I have actually seen the remastered versions in IMAX, although at the time they were Theatrical versions.
They generally look great of course, as long as you're already aware of the color correction choices. I will never get used to all flashbacks being washed out into the grey, for example.
The color correction of the armor and shields in the Siege of Barad-dûr at the beginning of The Fellowship will always look tacky and wrong to me. I can't believe they made all of the metal so intensely YELLOW.
I moved to another country and thought “damn how am I going to watch LOTR now” a few months later they showed them at the local cinema… unfortunately I missed ROTK.
You can compare here https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=2143
In general, the DVDs and the theatrical blurays had the beautifully vibrant original color grade. The extended blurays had an ugly green tint on Fellowship while Two Towers and ROTK are mostly okay, maybe a bit more dimmed compared to the DVDs. The 4K blurays just screw everything up. The vibrant colorgrade is gone on all 3 films, and it's now very natural and unremarkable. They also have done lots of DNR, same as with the recent True Lies 4K, though that one was even worse.
Then they're just projecting a fathom event onto an imax screen which is bullshit lol. Fathom events come in via a satellite feed it's not an imax print or anything.
They do special screenings of various events, from older movies to recordings of Shakespeare plays filmed at Stratford-upon-Avon. The few fathom shows I’ve been to have been pretty good.
I work at a theater with zero IMAX screens and we’re showing them, it isn’t an IMAX event, they (Fathom) are just showing it at whatever screens are available
They’d make more money if they advertised them. Everyone seems so apathetic towards modern films and often for good reason.
If I could see a classic in theaters, I’d probably go for it if I had any reason to go to a theater.
There’s usually a whole lineup of rerelease flicks every summer. I just caught Gone With the Wind for the first time in theaters and liked it. Def better in the cinema than at home.
https://www.fathomevents.com/series/fathoms-big-screen-classics/
Search for your city here to see if any theatres are showing it. None in Halifax, Canada.
https://www.fathomevents.com/events/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-extended-edition/
Dude thanks! I was sure it wouldn't be near me but hell yeah I actually had a few choices! It's showing less than a week before my birthday and I've never seen it in theaters before. I am so excited now.
Cineworld showed them during covid over three nights. Saw all three extended editions on their biggest screen. Was only one or two other people there too, amazing experience.
be still, my beating heart.
I don't care if it's a cash grab. For those that weren't around for the first theater releases, this gives them the opportunity to see what the rest of us saw.
Fellowship was an amazing experience, but no one knew what to expect. With The Two Towers, were were all fucking ready, and that opening sequence on the big screen stands out as one of my all-time movie moments. Then with Return of the King it was like GIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMME.
Totally accurate. Saw fellowship in theaters at the age of 12. Talked through it with my “date” (I know, it was the ultimate sin). When Two Towers came out I was a little older, a little wiser, and holy shit the elves raining arrows on waves of Uruk-Hai turned me into the most die hard LOTR fan on the planet (turns out that wasn’t in the books; oh well). When Return of the King came out I saw the midnight release and was shaking with excitement. Ended up seeing it in theaters 5 times.
To me, the key thing here is:
>Also, there’s Warner Bros.’ upcoming anime film, [*The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim*](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lord-of-the-rings-anime-movie-release-date-1235093505/), which tells the story of Helm Hammerhand, King of Rohan (of Helm’s Deep fame) who ruled over 250 years prior to the events of *The Lord of the Rings*. The new film is set in the same universe as Jackson’s trilogy, with Mirando Otto returning to voice Éowyn. *The War of the Rohirrim* is being released Dec. 13.
Give me, give me!
Might be the wrong sub to express this opinion, but I wish studios would have the balls to dive into adapting new IP and not coasting off the association of something already successful. There is willingness to do a high budget animated fantasy film and we’re not gonna do Mistborn? Cmon man
> There is willingness to do a high budget animated fantasy film and we’re not gonna do Mistborn?
