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LoTR RoTK Extended Edition Specs Released 388

Posted by timothy from the r-o-k-t-r-k-l-o dept.
It's pre-pre-Christmas season, and ThePrinceofWands writes "OMG! It's official, 25% more unbelievable greatness in this version." The linked description (on the official LotR site) starts "DISCS 1-2: The Feature FEATURE (approx. 250 minutes) - A new version of the final installment in the epic trilogy! The Academy-Award winning film now has 50 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film for this highly-anticipated video release." The extended version can be ordered starting on Oct 1st.
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  • These things keep getting longer and longer... (Score:5, Funny)

    by wrinkledshirt ( 228541 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @06:52AM (#10353965) Homepage
    Jesus. Does the extended edition come with a coffee machine?

    • Re:These things keep getting longer and longer... (Score:5, Funny)

      by KitFox ( 712780 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:02AM (#10354001)
      Dear Creased Shirt,

      Thank you for asking whether this edition comes with a coffee machine. We considered adding this feature for a while, however in testing, we discovered that the caffeine levels consumed combined with over four hours of feature film resulted in too many trips to the restroom. This not only had the downside of random interruptions for everybody when multiple people were viewing the movie at the same time, but it also caused the premature failure of numerous 'Pause' buttons on DVD player remotes.

      When technology allows for remote control buttons with higher life expectancies, we will reconsider this feature. This will likely be around the time we release the Uber Mega Ultra Extended Beyond All Possible Belief And Sanity Edition. We highly recommend that you begin accruing a year's worth of vacation time so you may fully enjoy this upcoming release in one sitting.

      Sincerely, Middle Earth Marketing Department

      • Re:These things keep getting longer and longer... (Score:5, Interesting)

        by hype7 ( 239530 ) <u3295110.anu@edu@au> on Sunday September 26, 2004 @08:40AM (#10354231) Journal
        On the subject of talking to the marketing department, I wish they'd release "Requiem for a Tower" [google.com] - it's a piece of music that was originally from Requiem for a Dream, but they totally rescored it for The Two Towers trailer. It's awesome! I've emailed to get it released, and if you're at all interested in getting this cool piece of music to see the light of day, send feedback here:
        http://www.lordoftherings.net/feedback.html [lordoftherings.net]
        and send email here:
        info@theantfarm.net
        who rescored the music.

        it just shits me these damn copyright laws - that art can be created and then hidden from those who love it.

        -- james

      • Re:These things keep getting longer and longer... (Score:5, Funny)

        by cgenman ( 325138 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @12:36PM (#10355278) Homepage
        I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the 9 hour special editions of FotR, TTT, and RotK. In the new editions, Gandalf shoots first, the Ents do a musical number when they destroy Isengard, and Gollum has been replaced with a lovable fruit bat.

        Yeah, like Peter Jackson is going to be immune. You just wait and see. Your heros will crumble too!

    • Re:These things keep getting longer and longer... (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Good question. I never thought I'd say this but Peter Jackson has made me glad that Tolkien limited LotR to just three volumes.

  • In this version... (Score:5, Funny)

    by CrackedButter ( 646746 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @06:53AM (#10353969) Homepage Journal
    Frodo bit his finger first

    • Re:In this version... (Score:3, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      At least you can look forward to the Super Ultra Mega Longer Extended Edition, where they bite each other's fingers at almost the same time.

  • taters (Score:4, Funny)

    by Korgrath ( 714211 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @06:55AM (#10353975) Homepage
    I heard they even added some tater [albinoblacksheep.com] recipies!

  • Now... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 26, 2004 @06:56AM (#10353977)
    Now with 25% more "Oh, Sam!"

    • THE SECRET DIARY OF ARAGORN SON OF ARATHORN (Score:5, Funny)

      by Hyperhaplo ( 575219 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @08:53AM (#10354268)
      Day One:
      Ringwraiths killed: 4. V. good.
      Met up with Hobbits. Walked forty miles. Skinned a squirrel and ate it.
      Still not King.

      Day Four:
      Stuck on mountain with Hobbits. Boromir really annoying.
      Not King yet.

      Day Six:
      Orcs killed: none. Disappointing. Stubble update: I look rugged and manly.
      Yes!
      Keep wanting to drop-kick Gimli. Holding myself back.
      Still not King.

      Day Ten:
      Sorry no entries lately. V. dark in Mines of Moria. Big Baelrog.
      Not King today either.

