley8835]

I had a problem with that scene because it's a dumb riddle. A woman with a kitchen knife could kill the witch king. It should've been the king of the dead vs witch king. That would have been really cool. "No living man can kill."

[@marcusgunn6953]

"Up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-start I win" is the greatest line of all in this review. I could not stop laughing!

[@oliverstevens3975]

10. Matrix 9. Jurassic Park 8. Princess Bride 7. Inception 6. Back to the Future 5. Raiders of the Lost Ark 4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 3. Terminator 2 2. Star Wars original trilogy 1. LOTR trilogy

[@danielmashanic5738]

Good list dude.

[@kalkent7845]

The last crusade was better than raiders

[@yourmama3515]

Emoji Movie is ahead of these lol

[@crazyjew878]

Replace Monty Python with Saving Private Ryan and Inception with Black Hawk Down

[@filiporvik2782]

Star Wars ain't one movie bro.

[@hussain1921]

best movie and trilogy of all time.

[@jennifere.pergola598]

The end sequence where Frodo sails into the West with the Elves is basically his death, so him saying good-bye to his friends and sweetly smiling at them before leaving, combined with the heartbreaking music throughout the scene, has almost everyone who watches it bawling.

[@DanishDelusions]

14:10 is the moment that made me subscribe. fucking awesome Jeremy. A++

[@ricardomendoza-oy8mp]

NAAAZGUUUL GET THE FFFFFUCK OVER THEEERE

[@TheDark4light]

watched that scene so many times... still funny.

[@watvid1]

Yes! We share our favourite movie of all time! Lotr will never ever ever be topped

[@ft9640]

+watvid1 yeah probably never

[@dylanwillick7919]

+Joe Croker while I love Harry Potter, I just don't think it can match the LOTR. The first two movies seem a little childish, the third is definitely the high point (for me) the fourth is a let down I think, fifth is good, but I don't really like how angry Harry is, the sixth is awesome and the seventh has a weak first part and a pretty badass conclusion. The LOTR is just amazing from beginning to end and even though there are more main characters and less run time (I think) the characters are better developed and I have more empathy for them. Also Harry Potter has too much dues ex machina, and yes I'm aware of the Eagles.

[@little_tish8452]

I watch the trilogy reviews when I'm feeling down and it always cheers me up. Thanks Jeremy :-)

[@rothon3805]

Me and my dad quote Aragorn's speech ALL THE TIME! "There may come a day when the strength of man fails... BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY!" Ugh so great!

[@vivekbarran4323]

My top 5: 1- Lord of the Rings The Return of the King 2- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 3- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 4- The Matrix 5- The Shawshank Redemption

[@mudgatebronn4438]

top 3 movies ever: 3: The last airbender 2. The phantom menace 1. batman and robin (love that movie so much)

[@4disndat2unme]

You're gonna get so much hate for that comment. Just letting you.

[@richardnixon4219]

I just.. I just can't even believe what I just read... Is this hell?

[@mudgatebronn4438]

No it's just sarcasm ;)

[@paradoxacres1063]

MudgateBronn Should've added a Twilight movie for maximum effect :)

[@aquademonic713]

the sarcasm is strong with this one.

[@TheBandy98]

Man, by the looks in the comment section I think alot of people need to catch up on some of the classics lol. 1. The Lord of the Rings 2. The Dark Knight 3. The Shawshank Redemption 4. The Empire Strikes Back 5. Pulp Fiction 6. The Godfather Part II 7. Fight Club 8. Inception 9. The Godfather 10. Raiders of the Lost Ark 11. Interstellar 12. The Matrix 13. Jurassic Park 14. Gladiator 15. Star Wars 16. Se7en 17. GoodFellas 18. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 19. Forrest Gump 20. Die Hard

[@TheBandy98]

Daniel Mellon Old list, but thanks anyway.

