Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo
How do you explain all those ppl watching FOTR right before seeing TTT then? To refresh their memory maybe? I get what you are saying but your comments actually back up the Director statements you seem upset with.

My point is, people took initiative to make sure they hadn't forgotten. A LOT of people did that. They didn't need the director to cut things out of TTT and ROTK in order to "help them remember".

Go watch the commentary for FOTR. Then watch the one for TTT and ROTK. They took A LOT more liberties with TTT and ROTK. In FOTR PJ plainly states "We were going to change this, but we decided not to afterall". Can you imagine the backlash they would've received if they had changed to much? After FOTR was a success, they were pretty much free to change things as they pleased. Hence, you get Aragorn "dying" in the Warg attack and Faramir becoming a completely different character.

The only thing, in my mind, that they really needed to cut was the Tom Bombadil stuff from FOTR. That part was a good chunk of the book, but it was essentially just there to show how large the LOTR world was. Changing Faramir and Aragorn's character was completely unnecessary. And with the amount of "endings" that ROTK has, having the Hobbits fight one last battle in the Shire wouldn't have been that big of a problem. I know a couple of people that said "end already!" at the end of ROTK because of all the things that happen at the end of that movie. But there's nothing you can do about someone like that (he's more like a film critic than your average movie goer). Just make the best movie you can without sacrificing the content in order to "dumb it down".