The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Extended Editions)

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You also get glimpses of footage and scenes that weren't used in the final films, along with alternate takes and the like. And while the ring has laid fairly dormant in the sixty years it resided in Bilbo's pocket, an evil stirring in Mordor has awoken the ring. The big to-do on this first film in the series, the talk of the movie forums and blogs, is the color timing, so let's just hop right into that before anything else. The slipbox is plain thin card compared to the 2011 release hard box, but it uses 3x 14mm 5 disc Elite cases.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, the relationship between Gimli, Aragorn, and Legolas fastens through a shared goal, as inter-species tension diminish in a bond of brotherhood that was meant for the entire Fellowship. Due to the way this set sprawls out, every extra from the DVD releases can be found here, whereas the Botes documentaries were not found in the four disc book packs. With Gandalf and the rest of the Fellowship, their struggle is to survive, to continue fighting against immeasurable odds, facing death with every battle head on, and accepting fate, rather than fearing it.The Extended Editions of 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy all earn perfect marks, with no regret or nitpicks. These towering treefolk at first are large enough to stomp an orc without effort, with a single stride, yet later are only fractions of the trees around them, as the scale of the hobbits around them grow as the film progresses. Fellowship' does more than just set the entire series into motion, despite the fact that it doesn't have a true conclusion. There are packed image galleries, in-depth character and location studies, examinations of the sound, editing, design.

The other thing to look out for that you might be interested in is the Cannes preview a 26 minute piece which was released on the ultimate box set recently. There's added comic relief with the Gimli/Legolas drinking game, our first look at what the orcs have done to the relics of man with the decapitated statue, and Faramir's failures at Osgiliath are more pronounced, leading to an additional scene where Denethor, his father, further shows how much more he loved his son Sean Bean/Boromir.With all the great new additions, there has to be a negative somewhere in the mix, and that belongs to Treebeard and the rest of his Ern brethren. Textures and color clarity are amazing from the start, and it stays this way for the rest of the film.

I know the other big colour restoration here used the chroma from the theatrical blu-ray for that stuff. The mix is big and wide up front, and smooth all the way around, with natural staging and highly-atmospheric ambience. If so that's fine by me because I only know the extended dvds (although I'd seen the theatrical ones in cinema first in each case). These Appendices discs are essentially identical to the discs included in the 4-disc DVD sets, right down to the menus and all features.For this review, I went back and compared the new Extended Edition of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' to its Theatrical Edition counterpart, especially in scenes that I found to be. He is no longer a fun and games wizard, but a savior, a banner to rally behind, and a cause to come together for. Not once in the entire viewing marathon did I have a moment where I wished some element was heftier, or some speaker had more activity. With the assistance of a few fellow mischievous Hobbits (Sam Gamgee (Sean Astin), Pippin Took (Billy Boyd) and Merry Brandybuck (Dominic Monaghan)), Frodo sets out to keep the ring safe, with little knowledge of the true powers that are in his control, and the great dangers he is about to encounter. This Extended Edition set does the same thing, in essence, by taking two discs from each DVD version of the first releases of the book packed Extended cuts, as well as the documentary found on each of the second release versions of the Extended Editions (which also came with the Theatrical Cuts, the only editions so far to do so), packing three discs per film with the two discs for each film (which contain four commentaries each!

Sam, Frodo, and Gollum's tumultuous relationship is getting rockier, literally, as they pass into Mordor, where looms greater threats than they've ever faced before. The new Fellowship of Sam, Frodo, and Gollum/Smeagol is built on anger, distrust, deceit, and vengeance, as Frodo's will and soul are further sucked into the abyss of the One Ring's lure. Perhaps best of all, Warner and the filmmakers have preserved the original DVD release's elegant menu screens for these Blu-rays - actually, they've not only preserved the menus but upgraded them to full high-definition. This is the first of three behind-the-scenes documentaries (one for each film) that were directed by Costa Botes and were included as bonus discs in the previous Limited Edition DVD releases.The answers, or rather, the truth of the matter has not yet become clear, and at this point, it's all theory and conjecture. That also means it also doesn't quite match 'The Fellowship of the Ring' when it comes to sheer detail. Each film in this collection features new and extended scenes not seen in the theatrical versions of the films. Thanks for sharing the pictures, in my haste I bought in CEX what I thought was the new Middle Earth extended 6-film, 30 disc set but when I see these pictures, I realise I got the 2016 set. Jackson acknowledges the difficulty in starting the film, so the fact that the beginning is one of the very biggest things changed in the Extended Editions is a great focal point.