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Category Archives: LOTR
Widescreen vs Fullscreen II
Yesterday I was promising how I would upload my annual widescreen/fullscreen comparison of The Two Towers once my video card is fixed. And today I discover that with the latest copy of WinDVD I can avoid a lot … Continue reading
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Faramir Did Not Shoot First
All Hail Ken Crane’s and DVD Planet. Because of them I have two copies of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers already in hand. (The widescreen and fullscreen releases, of course, so I can have the … Continue reading
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Reel Change
The latest issue of Australia’s Empire magazine has an interesting cover story. It’s another list of 100 movies; but instead of discussing which is greater, they’re focusing on the movies’ impact on culture or on the industry itself: … Continue reading
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ROTK Footage!!!
A 95-second taste of Return of the King is available at The One Ring.net. Someone has provided them with this QuickTime MOV file (perhaps off the supplements of the upcoming Two Towers DVD), which provides brief glimpses of … Continue reading
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At Last: Big Spoiler DVD News!
AICN has some great news about the upcoming Extended Edition of The Two Towers on DVD. The FOTR Extended Edition assuaged a lot of the problems I had with the first movie, and it looks like this release … Continue reading
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In Need of a Good Scouring
-SPOILER WARNING- (not that you haven’t had fifty years to read the book). I’ve grown used to the idea that Return of the King will not feature “The Scouring of the Shire” sequence. The filmmakers have said … Continue reading
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Leo’s Precious
I happened to tape this on Tuesday, during Tech TV’s replay of Monday’s The Screen Savers. Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton are discussing HTIBs (Home Theater in a Box), and they had some interesting things to say about … Continue reading
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So It Begins
At last come the first rumblings from the Peter Jackson camp regarding the third and final Lord of the Rings movie. No actual stills or scenes yet, but at least the talk of actual stills and scenes has … Continue reading
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A Fried Peanut Butter and Lembas Sammitch
Last year, I thought the protest over how the title The Two Towers was supposedly an insensitive reference to terrorism (despite the fact Tolkien’s book was published twelve years before the WTC was completed). But, with this year’s … Continue reading
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Future DVD Purchases
• As has been reported elsewhere, two discs in the first edition of the Back to the Future box were mastered misframed. It appears Universal is finally shipping out corrected copies. These can be recognized by the “V2” … Continue reading
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