[@nicksketch7122]

Top 20 Greatest Films of All Time(IMHO): 1. LOTR - (All 3 make One Film) 2. The Shawshank Redemption 3. Citizen Kane 4. Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back 5. The Godfather Part II 6. The GoodFellas 7. The Godfather Part I 8. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly 9. Schindler's List 10. Saving Private Ryan 11. The Wizard of Oz 12. Jurassic Park 13. Terminator 2 Judgement Day 14. Forest Gump 15. Pulp Fiction 16. Star Wars A New Hope 17. LOGAN 18. Apocolypse Now 19. The Green Mile 20. Die Hard

[@trihardcx6743]

Sharkboy & Lavagirl blows LOTR out of the water.

[@_stalker_43]

Amadeus

[@shaggyrogers7986]

Agreed, all good movies, obviously people nowdays watch superhero shits or shitty entertainment movies like FNF, Transformers which is sad.

[@joetheperformer]

Another thing to consider is that Frodo bore the burden of Gandalf's death all the way till the end. He never knew until he saw Gandalf in Minas Tirith. Anyway, awesome review!

[@angusbhattacharya2734]

from the moment sam says I cant carry the ring but i can carry you mr Frodo to the end of the movie i am in tears

[@cjkalandek996]

This was my dad's favorite movie. And I sang that end credits song (Into The West) at his funeral.

[@Adenfall]

Sorry your father passed away.

[@colleenross8752]

He's at peace in Valinor now

[@theviper1999uk]

My favorite movies: 10 Grown ups 9 jack and Jill 8 grown ups 2 7 the garbage pail kids 6 moshi monsters movie 5 batman and robin 4 the phantom menace 3 freddy got fingered 2 plan 9 from outer space 1 the room

[@jmm9618]

I'most not trying to offend your opinion, but all those movies are really bad

[@rybrentmannftw]

He's trolling

[@madtiger3131]

Know way a human being could say that. TROLL?

[@paulvanderkolf7986]

Put on your methrill...we got a troll to slay

[@joshwilkins9138]

Yeah, uh, I know Jeremy said that there aren't really wrong answers here, but, um, that's the wrong answer. 😐

[@Antoinegch]

The Lord of the rings trilogy is my favorite of all time for many reasons , but I think for a movie to become your ultimate favorite , you should really feel a connection , something that cuts through the screen, that sense of belonging and total comfort when watching the movies. And that's what I feel when I watch LOTR

[@dangerdan09inc]

14:35 Nazgul get the fuck over there!! LOLOOLOLOLOOL!!! That was the moment when i finally subscribed.

[@CarlosHernandezM]

HAHA! Yeah, that was totally awesome!

[@samdean8182]

One moment Jeremy didn't talk about that is one of my favorite scenes in this or any of the LOTR films is the Gandalf & Pippin talk about the afterlife

[@samponcho3412]

On the topic of the endings, I think one of the most powerful moments in the entire trilogy is when the four hobbits are sitting in the green dragon, just looking at each other with this silent understanding. A very short but deep moment.

[@linkbiff1054]

No movie made since ROTK has topped it.

[@alexturlais8558]

Dark night?

[@linkbiff1054]

Alex Turlais That movie is overrated beyond belief. ROTK blows it out of the water.

[@alexturlais8558]

link biff avengers?

[@linkbiff1054]

Alex Turlais Still overrated. All LOTR flicks have deep character development, symbolism, chemistry, meaning...all of which Avengers either does not have or have little of. I did like The Avengers. Far better than Dark Knight, but not quite at the LOTR levels.

[@alexturlais8558]

link biff true, but i enjoyed all 3 films.

[@MUFCLEGEND123]

Jeremy Jahns i say you are...... Awesometacular

[@greynose19]

True dat!!

[@scr50100]

favorite film of all time: LOTR (obviously)

[@brendanlittle2498]

Aragorn is one of the coolest characters ever and the scene when everyone bows to the 4 hobbits was incredible. I would also like to say I’m a 20 year old who just watched these movie for the first time and Éowyn is one of the most badass characters in the whole trilogy.

