LoTR

[Morgeruat]

HUZZAH today I get to pick it up on DVD (my wife pre-ordered it for me for Fathers Day) so if I'm not on later it'sd because I'm trying to wear out the disk by watching and rewatching it over and over ad infinitum.

[BlueFlames]

lol. Have fun!
While your watching try and see if Boramir always has his horn with him. I tried to pay attention to it the last time that I saw the film but I got caught up in the story too quickley. [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

[Rokenn]

I'm going to wait for the extended verision DVD in november. Going to rent it this weekend though [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Gazza]

Originally posted by Rokenn: I'm going to wait for the extended verision DVD in november.

Im going to wait for the directors cut as well. I've heard its longer than what was shown in the cinema's. Does anyone know what's been added?

The Director's Cut comes out in November. It contains an extra 20 minutes, but it doesn't actually have any extra scenes. It just fleshes out the existing ones with more dialogue and background on the characters.

Th Director's cut will come out on 4 DVDs!!!! Lots of special features.

[Larry_OHF]

Originally posted by Rokenn: I'm going to wait for the extended verision DVD in november. Going to rent it this weekend though [img]smile.gif[/img]

<font color=skyblue>I'm with you on that one! Just now picked up my rental...and will get the Directors' Cut in November.

Question: Is the only difference between the August version and the November version the 20 extra minutes? I am kinda burned at what is called a "director's cut" because of the movie "Legend". That director's cut was no where near as good as the cinematic version, which thank the gods came alone with the purchase. I hope that there are no negative surprises...if you catch my meaning. Else I will return the Nov. for the Aug.</font>

[Rokenn]

Originally posted by Gazza: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Rokenn: I'm going to wait for the extended verision DVD in november.

Im going to wait for the directors cut as well. I've heard its longer than what was shown in the cinema's. Does anyone know what's been added?</font>[/QUOTE]Ahhh I found the article where I read about it, here is a cut and paste:
The film opens now with Bilbo working on his journal, providing detail about hobbits and their culture.

During that narration, we see Samwise Gamgee working in the garden of Bag End.

We see Sam and Frodo singing together at the Green Dragon Inn. It's a moment of pure and simple joy before the outside world reaches in to ruin it for them.

En route to Bree, Frodo and Sam hide in some bushes and watch as some Elves leave Middle-Earth. There's a real sense that this world is being left to Man, for better or for worse.

As the hobbits sleep, en route to Weathertop, Aragorn sits watch, and he sings to himself, the haunting "Ballad of Beren and Luthien," the love story that mirrors the story of Aragorn and Arwen. Frodo wakes up and listens in, but doesn't interrupt.

Aragorn visits his mother's grave in Rivendell, further establishing his history and showing how he has been hunted by Sauron his whole life. He is, after all, the missing King of Gondor, and he could well be the thing that stops Sauron. This scene and others will help to pay off the third film even more.

There were two different slides from the departure of Rivendell, significantly longer here. There's more of a sense of Arwen and Aragorn saying goodbye to each other, an acknowledgement that anything could happen. Elrond also is there to send them off, and there's a bit of comedy as Frodo realizes he is supposed to lead the Fellowship, but doesn't even know if they go right or left as they leave. Gandalf suggests "right," and they go.

In the Mines of Moria, the sequence is expanded to show just what happened there, and to illustrate how it was the greed of the dwarves that led to their own destruction. Tolkien's work is layered with warnings about how our own nature can destroy us, and this scene re-emphasizes that.

Then there's the gift-giving scene. We saw several slides from this. Legolas gets his bow. Sam gets his elven rope (which Ordesky suggested "just might come in handy against a giant spider later... maybe").

And Gimli asks for and receives several strands of Galadriel's hair. He is smitten by the Lady of Lothlorien, something which suggests the possibility of healing in the relationships between the races. Personally, this is one of the things I am happiest to see PJ restore.

Finally, they showed us a slide of Pippin and Merry fighting orcs at Amon Hen and said that if, indeed, the Special Extended Version is re-rated as an R, it's this sequence that will do it. Ordesky said there was as little as 30 seconds difference here, but it's the difference between shooting eight arrows into someone or two, or showing a sword hit or not. They haven't submitted the film to the MPAA yet, so they aren't sure if they'll be forced to change the rating or not. Sounds like it would be a preposterous decision, but that New Line is willing to accept it without making Peter change his work.

The aritcle also notes that, "this Special Extended Version isn't a "director's cut," since Peter was happy with the theatrical version. This is just a different version of the movie, something bigger, something that adds detail that should please fans enormously."

[ 08-07-2002, 10:24 AM: Message edited by: Rokenn ]

[Arnabas]

Grrr....
I picked up the dvd right away without looking at the back cover, so when I put it in and saw the preview of the extended version I was pretty pissed. Now I will have to buy it again in November. I'm gonna try and get someone to buy the one I picked up.
Money-making tricks like this tick me off. "Hey, let's wait to release the best version of the movie so that all those unknowing dupes will buy the original and then ALSO buy the extended version!" Followed by a round of high-fives.
Somebody get me my bow...

[Gazza]

I think I can rmember hearing somewhere that the battle at the start was also going to be longer. Any truth to that?

[Rokenn]

Originally posted by Gazza: I think I can rmember hearing somewhere that the battle at the start was also going to be longer. Any truth to that?

The article I read did not mention that.