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Extra Scenes in TTT Extended Edition DVD

Posted by michael on from the more-ents dept.

gdr writes "USA Today have an article about the extra scenes that will be in The Two Towers Extended Edition. More ent scenes so it'll be worth watching for the special effects alone. Sadly it looks like there will be no extra gollum scenes. I can't say I'm as excited about this one as the FotR EE."

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  1. Way too many! by WPIDalamar · · Score: 4, Insightful


    So first I buy the dvd of the fellowship, then I buy the extended version ... then I buy the dvd of the Two Towers, and then I buy the extended version.

    And THEN when all 3 are released, I buy the trilogy... and then the special extended version of that!

    Man these guys got it good. Maybe I should smarten up and just wait.

    1. Re:Way too many! by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Fanboys are the ultimate consumers. Blaming the corporations for exploiting them with the collector's editions and boxed sets and specia gift-packs would be like blaming someone for eating beef, after a cow walked up to them, started covering itself with steak sauce, and handing them a bag full of charcoal.

  2. Good! by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Insightful
    So, they put the Ent-draught back in, eh? Now _that's_ good news. Merry and Pippin becoming unusually large for hobbits was only of any significance when they returned to the Shire and cleared out Saruman and his shambolic mob. Which suggests that the Scouring of the Shire will be left in the Return of the King - at least in the extended DVD, if not the cinema release.

    I doubt there'll be any good excuse for the monstrous character assassination they committed on Faramir, though.

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    1. Re:Good! by gdr · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Which suggests that the Scouring of the Shire will be left in the Return of the King - at least in the extended DVD, if not the cinema release.
      IMO the Souring of the Shire is the most important chapter in the LotR. It shows both the development of the hobbits and also that wars don't just end, there's always some cleaning up to be done.

      The inclusion or otherwise of this chapter in the RotK movie will make up my mind as to whether Peter Jackson "gets" the book. Partial credit if it's only in the Extended Edition.

  3. Re:Yes.... by Sloppy · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I only have a 5 disc DVD changer and so I'll have to get up from the couch after 12 hours to switch to the final disk!
    Think of shiny disks as being merely distribution media, not playback media. Play 'em back from your fileserver. Then you have an n disk changer, and you'll never have to get up again, except for the occasional trip to go buy and add another hard disk. (Tip: LVM and EVMS are your friends.)
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  4. Re:Just as excited (but I'm hopeless) by avelth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't hear any mention of them fixing the atrocious plot changes, so I'm really hopeless.

    The Ents are tricked into attacking?

    Faramir is a prick?

    What happened here!?!

  5. Re:You're Only Feeding the RIAA by tid242 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "So are you MPAA-boycotters out there gonna stick to your guns and not buy ANY of these DVDs? Or are you going to set your principles aside and buy these movies."

    One of the advantages of living in a house with 4 other guys, either someone will buy it, or their girlfriend/mom/dad/brother/grandmother/aunt/etc/et c certainly will, either way i still get to see it :) ...

    in any event, there's always the option of buying it used, while it could be argued that buying used DVDs supports the MPAA via creating a secondary market demand for their products, i personally think that it's a happy medium between being devoid of art in life and supporting one of the world's most evil empires. Also it should be noted that someone who buys a DVD for $25 and sells it to a disc-whorehouse for $5 probably isn't considerably driven by the market demand for his/her used product...

    And (as a sort of sales pitch), EVERYONE who sells a movie or CD isn't necessarily affiliated with the MPAA or RIAA, as an example i am certainly purchasing (brand new) the 'Ohgr' CD (Nivek Ogre and Mark Walk) being released by spitfire records on July 1, and they are not affiliated with the RIAA (according to something i read a while back)... So don't let your boycotts hurt the innocents (like all of those idiots who said they'd boycott Heineken beer because it is German, after the fallout of an Iraq war resolution...)

    Sorry, i'm mumbling again...

    -tid242

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    With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with science. --Carl Sagan

  6. Revelation?? by utdpenguin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The big revelation is that Aragorn is old?? Well DUH. He is decended from the Numenoreans and has elvish blood. Elrond is like his super great uncle. I wish these movies had never been made. All of a sudden Im being forced into "Tolkien Conversations" with people who have never read the book. Back in the day when I talked LOTR the other person at least new the _real_ non-holywoodized version.

    Ok ok. I KNOW Im ranting in a crazy fashion. I appologize. It is just that I am a Tolkien fanatic. Imagine (linux geeks) if all of a sudden everyone was using lindows and talking about how great linux was and if you tried to tell them about debian, suse or whatever distro you liek they were like "hunh? thats not linux."

    Im goign to go drink something very strong and try to regain my composure. Thank you for reading this rant.

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    In Soviet Russia you dant have to put up with these crappy jokes
  7. Re:More scenes? by Snowspinner · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know I'm unpopular in this view, but I think the Arwen sections are totally necessary to the LoTR films.

    In the books, Arwen's marriage to Aragorn in the end comes out of nowhere. In some ways it is powerful because of this, but it really would not work in a movie, where people have been watching this story for two years. The payoff of a marriage at the end (And Jackson has confirmed, I believe, that RoTK ends with the marriage, and not with the return to the Shire) needs to actually be a payoff. That can only happen if Aragorn marries someone he's been developed as having some tie to. Arwen cannot come out of nowhere, nor can she be absent from Two Towers, or else it's been two years since we've seen her, and she is no longer adequately developed.

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  8. Re:Ent scenes. by donutz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It took 10 minutes for a sentence to be spoken, I think it completely ruined the pace of the movie.

    You read the book, didn't you? So you should have been prepared for the ents to speak slowly, and understand why they do.

    Frankly, it's probably a good lesson for people: It's not worth doing if it doesn't take a long time to do it. Take that, instant gratification!