Movies Fellowship extended DVD

Yesterday my dad got the DVD for Fellowship of the Ring for us, and of course he got the Fullscreen version, which I didn't like, but hey that's beside the point (but while I'm on it, when I was in town later that day I couldn't find a single copy of the Widescreen version)

But the Extras disc was very interesting. One of the features on there was a preview of the 'Extended DVD edition'. This is supposed to have the movie with about thirty minutes of scenes added that weren't in the theatrical release. It's coming out in November.

Apparently, there are to be four discs in that edition. Does anybody know what those discs will be? I know one disc will be the extended movie, another an extras disc made specially for the extended film. Will the other two be the same discs that came out in the regular edition yesterday?

 

Isn't that the suck? Buying a movie and seeing a trailer for a better version of that same movie?

It's like they are laughing at you.

To answer your question though, I have no idea, sorry
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*avoids the DVD for now

 

Target's got the widescreen for $17, eh? I gotta keep that in mind...

Yeah, it is the suck, but the extended will be the cool. That collectors' box sounds like the rule, too. Maybe I should go check Amazon. They might know.

It wasn't my money, so as far as my collection goes, I'm still clear and waiting for the extended set. However, if you buy both, there's like a $5 mail-in rebate ($10 if you get the cool box), so maybe I could get my mom to give me the receipts and stuff when I get the extended version.

 

I too will own the extended DVD, I n33d that extra 30 min of footage. But those DVDs are a lot cheaper than you'd find them in this country.

 

Thats why I am waiting for the new version... i believe it has extras of like cast interviews, screen shots maybe even fan art... A little on J.R.R. Tolkien... Who knows but I am waiting for it. I love Lord of the Rings.

 

Lord of the Rings is great movie ..i gara have one of the extended DVD set too..i will wait for it to come..

 

What the point of getting the extended version? It's the same thing as the original, but with 30 more minutes, so what it's like the Aliens special edition, Leon the Professional and Apocalypse Now Redux, I found the extra minutes a waste (Well except Aliens) I mean Lord of the Ring was a great movie, but the footages on the original is good enough, sometimes adding the extra footages can ruin the movie (Apocalyspe Now Redux)

 

Well, if that extra footage comes from the book the movie was based on, and was only cut out cause the movie got too long (not cause it sucked) then I'm all for it. People were bitter that parts of the book got cut out, so of course they are happy that there is extended footage. Maybe it puts those parts back in.

 

I think I should speak up now, but am I the only one who didn't like the movie (besides sexy Legolas) and think it's just completely overrated and way too long for it's own good? :dizzy2:

 

IMHO, it was long in keeping with the spirit of the books. i don't mean it was long for the sake of being long just because the book was long, I mean it was long so it could fit at least a fraction of the book into it.

Overrated? Maybe. I hate how so many movies have those incredibly ridiculous topographies. I liked Tatooine much better in ep 4, when it was kinda real looking. Those swarms of arches, and gigantic mushroom rocks in eps 1 and 2 look like crap. Same idea with LOTR.. that road they try to take over the pass is ludicrous. The bridge in Moria is a little overdone.. etc.

The acting wasn't tops either I found. Well, maybe they did as well as they could. unfortunately, despite the length, it was still a case of jumping from one scene to the next willy nilly, without enough time spent in each. Now this happens, now this happens etc etc.

The characters seemed a bit too cliche, the grumpy dwarf, the feminine looking elf the dependable little midget people, the bad human, the good human blah blah blah. (of course, a lot of those cliches we see still today prolly came from that book)

To go with them are the cliche ensemble-cast-adventure-story shots, like the one where they all crest the hill one by one and 'strike a pose' for the camera before continuing on as heroic music plays. One by one they filter by, suposedly oblivious to the camera, yet each of them taking that exact moment to look around as the wind ruffles their hair.. pure argh.

Plus, seeing Agent Smith as a good guy was just weird

After considering it, the main fault of the movie seems to be that it was based on a book we all know already: it is predictable, it is cliched (cause the book formed the cliches) it had to include too many scenes or fans would get pissed (as if they weren't already over the exclusion of Tom Bombadil [what a stupid name])

Despite all that, i did like it. It had its shortcomings, but I am glad I saw it. Here's hoping they learn from it while making the next two, (though they may already have)

 

LOL! I did the same thing, except I added "Mr. Baggins" when I saw it

Don't get me wrong, I love the movie. It's just hard to transfer a classic book to the screen.

 

OK, finally looked up the features on Amazon, and here's the disc breakdown:

The movie is spread across two discs. This is probably because: 1) It's now so dang big and 2) there are four audio commentary tracks from different sectors - director and writers, design team, production team, and cast.

The second two discs are the 'appendices' - all the 'making of' and features stuff.