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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 468924" data-attributes="member: 2020">(this post is not intended as an insult to anyone)  Many people have become accustomed to quick gratification in films.  That is to say, there is action in the film (be it fights, chases, or whatever) very early on.  That is not the case in the extended version of FOTR.  Anyone seeking quick gratification is going to be disappointed.  Watching the extended version of FOTR properly, requires a little self-discipline.  Anyone who pays attention to the film, and does not interrupt the flow of the story by talking (or leaving and coming back ((is this the good part now, where they fight?)) will find themselves pulled into the story.  And once the story does pull you in, it does not let you out again.  You live the story along with the rest of the characters, and the film is rather hard on the viewer - it definitely leaves you shaken up and thoughtful.  It is not something you quickly put out of your mind, after seeing this film.  It is a powerful story.  It is more powerful than the books themselves, in my opinion (and, it is darker than the books, at least as the books came off to me.)  The suspense builds up throughout the film in a way greater than it did in the theatrical version.  A growing feeling of fear and of impending doom hits the viewer, is felt through empathy with the characters ... and the way in which the characters fight back against that growing fear and doom is valiant, noble, and seemingly futile.  Yet they keep trying, the main characters.  In the face of the death of Gandalf, they keep going.  In the face of the death of Boromir, they keep going.  It is almost incredulous, the way the main characters maintain their courage and fortitude in the face of the darkness that grips the film from the moment Bilbo is shown to be in pain, searching for the Ring, desperately needing it.  Obviously, the tension is not released at the end of the film.    You are left hanging.  As Tolkien intended.    This was, apparently, a point of complaint among non-Tolkien viewers.  The tension was racheted up to the point of unbearability, and then left that way at the end of the film.  Emotion took over from reason, and some viewers called it a bad film (they would hate the extended version far more) because the tension was not relieved, even though they knew it was only the first one-third of the story.</blockquote>

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