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Originally Posted by Trotter
Really, my whole beef with the script for TTT was that it was badly structured. It just didn't feel smooth to me, there was far too much cutting back and forth between the two story lines for my taste. Now I certainly realize that it could not have been structured like Tolkien's novel, given that film is a largely different medium, but changes could have been made. Personally, I would have preferred TTT to stick with Frodo, Sam, and Gollum for the most part. But I understand that Peter Jackson wanted Frodo and Aragorn to be 'joint main characters,' so to speak.
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It was a challenge to be able to keep in the audience's brains three main story lines. Not sure how I would have done that differently, as we can't have three mini movies within one movie. The changes may have been abrupt and could have been cut better, but...
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As for what scenes dragged on... Well... Helm's Deep for one! I know that is not a popular view, but there it is. I simply think that that battle was ridiculously overblown and badly staged, stealing precious screen time from 'true Tolkien' moments that could have been in the film instead. Sure, it had its highlights, but most of them were smashed under the weight of everything else!
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I would have taken a few more minutes of battle at Helm's Deep and would have given the Ents and falling Aragorn scenes. Maybe PJ, thinking of his audience, thought that a big fantasy world battle scene would really catch some people's attention. We, the book fans, were going regardless, and so he may have wanted to have something for those looking for an action flick...
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Other scenes that come to mind are the ones with Arwen and Aragorn... ugh! Granted, some romance was needed, but these scenes were too much for me! I believe that far too much time was given to their relationship in the trilogy as a whole.
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...or a romantic 'date' movie. "It's a love story, you'll see. There's this guy who one day might be King, and he's in love with this Elf, but her dad's against the relationship, and so she has to leave...but there's this other woman, and she likes the King guy, but he almost dies (I won't mention Brego) then comes back and, when he could go after the second woman, claims the pendant given to him from woman #1, who may yet defy her father. It's so romantic...sniff...and that battle scene that you heard about isn't really 30 minutes long."
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P.S. It may seem to some that I'm nitpicking TTT, and that may be true, but oh well... 
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Well, if you call that nitpicking, then I'm picking the nits on your nits.
