quote from earlier post: “And as for Ebert, what he said was in response to Roeper mentioning that the extended edition of Return of the King would have four discs. He said something like “Who has time to watch all of that stuff?”, to which Roeper replied something like “The fanboys,” and that’s when Ebert said “Get a life.” Actually, he’s right in that the number of people who will buy the extended DVD box sets and actually watch everything is really limited”
Well, that puts it in context, I guess, but it still seems insulting. I got the FOTR 4 disc set and watched it all over the course of a year…If I’m spending that much for a DVD, I plan on owning it for awhile. The 4-disc sets that New Line has put together so far are beautiful, and the Theatrical Versions are available for anyone who just wants the movie. What’s the beef? I guess I’m still finding Ebert, and Roeper, to be condescending.
<< You’d think, as much as he bitches about how the movies aren’t like the books, that he’d have actually read them, or re-read them when told that he’s completely misremembering them. >>
This is not untypical of Ebert. I never read him or pay attention to him. Years ago, I could use him as a reliable predictor of whether I’d like a movie: if he liked it, I could be sure that I wouldn’t. Now, he’s become more erratic, but his pretentiousness and self-importance and ignorance are overwhelming.
I was pleasantly surprised- I had added it to my Netflix Queue last week at number 1, they shipped it monday, and it is sitting on my kitchen table as we speak. We are going to watch it tonight. It will be quite the treat- my oldest (who lives with his bio-dad) never got to see it in the theater, so it’ll be his first viewing!
That greek dish made with stuffed grape leaves - looks just like lembas
soda bread
beer
cherry tomatoes
venison
birthday cake
sushi
Anthing made by Keebler
I don’t own a single LOTR DVD - yet. I am one of those waiting for November, and then I fully intend to buy only the EE version of all three films.
I generally like Ebert’s reviews, but he totally missed the boat with every review of all three films. And that quote about “get a life” was meant regarding the fact that the extra bonus material was weak and anyone who would want to sit through all the bonus material on this version of ROTK should “get a life”.
Regarding LOTR party food -
Deep fried, golden onion rings and lots of ale.
For the last part of ROTK, you could have some sort of flaming dish (fondue?), though be careful after all that ale.
I’m going to do the same “rent the theatrical, buy the extend” with RoTK as I did with the first two. Any word on what’s coming with the “Super Special Gold-pressed Latinum Collector’s Version RoTK Extended Edition” (like FoTR’s Argonoth bookends and TTT’s Smeagol statue)?
As for the timing of the EE release, while the post-production is still required, maybe they’ll be able to release it sooner than November because they don’t have work to do on the subsequent movie? So when working on TTT EE, they were still doing post-production work on RoTK, but for the RoTK DVD they don’t have that to worry about.
That’s a good point, though I think the previous November releases were about promoting the next installment of the trilogy more than the production schedule. I’m not knocking them for this, it was smart to glide from the EE DVD campaign into the movie promotion. Could be wishful thinking on my part, I’m hoping to see the EE before November this time.
There’s no rule that says you have to watch them all at once. I watched them over the course of the year – it was by far the most bang for the buck I’ve ever gotten from a DVD.
You know, it’s funny. We’ve already mentioned how funny it is Ebert complains about the movie not being “true to the books” and then complaining about parts that actually are. This is another case in point. To really be true to the books, these movies would’ve been eight or nine hours apiece on Og knows how many DVDs. Not that I’d’ve complained, mind you
To recap: FOTR had an extended credits (ho hum), and the MTV Awards parody of the Council of Elrond. TTT had extended credits (yawn) and Gollum’s MTV acceptance speech.
I’ve found the extended credits in ROTK–in the usual place, on the New Line logo on the main disc menu – but haven’t had time yet to search for something else.
You know, someone could have told me that before I got the extended edtion of TTT.
AFAIK, none of the LotR theatrical DVDs have any eggs (unless the new line logo in the menu counts). The eggs are in the extended edtions.
As to the release date of the RotK EE, it is odd that the final date hasn’t been announced yet. The closest thing to a date I’ve seen was the piece of paper that came with the theatrical edition saying that the EEs were coming “holiday 2004”.
At this time in 2002 we knew the exact date that the FotR EE would come out. Same with 2003 and TTT, I think. Seems rather odd that the theatrical edition is out and still no final date for the extended edition has been announced.
