TTT Extended DVD Review - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Firondoiel · 07-26-2003, 05:19 PM

I couldn't find this in another thread so if there is one I'm sorry for duplicate posting. AICN posted this review of the added scenes in TTT Extended DVD! <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>- Extended opening, in which the hobbits scale a cliff face using the rope Galadriel gave Sam, including a better build-up to the arrival of Gollum. - More friction between the Uruk-Hai and the Orcs as they transport Merry and Pippin back to Isengard, which better sets up the fight over food that takes place later. - More scenes of Saruman breeding his army, creating better pacing as the invasion of Rohan begins - Terrific scene in which Eomer finds the body of Theodred, Theodens son. - Additional scenes with Merry and Pippin, including extensions to existing Treebeard scenes and the Ent Draught sequence, in which the hobbits grow. In another scene, Treebeards soporific poetry works its magic. - Theodreds funeral scene, with Eowyn singing a lament. - A wonderful introduction to Aragorns horse Brego, who we learn was Theodreds horse. Aragorn requests Brego be set free, which places his later rescue in better context. - Additional scenes between Eowyn and Aragorn, including one in which he attempts to eat a bowl of evil-looking stew. - More scenes between Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, which expand upon the films politics (including the union between the two towers Gandalf scene from the trailer, though that line is missing from what I can remember). - More of Sarumans musings, setting up themes that will be explored in The Return of the King. - Flashback to the circumstances surrounding Boromir being sent to Rivendell for the Council of Elrond, taking place during the re-taking of Osgiliath by the Gondorian army. This sequence briefly introduces John Noble as Denethor, a major character in The Return of the King. I was worried this sequence would seem like an indulgence, but its difficult to imagine the film without it; not only is the character of Faramir, much maligned by fans of the book, given added depth, so too is Boromir enriched by this addition. - Just before the Ents storming of Isengard, the Huorns mobilise and leave to attend to business elsewhere; they reappear at Helms Deep to kill the Uruk-Hai as they flee. - New ending, with Merry and Pippin finding a larder at Isengard, including two barrels of pipe-weed; a hilarious scene in which Gimli and Legolas compare their scores after the battle of Helms Deep; Frodo, Sam and Gollum are shown the way out of Osgiliath by Faramir, who threatens Gollum; theres even a brief moment in which Sam and Gollum appear to make peace. - Along with all these major additions, many more scenes are subtly extended to give more information or reinforce themes already present. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Enorëiel · 07-26-2003, 05:37 PM

Yay!!!!! I can't wait til November!!! The extended version of TTT is going to be great! The new scenes will make the movie better then it already is. Thanks for telling what's going to be in it but now you just made November seem even farther away then it does right now!

Socialist · 07-26-2003, 06:06 PM

Yes, the Huorns are in it. This is great.

Morquesse · 07-26-2003, 10:25 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> - New ending, with Merry and Pippin finding a larder at Isengard, including two barrels of pipe-weed; a hilarious scene in which Gimli and Legolas compare their scores after the battle of Helms Deep; Frodo, Sam and Gollum are shown the way out of Osgiliath by Faramir, who threatens Gollum; theres even a brief moment in which Sam and Gollum appear to make peace. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>YAY!!!!! (five exclamations marks must mean I'm insane, eh?) This is so cool! And we get an improved Faramir too! And Huorns! I didn't think they'd do that! Yippie!! <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> - Additional scenes with Merry and Pippin, including extensions to existing Treebeard scenes and the Ent Draught sequence, in which the hobbits grow. In another scene, Treebeards soporific poetry works its magic. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yay for the growing. But soporific? as in sleep inducing? I'm scared. They could at least not make it corny. Anyway, I'm happy happy! See you later! ~M[ July 27, 2003: Message edited by: Morquesse ]

Dimaldaeon · 07-27-2003, 12:11 PM

Hourns at Helm's Deep, I may in fact be forced to do a jig of happiness right now

Snowdog · 07-27-2003, 12:51 PM

This is why I buy the SE and only rent the theatrical! I'm sure they will have Gollum's rant from MTV

Daisy Brambleburr · 07-27-2003, 03:20 PM

Ooh, it looks so great. I think I will like the extended edition much more than the theatrical one. More character development! Yah! And more Merry and Pippin, I hope. I really truly can't wait.

HCIsland · 07-27-2003, 08:51 PM

An MTV spoof of The Council of Elrond made it as an easter egg on the Fellowship SE. Perhaps Gollum's MTV rant might get the same treatment.H.C.