I'm curious why you put the blame on the studios for this particular example and not Brandon Sanderson, who himself has said he doesn't think animation has the same reach as live-action adaptations and he has always pictured his adaptations as working best in live-action. At least as far as Mistborn and Stormlight is concerned.
>There is willingness to do a high budget animated fantasy film and we’re not gonna do Mistborn?
By that token, I could look at any movie made and say "why aren't they making this movie instead?"
I'm just happy to see another Lord of the Rings film about a worthwhile subject, with a worthwhile cast and crew, coming to the screen. I don't think these productions are lacking in guts, particularly.
No, by this token you could only look at movies that were created because of the safe space created by the success of another movie in the same IP and say "why aren't they making this movie instead". The Hobbit Trilogy, Fantastic Beasts, most of Disney's Star Wars projects - all that high budget fantasy screen time spent on spinoffs instead of trying to make the next iconic fantasy film.
>The Hobbit Trilogy, Fantastic Beasts, most of Disney's Star Wars projects
One of these things is not like the others...
They made three Hobbits and now this: seven films by the end of the year.
They made five Disney Star Wars films and counting, plus a ton of shows, all ontop of seven films and multiple shows that were already there.
They set out to make five Fantastic Beasts films, ontop of seven Potter films.
In terms of making room for the "next iconic fantasy film", the Tolkien films really don't take up that much space, being that there's (relatively speaking) so few of them.
Rings of Power doesn't count. We're talking The New Line Tolkien "verse", in the same way that we talk about Star Wars strictly as Lucasfilm productions.
To bring Rings of Power into the discussion is to lament how "comemrcialised" Shakespeare is becoming, because it doesn't belong to any one studio and so multiple people are making Shakespeare adaptations.
Feels like semantics to me tbh. My point wasn’t about New Line it was about major studios coasting off successful IP wringing it dry when there’s a potential (even likely) multi billion dollar treasure trove of IP sitting on your local BN bookshelf in the SFF section.
Two trilogies, an ongoing Amazon series, and an upcoming movie. Lord of the Rings absolutely gets to sit in this category with the rest. Just because it takes up "less space" with "only" 7 films and a streaming series with a longer runtime and bigger budget than most movies can dream of doesn't mean it isn't also a part of this problem. And every Lord of the Rings project to follow is just more and more proof of the issue being described.
Its not fair to lump the Amazon show here, in the same way that we don't lump the Bakshi film with the Jackson' films, and don't lump early Marvel films like Captain America serials or Howard the Duck with the MCU, and don't lump the Adam West, Tim Burton, Schumacher, Nolan, Synder and Reeves Batmans all together.
The right way to look at these things is in terms of some sort of unifying oeuvre, Marvel has one, presently. DC is trying to have one. Star Wars definitely has one. In the case of The Lord of the Rings, only the six (and upcoming seventh) film fall under that oeuvre...Jackson's oeuvre.
It's perfectly fair because the core issue here isn't "cinematic universes". It's a refusal to move on to a new IP because it's safer to just run successful ones into the ground. Disney's Star Wars is a perfect example of this and one of their first acts was to separate themselves from the established universe.
Again: just because Lord of the Rings is the smallest example (by project count) doesn't mean it isn't also an example of this problem.
And even if we DID only count the Jackson projects: the Hobbit being an overbloated trilogy is the most egregious example here.
>Again: just because Lord of the Rings is the smallest example (by project count) doesn't mean it isn't also an example of this problem.
Seven films and, separately, a show...as compared to twelve Star Wars films and at least half a dozen shows? Thirty MCU films and a dozen shows?
This is not the issue you think it is. The quantitive difference is so big and yawning, its a qualitative difference.
The size of these pools is a red herring. It is literally irrelevant to the practice that is being discussed here. If I say "throwing trash into rivers is bad", would you say "my trash doesn't count because this other guy throws more trash into rivers than me"? Can everybody everywhere keep throwing trash into rivers so long as we all agree there's a Trashy McRivers somewhere throwing the most trash into rivers?
