About the length of the endings...

Rating: Null/10 (16 December 2003)

Why is this the most common complaint about this film? I honestly don't get it. First of all, I take it all of us here (or a majority of us) prefer the extended dvd versions of the first two films to their theatrical counterparts. Also, these aren't short movies anyway (208 mins, 223 mins, 210mins), and yet we still can't seem to get enough of them. So what's the big deal about these LAST 20 MINUTES?! Peter Jackson had you captivated for 621 but you just couldn't take 20 more? Come on, people! You can't just wrap up something that monumental without giving the audience a gradual wrap up that is to scale with what came before it. Once the extended edition of ROTK is released and we all sit down to the inevitable marathon viewing of the entire trilogy as the single epic that it is, I think 20 minutes is going to seem like a pretty scant wrap-up in the grand scheme of things. So if anyone is going to criticize the movie on this point, please try and take that into account.