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

[threefiftyrocket]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

It's not easy to please people sometimes

I know, and like I've said before, I was irritated at the price that is put on them... but I knew I would still buy them because I NEED them... they're mine, my own, my precious...

But anyway, complaining and even giving the TC's 1 star reviews because they are not the EE, then complaining about every little detail of the EE once they are released... It just blows my mind... Me? I'm SUPER EXCITED... I can't wait, and although there are some things I would change given the opportunity, I'm still gonna buy em b/c we wants them, The master says get them.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I know, right? And I just checked and he really screwed up The Wizard of Oz as well. The first reel is ok, even though it looks like brown and white, not black and white, but then they decided to colorize everything after Dorothy lands in Oz. If you're going to colorize something, at least colorize the whole movie. They should have just left it alone in its original black and white. On the colorized version, you can totally tell how fake the background flats look.

Wizard of Oz is a strange example. I think it's owned by Turner Classic Movies(?) Ugh. Turner. He didn't even finish it and do the whole movie in color.

[Falaskan]

I don't think I'll actually buy the Ultimate Editions unless it's worth it. To me, it would only be worth it if the UE had significant footage added to the original EE footage. If the only thing that will make the UE, Ultimate, is that the bonus features are all on blu-ray discs and there's some deleted scenes on it I'll pass. Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I don't care about bonus features that much!

[Ernest Rister]

I held off on the theatrical versions (as I suspect many people did) because I wanted the Extended Editions. I also held off on buying the seamless branching LE DVD versions of the films with the new Coates documentaries.

Well, as regarding upgarding to Blu, in this case, all I care about is the movies, but it looks like we're getting the EE's, plus the Coates documentary series, and the (great) behind the scenes docs. So I'm getting substantial upgrades in PQ, plus the Coates docs which I've never seen. I'm going to consider the redundant discs with the old making of content as back-ups in case I ever step on one of my six old bonus features discs, or accidentally insert one of them into a wall socket, or accidentally fry one in the microwave after soaking it in Crisco. Cause we've all done that.

Bring 'em on.

[nathan_393]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I held off on the theatrical versions (as I suspect many people did) because I wanted the Extended Editions. I also held off on buying the seamless branching versions of the films with the new Coates documentaries.

Well, all I care about is the movies, but it looks like we're getting the EE's, plus the Coates documentary series, and you can consider the redundant discs with the old making of content as back-ups if you step on your disc, or accidentally insert it into a wall socket, or accidentally fry it in the microwave after soaking it in Crisco.

Bring 'em on.

Well said - I picked up the TE's because RotK is so much better without the added stuff and sometimes I'm just in the mood. But you're very right about the special features.

[Sky_Captain]

Threads like this, are why we can't have nice things.

[nathan_393]

Originally Posted by Sky_Captain

Threads like this, are why we can't have nice things.

Star Wars thread is worse.

[Sky_Captain]

Agreed, but the Star Wars thread doesn't have all these armchair compression and codec experts.

[nathan_393]

Oh, not yet. Just wait until they com out! There'll be blood in the streets.
Ah well. This place, on a whole - heck of a lot better than Youtube and 4Chan. I'm happy here

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by Sky_Captain

Agreed, but the Star Wars thread doesn't have all these armchair compression and codec experts.

Wait won't be long. I am already preparing myself for the first screen shots and the screen shot police day

[nathan_393]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Wait won't be long. I am already preparing myself for the first screen shots and the screen shot police day

When is screen shot police day going to be declared a national holiday?

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Wait won't be long. I am already preparing myself for the first screen shots and the screen shot police day

LOL - however, it should be noted that early screen shots of the unreleased DVD set showed a lack of white cores in the lightsabres, causing that bizarre green/pink clash in front of the Emperor - the people who posted these were savagely attacked by the SW Fanboy Pajamadeen, and yet it turned out the early screenshots were correct, and that was exactly what we got.

Sometimes, screenshots are accurate. Sometimes not.

I'm just wondering if the surround tracks are going to be fixed - I've lived with Star Wars on VHS and laserdisc, I can take the visual flaws from the DVD versions, but the audio flaw on Star Wars...it's probably the sole reason I haven't spun that disc in what? Five years?

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I'm just wondering if the surround tracks are going to be fixed - I've lived with Star Wars on VHS and laserdisc, I can take the visual flaws from the DVD versions, but the audio flaw on Star Wars...it's probably the sole reason I haven't spun that disc in what? Five years?

