Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"?
Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn.
Aragorn: I like "Strider."
Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
The magazine is pretty cool, but doesn't have too much that looks to be new to anyone who's watched all the documentaries and listened to the commentaries on the extended dvds.
Agreed. It was one of those, "okay, I know you people are capitalists, but this is ridiculous" type of situations. Like, those of us cursed with good memories caught details repeated from previous EW articles. I know the poor movie-people did the same interview 100 times, so the same anecdotes are all flying around everywhere, but the least the editors could do was make sure the EW 'special issue' was actually special.
I hear that Borders is giving away 4 posters -- but I'm sure supplies have run out by now.
Feh, I don't care about giveaways. I headed to Target where I picked RotK up for a mere $14.99.
So far I've watched the first two documentaries on the disk and I have to say that a) The narrator is horrible and b) Apparently the documentaries were created by different teams who didn't do much conferring; there is an unforgiveable amount of replication between the two. Thank god for more Hobbit smack-talk, that's all I can say.
Kind of glad I didn't plan on getting this one.
there is an unforgiveable amount of replication between the two
I'm not sure which ones made it onto the disc, but I think there were two (maybe three) documentaries airing under separate names that differed by at most five minutes of footage.
Very frustrating.
But I expect (thanks, TiVo) to have seen all these extras already. That's been the way with the theatricals -- they assemble the documentaries that aired.
The new stuff is on the extended.
Are the commentaries different between the theatrical and the extended releases?
There are no commentaries on the theatrical. Only extras are on the second disc--I'm looking forward to seeing the supertrailer, myself.
Is that the same supertrailer that was on the site for a while? That thing was gorgeous, and I'm psyched to see it big.
Yes, indeed. Seeing it in a 3"x5" box on the computer monitor was nothing.
Now I wish I had access to my brother's big screen tv. Oh, well, guess I'll just have to deal with my 27".
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Just watched dvd. It's actually a lot better than I remember it. I think that I just let little niggles overshadow my memory of the whole film. The CG looks better on a small screen aswell, dare I say it.
