From: Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I haven't had a chance to watch those, either. Nor to look for the Easter eggs I understand reside somewhere on the first two disks.
But I, too, was very impressed with the extended version of the movie itself. Even if the screen I watched it on is actually smaller than this monitor.
Hmmm... I wonder if it's different enough so that someone who nearly walked out of the theater release might feel better about it.
Depends on why that person walked out. If he/she (you?) were annoyed by
the Faramir/Osgiliath changes from the book (as I was), the TT Extended
Edition doesn't fix those. It does give some clearer perspective on Faramir,
though, so he doesn't come across as quite so much of a jerk.
Overall, I agree with Reggie and Ronn that the EE is a fairly big improvement on
the theatrical release (which I thought was great, aside from that Faramir/Osgiliath
stuff). A lot of the extra stuff (43 minutes!) was likely cut for time, but fills out
a lot of scenes nicely, and seemlessly: None of it feels out of place or like it was
just stuffed in afterwards.
I think they could have left all this footage in the theatrical release:
My wife (who's *definitely not* a sci-fi/fantasy fan), watched it with me, and
1) liked it (suprisingly, since she didn't care that much for the standard ed.
Fellowship when we watched that) and 2) never complained about the running
time (which she did in watching Fellowship).
And since I'm in LOR movie mode, I'll bring up my current annoyance: has everyone
heard about the deletion of the Saruman scene from ROTK? Gah! The reasoning for
it sounds really lame, and I'm wondering if they were motivated by wanting to have
some prime footage to put on the ROTK:EE version net year.
Between that, and the lack of the scouring of the shire scenes, I'm afraid that
ROTK if going to take more liberties with the canon than the other movies, unfortunately.
But, I guess we'll find out in a few weeks.
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