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Originally Posted by mjbethancourt
Pete, you picked the wrong hour to cut down to a half hour. It should have been the last one, not the first.
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This times a million.
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Cutting Thrain was wrong, those scenes tie the whole movie together (actually, both films, not just DoS). That he and his editors couldn't see that, makes them look like idiots.
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No kidding -- with Thrain back in the "prologue" scene actually serves some kind of purpose, as opposed to just being an on-screen representation of a meeting that had already been discussed in the first movie.
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It's as dumb as cutting Saruman from the beginning of RotK. His extended editions are always a painful reminder of his fondness for cutting out large swaths of Tolkien to make room for the awful writing of Boyens.
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To be fair, I bet Saruman would have made the cut if he wasn't expecting to put it back in the extended edition. In my opinion, the theatrical versions of TT & ROTK feel incomplete, and I would guess that's because the extended versions were a guarantee at that point.