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^ That's probably a more legitimate reason as to why I don't like the EEs because it seems like the theatrical versions would be the "tighter" films as greencapt said, and that the EEs were just made for fan service. "Let's just throw in some more scenes so people who read the books will feel better." That's what it seems like to me, anyway. I have no problem with "fan-gravy" either. Far from it. But it's just my opinion that stuff like that should be put in deleted scenes categories. For two reasons. 1. I love watching deleted scenes because I can't help smiling and telling myself that I'm getting secret special information that casual viewers who don't go through extras won't know. 2. No need to have more excuses for a special edition. I don't like Star Wars having a special edition, so why would I want LOTR to have one? ^_^

Anyway, that's just my opinion, and you guys are free to love on your EEs. Doesn't bother me if my views don't bother you.

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Originally posted by: TheSessler
I don't know what you mean regarding the LOTR packaging, all they had were Standard Widescreen, Standard Fullscreen, and the theatrical editions(par for the course in DVD choices).


what's the difference between the standard widescreen and the theatrical editions?


Oh and I'm for different versions, give the people the choice of which version they prefer. I wish Lucas would have.
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Did I actually write theatrical? I meant Extended.
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BTW, speaking of Laserdiscs, I finally got my Faces set and nothing to play them on!
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The only one where I felt any scene was put in just to be there was ROTK, and even then the EE was much better than the theatrical. Two Towers was actually the worst of the 3 in theaters, but its the best of the 3 in the EE.

What I did with the side changes, I took each disc, shrank them with DVDShrink, combined them, and now I have each one on one disc. These, though, are the ones I'll watch when I just want to watch them for convenience - they only have the video and the Dolby 5.1 track. If I want to watch them for quality, I'll watch the "official" ones with DTS and a side-change.
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Or if you want to listen to the commentary, which for every one of these films is great.
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Just watched the EE again last week with the missus, who's since been watching all the appendices as well. I really didn't care for Fellowship in the theatre as I felt it was chopped up to a nauseating level (literally, in my case, the editing actually made me nauseous). Not having the EE to compare it to, I couldn't put my finger on it, but I remember saying that it felt like it had been edited with a meat cleaver.

I got the EE of FOTR for Christmas the following year and THAT is when I fell in love with the LOTR films. Aside from the mumbling and whispering, it was a perfect film. The EE of TTT was even better the next year. The Theatrical ROTK was the only one I enjoyed on its own. The EE restored so much that was still needed, but it also added back a couple of things that actually hurt the movie. On the whole it's still vastly superior. My only beef with the EE of ROTK is that we shouldn't have seen the the army of the dead (I can't recall their proper Tolkien name at the moment) agree to fight and take over the mercenary ships. That really destroyed the surprise appearance of Aragorn and the army when the ships arrived at Minas Tirith. I've even considered my own EE to put this back the way it was in the theatrical version. But all the rest is awesome in my eyes. The EE is the only way to watch the trilogy for me, because it is clear it was intended to be seen this way by the filmmakers.
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ADM - I'm with you on the army of the dead change, as well as the whole Frodo and Sam dressed as Orcs sequence that was added. Everything else was awesome.
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Listening to PJ, FW and PB on the commentary tracks of the EE's, PJ mentioned a couple of items which may be taken literally or with a grain of salt:

1. PJ mentioned that he may possibly re-release a 25th anniversary version
2. For the possible 25th anniversary version, PJ would like to tighten up the CGI of Gollum in FOTR and the wargs in TTT.
3. There are additional scenes that did not make the cut for the EE's. Whether PJ chooses to integrate these into the EE's or to just have an area for Deleted Scenes is anyone's guess.

And I own both the widescreen theatrical and EE versions My preference is the EE's. The commentary provided by PJ and the commentary with the actors are good, that is if you can sit long enough through these.

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I only wished they had more from the two Ians and Christopher Lee, they always had great insights and knew exactly what they were talking about, especially Lee; though some of the BTS stories from the Hobbits were pretty funny.
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2. For the possible 25th anniversary version, PJ would like to tighten up the CGI of Gollum in FOTR and the wargs in TTT.

Oh no. I can see it now- originallordoftherings.com, dedicated to preserving the original versions of the LOTR films on HD-DVD.

Peter Jackson: Back when I made that trilogy, it was really only half finished in my eyes. Part of the problem is that we were rushed during the scripting and had no time to really change the storyline the way we wanted to.

Who shot first? Gimli or Legolas?

etc.

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