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| 4.5 superb | BillyBrill | June 26th 23 |
This is what the combination of the first two look like. Sweeping, epic, emotional like the second, with the simply iconic themes of the first. I will never not cry at the shire theme. Watch me watch the movies again and 5 this.
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| 3.5 great | charlopiano | April 23rd 21 |
Yes, it?s LOTR is the best film trilogy of all time, yes the score is amazing, bla bla bla. As an album, this is still the worst score out of the 3. At this point in the franchise, I feel like the greatest themes come from earlier in the series. As an album, it still embodies the problems of other scores on this list. It?s great, but it?s really not something I?d revisit a lot of. It works much better in the movie than on its own. That, plus the fact that it?s the worst score in the trilogy, makes it so, I understand why the score is here, but I also don?t quite agree. There are some films that I would die to revisit the soundtrack, but Return Of The King is not one of them, even though it?s a great score.
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| 0.0 | upagainstthewall | April 12th 09 |
This final chapter of Peter Jackson's sprawling adaptation of Tolkien's "Ring" trilogy closes out one of the most accomplished cycles in cinema--and film music--history. As he's done for the saga's first two installments, composer Howard Shore has honed a mature, brooding orchestral masterpiece that's long on subtle shadings of mood and nuance, while eschewing the hollow bombast that's characterized all too many mainstream action and adventure films for three decades. If anything, he's pared this chapter of his music for Middle Earth even closer to the bone, the trilogy's familiar themes repeated with a sparing hand that only heightens their dramatic power. Like Herrmann before him, Shore has a preternatural understanding of orchestral timbres and their almost mystical connections with human emotions, and he's used it here to close out this remarkable trilogy with Wagnerian dramatic sweep, yet one with a distinctly modern, understated melodic sense that is Shore's alone. James Galway and Renee Fleming make key instrumental and vocal contributions, respectively, while Annie Lennox's soulful "Into the West" makes the expected, if unobtrusive, bow to the theatrical pop song conventions.
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| 4.0 excellent | Ben STAFF | May 26th 24 |
| 5.0 classic | Kurai | April 2nd 24 |
| 5.0 classic | Emim | January 20th 24 |
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| 4.0 excellent | K3nsei69 | September 21st 20 |
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| 2.5 average | Ceg | August 5th 19 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Agonba | October 3rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | kabster | April 11th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | Simon K. STAFF | June 18th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | Since | April 6th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | maxer | April 4th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Nishe | July 25th 16 |
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| 4.5 superb | Smeg | November 18th 15 |
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| 4.0 excellent | elch21 | October 11th 15 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Lours | January 13th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | eljonny | November 6th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | kaca | April 2nd 14 |
| 5.0 classic | mifzal | June 17th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | mirfin | June 11th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Enhelm | March 3rd 13 |
| 3.0 good | Escain | January 15th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | mcchub | December 24th 12 |
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| 4.5 superb | Altmer | September 9th 08 |
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