I recently rewatched the trilogy and these two are not as good as I remember them being. Lot of it is just action slop nonsense. Maybe it’s just the extended cut?
>>217820076LOTR has a great story and compelling characters, the action "slop" as you call it is just to make sure everyone in the audience is entertained including the kids
>>217820076Return of the King is the most action packed one, but its all worth it because its what the narrative has all been building too. I think the mistake people make now is try to watch these in one big sitting, or over the maybe two days. I remember feeling the same way the first time I watched it, but I rewatched the trilogy recently with about 4 days inbetween each movie to give myself some time to digest it all and it was perfect.Seeing the two leaders of Rohan and Gondor deal with the overwelming odds of being genocide by orcs on the eve of the age of men is pure kino.
Extended cut adds pointless crap to ruin the pacing.
>>217820076Part 1 is great,part 2's pretty goodpart 3's downright ugly
>>217820076they're unironically too long, especially 3.
>>217820076I love LOTR but the extended cuts are a fucking slog to get through the theatrical cuts are much better paced
>>217820298>>217820771>>217820777low attention span zoomers detected. All great epic movies are like 5 hours long and have an intermission in them.
>>217820795But the extended cuts are just five hours of loosely connected fluff. You might as well watch tiktok for five hours straight
>>217820076Fellowship is perfect from start to finish Gollum ruins the rest of the films crying like a bitch the entire runtime before frodo finally kicks his ass into a volcano. Fuck Andy Serkis, I wish they payed him even less
>>217820267yeah, makes sense. binge watching might ruin the experience.
>>217820811This, the added scenes don't mesh with each other that well. I don't think the extendeds are bad, they're worth watching once if you really love LOTR but I wouldn't watch them again.Removing Saruman's death in the theatrical was fucking retarded though.
>>217820872>Removing Saruman's deathI'm convinced that was a genuine mistake. I haven't met a single person who wasn't confused about that part of the movie (without the addition). It's an awkward transition and we never talk about him again
>>217820811everything included adds to the narrative and further explains things. The only really needless extended cut scene I can think of is when Gandalf explains that mithril was mined in the mines of moria>>217820823This is it. These movies had a year between each one. Watching this all at once is just too much and will overload you, even if you watch the theatrical cuts.
>>217820872>>217820926Do they now show Grima stabbing him in the back? This is a pretty crucial scene to end that plotline and it leads to Gandalf taking his palantir which is the big inciting incident in Return
>>217820984I think they skip over the palantir subplot entirely.
>>217820958>everything included adds to the narrative and further explains things.What purpose did the wacky scene where Merry and Pippin drank the entwash and got caught by a tree serve, except pointless fan service?
>>217821010I think it's in the theatrical release, too. Pippin just finds it in the water.
>>217821111Then Pippin sees the tree and Merry burning and becomes deeply traumatized. Then I remember Aragorn uses it to show Sauron he reforged the sword, and in turn Sauron shows him Arya dead (I believe that is only in the extended edition though).
>>217820076I didn't manage to watch LOTR until I was like 17, always fell asleep when it was on TV before that.
