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

[Edword]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

I sucked it up and bought the box set ($100 new at Worst Buy).

I love LOTR overall, but I forgot how boring the scenes with Treebeard were in the Two Towers.

Ouch. Should have waited till it went on sale, which it occasionally does.

[nycomet]

I really want to get these extended versions but I am worried that after I buy them, they'll get re-released in 3D.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by nycomet

I really want to get these extended versions but I am worried that after I buy them, they'll get re-released in 3D.

They were not even filmed in 3D so that shouldn't even be a concern.

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

They were not even filmed in 3D so that shouldn't even be a concern.

Either was I, Robot, Clash of the Titans, Episode 1, Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, Toy Story 1 and 2...

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Snicket

Either was I, Robot, Clash of the Titans, Episode 1, Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, Toy Story 1 and 2...

Right, which is why I would never consider buying any of them. Anyone with a half a brain would do the same especially with the primitive home 3D systems that are readily available.

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Right, which is why I would never consider buying any of them. Anyone with a half a brain would do the same especially with the primitive home 3D systems that are readily available.

I'm right there with you, however the option for a 3D conversion is still on the table.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Right, which is why I would never consider buying any of them. Anyone with a half a brain would do the same especially with the primitive home 3D systems that are readily available.

The F.U.D. will never cease.

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

They were not even filmed in 3D so that shouldn't even be a concern.

Hasn't PJ talked about considering a 3D re-release? Or is that another one of those Internet smoke-and-mirror claims about what he did or didn't say?

[NYorker]

I distinctly remember PJ discussing experimenting with 3D footage...

[nefilim]

i would like see the greent tint discussion™ revival in 3D

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by nefilim

i would like see the greent tint discussion™ revival in 3D

Please don't feed the trolls...

[Drewbee87]

Really considering buying these. I've only seen bits & pieces of these on TNT, never seen them in full.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

The F.U.D. will never cease.

Everything I just said was a fact. It is beyond pointless to watch a film that was natively filmed in 2D in 3D. It's just like listening to native 5.1 mixes in 7.1, which is also pointless.

[Blueoktober]

Apparently you have never seen Titanic, BATB or Lion King in 3D. Or you're just trolling for the fun of it. Your comparison is irrelevant to the discussion.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by thegoat

Because it was decided that 6.1 is either sufficient or superior for the intentions of the sound designers.

Matt Wood says of his choice to do a 6.1 mix for Star Wars, ""We did have the chance to go back and do (the remixes however we wanted), and we chose 6.1 as the format because that was for us on the prequels... 5.1 EX was what we used, and it had that back center surround and that for us is a nice 360-degree feel, and we wanted to have everything sort of match that. And this is just personal with me, but with 7.1, the separation in the back and the sides kind of diffuses the back, so I kind of like having just a discrete feel in the back with 6.1."

The trilogy was released on DVD in DTS 6.1 discrete, it was actually a cutting-edge release at the time, and I had purchased a THX amp with the ability to decode it and it was glorious. Now we're on to 7.1 discrete, the Blu Ray contains the original mix which most people didn't have the ability to hear on original release.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

Hasn't PJ talked about considering a 3D re-release? Or is that another one of those Internet smoke-and-mirror claims about what he did or didn't say?

20 minutes of LOTR was presented to theater owners in 3-D back when the studios were trying to convince theaters to upgrade to digital projectors. I'm sure a 3-D conversion will happen someday, but I'm happy to have the original version (not crazy about the color timing in Fellowship, but whatever).

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

20 minutes of LOTR was presented to theater owners in 3-D back when the studios were trying to convince theaters to upgrade to digital projectors. I'm sure a 3-D conversion will happen someday, but I'm happy to have the original version (not crazy about the color timing in Fellowship, but whatever).

Mmm, I was pretty sure that something had been said about it more recently, suggesting a possible rerelease of the complete films at the cinema but in 3D — though with PJ being in the thick of filming and post-producing two, and now three, Hobbit films, I can't imagine it happening before this December.

I'm not much of a fan of 3D myself — just personal druthers — so if LotR was to hit the cinemas again, I'd rather just see the EEs in 2D — I've never seen those cuts on the big screen.

[mzupeman]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Everything I just said was a fact. It is beyond pointless to watch a film that was natively filmed in 2D in 3D. It's just like listening to native 5.1 mixes in 7.1, which is also pointless.

Wrath of the Titans looked convincing enough. Conversions are getting better and better.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by mzupeman

Wrath of the Titans looked convincing enough. Conversions are getting better and better.

That doesn't make them right.

[Buddy Ackerman]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Everything I just said was a fact. It is beyond pointless to watch a film that was natively filmed in 2D in 3D. It's just like listening to native 5.1 mixes in 7.1, which is also pointless.

What follows the word 'fact' in that statement is all opinion.