So what of interest is in the RoTK extended version?

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Scouring of the Shire?

That's really the only "extra" I'm interested in at this point. Peter Jackson chopped the trilogy up so much to begin with, I'm just interested to see which parts made it from the editing room floor to the new DVD.
 
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I don't get it. I'm interested int he EE to see the footage left out of the theatrical release along with all the other crap in the appendicies...
 
Yeah, the DVD really gets the QUALITY treatment in the EE. You get the DTS ES 6.1 sound, the transfer is astounding. Yes, it does run LONG ( i have yet to watch it), but the other two were good in my opinion
 
[quote name='javeryh']I don't get it.[/quote]

What don't you get?

I'm gonna see if one of my relatives get it for christmas, then see if it has anything of worth to make me want the extended version. I already have the NONextended version.
 
I'm picking it up on Friday (payday) a long wih I Robot and the Family Guy single DVD. I just hope they will still be around.
 
If you already have the theatrical version on DVD, it might just be worth renting or borrowing to check out the extended and added scenes as well as the bonus stuff. If you don't have either version, definitely get the extended edition.
 
[quote name='gaelan'][quote name='javeryh']I don't get it.[/quote]

What don't you get?

I'm gonna see if one of my relatives get it for christmas, then see if it has anything of worth to make me want the extended version. I already have the NONextended version.[/quote]

I didn't understand whether "Scouring of the Shire?" was a question you were asking or what but I'm pretty tired right now... so it's not you it's me...yes that routine... I invented it...
 
[quote name='gaelan']Scouring of the Shire?
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As in one of the last chapters in the trilogy (books) that for some unforgivable reason was excluded from the book. Basically the hobbits go back to the Shire and take care of business.
 
The Scouring is not included in the EE. They do kind of tie up the loose ends with Sauromon, but in a slightly different way. I was torn on it, decent for a movie adaptation but unsatisfactory compared to the novels obviously. The Mouth of Sauron is great except for the end of it. Another big dissapointment for me is the speech that Aowyn gives before fighthing the lord of the nazguls is still not there. Otherwise a worthy buy and watch.
 
Dude, they could make a whole other movie on just the "scouring of the shire'. It was crazy finishing the triliogy of books only to find that they go back home and have more work to do. I think it would have been impossible to put that in.
 
[quote name='jughead']Dude, they could make a whole other movie on just the "scouring of the shire'. It was crazy finishing the triliogy of books only to find that they go back home and have more work to do. I think it would have been impossible to put that in.[/quote]

That's kinda why I wish they would have made four movies instead of three. I think telling the whole story accurately*cough*Battle of Helm's Deep*cough* is important.

The Scouring is more than just more work to do. It shows that Hobbits are a force to be reckoned with rather than just luggage to carry around middle earth.
 
[quote name='rockhero']Unfortunately there is no scourging of the shire... And the way they take care of Saruman is terrible, in my opinion.[/quote]

Don't tell me they totally rewrote that too...

So how do they take care of Saruman in Jackson's fantasy epic?
 
[quote name='gaelan'][quote name='rockhero']Unfortunately there is no scourging of the shire... And the way they take care of Saruman is terrible, in my opinion.[/quote]

Don't tell me they totally rewrote that too...

So how do they take care of Saruman in Jackson's fantasy epic?[/quote]

** SPOILER ***

It really sucks. Grima pushes him out of the tower and he gets impaled on a spike. One of my favorite parts in the books was Gandalf casting down Saruman, and they really blew that in the movie big time. It was so badass in the books, and definitely lame (and completely different) in the movie.
 
It was so badass in the books, and definitely lame (and completely different) in the movie.
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a lot of Jackson's version differed from Tolkien's...like elves at helm's deep and other additions/omissions. Oh well, so goes the Hollywood edition. Maybe He-Man and Skeletor will have a cameo in Jackson's Hobbit prequel that is in the works.
 
I really liked the LOTR movies in general, but there are definitely some changes made that I cannot understand at all. I'm a purist though, and I like things left the way they were...
 
[quote name='flybrione']I'm picking it up on Friday (payday) a long wih I Robot and the Family Guy single DVD. I just hope they will still be around.[/quote]

Rumor is there is a special edition of I Robot coming out in june (the current release is pretty bare-bones). If you don't care about special features, its not an issue, but if you do, you might want to wait.
 
[quote name='guardian_owl'][quote name='flybrione']I'm picking it up on Friday (payday) a long wih I Robot and the Family Guy single DVD. I just hope they will still be around.[/quote]

Rumor is there is a special edition of I Robot coming out in june (the current release is pretty bare-bones). If you don't care about special features, its not an issue, but if you do, you might want to wait.[/quote]

Thanks for telling, I was about to pick up the movie later...
 
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It was so badass in the books, and definitely lame (and completely different) in the movie.
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a lot of Jackson's version differed from Tolkien's...like elves at helm's deep and other additions/omissions. Oh well, so goes the Hollywood edition. Maybe He-Man and Skeletor will have a cameo in Jackson's Hobbit prequel that is in the works.[/quote]
You cant make a movie based on Lord of the Rings exactly like the book. Some things have to be changed for the casual audience and because of the lenght of the movies.
 
The extendeds really help make a lot more sense of scenes if you haven't read the books. This is basically the same. Poor Faramir in the 2nd 2 movies got hardly any screen time and came off kind of whiny in the big screen versions but in the EE they made him actually interesting and a character to care about.

I wasn't overly big on how they redid the Saruman scenes but I'm not screaming in agony either. You couldn't have expected everything from the books to make it to the screen, it'd probably have taken 5 movies to cover it all. I missed some parts, but I'm certainly glad there wasn't as much singing as in the books.

The Scouring would have been plausible if there was 4 or 5 movies but being as there was only 3, and RotK without EE was clocked in at almost 3 and a half hours and EE at 4 hours 10 minutes, they'd of probably pushed the movie a bit too long adding that in properly, so I can concede that point, but if that's the biggest thing your looking for with the Extended, you may be disappointed. But a lot of the added footage was quite interesting and The Mouth of Sauron was great, though anti-climatic.
 
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