Extra Scenes in TTT Extended Edition DVD

gdr writes "USA Today have an article about the extra scenes that will be in The Two Towers Extended Edition. More ent scenes so it'll be worth watching for the special effects alone. Sadly it looks like there will be no extra gollum scenes. I can't say I'm as excited about this one as the FotR EE."

Yes....

[jhines0042]

I am very much looking forward to getting the extended edition of the TT on DVD. After the masterful job done in the extended edition of FotR, I can hardly watch the shorter version.

Of course, I'll have a problem when I get to the RotK extended edition. I only have a 5 disc DVD changer and so I'll have to get up from the couch after 12 hours to switch to the final disk!

Must... resist... the... one... ring...

[Zelet]

It is soooo hard to wait for the trillogy to come out in a single box set special edition. I want each one! Must... wait...

One box set to rule them all, one box set to bind them.

Re: FotR EE?

[Anonymous Coward]

Fjord of the Rings, European Edition.

Re: FotR EE?

[Vengeance]

Fellowship of the Ring, Enterprise Edition: Now with additional declarative transaction features and enhanced security.

Ring zero to rule them all...

Re:Im excited

[johnstein]

if there are more ents, that's enough for me. I still remember the first time I read TTT... family was driving to a nearby lake. The roads to get there wound through rather dense forest area so as I was reading about the ent's charge to isengard, I could look out the window and almost imagine them.

Since then that's what I think about when I walk in the woods... strange, but oh well. I am the same person who thinks of the opening song from fraggle rock every time I use a screwdriver.

da-da-da dadum da-da-da dadum da-da-da dadum da-da-da dudum

what was that old guy's name? his dog was sprocket... how did I go from massive walking trees to fraggles?

-John

Re: FotR EE?

[s20451]

Fellowship of the Ring: Electrical Engineers It's the one where Frodo and Sam write a Matlab script to simulate destroying the ring, and Gandalf wears dockers and a polo shirt with a stitched Sun Microsystems logo.

Re:They don't mention much extra Legolas footage..

[the gnat]

Not that I won't be subjected to another 3 months (more, really, considering RotK is coming in Dec) of my girlfriend saying, "Isn't he dreamy?...I love Legolas!...He's so handsome, won't you learn Elvish, honey?"

I feel your pain.

When I went to see TTT on the first midnight showing, most of the people in the audience were in their twenties. One of the previews was for "Pirates of the Carribean", and when Orlando Bloom's name came up there were distinct shrieks. When Legolas jumped onto the moving horse, I swear I could feel the estrogen surge. I thought girls were going to start flinging panties at the screen. One woman posted online that when she saw this scene for the first time, "I think I got pregnant."

On the bright side, if you're not entirely joking, it's now officially studly to have learned Elvish, although the thought of bespectacled Tolkein geeks trying to pick up girls by quoting Legolas is more than a little disturbing.

I'm gonna direct a movie!

[NeB_Zero]

With the recent advent of everyone turning anything in print into a movie (LotR, Spiderman, The Hulk, Daredevil, etc...) in order to appeal to a more illiterate society, and to advertise more products. I have decided to turn FreeBSD Unleashed (2nd Edition) [amazon.com] into a feature film. It will feature bullet-time animation, and Beastie travelling through 3-dimensional telnet and ssh sessions to successfully configure his beowulf community.

I will be sure not to use any phrases such as Unix, Linux, SCO, or FSF so that I am not sued.

Then, I will release a DVD edition, then an extended edition with an interview with some programmers on how to configure you first box.



All trademarks are owned by their respective copyright holders, please don't sue me.
FreeBSD Unleashed: The Movie patent pending.

kings live for centuries

[peter303]

The original race of men in Toklein's universe live for centuries like the Biblical patriarchs. Their lifespans declined as the original high civilization declined. Also the line of kings has immortal Elvish ancestors, which confers additional longevity.
Aragon's 87 years pales compared to his betrothed Arwen's many centuries. She is practically cradle-robbing. And her father, Agent Smith, no I mean Elrond, is an immortal Elf and many thousands of years old. Because Elrond and Arwen have some human blood, they can choose to become human, age, and die.

