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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)."
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Does this mean soon we get to buy the super box set with all three of the extended editions?? I hope so =)
How many more endings does it have?
This is getting silly. Why do we need dvd's in succession with a few *extra* features separating them? Isn't seeing the movie as the director intended enough? If I wanted more details, the book is always handy.
Wow. I hereby nominate the parent's subject line for the 'Most bitter slashdot post subject line ever' award.
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. :)
It seems like every other friggin' month they're releasing another special edition of one of these flicks. The movie studio is playing you all for fools, and treating you like mindless sheep who happen to have money.
Any 'Rings' fan who was stupid enough to buy each and every DVD that was put out for this trilogy is too dumb to be allowed to reproduce. Fortunately, anyone who is that rabid a fan of this stuff probably wasn't going to be reproducing anyway, so the universe balances out.
I'm sorry Peter Jackson didn't film The Scouring of the Shire. It would have made a nice addition to the Extended DVD, even if it didn't "work" for a box-office feature. The Voice of Saruman, and Shelob's attack are both in The Two Towers, and personally I think Jackson should have filmed it that way, removing the unnecessary Arwen scenes to compensate. But that's just me.
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I thought about supporting the right of free speech and wanted to start reading slashdot at -1 (saw it in some-ones sig) but if this is the general level of postings at -1, I'll just keep on reading at +1....
The audio codec doesn't like mplayer or totem.
God I hate proprietary BS.
Apple "supporting the open source community" my ass, how come a twisted evil corporation like Real can even get it's formats to work on linux, but apple can't give us some binary libraries to link to.
Disgrace.
Yes this is a troll, but yes, format wars are political and wars have trolls in them.
Can't resist... spoiler... video--
I managed to tear myself away half way through.
oh man, I can't wait! I'm so exited I think I just pissed myself! Extended edition 3 movie marathon coming up!
This is going to be awesome!
Here's the proof
These guys won't ship outside of Australia, but the "super box set" exists.
-- james
Yes, but does it include the very important character and scenes?
Take-off every
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...
Or rather, one real ending and several false ones.
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1)Clear out 1 day to watch LOTR:RTK extended edition
2)Get those adult diapers that I used last year for LOTR:RTK movie edition out of storage.
I knew those would come in handy again.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
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?
OH NOES!!1, WE'LL MISS yUO!!!11
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You can download this trailer with Halo 2 now.
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/229861
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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Cannot be destroyed? Never underestimate the Slashdot Effect...
Before I click on the link to the .mov I tought: "The site will be down for sure, after all, it is LOTR, it is a movie, and it is a DVD preview. The nerds will not forgive". For my surprise the site is still up.
Are the nerds losing their power to slashdot sites?
What is the sound of ten thousand geeks updating the Amazon.com wish list all at once?
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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.
Matrix of the Rings? :-)
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Buy the theater version to satisfy your LOTR fix and then pawn them off as gifts (Christmas and the like) after you obtain the extended cut version.
Now, I am curious if I can rip this new extended cut version and get it down to ONE DVD with just 5.1English Audio + film.
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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.
Does that mean this preview is the original theatre release of LOTR:ROTK? ;)
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.
After all, Wagner's ring cycle makes LotR look like a cartoon short by comparison...
Frodo was in his early thirties by the time he finally left the Shire with the ring.
Blar.
Who cares about all this, I got the box set months ago. Read the books if you want the real extended edition. Besides whats the point it's not like you get to see Tom Bombadil, and its just no fun without old Tom
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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.
And how about a release date for the extended edition "super" box set on VHS? :-)
I'm waiting for the extended edition box set in WMVHD 1080p.
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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.
If its not royal blue, i dont want it. no matter how pressssssious it is, and i'll put the my 2 extended editions on ebay. Might still buy if its gold tho. :D
For fzck's sake, some of us are trying to avoid spoilers
Welcome to Slashdot.
Fortunately I've avoided seeing the "edited to run in the time alloted" version, waiting for this DVD release so I really don't know what they're talking about.
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"LotRRotK" (pronounced "lahtarrghootkh", like a wet fart from someone sitting on a plastic chair in a quiet classroom.)
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You DO realise all these guys have done is taken the three extended edition DVDs, had a big cardboard box made up at the printers, and slapped an extra $20 bucks on the RRP of the total price of the extended edition DVDs? It's not the official box set. That won't be out for at least another year.
I won't reveal the working title of my next book since otherwise amazon will be taking pre-orders for it by tommorrow...
My Grandma will be happy hearing this. She's been waiting for the EE since they released the original dvd. It's amazing how much of a Star Wars/LoTR nut.
Pre-orders being accepted now. Comes with its own bookcase to holds all the DVD's.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
What is it with that Americanism? It clearly doesn't make any sense! Think about it - what you actually mean is "couldn't care less"...
I am very interested to see how Jackson manages to connect up with the previous EEs. There are scenes added to the previous two EEs, which are not in the theatrical releases, which will have an impact on scenes already shown in the cinemas. I am thinking, for instance, of the scene where Merry and Pippin drink the Ent's stuff that makes them grow. At the crowning, the four hobbits are standing next to each other. In the theatrical release, the hobbits are of equal length. In the EE, Merry and Pippin need to be at least a head taller than Frodo and Sam! Will new special effects do the trick here?
I'm very disappointed that Peter Jackson has decided not to include a very important scene in The Two Towers. One day I hope that future generations will get to see these movies with the badger scenes fully restored...
Why bother.
An Extended Version?! This movie was way too long already!
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.