For me, its the introduction in the fellowship of the ring

>>Faramir
Yeah, that was shit. I guess he wanted more drama so he made him an asshole

>>Witch King's death
How did that change? I remember in the book Eowyn has an absurdly long monologue before she kills him

>>no Scouring of the Shire
That'd feel super anti-climatic. Like incredibly. It's a pretty shit part of the books too

>>cutting most of the songs and poems
I'm not sure how that would translate to the movie

Rohirrim charge at Pellenor fields is kino.

And also, like what the hell was he supposed to do? Cut all the battles? Make them 10 minutes long?

You remember the book wrong and the Scouring of the Shire is great. In the movies they even show it in Galadriel's mirror.

His biggest fuck ups was over reliance of CGI in the movies after Fellowship, and the whole warg scene with Aragorn's fake death in The Two Towers throwing some of the rug out from the tension that should have been building toward Helm's Deep.

>wanting that stupid Tom Bombadil shit in the movie
he was OP af

It just wouldn't work in the movie. Like, after all the glorious battle at Pellenor and the Black Gate, Aragorn's coronation and so on.. you suddenly get to hobbits fighting bandits..

What I kinda missed from the movies was the Grey Company and Elrond's sons. The whole Army of the Dead was stupid as it kinda took the achievement away from the humans at Pelennor. But I suppose Aragorn meeting up with the Grey Company, getting the spoops, dealing with the corsairs and assembling an army at Pelargir would be too long for the movie.

I also kinda missed Prince Imrahil

2nd one is the weakest, its pretty slow and the treebeard scenes drag like a fucker. Still enjoyed it, but the final 45 minutes saved it. 1 and 3 are perfect though.

Two Towers benefits the most from the extended cut I think.

And Treebeard's scenes are painful in the books too

Oh yh I only watch the extended cuts. Still a 5 star movie in my book imo, just the weakest of the 3. The first is such a perfect adventure movie with one, single narrative. And the 3rd is literally non stop action and I love how they wrapped up everything perfectly.

But OP, the 'My friends, you bow to no one' is kino in its purest form.

That scene makes me cry. It's so beautiful

Howard Shore's score is, imo, the greatest music we've ever created. If some old fucker like Beethove composed it everyone would talk about it like its Four Seasons or some shit. Its literally perfect music.

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Lol its funny you say that cause I remember talking to a guy at work my age (both 90s kids) and we both agreed if someone like Mozarr or Bach wrote a symphony; made entirely of Sonic music from the Mega Drive/Genesis games, critics would call it some of the best music ever written.

if a modern band released yellow submarine today it would get absolutely shit on. people always praise old shit even if it doesnt hold up

People shit on Jackson all the time but LOTR could have been so much worse. Honestly thankful we got Jackson’s instead of John Boorman’s LOTR
>In the mid-1970s, director John Boorman planned a film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, collaborating with his colleague Rospo Pallenberg and the current film rights holder and producer Saul Zaentz. Produced by United Artists, it would have been one long movie with an intermission.
>In the script, written by Boorman and Pallenberg, many things were changed and/or added. The first half is largely based on The Fellowship of the Ring. Following the intermission, the writers "dropped things out" and "invented as they went along".
>Among other things, Frodo and Galadriel have sex, the Witch-king rides a horse whose "live, raw, bleeding flesh is exposed" in lieu of a flying fell beast, and Aragorn uses both shards of Narsil with the hilt-less half having a makeshift leather handle (before they are reattached).
>The project ultimately proved too expensive to finance at that time. Boorman ended up making the Arthurian epic Excalibur instead, also with Pallenberg's help - where in a draft for that movie’s script they use similar concepts.
>A copy of the script currently resides in Marquette University's Tolkien collection.

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Absolute brainlet-tier post.
>Faramir
Making him randomly immune to the effects of the ring neutered it as a threat. Him overcoming it at the end of Two Towers actually gives him something resembling an arc and, more importantly, actually creates some kind of conflict Frodo and Sam have to overcome in the second film.
>Witch King's death
How did they change it?
>no Scouring of the Shire
It's an essentially pointless sequence in the books that just serves as a soapbox for Tolkein's anti-industrialist views. Yes, it's a metaphor about soldiers returning home after the Great War. That doesn't make it good storytelling, which it isn't.

>In the movies they even show it in Galadriel's mirror.
Yeah, and it's explicitly framed by Galadriel as what will come to pass if Frodo fails. He doesn't fail.

>Peter Jackson
he should quit with fantasy/sci-fi and go back to the origins
his documentaries are good tho

His origins are those funny zombie movies, no?

And Bad Taste, that was a fun movie

>Marquette University has a Tolkien collection
This is the oddest timeline

diy splatter comedy or something completely different (see heavenly creatures)