Customer Reviews

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Theatrical and Extended Limited Edition)

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The limited edition of the Two Towers has both the theatrical release and the extended edition on one two-sided disc. It includes a single special feature disc as well. I am very satisfied to have the extended edition without all the extra special feature discs.

I love this movie series. The extended versions add quite some time to the already @3 hours of the theatrical versions. I would only recommend this for true lovers of the trilogy due to this. The extended scenes are just as beautiful and fully edited as the rest of the film. If you are buying The Two Towers: Extended Version make sure you buy the other two as well...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Four-Disc Special Extended Edition)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition)

Let me accept the fact that LOTR is my most beloved film and I already own the extended editions of the films in one set! I'm really not surprised to see New Line coming up with another edition of the trilogy. With films like these they will squeeze the collectors as much as they can!! Still, inspite of this new set containing both the theatrical versions and the extended cuts of the films and also the much hyped Costa Botes documentaries, my advise to anyone buying LOTR for the first time is- DO NOT BUY THIS SET! Spend a little more and you get all the movies in full 6.1 DTS EX glory, alongwith hours of endless in-depth bonus features which probably you'll spend rest of your life watching!!

Please be aware, these new editions DO NOT contain DTS tracks, no commentary tracks by the director, Weta workshop or the cast. All you get is both versions crammed into one single disc and just one documentary as a bonus on the second disc...AND NOTHING ELSE. It would have been a better idea had New Line released the documentaries separately without forcing the consumer to buy the films again....And even this is not the end, once the HD format gains a little more acceptance, they'll have another excuse to come up with a new version of the trilogy!

Beware, Extended edition set is the ultimate LOTR experience, in terms of films or bonus features. Go get it...Its worth all the money spent!!

The two towers extended edition

For me is the better part of the lord of the rings, because the scenography of Rohan and the characters are perfect, the quality on the lord of the rings movies is very high and is for it and for others things that is my favorite triology in all times.

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See my review of the Return of hte King. I review the Lord of hte Rings as a whole, because as my annoying sister points out: "Tolkien wrote the epic as one book, but at the time of publishing the publishers decided to split it into 3 books so that it would be more apealing to readers, seeing it as a series and not one 10k page book, and to make more money from sales.

the product took like three weeks to get to my address after purchasing it, and it was only two states away, but it was just what i was looking for so i am happy, although i waited a while to recieve it!

I ordered and in a week received my order. Fast service and I was pleased with that the description was accurate.

...I've been seeing a lot of negative reviews for the re-release of these three films on DVD. A lot of them are from people that don't even own them giving them a low rating simply because they are mad they already own the extended cuts, and want the documentaries on the new ones, but don't want to purchase them again. Now I don't blame them. I hate when a DVD is re-released many times over with little or no extras that than its predecessor. I however, disagree that they should be rated low simply because angry consumers that already own the previous versions are mad that they don't want to purchase them again. Now they have the right to be angry, but if you don't own them, you should not review them, let alone rate them the lowest score.
In short, you already know how great these movies are, if you do not already own them all, then they make a great buy. I purchased all three since I only owned the Theatrical Cut of "The Fellowship of the Ring." I was watching the extended cut last night and it got me all excited again. The box art is pretty freaking cool too, and the fact that they are not huge like the extended editions was a plus for me. They don't take a lot of room, which is good for me because I have soo many movies that the more space I can save the better. The only thing you should know is that although both theatrical and extended cuts are on one disc, you still have to switch the disc over in between the movie--which is really not a big deal. I highly recommend getting these to those that don't own them yet.

No new material? Just release a new box every now and then. That's basically what this "new" set seems like to me. I can't picture any serious collector not having the extended editions already on DVD, and/or waiting for the HD version.

I purchased my copy from amazon through a seller who advertised it as new. When I received it, it was indeed shrink wrapped like a new DVD but the first disc had dried gunk on it, and there were smudges and light fingerprints on either side of it as well as on the second disc. Don't know if this was false advertising or a packaging error but I was surprised at the condition of a "new" disc.

After cleaning it, the movie played fine. I had no problems. I would recommend this to anyone who doesn't already own the movies. It would be a waste to buy if you already own either the theatrical or extended versions of the movie, especially since the other versions have lots more special features, and you would essentially be buying one or both versions twice. This is a very bare bones set. Just the film and one documentary. The main benefit to this set is having both versions together, where as the benefit to buying the previous sets would be the abundance of special features.