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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)."
Wow. I hereby nominate the parent's subject line for the 'Most bitter slashdot post subject line ever' award.
Get ready, get out your checkbooks, soon you will be able to buy the Preview of the Extended Deluxe Director's Cut Extended Edition Preview. How many times will they try to sell you the same crap you already bought?
For fzck's sake, some of us are trying to avoid spoilers for this final go-round in this series! I don't know what's in the extra scenes and I don't WANT to know until I see it. You go ahead and list a bunch of them right in the summary text. At LEAST put up a "spoilers" warning and put that shit in the extended copy!
Try using your brains once in a while, it really doesn't hurt!
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How about a CONDENSED version?! I think that all three movies could be condensed into a single 2.5-3 hour film that would actually be GOOD. Then they can edit together all the shots where the camera is slowly zooming in or out on Elijah Wood's face on a separate special edition 1.5 hour disc for all you LOTR suckers.
Star Wars and Lord of the Rings have become addictions for many people, and a startling number of these people are suffering mental disorders. Whether the disorders we caused by the movies or their directors is a question that can only be answered with further scientific study, but the goverment should start imposing laws on the consumption of these movies.
For instance setting a legal age to buy Lord of the Rings movies or merchandise. The addictive properties are to powerful to trust the discretion of our youth. Furthermore, all of these items should be taxed heavily to discourage use among those legally able to.
Sure New Line Cinema says these aren't addictive, but leaked internal memos show that they have been spiking their movies with 50% more fog effects and melodrama than would occur naturally.
Make your own decision as to the safety of these movies, but let's give our children a chance to mature before they are exposed to it.
Pre-orders being accepted now. Comes with its own bookcase to holds all the DVD's.
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