The Two Towers DVD Release Dates

Waiting for the complete set? by ic3p1ck · 2003-04-23 16:32 · Score: 3, Insightful

I'm personally waiting for the complete box set. I hope it will include all the extended versions of the three movies with all the extras, i.e greater than the sum of these intermediate special edition releases.

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Save your money. by Asterax · 2003-04-23 16:33 · Score: 3, Insightful

I really don't see much point in buying the LotR DVD's seperately. You just know that New Line will compile together all three movie's in one big massive package with an infinite amount of DVD extra's.

Re:Save your money. by evilviper · 2003-04-23 16:59 · Score: 4, Insightful

Well, some of us buy DVDs for the movie, and don't care very much about the rest. Deleted scenes are always good, but if you want interviews with air-headed actors, just watch the late shows.

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Re:Save your money. by coupland · 2003-04-23 17:09 · Score: 4, Insightful

Your comment makes no sense. If a single compilation is what you want then you are guaranteed not to get it. The media industry has proven time and again that it makes no sense to release something their customers want when it's easier and more profitable to release many iterations of something you ALMOST want. Hopefully you'll buy them all and make them rich. Star Wars for example, will we ever see a digital DVD compilation? No. Not while you keep buying things piecemeal...
Re:Save your money. by Xytras · 2003-04-23 18:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Star Wars for example, will we ever see a digital DVD compilation? You think you'll see a Analog DVD Compilation?

Likewise with FOTR extended DVD by PovRayMan · 2003-04-23 16:35 · Score: 3, Interesting

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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Re:Likewise with FOTR extended DVD by buffy · 2003-04-23 17:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.
Wait a sec. You were broke, but still had the $30 to spend on a 4 Disc DVD? That's sick.
Broke is broke. Having $30 to by a movie that you have the luxury to have a DVD player to play in is NOT broke.
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Re:Likewise with FOTR extended DVD by PovRayMan · 2003-04-23 17:18 · Score: 4, Interesting

I sacrificed many meals and ate leftovers from friends and neighbors to save up enough for the dvd. There was a strong sense of value for only $30. I got a movie, tons of extras, and a free pass to the theater.

Plus the whole eating less made me kill off a couple pounds. I should try it again. the Lord of the Diet... Hmm...

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Re:Likewise with FOTR extended DVD by sowellfan · 2003-04-23 17:30 · Score: 5, Funny

If you were really dedicated, you would've sold your plasma, too, and seen the movie twice or more ;)

You could lose even more weight that way, too.

Release date mix-up by dzym · 2003-04-23 16:35 · Score: 4, Informative

The actual release date for the DVD with the theatrical version of the movie is august 26th, 8/26, not June 28th, 6/28.

Hope that helps.

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Re:Sure go ahead by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-23 16:38 · Score: 3, Funny

Who cares about the MPAA and RIAA?

This is LoTR!! I'll buy every DVD and soundtrack!

Hell, I'll sleep with Jack Valenti and Hilary Rosen!

Actually, ewww!

Why yes... by GarfBond · 2003-04-23 16:42 · Score: 5, Informative

If by 6/28/2003 you mean 8/26/2003 (bit of an odd typo...), then yes, that is the expected release date for TTT :)

Here's the Official Site if you don't believe someone's scanner for this info.

the onion by DanThe1Man · 2003-04-23 16:46 · Score: 5, Funny

(with rumored extra 48 minutes of footage)

That remindes me of an Onion side story title: "DVD contains two hours of previously unseen movie"

Re:Why? by NeeNee3 · 2003-04-23 16:47 · Score: 3, Funny

Exactly! They are counting on the kind of fans that love the movie so much they rush out to by the regular edition as soon as it hits the shelves because they can't wait. Then, they know these same fans are going to buy the special edition when it finally releases because of the all the extras.

Heck, a lady I work with loves LOTR so much that she bought the special edition of Fellowship of the Ring TWICE! She lent the first copy to someone who was taking too long in returning it, and she didn't feel like waiting the extra day or whatever to get it back, so she went and bought it again. Movie companies love these kind of people!

some news on the extended edition by TerraFrost · 2003-04-23 16:48 · Score: 4, Informative

While we're talking about the Two Towers, the extended edition will have 43 extra minutes (compared to the 32 extra in FotR), and have more than 150 cgi scenes (compared to the 35 extra in FotR).

