The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Extended Edition) (2001-2003)

[radagast]

Originally Posted by ckenisell

Why would he say "Fly" though? It doesn't make any sense.

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

It's an imperative form of the verb to flee.

It can also be viewed as an idiom. "Fly" can mean to quickly leave imminent danger. "Fly from the police" was once a common phrase. Remember Tolkien was a professor of language at Oxford.

And yes, the line in the movies AND the books is "Fly, you fools".

[punisher]

I'm in at 53.22 in US money shipping included

[CloudyMemory]

CDN$52.97 to Europe, shipping included? ORDERED

[threefiftyrocket]

Originally Posted by Fariz

how bout the packaging?
but i'm ordering 'em anyhow



yes, i received same email thx

Be careful though, I heard the Canadian versions have a TON of FORCED previews that are not on the U.S. discs... so if this doesn't bother you feel free.

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by radagast

It can also be viewed as an idiom. "Fly" can mean to quickly leave imminent danger. "Fly from the police" was once a common phrase. Remember Tolkien was a professor of language at Oxford.

And yes, the line in the movies AND the books is "Fly, you fools".

That's not really an idiom though, mate. That's correct grammar.

[Fariz]

Originally Posted by threefiftyrocket

Be careful though, I heard the Canadian versions have a TON of FORCED previews that are not on the U.S. discs... so if this doesn't bother you feel free.

preview won't kill me. the other $30 would

[threefiftyrocket]

Originally Posted by Fariz

preview won't kill me. the other $30 would

k, its cool, it would bother some though (like me) so I was just makin you aware. if it won't bother you than more power to ya!

[slimdude]

Some people buy these blu-ray boxsets to keep for a short period (just to say they have it), and eventually they'll resell it on Ebay, Amazon, or Half.com a few weeks afterwards. It happens all the time!

[Fariz]

well, it's something that i won't do, brother. not for this box set

managed to sell my old DVD box set, it's time to upgrade, i'm against double dipping

been waiting for this to happen, when the price is below 50

[Leterface]

Originally Posted by CloudyMemory

CDN$52.97 to Europe, shipping included? ORDERED

I thought we had in Finland the best deal instore ~ USD $68 but that is even more awesome. Well got the Finnish subtitles too so I'm very happy overall.

[Rik1138]

Originally Posted by threefiftyrocket

Be careful though, I heard the Canadian versions have a TON of FORCED previews that are not on the U.S. discs... so if this doesn't bother you feel free.

Oh yeah, forgot about that... They are skippable though, but it will take a minute or so to skip them all...

Never seen the packaging, so can't speak for that... But I believe it's similar, just with Alliance logos.

[threefiftyrocket]

Originally Posted by Rik1138

Oh yeah, forgot about that... They are skippable though, but it will take a minute or so to skip them all...

Never seen the packaging, so can't speak for that... But I believe it's similar, just with Alliance logos.

Hmmm... really, I was told that they were NOT skippable, hence the term FORCED, like the U.S. C.S.I. BD's... if they really are skippable, that wouldn't bother me at all. NICE

[poke smot]

any idea if and when just the movie (minus the extras) will come out (hopefully in the black cases)?

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by tuck301

any idea if and when just the movie (minus the extras) will come out (hopefully in the black cases)?

I think there's sure to be some sort of new release timed somehow around The Hobbit coming to Blu-ray, but that's a few years away. Still, it would be surprising if there were another release before then, wouldn't it? I think they'd just thin out their potential audience if they did.

The moratorium approach works well for Disney.

[El_Jay]

Originally Posted by threefiftyrocket

Be careful though, I heard the Canadian versions have a TON of FORCED previews that are not on the U.S. discs... so if this doesn't bother you feel free.

No. Press the menu button, or the square button on your PS3 and voila... menu.

Nothing is forced.

[El_Jay]

Originally Posted by frogmort

Luke, use the force. Force that thing in there

Force previews would have been cool!

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by frogmort

Are you implying that whether or not there's a problem, that it doesn't matter?!
I for one, am not happy about Peter Jackson going "Green".

No mate, not at all. I'm puzzled how that came out of what I wrote. (Unless this was a leg-pull that I didn't follow ..??)

Assuming you're not ribbing me:
All I meant was that, in holding off on a new release for a while like Disney does, in not having a new version too frequently, it helps to ensure that more people will snaffle the next version when it does come out. The first Hobbit flick is only a year away, which is next to nothing in video-release time, so I reckon we'll probably have a Blu-ray release of An Unexpected Journey on its own around October 2013, and a single release of There and Back Again in October 2014, the two-film set for Christmas 2014, and a Middle Earth: The Complete Saga box set ( !! ) around April 2015.

