Tuesday, September 06, 2005

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Watched the 'extended dvd version', meaning that you get an extra 48 minutes and the 'approximate running time' is given as 240 minutes (you do the math - that's a large chunk out of one's day). I saw this once on the big screen, and maybe once since on dvd (the cinematic release version again, if so), and it's still a bit breathtaking on this second or third viewing. I'm not really enough of a trainspotter to have picked all of the new footage; the only extended sequence which really stood out was the extra stuff in the city of the dead. Again, much gratitude is due to Peter Jackson for doing this so well.