[@fabulousmyriad267]

Watching this review is bringing back heavy LOTR nostalgia. "Gaah emotion.." sums it up exactly. Thanks for sharing on this excellent trilogy of films.

[@iLive4Music87]

Top 3 movies of all time, all trilogies: 3) Lord of the Rings trilogy 2) Dark Knight trilogy 1) Original Star Wars trilogy

[@peterclark6603]

Agree that those 3 are the best, in my opinion it's between LOTR and Star Wars for first

[@MrBurgundy76]

Peter Clark yeah i would put tdk over lotr if tdk wouldve had a better final movie. rises is good, but a huuuuuuuuuuuge comedown from begins and dark knight, even moreso than jedi from star wars and empire.

[@iLive4Music87]

To you, it was. To me, it wasn't.

[@iLive4Music87]

I was under the impression that that was implied, but I guess I was wrong.

[@ogbee9690]

Dude LOTR trumps both those by a landslide in like literally every category

[@AlejandroGonzalez-gh1to]

The scene where Aragorn gets crowned king and sings had me in tears and then him seeing Arwen and kissing her got me even more

[@zoomerjack5435]

Bilbo was offered to go to the Undying Lands because he was a Ring Bearer

[@colleenross8752]

Sam also sailed for the same reason

[@prismaticbeetle3194]

at the end of this movie i was sobbing like a girl

[@gelshman1858]

Tarek Chamas I was trying not to succeded but almost

[@Xelpherpolis]

1. Lord of the Rings trilogy 2. Original Star Wars trilogy 3. Blade Runner 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey 5. To Kill a Mockingbird 6. Serenity 7. Lawrence of Arabia 8. Almost Famous 9. Princess Mononoke 10. Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)

[@DAMrepublic]

The Dark Knight should be there imo.

[@Xelpherpolis]

The Dark Knight is somewhere in the top 20.

[@claytonkrumm143]

An Unexpected Journey - 94% The Desolation of Smaug - 94% The Battle of the Five Armies - 90% The Fellowship of the Ring - 99% The Two Towers - 99% The Return of the King - 99% Overall - 96% Best movie franchise ever, nothing matches it in my opinion

[@EmptyShaft]

You sir obviously are not a true fan of the lotr series, the hobbit did not deserve over 65%, it was a 300 page book dragged on over 3 2 1/2 hr movies! It was a huge letdown for most lotr fans

[@claytonkrumm143]

+EmptyShaftProductions Look, I will be one of the first people to admit that these movies have flaws: the overuse of cgi in over-the-top sets was comical at points, there was a lot of filler, and the pacing was significantly slower than it needed to be. If these movies had been condensed into one long, fast paced movie, with practical effects than it would have rivaled LotR (in my opinion). But it wasn't, and it was still dragged out over three films to milk our wallets, but I still love them anyways. Maybe it is some irrational love for anything Tolkien regardless of it's quality. I don't know, all I know is that I was able to enjoy and love these movies more than most. (and I'm sorry, but this really bugs me, and I'm not trying to sound mad) What is with this "real fan" nonsense? Do I have to criticize people who like the Hobbit movies and criticize people who don't like LotR to be a "real fan"? Do I have to accuse someone of being idiotic or "fake" just because they liked movies that I didn't? If anything, you should be happy that someone was able to enjoy these movies that you deem as disappointments.

[@claytonkrumm143]

+EmptyShaftProductions Also, it was a disappointment initially for me, initially I did not like the first Hobbit movie so much so that I refused to watch the second, and had to be dragged to the third. But I ended up liking the third movie a lot, so much so that I was inspired to watch LotR for the first time. After that, I re-wached the hobbit movies and i liked them more, for me, they got better every time I watched them, same as LotR. And let me be clear, I do not think that the hobbit movies are as good as LotR, but I do love them just the same.

[@AntonChigurh-]

An Unexpected Journey - 6/10 The Desolation of Smaug - 6/10 The Battle of the Five Armies - 5/10 - 5.7/10 overall The Fellowship of the Ring - 10/10 The Two Towers - 9/10 The Return of the King - 10/10 - 9.7/10 overall.

