Originally posted by: ShiftyEyes
With all the people bitching about the how long the ending of ROTK is, they probably made the right choice.
Originally posted by: BrikHaus81
Surprisingly enough, I rewatched all the extended versions of these movies this week. The first two times I watched them I thought they were great. This time, however, all I could think while sitting there was, that Peter Jackson and his wife are really shitty screenwriters. Take, for example, the missing scourging of the shire. Apparently this wasn't in the movie because Jackson didn't like it in the book. So apparently, he thinks he could write a better ending than Tolkien. If they ever film The Hobbit they should really let someone else do the script.
What are you talking about? They did an amazing job adapting the books (well, I personally didn't care for the liberties they took with TTT, but...). And they didn't try to "write a better ending than Tolkien." It's the same ending, they just omit the Scouring.Surprisingly enough, I rewatched all the extended versions of these movies this week. The first two times I watched them I thought they were great. This time, however, all I could think while sitting there was, that Peter Jackson and his wife are really shitty screenwriters. Take, for example, the missing scourging of the shire. Apparently this wasn't in the movie because Jackson didn't like it in the book. So apparently, he thinks he could write a better ending than Tolkien. If they ever film The Hobbit they should really let someone else do the script.
With all the people bitching about the how long the ending of ROTK is, they probably made the right choice.
I think they did an amazing job of adapting FOTR. After watching the commentary of TTT and ROTK and continually hearing "We decided to change this" (for TTT) and "Since we changed this in TTT we had to do this differently" (for ROTK), I got tired of it. I kept thinking "and if you hadn't have changed it here, you wouldn't have had to change it there". They nearly did the same thing in FOTR (if you listen to the commentary, they mention wanting to change a lot), but they decided not to because "it just worked better". Duh!
Aside from that, I agree about the people that bitched about the ending. I know someone who did exactly that. "End already!" is what he said about it. I was like "Did you read the book? It's exactly the same!"
I think on the commentary of ROTK they even mention that if they had released all 3 movies at once, they would have stayed much closer to the book since you'd be watching them all in one sitting. I certainly wouldn't have minded that given an intermission (which is what was done on Trilogy Tuesday).