i now have all three extended versions on dvd and i plan to run through them all. i watched the first half of the fellowship last night and was pleased by how well the extra footage fit in.

Wow. Just now?

Most of the extra stuff worked quite well, but it was probably still a good idea to trim it since 3 hours sitting in the theater was more than enough.

the extra footage is tough but it definitely is an endurance test to watch it straight through in one sitting

The best extra footage has to be what they included in two towers and the beginning of ROTK.

This summer when I had a few days off I watched all three extended versions in the span of about 30 hours (split across two days). I can't see how someone would watch all three in a row though.

When ROTK came out a few theaters screened the first two extended editions and then the theatrical ROTK all in one run. I think they had hour breaks between the films, but other than that, it was a straight run-through. It's one thing to watch them at home, but to be out at a theater for close to 12-13 hours is just nuts.

i've always had 2 and 3 extended. however, i bought the first one when it first came out on dvd as the movie version and never got the extended version until this christmas.

i feel the first movie benefited most from the extra footage

i bought the box-set like a year ago and still haven't watched any of them

I watch these quite a bit. The full run though is something I've wanted to attempt but not had the intestinal fortitude to try.

I love the extended versions of these movies, especially how they re-edited the entire beginning of FOTR to have bilbo do the narration...which ultimately makes more sense because he is writing the beginning of his story, which is THE story...

Besides the extended parts I also very much liked the documentaries that came with it. Very fun and informative to watch. Oh, and I got all the three statues that were included with the extended versions.

I did

It was tough...we took about a 10 minute break between FOTR and TT, and then a 45 minute break between TT and ROTK. The last 3 hours of ROTK, we were all going stir crazy and the room basically turned into an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

I want to try and do the 6 Star Wars movies in a row, in one day.

Try doing all 6 star wars and all 3 ring movies in two days. You will loose your mind.

i thought the theater version of ROTK was a bit long itself.

well i love ROTK, but i thought that some of the scenes that were in the extended version should have been in the theatrical, and vica versa.

my changes:

for theatrical, take out the 10-15 minutes after the ring is destroyed, end it more quickly. i like everything that happened after, as most fans of the extended version probably do; but for the theatrical release it dragged on for the average crowd.

add the death of saurman to the theatrical.


i know i have others, but its been awhile since i've seen the theatrical release, and those are the two most important i think.

You are a better than me.

I agree. I thought that the scenes cut from ROTK were the biggest losses of any of the cut scenes in any of the films.

-Death of Saruman
-Mouth of Sauron
-Aragorn and the Palantir
-The dead attacking the Corsairs

That stuff was really key to understanding many of the other scenes. A lot of the extended scenes in the other films were really cool and added a lot, but they were ultimately unnecessary to understanding the movies.