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From the films you can infer whatever you like, but from the source material (the books) the Ring essentially stops Bilbo from aging pretty much from the point he acquires it. So I can't fault PJ for the way he shot LoTR first and then The Hobbit many years later, casting changes had to be made...

Just keep telling yourself that any scene with Elrond in it means you're in the Matrix and you'll be just fine...:P

I realize this may be an unpopular opinion, and I realize that I may have more of a problem with the way re movie version of Sam was written but I did not like Astin at all as Sam. He was way too negative, too often shouting, doesn't convey the awe and wonder of the elves and the world outside...

Excellent post, RAH. So one question, instead of people accusing others of varying opinion of being wrong, can we just ask why they hate America so much? :D

Anecdotally, I find the snow in the FOTR scene where Frodo drops the ring and Boromir to pick it up, while different in color temp than the TE BD, to very much match the snow color in the opening sweep of TTT EE BD. Not the side of the snow-covered mountains which faced the sun (those were...

So one non-green-tint related question: has PJ officially decided not to re-CGI Gollum in FoTR to match the other two movies? I thought perhaps if he was going to do it (as I believe he said in past interviews he'd like to) he'd do it for this release. Or will he do it in a few years with the...

Yeah it's indicative of how polarized Americans have become nowadays, this "us versus them" mentality where "them" constantly changes and is basically comprised of people who don't agree with your point of view. Colbert makes fun of it on his show a lot when someone presents an opposing...

Wow - Project-Blu is supporting evidence for corporal punishment of kids (which I don't subscribe to, btw). But in his case I think I'd make an exception - maybe if Mom and Dad had raised him with a little bit of bum-paddling when words like that came out of his mouth they'd have saved us from...

Edwin - the color and warmth aren't bled out of that scene. Again, in comparison with what you see onscreen, it is a warm, golden scene. If you are simultaneously A/Bing with the original BD it is not *as warm* as the original BD. But no, PJ and Lesnie did not desaturate the scene or picture a...

Take this with a heavy dose of YMMV. I'm now nearly done with Disc 1 of FoTR and so far, to me, this is a non-issue. Are the measured color values different than the TE FoTR BD? Yes. Does it look like I'm watching Fellowship of the Ring: The Matrix edition? No. My humble guess? They did the...

I'm going to run the ultimate "non HTF/Theater Enthusiast Test" when I get home. Neither my gf or her brother are HTFers, but they both have seen LoTR multiple times (thanks to yours truly). I'm not going to say anything and just watch the movie and see if either notices anything or says...

The only part I disagree with here Bill is the "to his face" part. The Anonymity of the Internet makes people display such behaviors behind a keyboard and screen that they would never do to another human being in person. That's why I think, for the most part, HTF stays civil. We used to...

I echo what Doug said. It's funny, many of the people here on this thread I've disagreed with on other topics. But it's always been a civil discourse. And we all know when to "agree to disagree" without getting personal. And we all had each other's backs, no matter what our past differences of...

Oh man that scene was so hard to watch because...I...could...sympathize...with...both...sides...arrgrghhghgh my head is about to explode!!!!

Oh no the Star Wars nerds have invaded the Lord of the Rings geek thread! Isn't this like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters? Back to your regularly scheduled programming...nothing to see here...

Clearly the Anonimity of the Internet is at work here at HTF. People say things in a manner that they'd never say to another person in civilized society. Yes when we were smaller, and had more frequent meets, people could argue without being snarky because we could often put faces to names and...

What I'd actually be more interested in than a re-edited version of the EEs is something more akin a season-long series on Showtime or HBO. Lord of the Rings is really an epic saga that isn't meant to be told in three action packed 3 hour movies, or even three slightly slower 3 1/2 hour movies...

I'm with David W on this one. With that new set of screengrabs there is no question that there are different color temperatures used. But I am hesitant to say one is wrong and one is right. One was first and one was second, and often the second gets compared to the first with the assumption that...