**The Return of the King Extended Edition** - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Avie · 12-13-2004, 12:00 PM

Got to agree with comments regarding Denethor. Dreadful melodramatic acting (you half expect folks to yell Boo! Hiss! when he appears so much a pantomime villian does he appear) and no sense whatsoever of Tolkien's "noble mind overthrown"
And film Faramir...YACK. Total damsel in distress requiring rescuing from this or that at roughly hourly intervals...
Loved the extended Paths of the Dead sequences though and the added palantir scene with Aragorn is good too.
The EE is worth having but does not undo the general film-version mess made of Denethor's family.

12-13-2004, 12:00 PM	#11
Avie Pile O'Bones Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: London, UK Posts: 20	Got to agree with comments regarding Denethor. Dreadful melodramatic acting (you half expect folks to yell Boo! Hiss! when he appears so much a pantomime villian does he appear) and no sense whatsoever of Tolkien's "noble mind overthrown" And film Faramir...YACK. Total damsel in distress requiring rescuing from this or that at roughly hourly intervals... Loved the extended Paths of the Dead sequences though and the added palantir scene with Aragorn is good too. The EE is worth having but does not undo the general film-version mess made of Denethor's family. __________________ And my trusted servant Patsy