The Fellowship of the Ring absolutely benefits from the extra scenes. The shire scenes and extra scenes with Boromir in particular which expand his character and makes his death more tragic.
The Two Towers extended scenes are mostly fluff, especially the extra Merry and Pippin scenes which were already boring enough as they were. I do like Faramir's flashback with Boromir though.
The Return of the King is more debatble. A lot of pointless scenes which make the movie drag on for too long like the extra scenes in the ghost cave but theatrical cut leaves out Saruman's death which will just make first time viewers wonder what the hell happened to him.
I never really wondered what happened to sauronman watching the originals. Just figured that he had nothing to back him up anymore so he was fricked I guess.
As a kid, I first watched the theatrical cuts of Fellowship and TT but luckily got the extended edition of ROTK first so never had to wonder about this. I remember first seeing the theatrical cut on TV wondering why they cut that scene.
The real question is how are you watching them? As far as I know the Theatrical Blurays are the ones with the "correct" color. The Extended Blurays have a disgusting blue green filter on them (or at least one Fellowship, I dont know about the other two). From what I can tell on youtube the 4K release looks washed out and desaturated, but I have yet to see it in person on a proper TV. There might be some merit to watching the original DVD extended releases for accurate color but idk how bad the quality is by todays standards.
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It doesn't matter. I'll still fast-forward through all of the Sam and Frodo and Gollum scenes
edited for tv
YouTube clips
Theatrical version of Fellowship is the only one I rewatch. I cant sit through the other two, especially not the extended versions.
Fellowship
>theatrical
Two Towers
>extended
Return
>extended
yes
I've stuck with extended for so long I forget what the theatrical versions are like.
Theatricals. Many of those scenes were cut for a reason. Some cut scenes are kino tho
Cutting Sarumans death in ROTK was dumb though. Were basically left hanging on what happened to him.
Definitely extended. Fills in a few important gaps for some characters. Boromir for example
theatrical fellowship, extended two towers and return of the king
theatricals aren't as comfy
I like extended
yeah. extended wiener in your ass homo
Fellowship extended the other two theatricals.
Hate me but you know I'm right.
I watched extended first. Can't really watch the theatricals without them feeling incomplete.
>didn't get to see them in theathers in 2001-2003
I'm so, so sorry.
extended
>Fellowship of the Ring
Extended
>Two Towers
Theatrical
>Return of the King
Extended
The Fellowship of the Ring absolutely benefits from the extra scenes. The shire scenes and extra scenes with Boromir in particular which expand his character and makes his death more tragic.
The Two Towers extended scenes are mostly fluff, especially the extra Merry and Pippin scenes which were already boring enough as they were. I do like Faramir's flashback with Boromir though.
The Return of the King is more debatble. A lot of pointless scenes which make the movie drag on for too long like the extra scenes in the ghost cave but theatrical cut leaves out Saruman's death which will just make first time viewers wonder what the hell happened to him.
I never really wondered what happened to sauronman watching the originals. Just figured that he had nothing to back him up anymore so he was fricked I guess.
As a kid, I first watched the theatrical cuts of Fellowship and TT but luckily got the extended edition of ROTK first so never had to wonder about this. I remember first seeing the theatrical cut on TV wondering why they cut that scene.
The real question is how are you watching them? As far as I know the Theatrical Blurays are the ones with the "correct" color. The Extended Blurays have a disgusting blue green filter on them (or at least one Fellowship, I dont know about the other two). From what I can tell on youtube the 4K release looks washed out and desaturated, but I have yet to see it in person on a proper TV. There might be some merit to watching the original DVD extended releases for accurate color but idk how bad the quality is by todays standards.
this is a joke image you stupid poser phonegay
sadly its not. I own the EE bluray and the TE blurays and ive made comparison images myself.