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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Viggo Mortensen | | Director: | Peter Jackson | | Format: | Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Limited Edition, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language: | English | | Subtitle: | English, Spanish | | Number of Discs: | 6 | | Studio: | New Line Home Video | | Run Time: | 1238 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | August 29, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 107 reviews |
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161 of 184 found the following review helpful:
 Duped again Aug 30, 2006
By N. Durham
"Big Evil"
DVD double dipping, it's become a standard of the home video world. Case in point, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. When the films first saw the light of day on DVD, they were released on New Line's Platinum Series DVD line, featuring two discs of mostly fluffy extras. Then, the four disc Extended Editions would be subsequently released, featuring extended versions of the films with a horde of commentaries and extras that brought fans to their knees. While I always recommended the theatrical versions to casual fans and the Extended Editions to the Tolkien fanatics, New Line has once again dipped into our wallets by releasing the Theatrical and Extended versions in one set, with some "new" extras thrown in for good measure (because they need to sell it to those of us who bought either or both versions before). Now, I'll say right off the bat, each of the three films are technical marvels of modern film making, with incredible battle scenes, effects, and everything else that's made these films the Star Wars trilogy of a new generation. That in mind, these new editions of the film are only worth owning for those who don't already own any of the previous releases; the rest of which should leave the new editions of the trilogy on the shelf where they belong, and maybe then and only then, will the studios stop with the double dipping frenzy that's been going on forever now.
150 of 174 found the following review helpful:
 THANKS....BUT NO THANKS!!!!! Aug 29, 2006
By Mohd Jafar
Let me accept the fact that LOTR is my most beloved film and I already own the extended editions of the films in one set! I'm really not surprised to see New Line coming up with another edition of the trilogy. With films like these they will squeeze the collectors as much as they can!! Still, inspite of this new set containing both the theatrical versions and the extended cuts of the films and also the much hyped Costa Botes documentaries, my advise to anyone buying LOTR for the first time is- DO NOT BUY THIS SET! Spend a little more and you get all the movies in full 6.1 DTS EX glory, alongwith hours of endless in-depth bonus features which probably you'll spend rest of your life watching!!
Please be aware, these new editions DO NOT contain DTS tracks, no commentary tracks by the director, Weta workshop or the cast. All you get is both versions crammed into one single disc and just one documentary as a bonus on the second disc...AND NOTHING ELSE. It would have been a better idea had New Line released the documentaries separately without forcing the consumer to buy the films again....And even this is not the end, once the HD format gains a little more acceptance, they'll have another excuse to come up with a new version of the trilogy!
Beware, Extended edition set is the ultimate LOTR experience, in terms of films or bonus features. Go get it...Its worth all the money spent!!
25 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Overpriced, and a bit unnecessary for most Aug 30, 2006
By crLovesMovies
"crLovesMovies"
There really isn't a lot of anything very new in this bundle. Even a couple snippets of the documentary footage seemed a bit familiar and wasn't 100% new.
To its credit, the documentary/behind-the-scenes footage did get progressively better and was mostly unfamiliar. The one for The Fellowship of the Ring is a bit of a snoozer, in my opinion, but it picks up in The Two Towers, and is truly fascinating in Return of the King, where we get a combination of hilarious cast interactions along with some of the more interesting insights into the making of the film, such as overlaying CG elements onto the live action.
I can really only recommend this bundle to those who won't miss the money spent for the documentary parts and/or are missing either the extended or theatrical versions of the movies, and want them. If you're strapped for cash, I suggest you wait for more used copies to become available if you really want the documentaries.
Lastly, and sort of tangentally, I really wish someone could give me a satisfactory explanation for why two halves of a movie can fit on a disc (or in this case, one side) but they can't fit the entire movie on one disc or side.
At any rate, the movies are fantastic, and if you need copies, this is as good a bundle as any. But don't rush out to get this bundle-- particularly brand new-- just for the documentaries unless you really have the cash to spare or you really cannot live without them.
17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Just want the movies? Here you go... Mar 31, 2007
By Jared
"Jared A. Davis, Chapter 6 fan extrodinaire"
I started collecting the "Lord of the Rings" movies very late in the game: I started in July, 2003, when I got "The Fellowship of the Ring" Extended DVD Edition. Later, I was able to buy the Theatrical version, then the Theatrical versions of "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King," the Extended version of "The Return of the King," and then, "The Two Towers."