Sources:
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/10503906 13
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=14590

Re:some news on the extended edition by cybermox · 2003-04-23 17:35 · Score: 3, Informative

According to the official site, LordoftheRings.Net, the extended edition will have "35 minutes of new and extended scenes."

Source:
http://www.lordoftherings.net/index_400 _hv_presell .html (Click on the "Click Here" link to pop up the SE info.)

Lucas by grungebox · 2003-04-23 16:50 · Score: 5, Funny

I think George Lucas should watch the DVD extras so he can learn a thing or two about making good movies.

Re:Sure go ahead by Loki_1929 · 2003-04-23 16:52 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I was busy reading my Visa info over the phone to Jack Valenti to reserve the DVD and the special edition DVD set.

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Re:Why? by fidget42 · 2003-04-23 17:01 · Score: 3, Informative

The official reason is the extra production time it takes to edit the extended release. I'm not sure what an extra three months would really buy them, but that's the official line.

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In other news by djupedal · 2003-04-23 17:12 · Score: 4, Funny

Mark these dates on your Calendar: 4/28/03 & 8/11/03. These are the (China) DVD release dates for The Two Towers. Get in line now...(and wear that mask, dammit).

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Gonna start a piracy thread! by sludg-o · 2003-04-23 17:26 · Score: 3, Funny

Another one ring.net page has more details on the actual footage.

I bet KaZaA has more than just the details

Herein lies the problem by Galvatron · 2003-04-23 17:36 · Score: 4, Insightful

I KNEW this was going to happen. With so many people getting burned on special editions, people won't buy the original releases anymore. Now, the studios are practically obligated to make special editions, which further reinforces people's avoidance of the standard edition. I honestly think the DVD market is permanently fucked up by this, I can't see any way that the studios can reverse the assumption that all movies that were at least decent will have special editions, so there's no point in buying it when it's first released. I'm sure it was a tremendous moneymaker when they started, but now Hollywood's shortsighted greed has obligated them to waste money printing a non-special edition that no one wants, and filming special filler, just so that people will believe them when they release the real version.

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For Your Consideration by D+iz+a+n+k+Meister · 2003-04-23 17:39 · Score: 3, Insightful

I was in the Philippines over the New Year and I came across a very nice Muslim women who sold me an awards screener for The Two Towers on DVD for $2 US. I have seen the movie in the theater(obviously) so I can attest to the screener's validity and quality. Basically a pretty dope find, and the whole movie is on exactly 1 DVD(huge plus IMHO).

I also bought all 3 Indiana Jones movies and the first 3 Star Wars captured from Laser Disc on DVD. Total cost: $14 US. Arrrr Matey!!!

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Re:You know by charon_on_acheron · 2003-04-23 18:00 · Score: 5, Funny

They're still trying to find an icon of Bender's shiny metal ass.

Re:You know by Rob+Simpson · 2003-04-23 18:40 · Score: 4, Insightful

Ah, but the beauty of it having its own category is that you can exclude it using your Preferences/Homepage menu, instead of whining about LOTR topics. So, uh, why didn't you go do that?

The Two Towers - Purist Edit by tangent3 · 2003-04-23 19:40 · Score: 5, Informative

For those who are interested, there is a "Purist Edit" of The Two Towers floating around the Edonkey network. The quality isn't that great, being a rip of a rip squeezing 2 hours and 15 mins into 1 CD.

The purpose of the edit is to make the movie follow more closely to the original books. It's amazing the work the editor has done by selectively removing scenes and rearranging them - without messing up the sound synchronisation. Now there are no longer any elves in Helm's Deep, Faramir is a good guy again, and the ents aren't idiots anymore.

Here's the ed2k link:
ed2k://|file|Lord_of_the_Rings-The_Two_Towe rs-The_ Purist_Edit.avi|729462784|ec0671172619e490d7b0ea6b 5278468c|/

More information in the sharereactor forums.

Maybe the extra 48 minutes by jgerman · 2003-04-23 22:03 · Score: 3, Funny

... contains the scenes where Gimli kicks everyone's ass for making him comic relief.

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LoTR is much-loved by the "techie" crowd by MtViewGuy · 2003-04-23 23:24 · Score: 4, Interesting

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. =)

Air Headed Actors? by tid242 · 2003-04-24 02:33 · Score: 4, Informative

but if you want interviews with air-headed actors, just watch the late shows.

