Five Hour ROTK: EE?

[A Black Falcon]

Well, can't wait for that extended REturn of the King DVD. Because, shortly after that, they'll release the collector's edition with all 3 extended editions in one neat little package, costing less than the 3 seperatly, then I'll get THAT and LAUGH at the idiots who bought each and every itteration along the way! (No offence to the idiots who bought it each and every itteration along the way.)

And they'll laugh at you for waiting years to watch the EE's...

In any case, I certainly want those scenes. Personally, I'd rather they have put in some of those story building scenes and cut out parts of those battles. Sure the battles were cool, but they could have cut out variuos parts of it and still given one the gist of things (and add THAT back in for the extended DVD), while on the other hand those other scenes had actual story. Still, I see why they went with what they did. The audience likes action.

You are looking at it from the wrong angle. When looking at a theatrical release, you've got to keep the movie moving... listen to most any director's commentary tracks on DVDs (I know it's mentioned on LOTR FOTR EE, and Lucas talks a LOT about how he does his stories on the Ep1 and Ep2 DVDs... and plenty of others...)... you can't have all the story you want. As they say, they frequently end up cutting the great slow story-exposition scenes in favor of moving the story along because in a theater you want to keep the audience's intrest... too much talking without anything going on and you will lose it. So in the theater you cut the talking scene, not the action one. It's just a reality of moviemaking. What DVDs do is let the directors put back in some of those slow, story-exposition scenes...