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LotR: RotK Extended Edition Preview Available
Topoimagery writes "After months of speculation and a few low-quality bootleg video clips, we finally get some official video from New Line. The Official Lord of the Rings Site has a preview of the upcoming Return of the King EE in Quicktime format. Here are direct links to the small version (4 MB) and large version (9 MB). Highlights include Voice of Saruman, Mouth of Sauron, Houses of Healing, and Aragorn confronting Sauron. Released date is December 14, and you can pre-order now. (For those of you who can't get enough spoilers, here's a site describing all anticipated new scenes on the DVD)."
There won't be a boxed set of all the Ext Editions until the next High Def DVD format is finalized. I guess it means you won't be buying it on a spindle. :)
See the OpenQuicktime Project. They have a bunch of codecs. Or, use CrossOver office.
Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.
Here's the proof
These guys won't ship outside of Australia, but the "super box set" exists.
-- james
has been available for pre-order for weeks.0 654ZK0/qid=1098030658/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-701367 5-2021468?v=glance&s=dvd/
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00
Not a very savvy group of LoTR geeks on Slashdot...
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/229861
I belive he didn't film The Scouring of the Shire because if he did the movie would have two climax. The first would be The Battle at the Pelennor fields, and the second would be the Hobbits' battle at the Shire. The audience would get [even more] tired IMHO.
Tough it would be very interesting to see that scenes screenplayed.
Amazon is taking pre-orders... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 654ZK0/qid=1098032871/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-014815 8-6872921?v=glance&s=dvd
$78 USD. Which is low all things considered. You get 13 DVDs.
I agree. I also only bought the extended versions, but I can understand some valid reasons for buying the normal releases too. First off, with various coupons and deals, they could be had very cheap. Secondly, for people who wanted to also have the theatrical cut, it's the only way to get it. And I believe that the regular editions had their own unique extras, etc. - so a real completist might want them for that reason. Again, given how cheap it was/is possible to get the regular versions, I don't think it is totally nuts for someone to go that far. I'm personally more than happy with the Extended Editions though.
All the spoilers you need are right in the book, and have been available for over a half-century....
yup, you can order the entire extended edition trilogy from amazon.com. it should be released at the same time as the standalone extended edition rotk.
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Frodo was in his thirties when he took custody of the ring, and fifty when he set off on the quest: Gandalf was off researching for many years.
The film glossed rightly glossed over that.
Worked fine for me. You just have to download the latest codec pack for mplayer to use.
/usr/lib/codecs...e r catched -> 0x6693c3e0
Opening audio decoder: [qtaudio] QuickTime Audio Decoder
External func COMCTL32.dll:16
External func COMCTL32.dll:17
QuickTime6.3 DLLs found
QuickTime.qts patched!!! old entry=0x6693c3e0
theQuickTimeDispatcher catched -> 0x6693c3e0
WARNING! Invalid Ptr handle!
### Searching for QuickTime plugins (*.qtx) at
### FindNext: BeHereiVideo.qtx
### FindNext: AvidQTAVUICodec.qtx
### FindNext: QuickTimeEssentials.qtx
### FindNext: QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx
theQuickTimeDispatch
theQuickTimeDispatcher catched -> 0x6693c3e0
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 7989->176400 (63.9 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [qdmc] afm:qtaudio (Quicktime QDMC/QDM2 audio decoders)
We're talking about two different things here. The link you posted contains just the EEs you can buy individually, plus a box. Nothing extra. Whereas Peter is talking about a "super" EE set, possibly with bloopers and other cut scenes. This will likely come come out on the new HD format in several years.
I'd have cut the Aragorn nearly drowning scenes
Check out the Purist Edit. They (and other useless scenes) are cut there.
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In every ROTK:EE article, people make "Super Extra Ultra Mega Super Expanded Combo Edition" jokes, as though the more adjectives you throw into your little phrase makes it funnier.
The intent is to somehow draw parallels to marketing strategies like Lucas', even though:
1.) There are only two editions. The normal one, and the one with extra footage.
2.) Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have been open about this release schedule since before the first film was even out on DVD.
3.) To be even more decent to the fans, each DVD is packaged so that the extras on one don't overlap the other (i.e., they don't share any of the same extras), so if you decide to buy both you're not getting ripped off. This was done on purpose, as stated by Peter Jackson some three or four years ago.
Despite this, it is vitally important that someone, somewhere, post a "Superduper Extra Mega Reflex Platinum Edition" joke--the more random adjectives, the "funnier" it is. The idea is to distract from the fact that there are only two editions, and it's been this way since 2001.