Fellowship is a Tier 3.25, Two Towers is 2.5, Return of the King is 1.25.Which ones? Like what the Entmoot do to Sarumon or the burning of the Shire? The movies were long enough as-is and the plot holes were closed well enough to suspend my disbelief, even if they left out portions of the book. I can appreciate that other folks want the extra scenes, it's just not important to me.
Heard from where? The transfer on the theatrical edition is fine. I've watched them a couple times on my 1080p projector and see no issues with edge-enhancement, banding, softness, or whatever problems you typically get from a bad transfer.
The quality would have to blow the DVD's away for it to make sense.
if you have a projector, you should easily be able to tell the difference between BRD and DVD. On a 46" HDTV viewed from > 8' away - not so much.
i have a 50in TV and you can sure as shit tell the diff at 8 feet between BR and DVD
That's funny. Any time I want to show off the projector, I go straight for Return of the King. I guess there is a reason for that.Fellowship is a Tier 3.25, Two Towers is 2.5, Return of the King is 1.25.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1168342
Here's some discussion when they were close to release: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1237167
Sounds like RotK is a nice transfer, but there are some major flaws with the FotR and some with TTT.
I was actually just randomly looking at the TVs at Fry's and came across two TVs that were playing one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. One looked nice and everything, then the other just stood out. It didn't look like film to me and made me want to look for the edge of the boom mic or flaws in the set pieces. It ended up being a high end 240Hz LCD.
To me, it's not the additional detail with blu-ray that knocks me out of the movie, it's the 240Hz refresh. All the motion blur is gone or something. 3D also annoys me so they still have to work on that for me to want to see movies in 3D even in theater. 3D done in Post just doesn't seem to look very good.
Exactly, that's why I was comparing a top of the line tv with an above average tv, but the high end tv appeared like everything was fake. I assume this is because motion smoothing was actually off and the TV interpolated the frames to get 240Hz. The source was the same so it was not blu ray that made the movie look fake, it was the tv. Really, if they wanted to show off the expensive tv, they should put a football highlight real on.FFS you can turn OFF all the motion smoothing on those TVs and remove the soap opera effect it has nothing to do with blu ray and everything to do with the TVs settings
This.I love the LOTR trilogy so it will probably make its way into my collection.
Bombadil was the most useless character...ever.
If you really want to enjoy an extended version of the story, read the books, including "The Hobbit."
Somebody wrote books about the movies?!
I wonder if my library has them yet!
Your library may have the books, the audio bookss, the DVDS and the BRDs!
audio books?
That doesn't even make sense.
You just lost your man card dude....seriously....
gross.Why not wait for the special edition that comes with a silicone reproduction of Peter Jackson's cock so that you can drop the pretense?