Time difference...

[stienman]

First thing I wanted to know is how much longer is it really?

The original TT is 179 minutes, just a hair under 3 hours. That makes the extended edition 43 minutes longer at 222 minutes.

In those 43 minutes you could

• Make and bake 3 batches of cookies
• Order and eat one medium pizza
• Lay sod down in a 200 square foot yard
• Makeworld your FreeBSD
• Fax 20 government representatives digital copyright
• View all of the easter eggs on the FotR extended set 4 times (including the saturday night live version of the council)
• Bicycle 15 miles
• Bookmark and replay Boromir's death fight 8 times

Or look at new ent scenes, watch merry and pippin grow inches from ent draught, get more info about the theoden family and boramir's father and brother, etc, etc.

Me?

DIE BOROMIR, DIE!!! "My K...-rewind- THAP! "ARRRGH" THAP! THAP!

-Adam

Re:waiting to buy?

[hoggoth]

> I'm not even a fanboy. No really, I'm not. I mean, I've never even read the Simarillion

Methinks thou doth protest too much...

Where are the outtakes?

[Anonymous Coward]

Bilbo dancing with Gollum? Gandalf visiting the gay bar? There has to be some outtakes from these movies that could've been added to the special edition DVDs. Wait, don't tell me there's going to be another edition released?

spoiler

[Graspee_Leemoor]

"(Sorry if that was a spoiler)."

Nah, a spoiler is like "Sauron is Frodo's real father".

Join me, and together we can rule Middle Earth as father and son!

graspee

Re:ents

[ccnull]

Hear hear! The ents were about as realistic and impressive as the Hamburgler. They are embarassing in their Muppet-ness, not to mention the pathetic green-screening when the Hobbits are riding atop them... looked straight out of 1980.

Re:Mark the extra scenes!

[toddestan]

After watching the movie 15 times you should be able to pick them out. What, you mean you haven't watched it 15 times? What kind of geek are you?

Re:To those who are wondering . . .

[Restil]

The finer points of dating might be lost on some of this crowd, but I'm quite certain the great majority know what ents are. :)

-Restil

Re:They don't mention much extra Legolas footage..

[Anonymous Coward]

One woman posted online that when she saw this scene for the first time, "I think I got pregnant."

Or as the saying goes: "Not a dry seat in the house."

So FotR ME will have awful GUI and limited IO?

[Anonymous Coward]

ditto

Re:waiting to buy?

[pi radians]

Well smart-ass, using that as a basis, then the life expectancy in Sierra Leone is 25.9, which means that for the average citizen there waiting one year for this movie is like for us waiting 3 years.

Its just not fair. I'm going to send a couple copies of LotR:TTT to random people in Sierra Leone. They deserve it too. I sure hope that their DVD players can read region 1 DVDs.

Re:Article author never read Tolkein

[CaseyB]

I thought you were amusedly talking about the author of the LOTR (Tolkien) being surprised at the movie's goof

Anyone who read the books would probably be aware that Tolkein has been dead for 30 years.

Re:I'm gonna direct a movie!

[Anonymous Coward]

Nope, in Soviet Russia the movie would shoot him :P

Re:Just as excited (but I'm hopeless)

[buffy]

...a lifesize inflatable Balrog...

I'm going to hold out for the Lifesize Inflatable FLAMING Balrog(TM).

-db

Re:Article author never read Tolkein

[Anonymous Coward]

maybe I'm Dunedan? I'm in my 30s and still get carded

Umm - you *did* read the books, right??

[geekwench]

• In the book all female characters except Galadriel were footnotes...

I would hardly call Eowyn a footnote, given that she's one of the most pivotal characters in the books.

Or it could be that you just have a thing for pointy ears... ;)