Dull, Inadequate Finale

Rating: 2/10 (5 September 2005)

Dull, Inadequate Finale.
From it's start, you sense the drawn-out nature of this supposedly epic ending... its all over the place, trying to involve you with the tedious "now's a good time to go out for popcorn!" fluff/added-on characters who obviously serve only to pad the whole sequence of events.
Peter Jackson heard that trilogies were trendy, so he decided to milk the audience for 3 films, when 2 would have been much more concise.
Really, he could have had a very tight and meaningful 2-pat LOTR, but unnecessarily watered it down to make us spend the extra $9 to be bored on the long route to the predictable conclusion.
It upsets me that the DVD's are so full of extra's. What ever happened to Editing? Keeping the theme tight? Concise work w/o crappy filler?