      Day Eleven:
      Orcs killed: 7. V. good. Stubble update: Looking mangy.
      Legolas may be hotter than me.
      I wonder if he would like me if I was King?

      Day 28:
      Beginning to find Frodo disturbingly attractive. Have a feeling if I make
      a move, Sam would kill me. Also, hairy feet kind of a turn-off.
      Still not King.

      Day 30:
      In Lothlorien. Think Galadriel was hitting on me. Saucy wench.
      Nice chat with Boromir. He's not so bad.
      Took a shower. Yay!
      But still not King.

      Day 32:
      Orcs killed: none. Stubble update: subtly hairy.
      Legolas told me that a shadow and a threat had been growing in his mind.
      I think Legolas might be kinda gay.
      Nope, not King.

      Day 33:
      Orcs killed: Countless thousands. V. good.
      Boromir killed by Orcs. Bummer. Though he died bravely in my arms, am now
      quite sure that he was very definitely gay.
      Not so sure about Gimli either.
      RIP Boromir.
      Still not King, but at least Boromir seemed to think I was. Might however
      have been blood loss.

      Day 34:
      Frodo went to Mordor. Said he was going alone, but took Sam with him. Why?
      My God, is everyone in this movie gay but me?
      Not so sure about me either.
      Still not King, goddammit.

  • Wow, just wow (Score:4, Interesting)

    by apsio ( 112734 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @06:57AM (#10353980)
    I was planning on having a all-day LOTR showing on my 36" widescreen for a few friends. But with it now pushing probably 14 hours with mealtimes and whatnot...jeez. Any ideas?

  • Suckers! (Score:5, Funny)

    by nacturation ( 646836 ) <nacturation AT gmail DOT com> on Sunday September 26, 2004 @06:59AM (#10353986) Journal
    I held off buying the first release, then the extended edition, and I'll hold off buying this one too. Let me know when the "Director's Uncut: Raw Unedited Footage" DVD edition comes out. *Then* I'll be sure that I haven't squandered my money by buying a stripped down version.

    • Re:Suckers! (Score:3, Informative)

      by 16K Ram Pack ( 690082 )
      The trouble is, you can wait forever for the best version.

      To be pragmatic, take a view of the "best version you will like". I've held off buying some DVDs because I heard a rumour of a decent special edition with cleaned up picture/sound, directors cuts etc (like I'll get the next editions of Kill Bill, not the current ones).

      But for me, that is that. I don't care enough to get that extra 1% of value which is "new cast commentary".

      Unless a DVD comes straight out as an excellent set, I hold off, rent th

      • Re:Suckers! (Score:4, Insightful)

        by halowolf ( 692775 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @08:09AM (#10354166)
        I've held off buying the 2 disc editions of LOTR and not yet even seen ROTK, because I wanted to see the extended version.

        Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the LOTR movies and have the previous 2 extended editions. However I did think that the theatrical release of ROTK did suffer a little from its editing. Now I have read the books and know what things have been missing from the movies and such, but I thought that there were a number of instances in ROTK where it was bloody obvious that a scene was missing and that did (at least to me) seem to interrupt the flow of the movie just a little.

        It's great to see an extended editiong offering some great additions that improve the quality of the movie as a whole, as so many DVD's don't offer many feature at all. The commentaries so far have been good as well and I enjoy listening to them.

        • Re:Suckers! (Score:3, Interesting)

          by jfengel ( 409917 )
          I think that was less true for Fellowship. When the extended Fellowship came out, Jackson said repeatedly that the theatrical version was the "real" one and that the extended one was for fanboys who couldn't get enough. And in most senses he was right: the additional footage added almost nothing to the story.

          He kinda dropped that line of reasoning when Two Towers came out extended. Important plot points had been cut. If you're gonna mess with the character of Faramir, at least show us your entire rewor

    • Re:Suckers! (Score:3, Funny)

      by nastro ( 32421 )
      You don't want to see the raw and unedited version. It's just a bunch of guys standing around a green room. And Andy Serkis running around in what looks like scuba gear, with wires attatched. Not that interesting, really, IMHO.

  • Extended edition? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 26, 2004 @06:59AM (#10353987)
    Jesus Harold Christ. What version was that long-ass movie I watched last year?

  • Yeah... (Score:4, Funny)

    by jstrain ( 648252 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:00AM (#10353991)
    Yeah, an extra 50 minutes, but does it have Tom Bombadil?