I loved the movies, the epic quest to rid the land of Middle-earth from the greatest evil it ever knew was retold, for the most part, faithfully. Of course, when a book is made into a film, they do things to the story. There are Omissions, Changes, and Additions, which often annoy fans. "Lord of the Rings" was no exception. Today, having recently re-read the book(s), I can tell you that these movies are riddled with them. But, on the other hand, looking at it from an amateur screenwriter's perspective, this is not an easy story to adapt into a film. (Thankfully Peter Jackson and Company were allowed three films.) I believe that this is probably the best job that could be done to fit the tastes of today's mainstream movie audiences.
Even though each film was about three hours long (except "The Return of the King," which was about three hours and twenty minutes long), some fans did not feel the films were long enough, some even thinking the films should be extended until each doubled in length!
New Line gave the fans Extended Editions almost a year after each film was released. So, their franchise followed the pattern of 1. Release movie, 2. release DVD, 3. release Extended DVD, 4. release next movie...
The Extended films gave fans a wider view of Middle-earth brought to life on screen. The new footage added helped further develop characters and subplots. In a few cases, the new footage would contain characters seen nowhere else in that specific film, or even the whole trilogy. Fans complained with the Extended Edition of "Return of the King": the ending of the film had not been extended, and thus the ending was not strong enough to support the Extended films.
Each release also contained special features. The Theatrical versions would have trailers, behind-the-scenes videos that had been on the Internet, music videos (except "Return of the King," leaving the door open for YouTube users to create their own), and TV "making of" specials. The Extended versions went into the making of the film in higher details with documentaries and image galleries covering every part of the production process, from writing the script to the world premieres of each film.
Later, Peter Jackson mentioned he was interested in "Ultimate Editions" with the Extended film, a documentary on the making of each film, the deleted scenes that did not make it to the Extended Editions, and blooper reels. Fans wanted those, because they did not appear on either edition of the film.
Sadly, Peter Jackson did an audit on how much New Line Cinema owed his company for the films and found a deficit: New Line had shorted him. He approached them, but they refused to pay him what was due. This led to his suing New Line. The head of New Line announced he would refuse to work with Peter again.
Nonetheless, New Line went ahead and released the Limited Editions: two disc sets with the Theatrical and Extended cuts on one double-sided disc, and a feature-length documentary on the second, which are supposedly the documentaries Peter had intended to use for the "Ultimate Editions."
I bought the Limited Edition set from Amazon just for the documentaries. As stated before, I want to become a screen writer, and always want to find out more about the film making process. Plus, I'm a "completist" collector. Give me widescreen (or for old movies and TV movies and shows, the original aspect ratio) and all the possible special features on my DVDs!
Should you buy it? Only if you want even more of a look into how this three-part epic film series was made, or if you're a completist, or if you just want the movie and don't care too much about special features, but can't decide between theatrical and extended.
I would give this five stars, but because there aren't more special features (I'd trade in ALL of my LOTR DVDs for a set with both versions and ALL special features!!!), such as deleted scenes and blooper reels, and the box the complete set comes in is not very satisfying, which is a pain when transporting the set.
34 of 40 found the following review helpful:
What is the point of this? Aug 30, 2006
By Scott
I can't figure out who this is marketed to. It seems like New Line is trying to come up with every combination of Lord of the Rings footage they can get onto different DVD editions. Let me explain exactly what you get here:
2 discs for each of the 3 movies, 6 discs total. 1 disc contains the theatrical edition of the film on one side and the extended edition on the other. The second disc contains a brand new two-hour featurette by filmmaker Costa Botes. The featurettes are basically a guy walking around with a camera while people get ready on the set and filming people. They are not comprised of 30 minute "making of Helms Deep set" specials or anything like that.
Apparently, New Line has to release the films with the documentaries due to contractual obligations, however, I still can't see anyone but the most hard core of fans buying these. The documentaries are actually quite good, and it's too bad they weren't on one of the other versions that has been released. But unless you are solely buying these discs for the documentaries (and even then, they're not so good as to charge this much), you don't not want this set. The discs do not contain Dolby DTS surround sound, and they contain literally NOTHING aside from the films. No commentaries or anything.
As I said, the documentaries are pretty interesting if you're a huge fan and can afford that much money to watch Sean Astin make jokes about his makeup or scenes of bloopers and stuntmen falling off their horses, but if you are looking at purchasing this for any other reason or to own a copy of the movies, I strongly suggest you get one of the other trilogy sets instead.
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