People have complained the first movie had no ending. The same people thought the second movie had no ending. Finally we get to a proper ending, and now there are too many?
Sheesh.
It was a really good movie, and it really did go on much too long.
I thought the bedroom scene was awful. A reunion scene was needed, but it might’ve been the worst-executed thing in the trilogy. The whole thing did NOT have to be slo-mo, and that many slowed down reaction shots would’ve made any scene drag and look silly.
It was a good scene. Would’ve been a good ending, too.
It’s not that the scenes were unnecessary (that counts for the last two as well). Perhaps it’s just the way they were done. The movie felt like it ended five or six times. That’s bad. I enjoyed it and even I was wondering when they were going to just finish. There plot we’d spent 10 hours watching was concluded, so there was no pace or drama in any of these last scenes, which I think lasted about half an hour.
I’ve read the books and I never complained about the endings or some would say the lack there-of in the first two movies in the trilogy. I rather enjoyed the first two, but I felt the third had serious problems, mostly in that it needed more judicious editing, especially in the never-ending endings.
I agree with Marley in that the slowing down of the Frodos bedroom scene was just really bad, how else could I put it? It makes Gandalf look like some sort of insane man the way hes laughing, and the others look slightly possessed, but as for the neverending endings, I didnt think there were too many, it wrapped the films up rather nicely, the idea of just leaving Sam & Frodo on the rock? Please I think LOTR Fans across the globe would have been calling for Jacksons blood!
On a different note, just a small question regardsing the scene at the end of the movie when the Hobbits find themselves back in the pub? Did anyone else think the hobbit holding the pumpkin was the spitting image of Andy Serkis when he was done up as a hobbit in the flashback at the start of the movie?
If any of you go see the movie again, look for this, and see what you think, I thought it was him, of course I could be completely wrong… but I wondered, especially when you take into consideration that the Hobbit with the pumpkin is given a decent bit of screen time.
It was him.
And I bet everyone else knew, right?
How did I miss that?!
These sorts of crudely manipulative tripe really marred the movie for me. I desperately wanted a movie that would allow non-Tolkien fans to take it seriously. This made it, however much or little, a bit of a joke. I really liked that men cry and hold each other in this film(s). But the slow mo and melodrama tip over and fall down into goofy amatuerism pretty quickly.
the dozens of times in the movie where it looks like the hobbits are about to make out with eachother didn’t help the bedroom scene at the end either.
Well, why wouldn’t they? Pippin foresaw the attack on Minas Tirith through the palantir(though accidentally so), lit the first beacon to alert Rohan of Gondor’s need for aid, and saved Faramir’s life. Merry helped defeat the Witch King, who was “Sauron’s deadliest servant”, according to Gandalf. All four hobbits played significant roles in the fate of Middle Earth. Merry and Pippin deserved to be honored just as much as Frodo and Sam did.
Again, I think the execution was the issue. There were at least four long, slow fades to black, which (even though I knew the movie wasn’t ending there) were kind of a fakeout. A simple cut would’ve worked fine and wouldn’t have given the impression the movie was over.
The only reason I felt a slight tingle in my heart was beacuse no one has ever called me by my full given name when I wasn’t in trouble for some indescretion. 