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The Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780648678
Format: Box set, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
ISBN: 0780648676
Item Dimensions: 290
Label: New Line Home Entertainment
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 StereoEnglish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment
MPN: DN7347D
Number Of Items: 12
Publisher: New Line Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Running Time: 681 minutes
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 2003
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Editorial Review:
This critically acclaimed epic trilogy follows the quest undertaken by the hobbit Frodo Baggins and his fellowship of companions to save Middle-earth by destroying the One Ring and defeating the evil forces of the Dark Lord Sauron. With new and extended scenes carefully added back into the film the 12-disc set also includes hours of bonus features.Running Time: 785 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY UPC: 794043734724
The extended editions of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings present the greatest trilogy in film history in the most ambitious sets in DVD history. In bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's nearly unfilmable work to the screen, Jackson benefited from extraordinary special effects, evocative New Zealand locales, and an exceptionally well-chosen cast, but most of all from his own adaptation with co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, preserving Tolkien's vision and often his very words, but also making logical changes to accommodate the medium of film. While purists complained about these changes and about characters and scenes left out of the films, the almost two additional hours of material in the extended editions (about 11 hours total) help appease them by delving more deeply into Tolkien's music, the characters, and loose ends that enrich the story, such as an explanation of the Faramir-Denethor relationship, and the appearance of the Mouth of Sauron at the gates of Mordor. In addition, the extended editions offer more bridge material between the films, further confirming that the trilogy is really one long film presented in three pieces (which is why it's the greatest trilogy ever--there's no weak link). The scene of Galadriel's gifts to the Fellowship added to the first film proves significant over the course of the story, while the new Faramir scene at the end of the second film helps set up the third and the new Saruman scene at the beginning of the third film helps conclude the plot of the second.
To top it all off, the extended editions offer four discs per film: two for the longer movie, plus four commentary tracks and stupendous DTS 6.1 ES sound; and two for the bonus material, which covers just about everything from script creation to special effects. The argument was that fans would need both versions because the bonus material is completely different, but the features on the theatrical releases are so vastly inferior that the only reason a fan would need them would be if they wanted to watch the shorter versions they saw in theaters (the last of which, The Return of the King, merely won 11 Oscars). The LOTR extended editions without exception have set the DVD standard by providing a richer film experience that pulls the three films together and further embraces Tolkien's world, a reference-quality home theater experience, and generous, intelligent, and engrossing bonus features. --David Horiuchi
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Excellent
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Rating: - Great value for money
[[ASIN:B000654ZK0 The Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition)]
I recently purchased this Box Set as a birthday gift for my husband. This was such a great buy! We have seen the movies many times but looking at the extended version really did make us feel like we were looking at it for the very first time.
The deleted scenes were fantastic and made my husband and I constantly exclaim "why did they delete that?".
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Rating: - WONDERFUL MOVIES!!!
Quite simply, the best movie trilogy I have ever and probably will ever buy. Enough said.
Rating:  - Great collection, will keep you entertained for a long time.
Great collection lots of commentaries and extra stuff, will take a long time to go through. The movies were great and long, the extended versions of each movie makes them longer but not necessarily entertaining.
Rating: - The rings are golden.
In the opening years of the 21st century, J.K. Rowling and Peter Jackson, acting separately, delivered fantasy storytelling out of the shadows to the centre of popular culture. Rowling's "Harry Potter" novels and the films based on them were a new phenomenon, but Jackson's part was the adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic "Lord of the Rings" book series for the big screen. This series of three blockbuster films, the last of which captured the Best Picture Academy Award, is here collected in the legendary ... Read More
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