I hope they do get the sound right. Afterall Star Wars = sound. These movies really deserve the best sound possible, it's part of the entire package and fun of Star Wars, the amazing sound.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by merrick97

For what its worth I'm color blind when I watch gone with wind and ONLY when I watch everything else my full range of vision returns. I can't explain it!!

I go deaf during the Gargoyle scenes in the 1996 Disney version of Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Okay, I lied. I only wish I did. And when one of the Gargoyles dresses in drag, I wish I was momentarily blind, too.

[nathan_393]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I go deaf during the Gargoyle scenes in the 1996 Disney version of Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Okay, I lied. I only wish I did. And when one of the Gargoyles dresses in drag, I wish I was momentarily blind, too.

Bad movie. Baaad movie. Let's not talk about it on this thread

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by nathan_393

Bad movie. Baaad movie. Let's not talk about it on this thread

So much of it is so good, yet the comedy is so bad -- for some reason, it reminds me of the Prequels.

This is the Gone With the Wind / Wizard of Oz / Star Wars / Hunchback thread, isn't it?

[nathan_393]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

So much of it is so good, yet the comedy is so bad -- for some reason, it reminds me of the Prequels.

This is the Gone With the Wind / Wizard of Oz / Star Wars / Hunchback thread, isn't it?

This is a Star Wars thread?!?!?

[BluPix]

This should be an intriguing set, but...

As much as I do want The Lord of the Rings extended trilogy in my collection (I adored the films in theaters) and do have this set on preorder, this really does feel like a very "tentative" package, in that another upgrade or version is just around the corner within a year or so after this version is released.

The biggest sign of that is the fact that almost all of the special features remain standard definition, spread across nine DVDs which, apparently, will be just lifted as-is from the existing DVD format of the Extended Editions. Granted I haven't seen the extras, but it seems as if the biggest extras, like the Costa Botes documentary, could have been presented in hi-def on the blu-ray.

Also, there don't appear to be any new extras that didn't already appear on previous home video editions. And the theatrical versions of the films are still available only in a separate package, rather having both versions included in one package.

It appears that many of the most useful technological advances in the blu-ray format, particularly as they relate to on-disc interactive extras, will be lost on this release, mainly because most of the extras are on DVDs.

There's no mention of a picture-in-picture feature. Warner, which pioneered Maximum Movie Mode, will not extend that feature to this, the biggest franchise in the history of Warner's subsidiary, New Line. If there are any films that cry out for Maximum Movie Mode or some other system of advanced interactivity, it's these three films.

This is Warner's way of finally issuing the extended editions on blu to pacify customers who've been railing for them in hi-def, but without making a very large investment, aside from remastering the first film in the series.

For these reasons, I'm still thinking of canceling my preorder and waiting until there's a price drop on this set, perhaps during the holiday season.

Let's put this into perspective. At Amazon this set is currently $84. When the Alien Anthology went on sale last year, I paid about $70 (and there are some places now that are selling it for about $55), and that set contains four films and a considerably larger selection of extras, which are organized and presented (some in hi-def, some in standard-def) with advanced interactivity entirely across six blu-ray discs. There are no DVDs to be found.

To use another example, the Avatar collector's edition came stuffed with extras for the one film. And it had multiple versions of the film, organized and powered using seamless branching, a technology that could be used with nice results, one would assume, on the Lord of the Rings series.

BTW, does this set contain the marketing material of the trilogy? Domestic and international posters? Trailers? Teasers? TV spots? I've always been interested in that aspect of a film's cycle too.

In any case, I plan to acquire this package with the mindset that, while it is a very good package, and very welcome, something even better will soon be on the horizon.

[THXElite]

Finally new line cimema is coming to their senses and releasing the extended editions. I am a huge fan of the movies, I have the one ring in bronze, silver and gold editions along with the staff of Saruman and Galdalf the white, I even built my own palantir stand with a calcite sphere. Really cant wait along for The Hobbit 3D.

[JJE-187]

I will wait until they release JUST the movies on a single BD-50 and buy that set in a few years. I have no need to watch ALL of that extra stuff after watching a 3+ hour movie. I sold my 4-disc extended edition boxes and bought the 2-disc limited editions that WB released a few years ago and have been happy with them.