Peter T Chattaway Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 Coming August 29. Moderators, feel free to merge this with one of the pre-existing threads, if you so desire. Candidates include: LOTR EEs / Discussing them as one complete film... The Lord of the Rings Trilogy / (the entire filmed work) The Two Towers DVD: Is this edition worth buying? LOTR: The Return of The King - Extended Edition Return of the King / ELEVEN Oscars! At last! Personally, I think the three all-new feature documentaries might elevate this to something that merits its own thread. Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
Clint M Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 (edited) If they're going to fit the original AND extended cuts onto a two-DVD set, then these might be HD sets, but I would think they've have mentioned that. I think New Line is borrowing from the George Lucas school of releases. These will be non-anamorphic, and only have a 2.0 stereo mix. The covers are quite nice looking, however. Edited June 23, 2006 by Clint M Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Peter T Chattaway Posted July 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 Director angry over Lord of the Rings cuts The director of three new "warts-and-all" documentaries set to be released with the new editions of Lord of the Rings on DVD this autumn says he was not consulted over cuts made by studio New Line. . . . Scenes which have been removed include those of extras dressed as orcs singing Stand By Me, apparently because New Line did not wish to pay for the rights to the song. Scenes in which radios are blaring at the HQ of special effects company Weta have also been cut, as well as images of the tops of New Zealand's Mt Ruapehu and Mt Ngauruhoe. "I can understand the Maori attitude to avoiding depiction of the peaks in the film ... but what have we come to," said Botes. Guardian, July 3 - - - So maybe we'll get director's-cut extended-edition versions of THESE films, too, one day? Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
Peter T Chattaway Posted September 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2006 They've been out for ten days, now ... so, has anyone checked 'em out yet? Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
Peter T Chattaway Posted November 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Is it too early to start talking about the fourth set of bonus features (which will apparently go on the eventual HD version)? Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
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