[@MoviesAreWesomeYeah]

+Clayton Krumm An Unexpected Journey - 75% The Desolation of Smaug - 68% The Battle of the Five Armies - 51% The Fellowship of the Ring - 95% The Two Towers - 90% The Return of the King - 99% Overall - 85%

[@caiopatric]

7:41 "ahh you're just annoying me Michelle Rodriguez" came out of fucking left field and i was slain with laughter.

[@grandsonofvader]

Ah, The Lord of The Rings... The Pinnacle of Human Achievement.

[@Muskateering]

@Derp Inshmurtz No he means what the director, cast and whole crew all managed to pull off.

[@kaffezlatte]

This video seriously brought tears to my eyes.

[@lewishill9920]

how. Is it when he says for frodo

[@MsAbixxx]

NAZGUAL!!!! GET THE FUCK OVER THERE! DX Best part :P

[@hvitekristesdod]

I love that Gollum ends up saving the world from Frodo, it totally makes the pity that Frodo and Bilbo had for Gollum and Gandalf’s speech about Gollum having an important plot to play incredibly important to the overall outcome

[@calebhorowitz8057]

My favorite movies: 1: The Lord of the Rings (my favorite is The Return of the King) 2: Once Upon a Time in the West 3: The Princess Bride 4: Inception 5: The Beaver (An overlooked masterpiece) 6: The Dark Knight 7: The Shawshank Redemption 8: Serenity (With the context of having watched all of Firefly) 9: Pirates of the Caribbean (I'm that weird person who actually likes World's End best) 10: Finding Nemo 11: Captain America: The Winter Soldier 12: Toy Story 3 13: Braveheart 14: X-Men: First Class 15: Dead Poet's Society 16: Kung Fu Panda 2 17: Heathers (Almost like Mean Girls in the 80's, but with murder) 18: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 19: Mockingjay Part 1 20: Saint Vincent I'ts pretty hard to put them all in order like this, and I'm probably forgetting some, but that's my best guess as to my top 20.

[@RowUnbeat]

Good list

[@frodobaggins6684]

Lotr is by far my favorite movie!!!! :)

[@PolaireOfAstora]

They have internet in the Undying Lands? Huh...

[@Lucario340]

I see you

[@PolaireOfAstora]

Sauron IT IS NOT THIS DAY.

[@frodobaggins6684]

Sauron get the fuck away from me

[@Lucario340]

***** You cannot hide

[@jkdoorbinnia]

These are my personal favorites. Top 3 standalone Movies: 1. Inception 2. Forest Gump 3. Titanic Top 3 trilogies: 1. The Lord Of The Rings 2. The Dark Knight Trilogy 3. The Bourne Trilogy

[@awesome420ication]

peter jackson is the only one who can make an awesometacular live action dragon ball z movie. He knows how to bring large scale high octane epic shit to the screen and have it be extremely faithful to the original material. I heard that people never thought it was possible to bring LOTR to the big screen but he did it.

[@ProtestantsRUs]

woah, no live action dbz, terrible idea, especially when we are getting plenty of animated dbz to spare

[@francois7487]

+awesome420ication he wasn't that faithful to the original material. Read the books

[@kipperbill]

+Francois vn there was no way (and he knew this) that he could fit the books into these films (and also in a way that everyone could relate to)

[@francois7487]

KipperBill​​ obviously. Point is that certain parts of the story changed. I'm not complaining about it. I just know that there were quite a few changes. Like the one where Saruman dies in the extended movie wasn't even in the book.  Saruman ends up taking over the shire etc

[@ProtestantsRUs]

Francois vn stop crying about stupid bullshit like that

[@YoeLuis87]

My Ranking of my Top 21 favorites movie of all time are: 1:The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 2:The Dark Knight 3:Star Wars Trilogy 4:Batman Begins 5:The Terminator 6:Terminator 2 Judgment Day 7:The Matrix 8:Back to the Future Trilogy 9:X Men Days of Future Past 10:X Men First Class 11:Spiderman 2 12:Spiderman 13:Mission Impossible 2 14:Mission Impossible 3 15:Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol 16:Mission Impossible 17:The Avengers 18:Man of Steel 19:Predator 20:Face/Off 21:Toy Story Trilogy

[@joshuailes7040]

Do you like the hobbit?

