Reddit reviews The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Special Extended Edition)

>This would be horribly disproportionate if it were "resized" to fit a case spine, you idiot.

Not a case spine. The spine of a box used to hold the full collection of DVDs (and likely a separate DVD of bonus material). See the Lord of the Rings Box Set. The Batman image that we're discussing would fit effortlessly on such a box.

If you don't have The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Special Extended Edition, I would recommend it.

When these box sets came out, the DVD industry was nearing its height, and LOTR was the biggest and hottest franchise in the fantasy genre. Nowadays, you can usually find the individual boxes dirt cheap. Amazon has them as low as $5 each.

(You can get it on Blu-Ray too.)

If you're a fan that's going to watch the trilogy multiple times, I highly recommend buying this set. You can get it pretty cheap used, and maybe ever cheaper if you buy all three individually. The DVD extras are easily the best I've ever seen; each movie has around three hours of "making of" footage and it's very high quality and very fun to watch.

The Extended Edition Blu-Rays and DVDs both contain cast and crew audio commentary. I highly doubt you'll find legal copies online that contain the commentary. You're going to have to purchase physical copies.

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Of course you should. If you don't have the full LOTR extended edition trilogy, you automatically relinquish your claim to huge nerd-dom.

The extended editions also have about 6 hours of behind the scenes documentary for each movie....a total of 18 hours for the whole trilogy. Definitely worth a watch at least once, to appreciate all that went into the films and the charming people who were behind it.

Also, there is 4 different audio commentaries from different groups (cast, directors, art team, producers) for each movie. That's about 40 total hours of audio right there. I love to listen to these sometimes when I'm doing other stuff, never really ceases to be entertaining.

Is that really the packaging for the bluray extended edition? I have the DVD extended edition and the packaging is so much nicer.

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Lord-Rings-Extended-Sous-titres/dp/B000654ZK0/ref=cm_cmu_pg__header

I want to upgrade to Bluray, but my beautiful boxes ;_;

Only 11 hours, but as ErroneousEric said, it feels like 4 months.

that is the one that i have even though i'm pretty sure the blu-ray-box contains the same bonus material.. i might buy this one as well soon

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To clarify the question:

There are DVD releases that I have seen come out such as the Ultimate Matrix Collection and Lord of the Rings Extended Editions, that packed so many special features into the DVD set it made it fun to own DVDs again.

There are restorations that have come out such as the Wizard of Oz special edition that made the picture and sound so vibrant and clear that you could see the actual burlap pattern in the scarecrow's face. They digitally painted out any scratches or lines, literally one cel at a time.

There are DVD re-releases such as the entire Studio Ghibli collection (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, etc.) with amazing distribution and backing from Disney/Pixar and more specifically, John Lasseter that made the movies so accessible and "mainstream" with new English dubs from well known American actors that it literally introduced anime to a whole new generation of viewers.

I don't know anything about Criterion, but I would imagine they fit into this picture somewhere.

Dumb question here: will they be releasing extended editions like they did with LOTR? Like this? http://www.amazon.com/The-Lord-Rings-Picture-Extended/dp/B000654ZK0

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The Lord of The Rings Collectors/Special Edition is a great investment.
Here it is. It's a bit expensive, so you might want to choose a cheaper version. In my opinion the countless hours of extended content, cut scenes, and insight into the physical props, actors, and huge scale is all worth the money.