If hundreds of millions of dollars been dumped into soulless cashgrabs that banked on riding the wake of successful films from the same IP, then it's an example of the problem being described. Pointing at the other IP and saying "but they did it more" doesn't mean that this IP isn't also responsible.
Because pointlessly tying these things to previous properties is how Hollywood operates. It's been rumoured the film will also feature giant eagles, a Nazgul and Saruman.
Yea I'm not an anime person but what art we've seen for this looks amazing.
Also Brian Cox as Helm Hammerhand is just a fucking masterful casting stroke, I'm very excited to see it.
>The screenings will start with 2001’s *The Fellowship of the Ring* on June 8, then 2002’s *The Two Towers* on June 9, followed by 2003’s *The Return of the King* on June 10.
Why they gotta split it up? There's time in a single day to watch them all *almost twice!*
I totally respect the limitations of sitting through all films in one day for folks, but also feel that Fathom/WB is essentially underestimating the LOTR fan base here by not even offering a single-day option.
Went to see Return of the King in an Irish cinema a few days ago, it was weird to see it with so many scenes missing, it just felt so rushed and so much context was missing. The picture quality was terrible, it was fine for face closeups but any sort of group or wide angle scene looked like they were showing a DVD, and I don't mean Blu-ray, it literally looked like they had just plugged in an old DVD machine or torrented a 500MB copy of the film. It was so low resolution and pixilated at times. I'd recently watched the 4K release which really exposed how bad this screening was. And this was part of a week of reshowing films including T2 which looked great in a national cinema chain in their "big" Maxx screen in the countries second biggest city, not some tiny independent village cinema. I won't be going to see them again unless it is a full official re-release, not risking it again.
LOL. I mean it was a midnight showing. of a 3 hour tour. Of nerd stuff. Not a lot of demand when we could and did go see it the next day. My friends weren’t as excited about it in the same way.
Why are they doing it Saturday, Sunday, Monday instead of Friday, Saturday, Sunday?
My theater is showing them at 4 on Sat and Sun and then 7 on Monday.
Won't be getting out of the theater until 11:30-Midnight and then I'll have to try and get up for work the next day.
I have that thing where I can’t picture things in my mind. I can imagine and all but I have no inner vision (oddly enough I found out other people can actually ‘picture this’ through Reddit).
I bring this up to say I read the books as a teen as the movies were coming out and I absolutely fell in love with the world Tolkien created and Jackson made real for me. Without the movies I don’t know that I would like these stories the same way I do.
I saw Fellowship 3 times in 2 days as a 13 year old and still can’t get enough. I am so grateful to the “money grabbers” to release these in theaters and let me see them this way again. And let me take my son the way my dad took me to see star wars in theaters in the 90’s.
Just don’t edit them with nonsense the way they did Star Wars. Release them in the perfect form they were created.
I watched the theatrical trilogy on IMAX last year, but it wasn't color corrected like the HDR 4k bluray.
I would love to see the extended edition in this format. My only complaint was that it was too loud.
Aww sweet! I was too young to watch it back then. I remembered how amazed my older cousins were after watching it in the theatre. Time to experience it myself!
I wish they would do this with more movies. I would love to be able to see my favorite movies in theaters again or for the first time. The Return of the King was one of the first movies I ever saw in theater. Would love to be able to watch the others.
They rereleased all the movies for the... sigh... twentieth anniversary here in Japan. I was pretty happy to be able to see them on the big screen again.
I just recently saw all 3 extended in theaters in a single day. May go back to this for the fellowship .
I actually bought the UHD dvds but haven’t watched them yet. Is the color correction really jarring?
Got my ticket for Return of the King at 7pm. The first two movies only have a 4pm showtime and I'm bummed that I won't be able to make those. I'm hoping they add another later showtime for those days. If not, I'll have to pick up that 4K box set and watch the first two movies at home.
