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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Assenpfeffer" data-source="post: 1278387" data-attributes="member: 9061">I'm too involved with evaluating the film as an adaptation of the books to really properly evaluate it as a film on the first viewing.  Nevertheless, I think I'll end up liking this one at least as much as TTT.  I'll likely go see it again tomorrow.My bugs:The pacing seemed off to me - the film just moved too fast.  This made it less of a chore to sit through, but not so great a film as it otherwise might have been.  It should have been 4 hours.  I expect the EE to fix this, but waiting another year is going to grate.Since it was announced back before the release of FotR, I've been defending Jackson's decision to cut the Scouring of the Shire as unnecessary and anticlimactic.  Yet, at the end of RotK, I felt the lack of it.The Armies of the West circling up on the hills before the Black Gate is right out of the book, save that there is no hill in the movie.  After musing on it for several days, I think that the sight of the Black Bate, open, and Barad-dur beyond as the Host of Mordor marches through is one of the most awe-inspring sight of the film.I though the "searchlight" effect of the Eye was a bit cheesy, but not jarringly so.  And it's very much like it's described in the book.Eowyn vs. the Witch-King:  This was one of the scenes from the book that I felt Jackson needed to absolutely nail, but unlike Gandalf vs. the Balrog (which he got exactly right,) he didn't quite.  I really wanted that dialogue, both from Eowyn and the Witch-King.</blockquote>

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