lord of the rings

[gutfish]

dont get me wrong... i love them... great films that i can watch over and over and over BUT....

does anyone else think the ending.... where they cram in LOADS of little bits like sam gettin married n stuff (WHICH LOOKS SOOO OUT OF PLACE) kind of ruins it? well not RUINS it.... but i think they dragged it on a bit.... surely the perfect place to end was when everyone bows down to the hobbits???

any one agree???? sorry if i've offended anyone lol

[don1]

The film bored me so much I gave it up after about an hour and a half.

[feebal]

I think the problem is that if you were to take the films as a whole and watch them back to back in one sitting the ending wouldn't look so out of place. It's a return to the brightness of the first half hour of the first film and signifies everything's back to normal. The only reason it seems to unbalance the final film is because the rest of it is so dark and you've already been getting a fidgety arse after watching for over 3 hours. It makes it hard to judge how relevant the stuff is. I think you might miss it if it wasn't there.

I think I'd prefer to watch Lord of the Rings in 90 minute blocks (like those old 1980s mini-series) and DVD gives you the luxury to watch it at your leisure. I seem to remember that Francis Ford Coppola turned Godfathers 1 and 2 into a miniseries for American TV and it worked well.

[Zorr0]

I thought the final film was weeker than the 1st two. The start wa boring, the end was boring, the big battle scene finished too quick when Arogon arrived with the ghost army.

They could have cut an hour off it and it would have been a better film.

[jedimistress]

I saw a comedy show taking the mic out of it. Everyone in the cinema kept rising to leave, then sitting down, rising to leave, then sitting down, rising to leave then sitting down.

It seems to have a hundred "endings". Everyone I know laughs about it. So it's not just you, don't worry.

[Merthyr Imp]

The ending of the film is basically the same as the ending of the book. Remember it was an adaptation of a book rather than an original screenplay. So any criticism should/could be levelled at the book as much as the film which was quite a faithful adaptation.

[B00]

I don't know about anyone else here but with the book you actually feel like you've embarked on this fabulous journey yourself, so the ending in it is like you've yourself 'come home'.

I think this is what is missing from the film as the whole adventure is over far quicker (in relation to the book anyway!)

Saying that though, I loved the films:-)

[rogerthomas]

Why would you think that your opinion about the ending of a film offend anyone?

[Manon]

What made the films so appealing was that it was an ensemble. At the end, focussing on the four hobbits and not knowing what happens to some major characters was irresponsible. Also, I personally think that Sean Astin over-played it a bit.