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The Lord of the Rings: Motion Picture Trilogy [Blu-ray] [Blu-ray] (2010)

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I got this pack 4 days ago. It is very good quality package of 3 DVDs and very good quality. For the price that I have paid I could not ask more! Just to remind you that this is a theatrical version not the directors cut etc.

OK... this is, in my opinion, one of the truly great SF/Fantasy movies ever made. The cinematography is amazing, every shot means something. So WHY would you ever want to throw your money away on just over half the picture. Full-frame DVDs destroy the vision of both director and cinematographer and give you a movie which bears a passing resemblance to what they wanted you to see. Do yourself a favor, click your "back" button, and click on the link that says "Widescreen edition". Hey, that way in 3 years when you have a widescreen TV you won't have those "annoying black bars" on the sides of your screen all the time.(...)"Remember: with widescreen you lose part of the screen. With Full Frame you lose the director's vision and artistry."

The only thing worse than releasing the theatrical version instead of making it a playback option of the full extended version would be including a coupon for the extended version in the theatrical version like last time.

It's a really good bargain from Amazon and the movies are awesome but I waited 4 months for the delivery like a lot of people. It's now difficult to trust Amazon for my orders.

great movie. great to have wide screen version with extra minutes. good brand new never opened item. wonderful music

Even tough, i do prefer the books, these movies on DVD are very excellent and for someone who does not want to read the books, it is the best way to enter in the world of Tolkien.

I liked the theatrical release. LOTR is a hugely long book, with masses of backstory. It would be impossible to get it all into three films and wouldn't necessarily have been a good idea anyway. You have to adapt things to the medium of film, you have time constraints, and, let's be honest, the books got pretty slow moving and flowery at parts, when Tolkien seemed more interested in the Silmarillion than the story he was actually writing.

Like many LOTR purists, I didn't like some of the changes made, but it was the changes (Arwen supposed to be leaving for the Grey Havens; Faramir's taking Frodo to Osgiliath; Denethor's inexplicable refusal to call for reinforcements from Gondor and Rohan; Aragorn and Gandalf objecting to Theoden holing up in Helm's Deep, when it was clearly the militarily correct thing to do and riding out to meet a superior force in the open field might sound heroic but would have been suicide...) that altered the characters without advancing the plot, that I didn't like, rather then the exclusion of overly long, and arguably unnecessary, portions of the text.

The extended edition does include some new pieces that help the story (longer sections in Lothlorien and the role of Galadriel, most noticeably) but I was disappointed to find out that a great deal of the extended time really just drew out the existing storylines (including in some cases expanding upon the aforementioned changes, so actually takes the extended addition further /away/ from the book) in an attempt to increase their emotional impact (which was often quite unnecessary, and threatened to take things OTT)

I was also very disappointed that, despite 4 DVD's per movie, they don't include the original theatrical release as a viewing option. (And just when Spielberg finally caved in on Greedo.) So if you do want to compare the theatrical to the extended release, you'll have to buy the theatrical release as well. I don't really feel there was any justification for that - if you're going to have an ultimate box set edition, you ought to have the original theatrical release on it, and that's the main reason I'm only giving 4 stars.

Complaints and whining aside, however, it's still a damn good adaptation of a classic story, with everything that made the theatrical release so good. Cinematography, special effects, soundtrack, acting, Jackson did an excellent job of a monumental task.

It isn't the greatest movie ever made, or even the greatest trilogy, unless you already think LOTR is the greatest book ever written. But it's still good. This edition is really for the LOTR junkies, though. If you came out of seeing the Return of the King at the movies, thinking "Wow, that was fantastic, but you know it would have been better if it had lasted about an hour longer so they could pile the drama up even higher..." then you really need to get this! If you enjoyed the book and films without being obsessive, you might prefer the theatrical release!

The Lord of the Rings is easily the greatest trilogy ever made. It really is just one long film, with an amazing sense of continuity due to the fact that it was based upon a book and all filmed at once. ROTK is the best of the films, but all three are nothing short of brilliant and are just part of one long story. An amazing series made with love and attention to detail that should be a part of any film-lover's collection.

A casual viewer of the Lord of the Rings movie Trilogy may or may not appreciate what goes into the production of something of this magnitude. The DVD 'appendices' try to explain in what detail they can. All I know is I tip my hat to the exhaustive efforts of all involved in the making the Trilogy, especially Peter Jackson, WETA Workshop and the cast of characters. Lest not we forget one J.R.R. Tolkien in his brilliance, also. I will also admire New Line Cinema for having the confidence to invest in the vision and possibilities that Jackson displayed.
Owning the Trilogy is owning cinematic history. A tale renowned globally, even if it had to be modified for certain movie realities. A few ground-breaking visual effects in some areas(and otherwise all totally seamless). An ensemble cast that made Tolkien's oft-poetic dialog plausible and moving.
I can find few words to justify how grateful that novels of this scope were treated with the respect worthy of its author from the making of this movie.

I have not even watched all the movies in the series but have LOVED every minute I have watched