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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
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...fade-in/fade-out sequences at the end...and by the end I mean 45 minutes of FADE-IN/FADE-OUT christ my knees hurt is this over yet. I don't give a shit that Sam got married.
Good. Not great.
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I thought it was great, until those. Battle scenes were amazing (and, GWNC, they actually toned down the "evil darkies from the south and the east" stuff from the books). But, yeah, the 15 false endings were annoying, as was the fact that, instead of the quite poigniant Harrowing of the Shire, Jackson decided to end with (i) the visual equivalent of the "Chip and Jenny married, then divorced, then married again, then Chip was eaten by natives while on an oil exploration assignment in Guinea Bissau" blurbs that run during the credits of some comedies and (ii) a little (OK, big) homoerotic fantasy (NTTAWWT, but, no matter how much revisionists look for it, it just ain't in the books and is pretty out of place in what is otherwise a pretty chastely romantic, if even that, epic). The whole movie just suddenly became totally gay, in both modern senses of the word. Big bummer, that. 'Cause I thought the rest of it was completely super.
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