'Dirty Girls'
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.
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".
t /first world issues
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.
There are some interesting new facts to be found in the Entertainment Weekly special issue. First is that, according to Andrew Lesnie, there is enough material being added to the latter part of the Pelennor Fields battle sequence in the extended edition that they had to change the time of day Pippin finds Merry by using digital grading.
...that they had to change the time of day Pippin finds Merry by using digital grading.
Now that is funny.
My one big dissapointment with the extras is that there's no 10 minute preview of the extended cut like there was on previous theatrical editions.
Also, a warning for arachnophobes, the extras disk uses a nasty close up of Shelob as part of the animated transitions between screens.