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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 1479009" data-attributes="member: 3570">Almost everyone prefers the FOTR EE to the original theatrical release and I find this very curious.  Its nice but the original is darn near frame perfect for THREE HOURS with the exception of a couple of CG shots in Moria.There's *nothing* I don't like in FOTR, but in FOTR EE, there are several things.  The extra long opening for one.  As Peter Jackson says in the commentary, it doesn't have as smooth an artistic rhythm to have the narration shared by Galadriel and Bilbo as when it was just Galadriel.  And it really doesn't add anything to our knowledge of Hobbits or Hobbiton that the original version doesn't contain.  Just slows the opening down, and less artistically.  Plus I really love how Frodo is introduced with the Hobbit theme and FOTR title card in the original, and that's lost in the EE.Then there's Sam and Frodo seeing the Wood Elves departing.  Its a cool scene, but I find it somewhat diminishes the impact of Arwen's grand entrance.Then there's the Boromir's temptation at the Council of Elrond.  This is a big one.  I find it extremely hard to believe that the Fellowship would allow him to join them after he almost gives in to the Ring after two minutes of temptation right in front of everyone!  And I don't like the flow of how everyone basically shrugs off having witnessed the sky darken, Sauron's voice, and Gandalf getting all in a huff before get all cheery just moments later as the Fellowship is formed.  The original version had a much more elegant flow.Then there's Bilbo's mithril shirt.  In the original version he gives it to Frodo, Frodo gets stabbed, and Gimli is shocked to see a shirt made of mithril.  Its very evident when he delivers the line, "Mithril....." when Frodo opens his shirt.But in the EE we get an extremely long discourse when the Fellowship walks over the mithril mine about how amazing it is punctuated by Gandalf mentioning "oh yeah, and Bilbo had an extremely valuable shirt made entirely of mithril."  This scene diminishes the film in two ways: 1.  It reminds viewers about this unusual shirt because its the second mention of it, thereby potentially spoiling the initial surprise of how Frodo survives the spear, and 2. It really makes Gimli's comment odd.You'd think after Frodo opened his shirt Gimli would just say, "Ah he had Bilbo's shirt!"  Instead of "wow, mithril...."I really liked the first scene with Haldir in the original version, and Gimli's "Aragorn these woods are perilous!" line, which is cut out of the EE.  Again, it just flowed better.Otherwise I loved the extra action sequences, the extra bits with Aragorn (and the few with Arwen as well), more Galadriel is always a plus, and I especially enjoyed the poignancy of the extra scenes between Aragorn and Boromir.But it feels much less polished overall, a criticism I saw many make against ROTK, which they claimed was a contrast to FOTR EE.  Watching the EE in the theaters two weeks before ROTK was a wonderful experience, and I'd like that to be the "definitive version" but right now I have to agree with Peter Jackson that the original is the better and therefore truer version of the story.If you disagree I'd love to hear a counter opinion.  Why do you like FOTR EE better than FOTR?  Do you really think its "better" or do you just like seeing the extra footage, even if its hit and miss?</blockquote>

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