I've said before in this thread (just a couple of posts among thousands, I realise) that I reckon that, when the LotR films get their next release, we'll find that Fellowship has quietly had a new colour restoration and transfer made from all the pre-colour-grading elements that the somwhat-obsessive aPeter Jackson must have stored somewhere.

My own suspicion is that The Teal wasn't how Jackson and Lesnie "wanted it to look" at all -- that it was a quick-and-dirty solution to a film they knew really needed a more extensive colour restoration treatment, one costly in both time and money, and one the studio wouldn't come at. The response of "this is how the director wanted his film to look" is pure boilerplate, and in the face of the complaints, I think the studio is now stonewalling. Fixing it and doing a disc replacement program now is probably cost-prohibitive for them, and they'd lose too much face; doing another release in a year or so with a "fixed" transfer is only going to cause more uproar from the people who will feel cynically manouevred into buying the set all over again. Their best face-saving move for the studio is to leave it now, and centre a new release around The Hobbit.

But I'm personally frustrated (and frankly, disgusted) at all the Quisling apologists for the studios, the keyboard warriors on the Internet, who make it possible for the studios to ignore complaints by counter-attack arguing with and deriding anyone claiming there's a problem with the transfer and that the studio should have done a better job with this film.

So no, I'm really not saying it doesn't matter !!

(Phew. Aren't you glad you asked?! )

[El_Jay]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

No mate, not at all. I'm puzzled how that came out of what I wrote. (Unless this was a leg-pull that I didn't follow ..??)

Assuming you're not ribbing me:
All I meant was that, in holding off on a new release for a while like Disney does, in not having a new version too frequently, it helps to ensure that more people will snaffle the next version when it does come out. The first Hobbit flick is only a year away, which is next to nothing in video-release time, so I reckon we'll probably have a Blu-ray release of An Unexpected Journey on its own around October 2013, and a single release of There and Back Again in October 2014, the two-film set for Christmas 2014, and a Middle Earth: The Complete Saga box set ( !! ) around April 2015.

I've said before in this thread (just a couple of posts among thousands, I realise) that I reckon that, when the LotR films get their next release, we'll find that Fellowship has quietly had a new colour restoration and transfer made from all the pre-colour-grading elements that the somwhat-obsessive aPeter Jackson must have stored somewhere.

My own suspicion is that The Teal wasn't how Jackson and Lesnie "wanted it to look" at all -- that it was a quick-and-dirty solution to a film they knew really needed a more extensive colour restoration treatment, one costly in both time and money, and one the studio wouldn't come at. The response of "this is how the director wanted his film to look" is pure boilerplate, and in the face of the complaints, I think the studio is now stonewalling. Fixing it and doing a disc replacement program now is probably cost-prohibitive for them, and they'd lose too much face; doing another release in a year or so with a "fixed" transfer is only going to cause more uproar from the people who will feel cynically manouevred into buying the set all over again. Their best face-saving move for the studio is to leave it now, and centre a new release around The Hobbit.

But I'm personally frustrated (and frankly, disgusted) at all the Quisling apologists for the studios, the keyboard warriors on the Internet, who make it possible for the studios to ignore complaints by counter-attack arguing with and deriding anyone claiming there's a problem with the transfer and that the studio should have done a better job with this film.

So no, I'm really not saying it doesn't matter !!

(Phew. Aren't you glad you asked?! )

+1

Very well said mate.

The Teal Treatment is what most studios do to new releases, but it doesn't hurt something like Limitless or Source Code like it hurts FOTR. If all 3 movies were tealed out, it would have been easier to take, but the switch from FOTR to TTT is pretty jarring, especially since you see the Gandalf and Balrog sequence twice in pretty quick succession.

Anyway it would be fantastic to see a total remaster, maybe a 4K scan of all the movies, and I would happily lap it up in a Middle Earth Box Set. My only problem will be holding off on buying the individual Hobbit releases until the box set of that comes out... actually who am I kidding, there is no way I will wait.

[El_Jay]

Originally Posted by frogmort

I was a juicer. My name is Bob.

They use that stuff on horses, for Christ's sake...

[Leterface]

Originally Posted by El_Jay

+1

Very well said mate.

The Teal Treatment is what most studios do to new releases, but it doesn't hurt something like Limitless or Source Code like it hurts FOTR. If all 3 movies were tealed out, it would have been easier to take, but the switch from FOTR to TTT is pretty jarring, especially since you see the Gandalf and Balrog sequence twice in pretty quick succession.

Anyway it would be fantastic to see a total remaster, maybe a 4K scan of all the movies, and I would happily lap it up in a Middle Earth Box Set. My only problem will be holding off on buying the individual Hobbit releases until the box set of that comes out... actually who am I kidding, there is no way I will wait.

I agree too. But I think I've heard that a 4k scan wouldn't do so much benefit in this case because the massive amount of special effects are made with a lower resolution if I remember correctly?