Quote Originally Posted by charliepanayi View Post
To be honest I think despite the flaws (the closing stretch of ROTK for instance), the extended cut of the LOTR trilogy are as good an adaptation as could have been hoped for really.
I loved the scenes at the end and I thought they were beautifully done. Especially in the extended cut, but my god. The editing was awful. What the hell was up the parade of fade to whites? It was bizarre. I remember watching it in the theater for the first time and people were laughing by the 3rd fade out. I felt such 2nd hand embarrassment for Peter Jackson at the time and it totally took me out of the moment. Each scene at the end was lovely but there had to have been a better way to stitch them all together to form a more coherent epilogue type ending.

I know that each film had a different set of editors, but I think the editors for Return of the King were clearly the worst.

Despite all the criticisms I had of the films, I love them as though they were my own babies. LOVE. I only criticize because I know they could have done better because they HAVE done better. If you can nail it right 50 different times, then you can nail it right 100 times. No excuses for shoddy work when it's paired next to excellent work!