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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KidCthulhu" data-source="post: 1289860" data-attributes="member: 26">Saw it three times in rapid succession over the holiday week.  Favorite moments1)Pippin singing to Denethor - I agree with barsoomcore that this was Billy Boyd's movie.  We knew Sam would rock (and he did), but Pippin was a pleasant surprise.  It was nice of PJ to recognize Pip's potential as an observer and everyman and use it to tell the story.2) The moment when the Fellowship knew Frodo had succeeded, followed by their immediate realization of what this meant.  Within seconds you had "Frodo's alive!"  "Frodo did it!" "Frodo's dead".  And in the extended version this will follow the Mouth of Sauron, making it all the more beautiful.3) The charge.  It's been said many times, but damn is that good.4) Eowyn killing the Witch King.  I agree that it wasn't everything I'd been hoping for, but my expectations were damn high.I do love the Scouring of the Shire.  But I didn't miss it here, and I really thought I would.  The same precidents hadn't been set, because of the movie's subtle and not so subtle departures from the book.  Sauron really is more of a central evil in the movie.  To have him go, and then there still be trouble would rob the triumph, in the context of the film.Also, in the book, you get more time between the wrenching emotions of Sam and Frodo's struggle, the desperate feint by the men of the West, and the fall of Sauron, and the Scouring.  Chapters pass, full of coronations, weddings, judgements, trips to Rivendell.  You have time to wind down.  There really isn't that time in the movie, and it would really be hard on audiences to whip them around like that.  It's pacing, rather than anything else.Waiting for the EE for the Faramir/Eowyn stuff, the Mouth of Sauron, the Witch King/Gandalf scene, etc.  Apparently the Goonies monster Orc General is Gimli's boss monster, in a scene that will be restored in the EE.  He wasn't forgotten.</blockquote>

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