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illuvatar said:

Prodrummer1603 said:

RogerMan said:

Wouldn’t it have been easier and better to take the already edited cinema version, which I think looks really good, and create an extended edition from it by inserting the missing scenes, etc.?

The 4k-dremastered theatrical edition looks good. But there are still many issues, like DNR, lack of detail and softness. Only so much DrDre can do with suboptimal source material. The extended cut looks sharper and more detailed. The only issue: the color grading.

Since the color grading of the theatrical cut and extended cut are massively different (colors and contrast) it would be painful work to insert the extended scenes and match them with the theatrical cut so that you don’t see the change. Plus I bet you can still see the changes in detail and sharpness.

Imo, for the extended cut for Fellowship the dwalin and 44hr1n color corrected edition is best. Picture quality and grain on that is perfect.

The theatrical editions are at issue though. Both the 2009 or so bluray and DrDre’s upscale of those have great color, but they are overly DNR’d and too smooth. Then there are the 35mm ones, which are pretty great but a bit too scratchy at times.
Anyone have an idea if there’s another theatrical edition that’s better than all these?
Imo the perfect theatrical edition would be the Extended HD Bluray color corrected by dwalin and 44hr1n but recut back to theatrical.

You can’t perfectly recut the extended edition of Fellowship back to the theatrical, there is at least one part of a scene that does not have an equivalent in the extended (Haldir talks a bit more with the Fellowship when first encountering them), so you would have to use the theatrical edition footage for that. Also I think there is a couple more shots that linger a bit longer in the theatrical than in the extended. But a version definitely could be made that used mostly extended footage.

Hey, could I get a link please? I am very interested in a digestible version of the Rings of Power.