The extended versions are so much better than the theatrical DVD you don't even want to give your theatrical versions away to charitybecause you know you're robbing someone else of the experience of the extended versions. So you just throw them away in the trash, and although it hurts, you can rest assured knowing you did the right thing.
Yes, they very much are. An Unexpected Journey isn't very different, but its also not elongated too much, either. The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies improve quite drastically. ArjanGameboyman. • 3 yr. ago. Yes. Extended is how Peter intended the movies.
The Lord of the Rings Extended box set is only of the few items in my movie collection that I would recommend to many as a blind buy. The value I get out of it is so much higher than anything else; a 12-hour viewing experience that I revisit at least every 4-5 months, plus countless hours of additional features of all kinds that make the films even more enjoyable. The 4K restoration of the extended edition of The Fellowship of The Ring is revelatory. I just finished watching my 4K disc copy of the extended edition of Fellowship, and it is simply jaw dropping. As someone who has watched the old EE Blu-Ray over a dozen times this is a night and day improvement. The garish green tint that was over the whole
The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003) {tmdb-122} {edition-Extended}.mkv First level illustrates the library, 2nd level is a folder named exactly the same as the movie, and then the movie inside the folder.
The video exhibits greater overall clarity. There's more depth to the image, colors are slightly more vibrant and more detail is discernible. Whereas the 2-disc's video looked very good, but slightly "crushed" (given it's greater MPEG-2 compression), this 4-disc version feels fuller and richer looking.
