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LoTR RoTK Extended Edition Specs Released
It's pre-pre-Christmas season, and ThePrinceofWands writes "OMG! It's official, 25% more unbelievable greatness in this version." The linked description (on the official LotR site) starts "DISCS 1-2: The Feature
FEATURE (approx. 250 minutes) - A new version of the final installment in the epic trilogy! The Academy-Award winning film now has 50 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film for this highly-anticipated video release." The extended version can be ordered starting on Oct 1st.
Honestly, I'm not sure I get it.
I'm lazy, but even I can't sit on my ass for quite that long in one sitting. How people are planning all day LOTR screenings is a little beyond me.
If I can think of one movie that definitely DOES NOT need an extra "50 minutes", it's ROTK.
"50 minutes" of what? 50 minutes more ass kicking and butt ass big elephant stomping, or 50 minutes more misty-eyed, silent glances?
Where are the usual SW bashers?
Shouldn't it be LOTR: Return of the Merchandising with this movie series as well?
Fun that everyone bashes Lucas for his multiple releases but it is quite silent about Jackson.
That is what I am waiting for. After I got burned on the 2 versions of FotR, I resolved myself to wait for the trilogy box set.
Of course, I couldn't wait THAT long. So I bought the theatrical versions of TT and RotK.
Anyway you slice it, the money grubbing dept. is in full gear in Middle Earth.
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
sucks.
If any of the stuff they cut actually made the movie better they would have left it in the theatrical edition. Remember these are not director's cuts where the director is given the freedom to include (or leave out, think Blade Runner) whatever he wants in the film, in this they are just throwing in every cut scene, even if the cut was made for good reasons.
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
FUCK! I'm so tired of this shit you nerds are spewing! There are TWO versions: the theatrical and the extended. Peter Jackson has promised repeatedly that there will always be two versions. There will be no other releases except when the formats change so FUCK OFF with these tired jokes!
You should be Bush's press secretary if he gets reelected, so you can bitch about things that no one is complaining about.
You seem to think you are very clever by pointing out that Jackson announced two different versions long before release. Well guess what Scooter, did you honestly think we didn't know this already?
STFU and go back to begging to be allowed into your local Mensa chapter with your pseudo-cleverness.
Uh-huh...
You WAS crazy, bi-atch!
Didn't I see yous at the gay g-bang?
I suppose you haven't noticed the highly rated comment complaining about that very thing.
The only highly rated comment is bitching about the same damn thing the parent is - the non-existent mass of fickle Slashdotters who are bitching about Jackson making two different versions of the movie. Stick that in your cock and smoke it.