I don’t find the extra scenes with Merry and Pippin that bad. They are not great but they don’t hurt either.
Find the scene with Eowyn and Aragorn (stew scene) more troubling.
And all the extra Army-of-Dead-Scenes in ROTK ruin the movie for me.
Thats why I Cut those.This guy actually edited that scene with Eowyn and Aragorn in a way that cuts around the out of place stew joke and keeps the mention of Aragorn’s age. It’s not a bad edit at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdbV-97esNcIt’s funny, like half the EE scenes (while I loved them as a kid watching the movies), just don’t really justify themselves worth keeping. Army of the Dead scenes that remove all later suspense, the stew scene, drinking game scene, Merry and Pippin, Gandalf vs the Witch King (this is the worst). But of course it’s different for everyone. Hal9000’s extended edit of Kerr’s edit (while it does certain things I dislike to try and stay closer to the book) literally makes pelennor fields so much better by cutting it in a way that maintains tension and doesn’t let the dead army immediately win. I am nowhere near talented enough to do things like that on my own, so I hope someone can make a “less extended edition” of the 4K EE Dremasters when they’re all done.
First we would have to agree on which scenes to Cut and which to Leave because whoever makes the Edit has to know If its worth putting the extra time into a Project.
I doubt there will be someone who makes an Edit just for one single guy. There must be a larger interest into the Edit.
I’m fine with leaving scenes in the Movie if they don’t hurt. They don’t have to be Quality scenes.
The drinking scene is okay. Legolas and Gimli have no real character arcs anyway so the drinking Scene
cant destroy what is Not there 😅
Both characters are for Comic Relief and the drinking Scene Doubles down on that.
I agree that the Battle between Gandalf and the Witchking is poorly executed even though the Idea is fine. It happend in the book so I get why Peter Jackson created the scene. If you remove this Scene you also have to remove the scene between the Witchking and the General orc “What about the White Wizard?” “I will crush him”.
You really have to be careful in how you Edit the Scenes otherwise you have Plot holes.