No unifying theme:

Only geeks wear glasses

Jet ski ramp on lagoa

Statues are worth every penny

Lagoa from 16th floor

Attempt at catching raindrops with the flash

The comprehensive theonering.net gives us spoiler pictures for Return of the King, and I’m getting worried.

The Two Towers was good; not as good as Fellowship, but still the best film of 2002. The thing that stopped it being better than its predecessor was the Quake-brown medieval aura surrounding it. Too much riding hither to battleth yonder orcs. It didn’t feel magic enough, and I don’t mean in the wand zapping sense. If I wanted to see a medieval film, I’d watch Evil Dead 3 again, which all of the battle scenes from TTT were stolen from anyway. Seeing these pictures of ROTK makes me think uh-oh. The battles are even bigger and the mud even browner. I know the story is about magic leaving the world and the age of men beginning, but films can easily be magical without featuring actual magic.

Please don’t ruin it, Mr Jackson. Give us more stuff like this Gollum plush doll. I don’t want the best film of 2003 to be Phone Booth.

Post Scriptum 19/1/2004: Phone Booth came third, after Pirates and ROTK.