It's a boxed set of all three films, including digital copy. (Don't know whether they will be available individually.) It's up for preorder now on Amazon. No release date yet.
LOTR Extended Editions Coming To Blu-Ray!
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^ I actually don't know if it does. But the original extended cut DVDs didn't have the theatrical cuts, so this one probably won't either.
One thing's for sure: The first viewers to bitch about double-dipping should get beaten like a rented mule. It was announced from the get-go that the extended editions WOULD make it to Blu-Ray eventually. There was never any doubt that they would. Peter Jackson just chose to hold them until a future date. So anyone who bought the theatrical BR's, thinking that would be it, has no cause to complain now.
One thing's for sure: The first viewers to bitch about double-dipping should get beaten like a rented mule. It was announced from the get-go that the extended editions WOULD make it to Blu-Ray eventually. There was never any doubt that they would. Peter Jackson just chose to hold them until a future date. So anyone who bought the theatrical BR's, thinking that would be it, has no cause to complain now.
The initial releases didn't (for disc space reasons? they were packed pretty full, and I don't know how much content is different versus dropped), but there was a later DVD release with both editions via branching.
I'm withholding my bitching until they say that "yes, you need both sets to get both cuts". I like the Extended FOTR, but prefer the shorter theatricals of the other two.
I already have them in their theatrical releases but will probably pick this up too if it's not too expensive ($60 or less). I've still never seen the EE's.
I have to admit this is really giving me pause. I'd convinced myself I do not need a Blu-Ray player. But.... the LOTR:EE in that format is an awfully powerful temptation. I'd still be keeping my Platinum edition DVDs as they have all of those incredible extras on them....
I've always said that LOTR is the only thing that I would duplicate on Blu-Ray. Now's my chance! Can't wait!
I love the EE, I don't care how much extra footage there is.
I love the EE, I don't care how much extra footage there is.
Finally. I refused to buy the original BRD release because I knew this would come along eventually.
I took the same stance, but then I was at Target on Black Friday and they were only $9 each so I couldn't help myself.
Now I'll probably end up double-dipping.
^Review comments like that make me depressed about the future of the human race.
It's not as bad as the people that give one star reviews because "it shipped a day late."
Don't look at the comment sections of newspapers' websites, then.
Which becomes even funnier when you consider how many people gave the theatrical edition release 1 star because it didn't include the extended editions.
Everyone's favorite one-note troll Captain Robert April posted a negative review of the Star Trek DVD on Amazon long before it even came out just so he could bitch some more about the movie.
I'd be curious to find out where such an announcement took place. I never heard it and when the Blu-ray sets first came out I went online and to my local retailer and asked around, to be told they weren't being done, full stop. So I didn't get double-dipped -- I just refused to buy the sets. And it also gave me additional ammo in my criticism of how studios are handling the Blu-ray format (there is no excuse, none, for any extra feature featured on a DVD release to be omitted from a Blu-ray. They have the room on the disc and any licenses, fees, royalty arrangements, etc made in the last 10 years that allows use of material on DVD will allow use of the same material on other physical disc formats, so if the screen test footage is included on the Fifth Element DVD, there's no reason for it not to be included on the Fifth Element Blu-ray, for example.
If these are truly the LOTRs extended versions - and by that I don't just mean the main features, but also with all of the extras and stuff that was included in the multi-disc DVD sets, then cool - I will pick them up. I agree with the BD technology they should (in theory) be able to give us the choice of what version we want to watch, on the fly. But I'm not holding my breath.
Alex
A bottle of NyQuil is a lot cheaper.
Just sayin...
Just sayin...
BTW, this was on my "holiday wish list" last year, thinking it was going to be released sometime in November or December.
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