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Lord of the Rings extended edition DVD set

Last night I peeled the shrink wrap off one of my most highly anticipated Christmas gifts, The Lord of the Rings extended DVD collection. I only got to watch The Fellowship of the Ring, which took long enough considering the extra half-hour of film. I liked the added and extended scenes since they made the movie more continuous, although I can see why they were cut from the movie for time reasons. And I didn't even take a look at the 2 extra DVDs, From Book to Vision and From Vision to Reality. Or the commentary included on the 2 movie DVDs. Sheesh! All I can say is it rocks!

I'm looking forward to the extra 43 minutes in The Two Towers and 50 minutes in The Return of the King!

Published Dec 29 2004, 12:40 PM by darrell

Comments

Thomas Williams said:

Hey Darrell, Santa was good to me this Christmas as well as I got ROTK Special Edition. Haven't watched it yet, but I've watched a couple of hours of documentary...

# December 29, 2004 1:53 PM

Jennifer said:

Only quality posts! You are driting from topic!

# December 29, 2004 3:05 PM

Darrell said:

Jennifer - ha! I knew that was coming. :)

# December 30, 2004 1:07 AM

Robert Hurlbut said:

I got this as well for my two older boys for Christmas -- ok, it was sort of a present for dad too. :)

We saw this third one in the theater, but I have only seen the first and second one in the extended versions on video. I am really looking forward to seeing the additions. I had heard from someone I work with that the quality in those sections wasn't as good because they were cut and not given the "final" polish. What was your take on those?

# December 30, 2004 7:18 AM

Darrell said:

Robert - I didn't notice which ones had no "final" polish. I thought the scenes that were deleted were great for keeping the flow going, making it less "jumpy" from the in-movie version. People that read JRR knew what to fill-in, but not everyone read it before the movie came out. :)

# December 30, 2004 7:45 AM

Charles Young said:

I got the special edition too. Thanks kids. I've only watched Return of the King so far! Excellent stuff. The extended scenes are really worthwhile. Good to see Peter Jackson's version of the demise of Saruman - ouch! And look out for the demise of Peter Jackson himself after Gimli 'accidently' gets Legolas to miss his aim. Cameo performances are always fun.

# December 30, 2004 11:01 PM