Nehani · 07-28-2003, 01:01 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I'm sure they will have Gollum's rant from MTV <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I really hope so! That would be the cooles thing (other than everything else on the EV). Nehani

Novlamothien · 07-28-2003, 09:15 AM

Oh, yes, I second that question. I can't wait for November! almost every new scene is one I missed in the Theatrical release. YAY!!! I am so happy.Namarie

HCIsland · 07-28-2003, 10:22 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Oh? Where about is it? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> This is really off topic and personally, I've lost count of how many times I've explained this in the multitude of threads that cover this topic.Type "easter egg" into the search engine, it'll come up.H.C.

peonydeepdelver · 07-29-2003, 02:16 PM

Yay! More Merry and Pippin! I think I speak for almost everyone when I say there wasn't enough of them in the theatrical version, not enough for my satisfaction, anyway.

Genevieve · 07-29-2003, 05:56 PM

I agree about Merry and Pippin. I can definetely go for more of them. The extended DVD sounds very exciting, I can't WAIT to see it!! It's all too much

GaladrieloftheOlden · 07-29-2003, 06:14 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> - Additional scenes between Eowyn and Aragorn, including one in which he attempts to eat a bowl of evil-looking stew. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> What? That confuses me.Swan song, -Menelien

HCIsland · 07-29-2003, 08:09 PM

There's a scene where they are eating after the healing of Theoden. I suspect it will be there.H.C.

07-26-2003, 05:19 PM	#1
Firondoiel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 585	TTT Extended DVD Review I couldn't find this in another thread so if there is one I'm sorry for duplicate posting. AICN posted this review of the added scenes in TTT Extended DVD!<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>- Extended opening, in which the hobbits scale a cliff face using the rope Galadriel gave Sam, including a better build-up to the arrival of Gollum. <P>- More friction between the Uruk-Hai and the Orcs as they transport Merry and Pippin back to Isengard, which better sets up the fight over food that takes place later. <P>- More scenes of Saruman breeding his army, creating better pacing as the invasion of Rohan begins <P>- Terrific scene in which Eomer finds the body of Theodred, Theodens son. <P>- Additional scenes with Merry and Pippin, including extensions to existing Treebeard scenes and the Ent Draught sequence, in which the hobbits grow. In another scene, Treebeards soporific poetry works its magic. <P>- Theodreds funeral scene, with Eowyn singing a lament. <P>- A wonderful introduction to Aragorns horse Brego, who we learn was Theodreds horse. Aragorn requests Brego be set free, which places his later rescue in better context. <P>- Additional scenes between Eowyn and Aragorn, including one in which he attempts to eat a bowl of evil-looking stew. <P>- More scenes between Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, which expand upon the films politics (including the union between the two towers Gandalf scene from the trailer, though that line is missing from what I can remember). <P>- More of Sarumans musings, setting up themes that will be explored in The Return of the King. <P>- Flashback to the circumstances surrounding Boromir being sent to Rivendell for the Council of Elrond, taking place during the re-taking of Osgiliath by the Gondorian army. This sequence briefly introduces John Noble as Denethor, a major character in The Return of the King. I was worried this sequence would seem like an indulgence, but its difficult to imagine the film without it; not only is the character of Faramir, much maligned by fans of the book, given added depth, so too is Boromir enriched by this addition. <P>- Just before the Ents storming of Isengard, the Huorns mobilise and leave to attend to business elsewhere; they reappear at Helms Deep to kill the Uruk-Hai as they flee. <P>- New ending, with Merry and Pippin finding a larder at Isengard, including two barrels of pipe-weed; a hilarious scene in which Gimli and Legolas compare their scores after the battle of Helms Deep; Frodo, Sam and Gollum are shown the way out of Osgiliath by Faramir, who threatens Gollum; theres even a brief moment in which Sam and Gollum appear to make peace. <P>- Along with all these major additions, many more scenes are subtly extended to give more information or reinforce themes already present. <P> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> __________________ "Forth, and fear no darkness. Arise. Arise, Riders of Théoden. Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered. A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!"

07-26-2003, 05:37 PM	#2
Enorëiel Wight Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Hobbiton, U.S.A. Posts: 165	Yay!!!!! I can't wait til November!!! The extended version of TTT is going to be great! The new scenes will make the movie better then it already is. Thanks for telling what's going to be in it but now you just made November seem even farther away then it does right now! __________________ You can take a hobbit out of the Shire but you can't take the Shire out of a hobbit. Whoever said "Nothing is impossible" never tried to slam a revolving door.

07-26-2003, 06:06 PM	#3
Socialist Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 13	Yes, the Huorns are in it. This is great. __________________ Knock Knock. Who's there? Weapons of Mass Destruction. So there you are!

