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Will LOTR:ROTK Extended Edition Hit Cinemas?
yootje writes "Two articles today on TheOneRing.net about rumours that the extended edition from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King will come in theaters before the release on DVD. The first article can be found here, the second one here. Both come from people who work in a cinema themselves, one in the UK and one in Denmark."
As long as there's money to be had, you bet they'll do it.
It'd be great if it did. Nothing quite like a theater viewing of such an epic film.
This is absolutely getting out of hand. First the matrix 10 DVD box set now this. Should I be on the edge of my seat for the 30 DVD LOTR box set?
As long as there is more money to be made, or even suspected of being made -- it will be in your local multi-plex someday...
But I think I'll watch the extended versions in the confort of my own home. Movie theaters don't have pause buttons.
Maybe the scene where the Wormtoungue throws the Palantír at the fellowship - one of my favourite scenes from the book - filmed but sadly cur from the film....
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As with the two films before ROtK, I felt that there were places that were cut poorly, or didn't fit well together.
Once I saw the finished extended editions, they were a more pleasant experience.
After the "two-hour" limit is removed (even though ROtK was > 2 hours) it made a good deal of difference to the final output.
I expect that ROtK EE will be in the same vein.
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So they should have released one 10 hour movie?
The Lord of the Rings was too large and had too much happening to be done in one film. The book itself is split into 3 volumes. As it is, they probably should have shot 6 movies to match the 6 books Tolkien wrote, they had to cut out way too much.
Do you honestly think the 3rd movie was stand alone? You'd have no character advancement, missed all the buildup on the ring and the world of middle earth, and started with 2 guys wandering in a swamp and a bunch of others in a military camp. It wouldn't have made sense. Do you dislike the Star Wars trilogy too?
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Yeah, I know. As I said before, I really enjoyed the film and I read the book several times. What's more is that I didn't give credit to Jackson who is actually working at another piece of original art (the KingKong movie).
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But still, I can't shake the feeling that the whole business got greedy to the point that it starts to make the industry look bad. Say what you want about Michael Moore but when he said that he didn't care if people download his movie he had a point. They are making "enough" money, and filesharing won't kill cinema.
I could have downloaded LOTR but I rather spent the money on the movie since it was worth it. But bringing the same movie on the screen, over and over again is just lame. I like double features, though. But please no more OBVIOUS ripoffs...
First of all, I'm assuming you mean the three-hour limit.. To be honest, while some of the footage was a great bonus (I couldn't see why it was cut in the first place), there was also a lot of footage that SHOULD have been cut. Especially during the first half of TTT:EE.
It might have been clear if you'd paid attention to the repeated references throughout all three films of the imminent departure of the elves to the Grey Havens.
Did you miss the entire leave/stay subplot with Elrond and Arwen?
While extended versions can be great for people who "just can't get enough" of their favourite franchise, they can be annoying to those who just like movies. For example, while I like The Matrix movies, but if that robots-coming-through-the-roof-and-being-shot scene went any longer, I'd be reaching for my fast-forward button.
Of course the Extended Collectors' Editions are made with fans in mind, but sometimes that's the only one you can buy in the store. I ended up with the Extended edition of The Lion King, for example, that stuff that was new to me and took away from the nostalgia and wanes the kids' attentions pan. Just my $2/100.
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I liked most of the endings. The one that I thought was poorly cut was where Frodo and Sam are on that rock in the middle of a bunch of lava, crying and blubbering and whatnot, and the screen fades to black.... and then fades back in, to the same shot of them still blubbering on the same damn rock!
I was greatly disappointed that Denethor was never revealed to have been using another palantir (as was his right and duty as Steward). The movie portrays him as generally being a hardass until he goes insane, but the book shows that Sauron had played a large part in driving him insane via the palantir.
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Why do we have to suffer through idiotic "super duper 23rd special bronze edition" jokes in every single LOTR article?
Since 2001, it's always been standard release, then extended. Nothing more, nothing less, and they've been upfront since the beginning.
Oh, yeah, I forgot, hahahahaha, yeah, multiple versions of a DVD! MPAA sux0r!
People are complaining about length, content, and many endings... READ THE BOOK and find out how much longer it would have been if Peter Jackson didn't cut alot of it out. (My best guess is a set of 7-9 three hour movies)
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I think that Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series would be great in miniseries format....
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