It's 3:05am and I've just returned home from Trilogy Tuesday.  Yowch, that's a lot of movie!  I didn't fall asleep, which was a plus.  The theatre supplied a dinner (a slice of plain turkey on white bread, some chips and a cookie) between the first and second movie, and then Josh and I ran across the parking lot to Okoboji Grill between the second and third.  We all got "I Survived Trilogy Tuesday" t-shirts from Carmike and New Line gave out these little collectable frames with a piece of film from each of the three movies.

All in all I felt it was a pretty fun experience, kind of like waiting in line hours to see Star Wars when it was re-released - it's the experience of it that's half the fun, plus it's a great audience to see a movie like that with.

What did I think of Return of the King?  Without getting into too many specifics so as not to spoil the movie, it felt like action action action and then a really long conclusion.  By the end of the almost-12-hours, I was pretty ready to leave.  I would say, however, that knowing how the books ended, they needed to keep most of the ending there despite its length to fulfill expectations, and also that it likely would not have seemed so excessive had I not just watched the two extended editions of Fellowship and Towers right beforehand.