50 Extra Minutes for ROTK

monkeyfudge

http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/newsstory.asp?news_id=16041

Hopefully the bulk of those minutes won't be used to lengthen the ending.

dangerman

One of the most highly anticipated new scenes features the return of Christopher Lee’s Saruman.

...GO SARUMAN!!!!!!

Such a crime to cut out lee from the original.

Lots of new stuff with gandalf too. Gandalf is the best.

Mr E

250 mins altogether.... wow.

John

I'm hoping they do lengthen the ending and put in the Saruman taking ovet the Shire subplot.

ixoy

Excellent! Can't wait! And I must watch all three extended editions back to back. It clocks in at:

Fellowship: 208
Two Towers: 223
Return of the King: 250
Total: 681 minutes or 11 hrs 21 minutes of one story! Woot! (And clearly an X-Files reference )

John

Originally posted by ixoy
And clearly an X-Files reference

How so? It's that long since I've seen the X-Files my memories have grown warm and fuzzy like bread mould in the sun.

Etain

And I must watch all three extended editions back to back.

That's my plan! I was amazed by all the great stuff that was cut from the first two.

da_deadman

that all sounds good, even if the subplot of Saruman in the Shire is left out. The extended edition will thus be a lot closer to the book. That will be a full day of viewing. I have my plan drawn up already:

10:00am - wake up and shower, shave, s**t, and all that stuff
11:00am - cook a big Irish breakfast
11:20am - put first disc in dvd player, sit in front of telly with Irish breakfast and press play (first ensuring that the fridge has been filled with refreshing drinks and is within easy reaching distance from the seat and there is a menu for a Chinese take-away nearby too)

And then stay there all day, and what a great day it will be. 11 hours and 21 minutes of Middle Earth greatness! I cant wait.

uberwolf

I think everyone has had this plan. I've even ordered my colostomy bag

ixoy

Originally posted by John2
How so? It's that long since I've seen the X-Files my memories have grown warm and fuzzy like bread mould in the sun.

1121 appeared numerous times in The X-Files series, either as a date (11/21) or a time 11:21. It generally occured at portentious times in the show (i.e. arc episodes) so, if it came up, you could guess something was going to happen. It comes from Chris Carter's wife's birthday.
Other number that featured was 1013 because 13th of October was Carter's birthday himself (I think 1114 came in too because of Piper Anderson's birthday).

Woden

it would be nice if ugc did a marathon viewing of the three of them

they did that for a load of the star trek movies years ago

projectmayhem

a marathon viewing would be tiring to be honest. there's an awful lot to take in. you'd end up just spending the latter half of rotk slagging the gimps in costumes (you KNOW they'd show up).

anyway, dvd sounds cool. read about it earlier on badassmofo.

Wacker

I'm glad to see that the House of Healing bit will be in it. Without that scene, it didn't make a huge amount of sense that the throne of Gondor be handed over to Aragorn like that; I mean, do they just take his word for it that he is Isildur's heir? Very trusting times they were....

byte

Roll on November! I'll probably watch one each night. Order on play.com and few days later, watch the first 2, then by then, hopefully, the third will have arrived!

OfflerCrocGod

Ye I think the DVDs will be better to watch at home then in a public cinema - 12 hours in a cinema :eek:, no thanks.

Fenster

Twelve hours in a cinema=bad. What if you need an extended potty break?

Almarsáre

byte wrote:

Roll on November! I'll probably watch one each night. Order on play.com and few days later, watch the first 2, then by then, hopefully, the third will have arrived!

I hate to tell you this, but this year you have to wait until December for it to be released. Exact date not known yet but December was confirmed at Comic Con.

byte

oh I thought it was Late November.

BlitzKrieg

My idea is to use my university's capabilities to the fullest. We have a screening room for film studies big projector and no cinema reponsibilities...was thinking start around 9pm 10pm go all night with the film society and then off to the local for a big breakfast...muhahahahahaaaa

Sarky

it would be nice if ugc did a marathon viewing of the three of them

they did that for a load of the star trek movies years ago

The way they run the place now, that'll never happen. On the other hand, I know at least one society that'll surely show all three back to back in someone's house, with beer and nibbles. Much more comfortable than those nasty lecture halls, anyway.