What we need next : Extended cuts and ULTIMATE CUTS

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2014)

On the HOBBIT BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES :
Great movie, but the third movie (Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies) is way too short! Really, incredibly, too short! The resolutions are too abrupt and the ending is too quick. It misses some key scenes : one important funeral, reconstruction of Lake-Town with Bard as it's new master (or some kind of ending for Bard), Thranduil's white jewels, more Beorn and more White Council (which is a cameo really, not a payoff). It clearly needs more character-driven scenes. Ah and what about the Arkenstone?
Also, Bilbo's departure from Erebor seemed cold and distant to me, as was the last scene between Gandalf and Bilbo.
I hope the 35 minutes of extended scenes Peter Jackson promised will solve that (but even 35 minutes seem insufficient to me). Hope PJ will inject some of the ''multiple ending'' style from the Return of the King to Battle of the five Armies. We NEED to have proper endings for the main characters like Bard, Thranduil, Thorin, Balin (master of MORIA) and also for Saruman,Radagast, Gandalf etc.
On LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY :
We want to see those deleted scenes, unused for the Extended edition of LOTR, be put back into the movies, in the next Ultimate Edition :

Fellowship of the Ring :additional footage from the Battle of the Last Alliance (and maybe add Lee Pace's Thranduil into it), an extended Council of Elrond (dialogue from the Council of Elrond, such as Gandalf explaining how Sauron forged the One Ring)

The Two Towers : Arwen and Elrond visiting Galadriel at Lothlórien, Conversation between Elrond and Arwen in a library in Rivendell, after Arwen decides to wait for Aragorn. Elrond leaves saying "You gave away your life's grace. I cannot protect you anymore"

Return of the King : further epilogue footage, with endings for Legolas and Gimli, Éowyn and Faramir's wedding and Aragorn's death and funeral. Also, to give context for Wormtongue killing Saruman, and Legolas in turn killing Wormtongue, it was to be revealed Wormtongue poisoned Théodred. The final scene cut was Aragorn having his armour fitted for the Battle of the Black Gate by the trilogy's armourers, which was the final scene filmed during principal photography.

Peter Jackson already have stated that he would like to include some of these unused scenes in a future "Ultimate Edition" home video release, also including out-takes. Also, he recently had a great idea, namely to put some of the Hobbit's characters into the LOTR, as he mentioned in this recent interview: " I actually think the young girls are going to start watching this 1, 2, 3 and they're going to start wondering where Tauriel is. We're really three or four years away from eight and nine year-old discovering these movies and watching them in this order and will be wondering why she doesn't show up in "Lord of the Rings." Maybe we'll get Evangeline down to New Zealand, shoot a bunch of stuff, chop it up and put it into a box set. "
It would be great if he would be able to revisit the cut of all 6 movies in the near future, do an "ultimate cut" of the 6 movies and integrate those scenes I mentioned back in the movies (instead of bonuses or deleted scenes). Peter Jackson should also be able to re- shoot the "Bilbo finding the Ring" scene from Fellowship of the ring, remake Gollum from the shadowy scene from Fellowship, add more Balrog vs Gandalf fight, integrate Thranduil in the Battle of the Last Alliance, etc. Thanks!