07-26-2003, 10:25 PM	#4
Morquesse Wight Join Date: May 2002 Location: Past the fields we know.... Posts: 202	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> - New ending, with Merry and Pippin finding a larder at Isengard, including two barrels of pipe-weed; a hilarious scene in which Gimli and Legolas compare their scores after the battle of Helms Deep; Frodo, Sam and Gollum are shown the way out of Osgiliath by Faramir, who threatens Gollum; theres even a brief moment in which Sam and Gollum appear to make peace. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>YAY!!!!! (five exclamations marks must mean I'm insane, eh?) This is so cool! And we get an improved Faramir too! And Huorns! I didn't think they'd do that! Yippie!!<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> - Additional scenes with Merry and Pippin, including extensions to existing Treebeard scenes and the Ent Draught sequence, in which the hobbits grow. In another scene, Treebeards soporific poetry works its magic. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yay for the growing. But soporific? as in sleep inducing? I'm scared. They could at least not make it corny. <P>Anyway, I'm happy happy! <BR>See you later!<BR>~M<p>[ July 27, 2003: Message edited by: Morquesse ] __________________ I'm not ashamed to let you know I want this light in me to show. I'm not ashamed to speak the name of Jesus Christ.~Newsboys

07-27-2003, 12:11 PM	#5
Dimaldaeon Wight Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ireland & damn proud of it. Posts: 125	Hourns at Helm's Deep, I may in fact be forced to do a jig of happiness right now __________________ Dear Saddam, Do not disunderestimate me.Yours G.W.Bush You're not drunk if you can still hold onto a blade of grass to stop yourself from falling off the face of the Earth

07-27-2003, 12:51 PM	#6
Snowdog Emperor of the South Pole Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Western Shore of Lake Evendim Posts: 606	This is why I buy the SE and only rent the theatrical! I'm sure they will have Gollum's rant from MTV

07-27-2003, 03:20 PM	#7
Daisy Brambleburr Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 334	Ooh, it looks so great. I think I will like the extended edition much more than the theatrical one. More character development! Yah! And more Merry and Pippin, I hope. <BR>I really truly can't wait. __________________ 'What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve? Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.'

07-27-2003, 08:51 PM	#8
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	An MTV spoof of The Council of Elrond made it as an easter egg on the Fellowship SE. Perhaps Gollum's MTV rant might get the same treatment.<P>H.C. __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor

07-28-2003, 01:01 AM	#9
Nehani Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Mirkwood (or something like it) Posts: 80	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I'm sure they will have Gollum's rant from MTV <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I really hope so! That would be the cooles thing (other than everything else on the EV). <P>Nehani __________________ "Been A Long Road To Follow, Been There And Gone Tomorrow Without Saying Goodbye To Yesterday..." "The Way Is Closed. It Was Made By Those Who are Dead. The Way is Closed."

07-28-2003, 09:15 AM	#10
Novlamothien Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: A white, wintry wonderland-in the South!! Posts: 75	Oh, yes, I second that question. <BR> I can't wait for November! almost every new scene is one I missed in the Theatrical release. YAY!!! I am so happy.<P>Namarie __________________ "He said if I had the cheek to make verses about Earendil in the house of Elrond that was my affair." ~Bilbo~

07-28-2003, 10:22 AM	#11
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Oh? Where about is it? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>This is really off topic and personally, I've lost count of how many times I've explained this in the multitude of threads that cover this topic.<P>Type "easter egg" into the search engine, it'll come up.<P>H.C. __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor

07-29-2003, 02:16 PM	#12
peonydeepdelver Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alas, I hail from Massachusetts Posts: 256	Yay! More Merry and Pippin! I think I speak for almost everyone when I say there wasn't enough of them in the theatrical version, not enough for my satisfaction, anyway. __________________ "Nazgul, Nazgul! You speak of what is deep beyond the reach of your muddy dreams, Ugluk! Nazgul! Ah! All that they make out! One day you'll wish that you had not said that. Ape! You ought to know that they're the apple of the Great Eye." ~Grishnakh

07-29-2003, 05:56 PM	#13
Genevieve Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Where am I? Huh? I'm lost! Posts: 50	I agree about Merry and Pippin. I can definetely go for more of them. The extended DVD sounds very exciting, I can't WAIT to see it!! It's all too much __________________ No thought was put into this I always knew it would come to this. Things have never been so swell I have never failed to feel Pain.

07-29-2003, 06:14 PM	#14
GaladrieloftheOlden Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Massachusetts - digging up a bottomless hole, searching for something that's not there... Posts: 1,611	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> - Additional scenes between Eowyn and Aragorn, including one in which he attempts to eat a bowl of evil-looking stew. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> What? That confuses me.<P>Swan song,<BR>-Menelien __________________ "Glue... very powerful stuff."

07-29-2003, 08:09 PM	#15
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	There's a scene where they are eating after the healing of Theoden. I suspect it will be there.<P>H.C. __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor