Reply #196: This LOTR nerd says [View All]

[Withywindle]

ROTK, theater edition, had some crappy-ass editing. WTF, PJ cuts out the whole interaction of Eowyn and Faramir in the Houses of Healing for some lingering endless CGI bullshit of Orlando Bloom on a giant elephant? We know you love your monsters, PJ, but this story is about characters, thank you very much. Don't turn into George Lucas on us, kthxbai.

The Extended Edition, collectively, all 12 hours of it, deserves truckloads of Oscars because they did an amazing job of the impossible. But yeah, theater-version wise, ROTK was the weakest of the three (and this is coming from someone who loves the TT movie, except for the fucking endless Helm's Deep battle, which I fast-forward every time until we get to Bernard Hill reciting Tolkien's poetry.)