    • Tom Bombadil is not important to the plot of LOTR (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:05AM (#10354011)
      Despite all the arguments to the contrary, Tom Bombadil is not really an important character in LOTR. Yes, he's an interesting character and probably is used as a foreshadowing of future events, but when it comes down to the actual plot, he is just a short meander off the main line.

      God knows the main plot is long enough as it is, why in the world would you want to make it longer by adding an insignficant character? This is a movie, not a book. The point of a movie is to tell a good story at a fast enough pace so that the viewer feels he got his money's worth. A book allows the author to do all the meandering he likes and the reader to take as much time as is necessary to absorb it all.
      • Important is a relative term. It's an opinion. Tom Bombadil, for many people, is one of the most memorable and entertaining characters in Lord of the Rings. I believe sacrifices must be made in movies.

        To me, the loss of Tom Bombadil doesn't make the movies suffer so much for missing Tom Bombadil himself, but more the fact that they're never in the Barrow-Downs, Merry never recieves his Westernesse-enchanted blade, and the ability of him and Eowyn to kill the Witch King of Angmar makes absolutely no sense w
  • Get the Return of the King Extended version, and soon after they will release a complete box set of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King, that have even more footage than all the previous extended versions combined. Have they even released a complete set yet? It's obviously going to happen.
    • Tesre is a boxed set of the theatrical eddition out with all three episodes in it
    • 12 DVDs is a frightening prospect, honestly. And when they have Yet More Footage, maybe it'll be closer to 24.
    • I have the first 2 EE's, if they release anything after the 3rd, I'm getting it off the net.
    • I've thought about this too. I bought TFotR boxed set with the book-ends and all the other stuff. I thought about getting TTT just for the figurine.

      If they do release an uber edition, it will probably be different from those boxes.
    • Well, that's the set I'm waiting for. You know it's coming, 20 DVDs of pure greatness...
    • If I were them, I'd wait until after they film the Hobbit. Release an extended version of that, then a year later release the 4 movie set.

      I know, I know, there's been no official word about the Hobbit. But please, LoTR was one of the biggest grossing trilogy, movie, genre movie, or just about any other metric you care to use. With a ready made prequel how can they pass it up? The beauty is that the only 2 cast members who need to return are Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis. Ian McKellen would play a reduc
      • I doubt that would be a good commercial decision; I also suspect that it would leave many disappointed.

        The Hobbit is an excellent children's story, but it is a children's story. Compared to LoTR, the characters are thin, the plot episodic, and the background underdeveloped. It doesn't have the wealth of historical detail, the layers of meaning and significance, the depth of character, the grand themes of loss of innocence, betrayal, loyalty, corruption, redemption, evil, fate, epic struggle, and so on.

    • I hear that next Christmas' "Full Edition on HD-DVD" will be 1 long 12 hour film. However to make it authentic, they will be breaking it up into ~2 hour sections. You start watching the film after you've have second breakfast (obviously you've got to let your guests have their first breakfast, and then come around your place to watch the marathon film session), and then at the first break you can have elevenses. Another 2 hours of film followed by lunch. Then you watch some more, and then have afternoon tea
    • Yes, that's why I downloaded the laserdisc versions of Star Wars, waiting for Lucas to release the original trilogy DVD's. I'll do the same thing now, except I'm downloading the EE's.

    • Re:And then the complete set will come out... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by cybpunks3 ( 612218 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @12:59PM (#10355393)
      I don't see this happening.

      There isn't much more footage that can be intercut.

      Remember that in most cases, the additional footage also required new effects and new scoring, and editing decisions on which take to use, etc..

      PJ was busy enough with King Kong that it seemed to me like he was somehow rushing the ROTK EE out the door so he could get on with the new project.

      I don't think he wants to revisit the material anymore. And Howard Shore and everyone else are on other projects too.

      I think an HD edition is inevitable (hopefully blu-ray instead of hyper-compressed MPEG4 HDDVD) but I don't see much in the way of special material. The only "fix" I'd like to see is reducing Frodo's size when he looks out the balcony in Rivendell. I think they goofed the proportions up on that one.

      There is a dream sequence where Frodo turns into a Gollum-like creature. It's not really necessary.

      I'd love to see some way to insert Radagast into the picture, but that would be pretty expensive to pull off, I think.

      I would like them to insert a cut-in of Denethor's palantir. Suppodely that was deliberately not shot and I think that's a big creative mistake on PJ's part, one they repeatedly make excuses about.

      I'd rather have footage with Denethor's palantir vs. Aragorn's.

      I'd also like them to re-insert the scene where
      Eowyn kills an orc in the glittering caves. That was taken out in order to hold back on showing Eowyn as a warrior, but I also think that was a creative mistake.

