On the 4th, I made the claim in your presence that "Extended Editions are pretty much always worse". You asked, what about LotR? But the conversation shifted before I could answer.
This weekend, I decided to finally get around to watching the EE of Return of the King (which I hadn't yet). Well, at least the first disc. And, like most EEs, I felt that it was... longer. But not notably better. In this particular case, a lot of the added material was just more of the stuff that annoys me about Jackson's choices (Gimli is just comic relief, Denethor has no gravitas at all, etc). And the pacing was slowed to an extent that I felt fidgety by the end of the 2 hours, and had no immediate desire to watch the second disc. (I probably will eventually, but it may be a few weeks.)
Yes... Particularly on RotK I would agree, there's not a lot added for the length. I don't remember the differences well enough for TT to say. Fellowship, though, I thought was substantially improved by expansion, particularly in places like the Council of Elrond where things got cut fairly murkily for the theatrical release.
Of course, in all the films I thought the use of time was nonideal. The amount of good material that could have been left in if they hadn't added the inane staircase and dwarf-tossing scene to Fellowship...
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
On the 4th, I made the claim in your presence that "Extended Editions are pretty much always worse". You asked, what about LotR? But the conversation shifted before I could answer.
This weekend, I decided to finally get around to watching the EE of Return of the King (which I hadn't yet). Well, at least the first disc. And, like most EEs, I felt that it was... longer. But not notably better. In this particular case, a lot of the added material was just more of the stuff that annoys me about Jackson's choices (Gimli is just comic relief, Denethor has no gravitas at all, etc). And the pacing was slowed to an extent that I felt fidgety by the end of the 2 hours, and had no immediate desire to watch the second disc. (I probably will eventually, but it may be a few weeks.)
no subject
Of course, in all the films I thought the use of time was nonideal. The amount of good material that could have been left in if they hadn't added the inane staircase and dwarf-tossing scene to Fellowship...