I
finally got round to watching the RotK EE DVD yesterday! (Yes, I know, I'll hand in my elf ears and hobbit feet for being so lax...)
So here a few things for this dislike thread ('hate' is far too strong a word) :
- Aragorn's murder of the Mouth of Sauron just seemed wholly inappropriate, gratuitous and out of character. I was really shocked when I saw it happen! Having read a few explanations here about MoS not being officially 'parleying', I feel a little better about it, but it still jars. They could at least have tried to justify it by letting us see Aragorn become angry and vengeful after learning of Frodo's 'death'.
- I was bored for the first 30-40 minutes of the film. Opening with Smeagol and Deagol was a real turn-off, and things didn't improve until we finally got to the muster of Rohan. After that, it was a pretty good rollercoaster ride.
- The beating of Denethor was just plain wrong, matched only by his further abuse at the pyre. Even Shadowfax joined in! And despite the quote from the book cited earlier in this thread, I'm sure Gandalf used 'magic' to disarm Denethor, not physical violence.
- Until I read about him on various fora, I had not the slightest inkling that the crippled, potato-faced Orc leader was supposed to be the great Gothmog! Very poorly portrayed.
- Why on earth would you charge Mumakil instead of just avoiding them?
- Frodo sending Sam home. I'm speechless, really.
- All the Arwen being tied to the Ring and strange dream sequences guff. Waste of time and effort.
- The Gondor soldiers were pretty useless for all their fancy armour.
- How come the Army of the Dead had to be 'convinced' by Aragorn that he was the King who could free them from their oath? Surely they would have 'sensed' that he was the one?
Anyway, that's enough for the moment, as I actually found a lot that I liked, including several genuinely tear-jerking moments, but they'll have to be in the 'loved' thread.
Oh, and one last thing for the 'dislike' thread : TTT. All of it.
