Staebs said:

Prodrummer1603 said:

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-97esNc

It’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.

FYI:
I tried to cut out the Gandalf vs Witchking scene. You have to use scenes from the Theatrical Cut to make it work. Sadly the encoding of the Theatrical Bluray is of lower quality which means that the grain structure and detail is not as consistent as in the Extended Cut. Will have to make some tests on my 65" OLED if I can spot a difference.
The Extended Cut also pushes green a little more but I cut on camera changes so you wont spot it. Gladly the music and sound blends over without any issues.

EDIT:
Did a run on my OLED. I would be lying if there was no difference. But the differences in picture quality between the Theatrical Scenes and Extended Scenes are so minor that only nit-picky nerds would care 😃