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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ControlFreak" data-source="post: 1277009" data-attributes="member: 899">I loved the movie. I was at the local Trilogy showing on Tuesday, and then saw it again Wednesday evening with my wife.Anyway, here were a few of the things that bothered me:- The Palantir at Isengard along with the lack of any confrontation between Gandalf and Saruman and the breaking of Saruman's staff.- The relationship between Pippin and Denethor, the lack of Denethor's Palantir, and the flaming, running, jumping Denethor.- The black fleet (I'll come back to this)- House of Healing - but I did hear that it was all filmed (including the whole Faramir/Eowyn relationship) so we'll certainly see it in the EE, but didn't wounds seem to heal a little too fast? Certainly that was the case with Merry.- The Mouth of Sauron and Frodo's mithril shirt - again, I heard that the role of the Mouth of Sauron was cast and filmed, so hopeful for the EE.- I understand them leaving out the Scouring of the Shire, but I still hate that they did. They could have practically made that film IV <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />- At the end, Sam says, "Well, I'm back," and walks inside .. into 3 Bagshot Row!? Did Frodo sell Bag End so he'd have extra cash in Valinor?- Pet Peeve - I don't know about you guys, but it kills a little of the immersion for me when I see Peter Jackson's kids in every movie wearing different hairstyles. They've been in the Shire, in Helm's Deep, and in Minas Tirith, and every time I see them now I sigh out loud.Anyway .. back to the black fleet. I actually spoke to a friend about this earlier and he reminded me that it was actually only 1 page in the book, but I still think it was under-done in the movie. I'll 'splain:The good armies are doing their best and making enough small victories to keep hope alive. The evil army is taking heavy losses but have breached the city gates. A black fleet appears on the shore and the good forces are emotionally CRUSHED! The orcs cheer as their reinforcements arrive just when they can use them. Suddenly, the banner of the Kings of Gondor comes into view at the top of the mast. Emotions are completely reversed and the tide of the battle is changed.I don't know .. I just didn't think there was the emotion that there needed to be there.CF</blockquote>

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