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[–] 25 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Lord of the Rings during Christmas time.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Nice. I always watch during the fall when the air turns crisp and I'll pair it with a hard apple cider.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Extended or theatrical?

    I'm extended for Fellowship, theatrical for Two Towers, and extended with scene skips for Return.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I've watched them three times. Always spaced out by many years. Just did it a week or two ago actually.

    The last two were extended. I don't even know what the theatrical looks like anymore. I can't imagine skipping scenes.

    Which scenes do you skip? And what are you fine skipping in the two towers?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I just felt like the extendeds often include scenes that rightly belong in “deleted scenes” because they are either momentum killers, background info, or straight-up bad--like they just wanted to have the most complete version for archivists.

    What convinced me off extended Two Towers was a very cringe scene between that wild, tramelled thing and the mere ranger (I'm terrrble with names) on the trail to helm's deep.

    Two Towers is a pretty cut-and-dry action story, for the most part. Most of the character development beats happen in 1 and 3.

    For Return, I think they just chickened out on the run timev-there's a few necessary scenes cut from theatrical, but also some cruft--like the romance with Faramir.

    Testing out my new normie girlfriend soon, so I'll be doing the merciful thing and going theatrical for all three. Let's see what I feel is missing.

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