      But most of the unused footage left over would not fit in with the chosen continuity of the adaptation. You have Arwen at Helm's Deep, Aragorn fighting Sauron, perhaps alternate death scenes for Saruman. Stuff like that.

      50 minutes of additional footage is not a marketing gimmick. That's an enormous amount of new footage to add to a film and I'm sure it's all worth it as all the theatrical versions, as long as they are, have rushed pacing (up to the epilogue of ROTK).

      The fact of the matter is that PJ filmed the equivalent of more like 6 movies vs. 3, and that's why they are so long. There is an established maximum running time even for epics and PJ just decided to go over the limit, knowing that this was the only chance we were likely ever going to have to film this stuff.

      What may have seen like a risky luxury at the time on the part of the studios will return huge dividends in the end. PJ got his actors together and rolled film endlessly (not to mention multiple pickup sessions) which is what I or any other Tolkien fan probably would have done in that case. The allure of Lord of the Rings is the immersion into the world and you only get that feeling when you're in there for a while and feel like a part of the journey. You don't get that book-like feeling with even 3 90-minute movies. Regardless of the limitations of theatrical movies (no pause button), DVD is the ultimate venue for this sort of extended immersion.

      You really are not supposed to try to digest the entire story in one large feast.

      You really have to watch the films episodically over a longer span of time, which is how most people read the trilogy in book-form.

      It's just that so many people have such poor memories and their lives are so hard to schedule that they'd have a hard time committing to follow a storyline that took 12+ hours to watch over the course of a week or two of viewings.

  • Trilogy DVD? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by antdude ( 79039 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:02AM (#10353999) Homepage Journal
    Are there any plans for the all three movies to be bundled? I would love to get that set.

  • Fellowship (Score:4, Funny)

    by davro ( 539320 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:02AM (#10354000) Homepage
    Damn i now have 25% less on my old version of lotr. Wheres the fellowship in that!

    • Re:Fellowship (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Well, actually, 200 minutes is 20% less than 250 minutes. :) *Runsaway!*

  • 50 Minutes! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by AndrewStephens ( 815287 ) * on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:02AM (#10354002) Homepage
    Its a pity that the link doesn't go into more detail, but the more the merrier. The extended editions of the first two movies were great improvements on already excellent films (especially the first one), so I have high hopes for Return of the King.
    On a totally unrelated note, here is some sophisticated LotR humor in the form of a 2meg wmv file [larnercorp.com].

  • What exactly is new: (Score:4, Informative)

    by ggvaidya ( 747058 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:05AM (#10354010) Homepage Journal
    From the website:
    1. Disc intro by director Peter Jackson
    2. "J.R.R. Tolkien: The Legacy of Middle-earth" documentary hmmmm ...
    3. From Book to Script:
      1. "From Book to Script: Forging the Final Chapter" documentary
      2. Abandoned Concept: Aragorn Battles Sauron (ehhhhhh???)
    4. Designing and Building Middle-earth
      1. "Designing Middle-earth" documentary
      2. "Big-atures" documentary
      3. "Weta Workshop" documentary
      4. "Costume Design" documentary
    5. Design Galleries - 2,123 images
      1. The Peoples of Middle-earth (galleries with docent audio)
      2. The Realms of Middle-earth (galleries with docent audio)
      3. Miniatures (galleries with docent audio)
    6. "Home of the Horse Lords" documentary
    7. "Middle-earth Atlas: Tracing the Journeys of the Fellowship" interactive map
    8. "New Zealand as Middle-earth" interactive map w/on-location footage
    • 2. Abandoned Concept: Aragorn Battles Sauron (ehhhhhh???)
      I'll love to know more details about this. My guess it was meant to be some sort of faceoff to represent the battle of wits between Aragorn and Sauron though those magic seeing balls.

      I guess I will have to wait for the release to find out.

      • Kinda like the armoured knights that Egg Shen and Lo Pan manifested in the pre-climactic free for all melee in the underground throne room/wedding hall?

        Some movies don't need millions of dollars of CGI. Flying elementals, midair swordfights and great big floating eyeballs. Now that's a work of Art!

      • One of the teaser-trailer-for-TV clips, I think, showed Aragorn holding a palantir wrapped in a towel and saying something sound-bite-ish. Since all of that segment of story was moved from TTT to ROTK, it would make sense for this scene to be in their third film as well.

