On the bright side, there is one new extra thrown in, and it's even one that might appeal to the IGN audience, a preview of the upcoming video game The Lord of the Rings: The War in the North. The characters who get the most additional screen-time in this cut would probably be Merry (Dominic Monaghan), Pippin (Billy Boyd), and Treebeard (voiced by John Rhys-Davies). If these summaries are invoking déjà vu, it’s because the blueprint is the same on all the discs: “J. We hear every threatening movement of the haunting wraiths, and shiver at the skuttle of the giant spider that Frodo faces, the surrounds picking up all the minute details to create a thoroughly immersive and atmospheric offering.

The final commentary is with the cast, including Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Liv Tyler, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Bernard Hill, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, John Noble, and Andy Serkis. Watching Serkis's commitment as he flops around in a freezing-cold river explains why Gollum has become an indelible cinematic figure. Disc Four is “The Appendices, Part IV — The Battle for Middle-Earth Begins” and beings with an introduction from Elijah Wood (1 min. If you don't know what the trilogy is about by now, you're probably not interested in picking up the complete set on Blu-ray, but to read recaps and our opinions on the theatrical adaptations of J.

e. those Botes documentaries), the only real issues are in relation to Fellowship, which was also, video presentation-wise, the most controversial entry when last year’s first dip of Blu-rays came out. The additional green tint didn’t affect the whole movie, though, so it’s not like someone just flipped some switch and had the coloring cover the entire film. For completeness, I'll run through the list of what we do get, but those who are familiar with any of the previous releases should know just what to expect in terms of quantity AND quality of extras. Jackson who also wrote the script with fran walsh and philippa boyens has made Middle Earth accesible to millions of people, the books are considered classi and deservedly so but are hard for some people to get into and enjoy, here though the films allow us to be a part of Tolkeins legendary world and be thoroughly entertained. Gone are many of the niggling digital defects associated with that earlier release, and whilst the image cannot really be regarded as demo quality (not least because of this whole colour timing furore), it is still a very good rendition indeed.

It sets up how RotK was forced to contain footage originally intended for inclusion earlier (such as Sarumon's final scene and Smeagol's discovery of the ring), while also shows how this film reunited Jackson with editor Jamie Selkirk, who worked on all of Jackson's films previous to Fellowship of the Ring.It’s difficult to give an overall score for the video presentation of the trilogy here, as we have yet to discern the implications of the colour timing changes on Fellowship. Many would further argue that it really doesn’t matter that the extras come on SD-DVD discs, as they were all recorded in SD in any event – so an upgrade to HD was never really on the cards. In theory, if this was done as an overall correction, you could just knock down the green channel a couple of points to compensate (essentially adding magenta).