[@YoeLuis87]

Joshua Iles I haven't watch either of the three films sorry

[@cjflores237]

Bullshit toy story trilogy take one slot?

[@joshuailes7040]

***** ok, do you like narnia because your profile pic is aslan

[@YoeLuis87]

Joshua Iles You re not going to believe me but i forgot to put the Narnia trilogy in my list and yes is one of my favorite Trilogy of all time along with The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars Trilogy

[@Timi116]

Lord of the Rings truly is THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE!

[@melissaberges702]

The best review of the best film of all time that i have ever seen. I actually teared up while you were talking because it reminded me so much of the epicness of the film. Definitely watching it again tonight! Thanks

[@metalmadsen]

LOTR is also my favorite movie - Nothing will ever compare.

[@zechboswell]

“Certainty of death, small chance of success, what are we waiting for?”- Gimli

[@tSp289]

The Frodo/ Sam thing is really poignant because it is a fairly well-off and educated aristocrat, and a humble rural bumpkin, being put under absolute nightmare conditions and keeping each other alive. Basically, it was him (2nd Lieutenant Tolkien) and the men under his command. You can tell from that relationship that Tolkien was the kind of officer who had great humanity and utmost respect for his soldiers: 'a deep sympathy and feeling for the Tommy; especially the plain soldier from the agricultural counties.' Sam is that Tommy, and there are elements of Tolkien in Frodo, and I have no doubt that Mordor with is blackened waste, ash, stink and pools of foul water, is the Somme.

[@Ayden-Woodruff]

shit tolkein fought in the somme? that explains alot

[@tSp289]

Ayden Woodruff Yeah. Most of his closest friends from school and uni were killed in the war. He would probably have died there himself had he not been hospitalised with trench fever, as his entire regiment suffered hideous losses, some nearly wiped out including his own. You can kind of see where he's coming from with his themes of Saruman's machines of war tearing up green countryside and ruining everything.

[@martian14]

I'm here from the future. Young Jeremy looks funny.

[@CharissaAlex]

Return of the King is the greatest movie, greatest story ever told. There will never be another. The score, the friendships, the despair, the characters, the victories.. just.. all of it. My friends, you bow to no one. When did a movie ever make you cry like that?

[@brandonryder5873]

" my friends you bow to no one" is the part I tear up every time

[@40772193]

Lord of the Rings is my favourite ever film/trilogy ever! I just finished studying Film Production in University and the Lord of the Rings is literally my biggest inspiration for that, it is my aspiration and again my inspiration on why I want to travel, see the world, write and visit, work and retire into New Zealand. Watching the trilogy always gets me in tears every time, because in the end, that is the end and I've seen the trilogy over 100 times. I'm actually getting so emotional right now. It makes me so sad that there will never ever be a film as beautiful as this, if you were to compare any film ever made to this trilogy, you could say that the industry is dead, I know it isn't as I still love a lot of films but damn, this trilogy is why who I am today. I can't believe it's taken me this long to find Jeremy's review of this when I've been watching him for a couple of years now, i'm ashamed haha. Also, to find out that Jeremy's favourite film of all time, after so long is the same as mine, it makes me so happy haha.

[@Preda.Y]

"Osgiliath's this little town divided by a river" Umm no, more like it's the original capital of Gondor, goddamnit!! From the days before Sauron returned! DOES IT LOOK LIKE A LITTLE TOWN JEREMY??? Boromir basically says how important that place is, and why it's critical to the country!

[@nilubensonofnimruzir1637]

Well he isn't a LOTR expert.