        Counter-argument: in the movie, Aragorn and Co are surprised by Sauron's attack on Minas Tirith. In the book, Aragorn uses the palantir to let Sauron know that he is alive and kicking, in order to jolt Sauron into attacking before his

    • Abandoned Concept: Aragorn Battles Sauron (ehhhhhh???)

      Probably refers to the battle with the palantir, doesn't it?

  • Patience (Score:5, Funny)

    by EngrBohn ( 5364 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:06AM (#10354019)
    Patients, we is. Yes, patients. We waits for our boxed set, our preciousssss.

  • Extended?Oh. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by oddmake ( 715380 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:07AM (#10354021) Journal
    I really want to see...Saruman's demise.

  • Cue in all the bashers of "numerous" editions.. (Score:4, Informative)

    by Zarhan ( 415465 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:07AM (#10354023)
    ...despite the fact that the standard/extended edition cycles were announced like year before Fellowship of the Ring's (first film!) DVD release.

    And even if you missed that, by now you should know how it will go..pattern recognition, anyone?

    Yes, there will be a boxed set with all the extended editions bundled into one nice compilation, but nothing beyond that. And if the Hobbit ever comes, they might also release a new box set with the Hobbit included. And they will release Bluray/HD-DVD versions when the formats become available.

    However, the actual *content* will not change. There's the extended cut and the theatrical cut. No need to bash Peter Jackson about squeezing money out of gazillion different editions..So there will not be a "hook" to upgrade to the later box set releases (HDTV resolution on the next format might be enough, of course...but then you probably are not going to feel ripped off).

  • 50 more mins (Score:2, Insightful)

    by ThePilgrim ( 456341 )
    Oh Great, now we get almost an houre of volcanoes blowing up.

    Did any one else think that the ending after the ring was destroied was far to looooooong
    • Given that that is how the book ends - no! I was disappointed that the ending was not longer. The Scouring of the Shire was always one of my favorite parts and I was very sad when Jackson announced that it would not appear in the Extended Edition.

      Oh well, I am still eagerly awaiting the Extended Edition. My plan is to watch all three EE's back to back. We'll see if I actually have the stamina to pull it off, though....

  • badgers? (Score:5, Funny)

    by wobblie ( 191824 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:22AM (#10354063)
    Were all the badger scenes [weebls-stuff.com] restored, or what?

  • Box colours, still wrong... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by beeglebug ( 767468 ) * on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:24AM (#10354065)
    Now I know it's not the end of the world, they are still greats films and all, but this one thing just bugs me about the extended DVD's. I just can't get my head around the decision to make the boxes Green, Red then Blue.

    Green for Fellowship is fine, it's the most nature centric of the trilogy, so it makes sense. To me though, The Two Towers predominant colour is blue, the film is full of old stone, dark forests, and rainy battles, it's a very cold film. Likewise, the color of ROTK is red. The film is full of fire, lava, blood, passion and anger. So why flip those two around?

    Am I on my own on this one?

  • In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Dystopian Rebel ( 714995 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:25AM (#10354071) Journal

    A distraught Lord Of The Rings fan has climbed Buckingham Palace disguised as Batman to protest the absence of the valley of Tom Bombadil in the popular movie trilogy.

  • Director's License (Score:5, Funny)

    by architimmy ( 727047 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:34AM (#10354087) Homepage
    Hayden Christensen isn't at the end of the extended version is he?

  • never-before-seen? (Score:5, Funny)

    by tomee ( 792877 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @07:37AM (#10354094)
    Never-before-seen footage doesn't sound good. I insist that Peter Jackson look at the footage before releasing it. There just has to be at least some level of quality assurance before these things can be released to the masses.

  • The box is Blue!! (Score:2, Informative)

    by kiwioddBall ( 646813 )
    I mean its Blue - not brown.

    That is going to look really good beside the two brown previous boxsets. Admittedly the two previous shades of brown were slightly different, but this is a very blue shade of brown.

  • 25% More Fake Endings! (Score:3, Funny)

    by Mulletproof ( 513805 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @08:53AM (#10354265) Homepage Journal
    25% more? How many times will this movie end now?? I was only fooled into getting out of my seat, what, three times in the normal version before the movie really ended...

    • Re:25% More Fake Endings! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Zarhan ( 415465 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @09:34AM (#10354387)
      Movies do not end until the credits have finished and the projector has been switched off. I hate it when everybody just starts getting up when "Directed by" flashes into the screen and getting their jackets and starting to call their friends on their cellphones etc.

