so we opened our christmas presents a bit early since my wife and I will be working and running around a lot over the holiday and I finally got to see the TTT:EE.
I think its kind of hit and miss, which is how I see the TE of TTT as well. The added Merry/Pippin/treebeard stuff is great for the most part, as is most of the frodo stuff. The last thing this movie needed was more aragorn/Eowyn, infact most of the scenes with them in the middle of the movie should have been cut IMHo and left for the EE.
The boromir flashback is alright, though parts of it seem a bit contrived that Denethor would actually mention how the ring corrupts weaker men, it just seemed like they were trying to be too ironic knowing what happens, I like the Gondor men better when they are ignorant of the Ring's real power. Still the scene for the most part is good. I like most of the scenes in the first hour of the movie, alot of the others I can see why they were cut. The new ending is okay, but it kind of feels choppy, where as TTT:TE was the one film of the trilogy with a really good efficient too the point ending, I feel that is kind of lost now.
Oh well, still neat to see, and I love the special features. Tonight I'm going to have to sit down with some rubbing alcohol and use my wife's hair dryer to try and remove the annoying back label from the box without ripping the case.