[@evanritchey885]

Still doesn't change that buddy who sent his son there is a dick

[@Preda.Y]

The movies don't do justice to Denethor's character

[@LateStageCap]

No, I like the actor playing Denethor, but the direction they went with him was terrible. They turned a character who was essentially Tywin Lannister (GoT show style) into a token bad character like Lex Luthor or any Twilight Saga villian. And Jeremy has read the books and seen the extended, he's aware that Osgiliath is indeed very important, but in Jackson's adaption, its importance and size is reduced, so for the purpose of shortening down a review that's already pretty long, "a little town divided by a river" is a decent representation of its importance to the movie's canon

[@jasonb9562]

The scene with the four Hobbits in the bar is the saddest scene to me. The things they saw and the things they did during the war make it impossible for them to just go back to living their normal lives. Frodo needed to leave because he was scarred beyond any sort of healing. I would imagine this is what Tolkien felt like coming back from the war.

[@kevincheng81]

Amazing review for an amazing movie.

[@rio20d]

The Battle of Pelennor Fields is probably the best battle scene in LoTR trilogy, now I am really looking forward to see Battle of the five armies on the third film of Hobbit..I hope it would be an epic scene, to see Men of Dale ( from Laketown), Thranduil's Elven Armies, Iron Hills dwarfs, and Great Eagles join forces fighting againts the orcs, goblins, bats and warg armies

[@StarWarsROTJ1983]

1. Star Wars trilogy 2. LOTR trilogy 3. Dark Knight trilogy 4. Back to the Future trilogy 5. The Godfather trilogy (Part III kinda sucks) Honorable mentions: Toy Story Unfortunately, Indiana Jones is no longer a trilogy. The Hobbit trilogy will probably be an honorable mention once it's complete.

[@StarWarsROTJ1983]

Also, The Lion King. The first one is brilliant, the second one is the only Disney direct-to-video sequel that I like. 1 1/2 serves it purpose as a kids' movie, and it had some catchy songs.

[@KnightsaysNi]

I don't understand this statement "Indiana Jones is no longer a trilogy." There are only three movies in that franchise. Only three I say!

[@Stardweller1]

Frodo and Sam: Not a hero and a sidekick, but two heroes. Middle-Earth owed them both more than it will ever acknowledge.

[@jondonom]

Frodo gets to go to the undying lands and Sam gets hottest bae in the shire. I think middle-earth has awarded them properly.

[@tristanmylo5299]

Fun fact: Something big actually happened in the book that never happened in the movie is the Scouring Of The Shire. While Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin were gone; Saruman survived and he completely destroyed the Shire with the help of Ruffians. Peter Jackson never put this in the movie because he wanted a happier ending than in the books.

[@ric1194]

Yeah it's one of the things I prefer that the movie did and the book did, its much better version in the movie because the Scouring of the shire just didn't feel necessary to me in the book.

[@PinkyPowers]

The first movie I can remember thinking, "This is my favorite movie," was Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. I was 8. A year later, Jurassic Park replaced it. Jurassic Park held that position for the rest of the decade... until 1999, with The Matrix. I expected The Matrix to remain at the top of my list forever. And it probably would have. But in Christmas of 2001, The Fellowship of the Ring came out, and truly changed my life. I know it sounds silly, a movie changing your life, but I'm not exaggerating. I came out of The Lord of the Rings a different person. Nearly 20 years later, it's till my favorite.

[@jamesdalebozeman]

16:57-17:06 - Actually, that's not why he left. He had changed drastically over the course of the journey, corruption seeping into him through the Ring. And he didn't want the Shire to be tainted by the evil that he still had with him. He had to save the Shire one last time.

[@somuchsalt2810]

My favorite movies ever 1. Return of the King 2. Pulp Fiction 3. Forest Gump 4. Empire Strikes Back 5. the Dark Knight 6. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles 7. Whiplash 8. Stand By Me 9. Anchorman 10. Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 (Tarantino considers them 1 movie, so I do to)

[@trequor]

Whiplash is so good. My favourite movie of all time is Django: Unchained

[@MrSiloforreal]

It is my favorite movie of all time also.