The Aluminum Falcon said:
The first change is removing the silly scene at the start of disc 2, the one where Peter Jackson gets shot by Legolas by mistake when Gimli nudges Legolas´s bow when he shoots, then Gimli has a very silly Oops reaction. It was removed for two reasons, the first being that its very cheesy and silly and comes across more as a Peter Jackson and crew cameo fanboy scene than a proper scene in the film that serves a real purpose. The second and more important reason is that it reveals the Army of the Dead too early, taking power away from their dramatic entrance into the battle of Pelennor Fields later in the film. The theatrical release did this much better without this superfluous scene IMHO so I have returned it to how it was in the theatrical release.
While I feel that removing scenes seems to go a bit beyond the scope of what you seem to have been trying to do here (couldn’t you at least have also released a version with those scenes intact, if color-correction was the main point here?), I do agree that this particular part took away from the movie. Ever since I first saw the extended cut, I just felt that actually showing us 1: that the Army of the Dead accepted Aragorn’s offer, and 2: them commandeering the corsairs’ ships, really took away from their eventual Big Damn Heroes moment in Gondor. Especially seeing how it was already fine the way it was in the theatrical cut, just “What say you?!” and then we don’t see Aragorn again at all until he arrives during the battle. Just… the moment he jumps off that ship, we already know everything we needed to know about what happened in-between. And this is a thought I had when I was twelve.
I prefer the extended cuts in general, but for this particular moment… yeah it was better in the theatrical cuts.
Though to prevent this from just being a pointless revival of an ancient thread, I’m curious, since this seems to be a recurring problem with these movies… Was Battle of the Five Armies also excessively green? I would just check, but being that I honestly never noticed a problem with any of the previous movies anyway, I probably wouldn’t even be able to tell.