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The Two Towers DVD Release Dates
FortKnox writes "Mark these dates on your Calendar: 8/26/03 & 11/18/03. These are the (US) DVD release dates for The Two Towers. Like Fellowship, the first date is the release of the DVD, and the November date is the release of the special edition (with rumored extra 48 minutes of footage). Another one ring.net page has more details on the actual footage."
You mean you are going to buy the first edition when it comes out? I plan on renting that. I'll buy the special edition.
I'm kind of tired of the re-release game they play with DVDs - though it is nice with Lord of the Rings that they tell you in advance that there is a special edition coming out. But I do expect after the third movie for a super-duper special edition box set we'll all have to have.
I'm hoping I get a $10 coupon to the Return of the King movie.
I'm a poor college student and I was so happy that I could spend $30 on a 4 Disc DVD, and get a FREE (afternoon shows here are $5.50) showing of the newest LOTR movie. It was very nice walking in to the theature after classes, handing them my coupon, and sneaking a bottle over to the water fountain because I was too broke to even afford a drink.
Well I got my fingers crossed.
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Amen to that. The smart move here is to wait until after all three movies have been out on DVD for about a year and then buy the "ultimate, super-duper, this-is-the-one-that-you-really-want" box set that contains all three extended additions and tons of extras.
If you really need to see them on DVD before then either borrow a friend's copies or rent them out.
Anything less will only lead to disappointment, in the next life if not this one.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Was I the only person in the world that hates this series? The first movie was alright, but leaving the end hanging like that was horrible. The second movie seemed to be going through the motions, rushing forwards through the story without character development or anything resembling cinematic excitement.
You know it's a chore to sit through when you want all the characters to die so they'd finally shut the hell up.
I couldn't care if I never see the last movie in this series. I commend the dedication, but if this is a faithful conversion from the books - they probably weren't that good in the first place (believe me, I've tried to finish them[*]). Peter Jackson needs to return to making movies that aren't chores to sit through. Bad Taste was infinitely better from an entertainment perspective.
[*] Coming from a Raymond E. Feist fanatic, who's no stranger to tearing through 800 page books - provided those books are actually good.
I consider the first movie extended edition to be the best DVD release ever made, they really have high standards to repeat on future releases.
When something STARTS obsolete it really pisses me off. If the friggin edition is so special, release it, not a gap-filling money-harvesting disc that WILL be useless in a few months. I like money, I love it, but I know one can make much more money NOT calling people "stupid".
After a few months, the hype was gone, and with it the desire of buying LOTR. Should they release the special edition at once OR later, but NOT releasing the idea of an special edition side-by-side the normal one, I'd be with it right on my desk...
Just like Spiderman. Some marketing genious decided to save money, and DON'T make a two-sided DVD, with widescreen and TV formats. Released only the square one, here in Brazil. End of story? I passed the DVD and... KAZAA!!!!
[]'s Carlos Cardoso - Becoming a brazilian ProBlogger, typo by typo
Actually, I think LoTR is a very well-loved book among the regulars on Slashdot because they all admire Peter Jackson's audacity and vision to actually film three movies out of a book (a long-time favorite among Slashdot readers) that everyone else had said could not be turned into theatrical features.
It also helps that Jackson created almost from scratch a visual-effects team that has done amazing CGI work that rivals anything done by the folks at Lucasfilm.
It's the reasons I mentioned above that LoTR deserves its own category in Slashdot. =)
I agree completely. But then, New Line has made a habit of releasing some of the best DVD's available. Cf. David Fincher's Se7en, which also featured four very informative commentary tracks by a number of cast and crew personnel. Admittedly it was not of the scope of LotR, but a fascinating movie nonetheless. That and Fox's special edition of Fincher's Fight Club were pretty much my favorite DVD's as far as fulfilling the promise of "film school in a box." However, New Line's edition of P.T. Anderson's Boogie Nights is another great one. Basically, no one has done DVD as consistently well as New Line -- with the possible exception of Criterion.