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Lord of the Rings DVD

  • 04-08-2002 2:10am
    #1
    ObeyGiant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭


    For all of you chumps waiting until the 6th for your copy of the Lord of the Rings DVD - Xtravision have started selling them early.. thirty-five bucks a pop.

    Anyway, with the inclusion of the "Special edition DVD preview" 'feature' on the LoTR DVD, anyone get reminded of a drug dealer offering you the first hit at a discount, knowing full well that you're going to spend the sixty bucks (or whatever it's going to be) in November, just for another shot?

    After that 'feature' ended, the room was quiet, and I could actually hear the smugness growing in Hollywood (or maybe it was New Zealand, my hearing isn't what it used to be). Followed by the sound of glasses being clinked together in a toast, a few cigars being lit, and then.. what I'm sure was.. deep, gut laughter.

    Noone else get that?


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  • #2
    sceptre
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59717

    play.com have been shipping them for a wee while also.

    Works out at about 26 euros from there.


  • #3
    ObeyGiant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭ObeyGiant


    That whole thread wasn't nearly as funny as my one post, so I am boycotting it.

    Or: I just didn't see it.

    One or the other.


  • #4
    Samson
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    Originally posted by sceptre
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59717

    play.com have been shipping them for a wee while also.

    Works out at about 26 euros from there.

    Yeah, mine (I should really say hers) arrived last Wednesday and the missus has it nearly worn out already!


  • #5
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    bought it yesterday from xtravision. bloody great movie. €35 but well worth it. also got €1 vouchers off my next 5 rentals so that helps.
    the clips of LOTR: The Two Towers looks amazing. its going to be so much darker than the first movie :)


  • #6
    Thrasher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Thrasher


    I presume the Special Edition will cost another €50 or so...

    What extra scenes are in this version (extra 30 minutes?). More Hobbits? More Orcs?

    And were these extra scenes produced as well as the original 3 hours (i.e. I hope the digital effects are as seamless as the original ones and that they didn's shove in a few weaker scenes that hadn't made the final cut....).

    Note: "Special Edition".... not "Director's Cut"...hmmm.


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  • #7
    imp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 895 ✭✭✭imp


    Yes the extra footage is apparently going to be seamlessly integrated into the next release. It was cut out of the cinema release to increase the pace of the film and to keep it as short as possible. It includes more of the Shire, more of Aragorn and Boromir at Rivendell, a longer Council of Elrond, a longer battle with the cave troll, gift-giving at Lothlorien, another Gollum cameo and a longer final battle against the Uruk-hai. All in all it should be about 34 minutes.

    And its "Special Edition" because apparently "Director's Cut" implies that the cinema release wasn't as good as it could have been. But "Special Edition" obviously doesn't, it just implies that the cinema release wasn't special.

    }:>


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