Not all actors are airheads, i saw THIS interview on the Charlie Rose show (PBS) on December 3rd with Viggo wearing a shirt stating "No Blood For Oil"

Charlie Rose: You're obviously making a political statement with your T-shirt.

Viggo Mortensen: I wouldn't normally, but it's sort of a reaction to... I've heard a lot of people say to me and I've read in a lot of places about the first movie, and increasingly about the second one... I've seen where people try to relate it to current situation--specifically the United States and their role in the world right now. And I -- if you're going to compare them, then you should get it right--I don't like hearing... I mean I play the character who's defending Helms Deep and I don't think that The Two Towers or Tolkien's writing or Peter's work or our work has anything to do with the United States' foreign ventures at this time. And it upsets me to hear that in a way. And it upsets me even more that questioning what's going on right now, what the United States is doing, is considered treasonous really: "How dare you say that? How un-American of you." And really, this country is founded on the principle that if the government isn't serving the people you at least have the right to say, "Wait a minute. What's going on?" And there're no questions really being asked, at large, about what we're doing. Whereas in The Two Towers you have different races, nations, cultures coming together and examining their conscience and unifying against a very real and terrifying enemy. What the United States has been doing for the past year is bombing innocent civilians without having come anywhere close to catching Osama bin Laden or any presumed enemy, and, as a distraction, we're now--apparently it's a given--we're hell bent on increasing the bombing that's been going on for the past eleven years in Iraq. And I don't think that the civilians on the ground in those countries look at us in the way that maybe Europeans did at the end of World War II, waving flags in the streets, I think that they see the US government as Saruman.
Elijah Wood: As a threat.
VM: Yeah, as a threat. And they're terrified--and have been for a long time--and we are not the good guys, unfortunately, in this case, and ...
CR: Even though right after 9/11 there was an extraordinary amount of public support for the United States to do something.
VM: I'm supportive of the United States. I'm an American. And I have nothing against patriotism. But if one is going to compare then the comparison is quite the opposite of what is being made.
CR: Let me just make sure of the comparison. Because I asked you about the T-shirt at the beginning and you said you made it yourself.
VM: Yeah.
CR: The idea... you object to the comparison of this film with respect to American involvement with Iraq or--
VM: United States government
CR: --with the Afghanistan war or the war against terrorism--in comparison with the film because of your opposition to American policy.
VM: And the idea is--in that comparison--is that the United States is like the good guys in our movie against the bad guys in our movie and I think the opposite is true unfortunately.
CR: We're the bad guys because we responded to--
VM: You know, the people who are terrified at Helms Deep, who are outnumbered in this incredible violence and desire to control--to destroy--the people of Rohan and the rest of the free peoples of Middle-earth, and to control their wills, to control their infrastructure--or destroy it--that's what we're doing in these countries. That's really what we're doing unfortunately. I'm not saying to anyone, to you, or to you, or to you: "This is what you should believe." I'm just saying, why not ask the question: "Why are we doing this?"
EW: Sure.
VM: And I

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Re:Why? by EvanED · 2003-04-24 02:35 · Score: 3, Insightful

I can see 3 months helping a lot. They could probably get everything done in time for the first release date if they really tried, but remember that they are also working on Return of the King. Remember, no matter what, the bigger set would take significantly longer to prepare, so no matter what if they were released at the same time they would have been able to get eh 2-disc one out well before. So they figure why not? People who would only get the 2-disc set will be more inclined to get it rather than pirate it, while most people who would get the expanded one would probably wait anyway. And a few of them might buy or rent the 2-disc one in the meantime, which I suspect is probably more of a bonus than a motivation.

I don't really buy the argument that it is a greed thing; maybe that is involved a little bit, but I don't think it's the major role. Remember, they announced (I think... if not, they will soon) that there is going to be a special edition, and I doubt that they will expect too many people to buy both. (Rent perhaps, but that's about where I think that theory ends.) Meanwhile, I see putting together a DVD like that to be a time-consuming venture.

(And for any of you who think this is like what Lucas is doing, remember that Lucas released Episode I to VHS under the official line that NO DVDs were to be released until after Episode III, while just a couple months later reports surfaced that he was in fact working on an Episode I DVD, which was announced a couple months later. Had I (and many other fans) known a DVD was in the works, there's no way I owuld have bought the VHS. *That's* sleazy. There's no trace of sleaze in the Lord of the Rings.)

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