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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 1276806" data-attributes="member: 4779">I said the same thing to a friend right after the movie about the fades.  It was almost like he was trying to trick the audience.  Slow wipes or quicker fades may have worked better, I'm not sure. Considering I don't remember the books at all (except for a few of the names) I stayed with Return of the King pretty well.  I could tell there were a few things missing but the movie was already 3 1/2 hours long.  We'll get the Extended with an extra hour tacked on for sure. Things I want to see (keep in mind I am not referencing the books in any way as I don't remember them): - An explaination about Denethor and a little more build up.  The madness worked but I didn't understand fully why given the film's explaination of his character.  There was enough to have it not take away from the experience but I feel there should be a little more there. - I want to see Eowyn and Eomer hook up onscreen.  Seemed important after all they went through individually and they were together at the wedding. - More stuff with the city-o-the dead.  It was a tad quick.  Heck, throw about 20 more minutes of Aragorn in there.  I guess from reading this thread that there is enough material from the book to plug in there to round things out for him.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> As for things like some folks not understanding why Frodo left, I would actually like to keep that scene as is and not add an in-movie explaination.  I got it right off the bat and felt the drain on Frodo simply by his actions in the epilogue to that point.  He would never be the same and therefore had to leave the world behind.  He had basically died but a little part of him lived on, just enough to say his goodbyes. I'll be seeing this again a few times over the holidays and will watch my EE DVDs heavily.  I plan on reading the books again, which would basically be for the first time, after the RotK EE is released.  I'm interested to see what I think of them.  I have liked every novel that a movie has been based on better than the film with the exception of Fight Club.  We shall see.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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