      When credits roll, you have time to digest and go through the movie experience, relax, and reflect, while still maintaining the 'mood' that the movie has created. (Especially if you happen to be on a date and watching a 'chick-flick' - you can keep the nice, romantic feeling going instead of rushing into the jam-packed exits and stepping on other people's toes). Granted, this may not apply to all brainless actionflicks, but I digress..

      I'm glad that more recently, more and more movies are putting stuff (some little joke or something) after the credits (Pirates of the Caribbean:Undead monkey comes at you, Phantom Menace: Darth Vader's breath, etc. See IMDB:s "crazy credits" for more details.). Makes more folks stay PUT until the movie is really finished. Of course, people like Jackie Chan have always inserted bloopers to the credits sequence..keeps people in their seats.

      So, if you got up at the end of RoTK for three times...well, too bad! If you really were in such a hurry why didn't you leave on the first time? You could at least wait through the initial credits sequence (Director, cast etc) if you are not interested in names of key grips and listening to the soundtrack in the theatre is not good enough for you.

      • Re:25% More Fake Endings! (Score:4, Interesting)

        by FunWithHeadlines ( 644929 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @11:20AM (#10354805) Homepage
        Ah, I was wondering who that other person sitting alone in that row over there was as the masses went fleeing for the exit. Now I know, and I'm glad to meetcha.

        I completely agree with what you said. Oh, there are some movies I don't care for and so I get up right away. But usually I like to stay for the credits, and mostly for the reason you gave: to stay in the movie state for as long as I can. We enter a different conscious state when we watch movies. That state is broken when the movie ends, and is really broken when you turn around up the aisle and start jostling the crowds as you flee for your car. If you have just watched a great movie, what's the rush? Why not enjoy the end music that is designed to encapsulate the mood of the movie? If it's a modern day drama, you can see where it was filmed, you can catch the music credits to see who is singing those songs (hey, whaddya know, the cast of Chicago really did their own singing!), you can see in the credits who played that third guy from the left whose face seemed so familiar but you can't quite put a name to his face, and so on.

        And with RoTK, if you left early you left without seeing those beautiful paintings of the main characters, and as the only time the end song was played. Those were worth staying for. So let people snipe at you by saying, 'Duh, I can think about those things as I drive away in my car' (in a totally different state of mind while you obey traffic laws), or 'Dude, you're stuck up cuz you think you're better than me' (when this is not a comparison of people with people). Staying for the end credits is worth doing.

  • Episode I (Score:3, Funny)

    by michaeldot ( 751590 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @09:24AM (#10354354)

    If Peter Jackson does get the rights/funding to make The Hobbit, then that will in effect be Episode I of the LOTR saga.

    I can't wait to see the cynicism from the cognoscenti once they learn there's a prequel in the works: "the actor who plays young Bilbo is terrible and he doesn't even sound like James Earl Jones, why did they have to destroy my childhood?"

  • Does it have... (Score:3, Funny)

    by darkmeridian ( 119044 ) <william.chuang@g[ ]l.com ['mai' in gap]> on Sunday September 26, 2004 @09:29AM (#10354367) Homepage
    ...more Liv Tyler? I'd pay to have more Liv. Liv Tyler is really hot. That's what I found was lacking in the original DVD set. Not enough Liv Tyler. Did I mention I like Liv Tyler?

  • To be released December 14 (Score:5, Informative)

    by crashnbur ( 127738 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @11:21AM (#10354815)
    I know tons of LOTR fans already know the release date, but I hadn't bothered to look yet since I was waiting on announcements about this specific edition. So for those not in the know, the Extended Edition of Return of the King will be available December 14.

  • Movie Trilogy of the Beast (Score:4, Funny)

    by pudge ( 3605 ) * <slashdotNO@SPAMpudge.net> on Sunday September 26, 2004 @01:31PM (#10355565) Homepage Journal
    Extended edition running times of FotR: 208, tTT: 208, LotR: 250. Combined: 666.

  • Hobbit Love (Score:3)

    by xombo ( 628858 ) on Sunday September 26, 2004 @02:22PM (#10355880)
    Maybe they'll extend that cheesy love scene between Sam and Frodo at the end, we all know where it was going. "Oh Sam" C'mon.

  • New scenes (Score:5, Informative)

    by Earlybird ( 56426 ) <slashdot @ p u r e f i c t ion.net> on Sunday September 26, 2004 @02:58PM (#10356114) Homepage
    TheOneRing.net reports [theonering.net] on confirmed and presumed new scenes in the extended edition.

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