Angelo Colombus
Senior HTF Member
It's been nice recently having on my shelf the releases of Back to the Future 4K, The Essential Fellini and now this set soon.
I was wondering the same thing last week. With no announcement yet, I think the fall (for the holidays) is the most likely time that they'll release it now.Does anyone know if The Complete Middle Earth Collection is still coming this summer? It was mentioned when the 4K discs came out last fall, but no word since.
I wouldn't call PJ's LotR perfection -- it definitely has its flaws -- but it's by far the best adaptation of these books and this genre in general so far.
I could also see The Hobbit being good as 2 (shorter, more lighthearted) movies if done right, but despite it being stretched to 3 overwrought films, it still actually misses on some key beloved aspects of the original source material in exchange for the overly indulgent mess they ended up with.
The whole divergence into the love triangle between Legolas, what's her name played by Evangeline Lilly (I can't even be bothered to remember) and Kili(?), is one such. NVM that Legolas (or the elves for the most part) wasn't even supposed to be in this story at all. And then having Legolas seem so whimpy after what they gave us in LotR, especially in the epic battle of Minas Tirith in RotK...
That kind of storyline should've been saved/used for some adaptation(s) of the various parts of The Silmarillion instead, but they shoehorned it into The Hobbit and sacrificed much of the intentions of the original story in the usual Hollywood manner and drive toward their bottomline...
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In a recent Digital Bits column, Bill Hunt talked about the replication problems that made the release of the Indiana Jones 4k set more difficult than usual. He mentioned that replication seems to be slowing a lot of things down and thinks that Warner could end up moving the Middle Earth set to the fourth quarter for this reason.Any further news on a a release date for a collector's edition with new bonus material ?