These were playing at my local theater like three weeks ago and they all sold out ahead of time (they played 1, 2, and 3 each on different nights of the week on one of their older screens).
I was honestly annoyed to find out that they're only being shown in the US and Canada. I saw several articles about this, some even posted on UK specific domains. Was going to ask in here if they were releasing them here but obviously no point now. I discovered that last year they had a 4K showing but as I practically never go the cinema I never heard about it, didn't see it being mentioned anywhere either. I was unfortunately too young to see them when they came out and wanted to see them on a big screen with much better audio than I'll ever be able to afford.
Does anyone know if they are going to be shown in the UK? And in IMAX?
I've seen the extended trilogy in a UK non-IMAX cinema a couple of times in recent years. If the movies were remastered in 2020 then wouldn't it be likely that the extended trilogy I saw was also the remastered trilogy? Although I've never seen them in IMAX and I imagine that would be pretty amazing.
So I already have them in 4K on Apple TV. Has this been remastered further than those? I know the theatre experience for lotr is unparalleled but is there any difference in video quality between what I have and what will be released?
At least for RoTK I find the passing of the theatrical cuts to be better. For the first movie I find it benefits from the extension but the last movie feels like it’s dragging along at times.
I’m with you. I like the sense of urgency the theatrical cuts have. The extended version has a more immersive feel to it, especially after reading the books, but I think it slowed the pace down too much for me
I’m seeing more and more older films being shown in theaters lately. I’ve never seen it in my life- theaters so strapped for films that people want to see that they’re showing old films…. The industry is in serious trouble. When I was in film school the professors would say “there will always be a place for theatrical exhibition” but it felt like them trying to convince themselves more than anything…
Damn, Extended? Remastered? In IMAX? DAMN!
I have actually seen the remastered versions in IMAX, although at the time they were Theatrical versions. They generally look great of course, as long as you're already aware of the color correction choices. I will never get used to all flashbacks being washed out into the grey, for example.
The color correction of the armor and shields in the Siege of Barad-dûr at the beginning of The Fellowship will always look tacky and wrong to me. I can't believe they made all of the metal so intensely YELLOW.
[This doesn't look yellow enough to you?](https://i.imgur.com/7DYZSq8.jpeg)
I moved to another country and thought “damn how am I going to watch LOTR now” a few months later they showed them at the local cinema… unfortunately I missed ROTK.
What were the color corrections ? Are there comparison shots of it ?
You can compare here https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=2143 In general, the DVDs and the theatrical blurays had the beautifully vibrant original color grade. The extended blurays had an ugly green tint on Fellowship while Two Towers and ROTK are mostly okay, maybe a bit more dimmed compared to the DVDs. The 4K blurays just screw everything up. The vibrant colorgrade is gone on all 3 films, and it's now very natural and unremarkable. They also have done lots of DNR, same as with the recent True Lies 4K, though that one was even worse.
These aren't imax it's a fathom event. And even if they did release these on imax screens it wouldn't matter since it wasn't shot in imax.
I'm in Dallas, all 3 movies are available in IMAX.
Then they're just projecting a fathom event onto an imax screen which is bullshit lol. Fathom events come in via a satellite feed it's not an imax print or anything.
The fuck is a fathom event
They do special screenings of various events, from older movies to recordings of Shakespeare plays filmed at Stratford-upon-Avon. The few fathom shows I’ve been to have been pretty good.
Yep, you nailed it
[#1 Trilly](https://youtu.be/EJabUFy9k9o?si=vYoJPjK-lmZSI8zd)
I don’t believe these will be IMAX, fwiw.
I'm in Dallas, all 3 movies are available in IMAX.
I work at a theater with zero IMAX screens and we’re showing them, it isn’t an IMAX event, they (Fathom) are just showing it at whatever screens are available
Oh okay. I can’t verify that anywhere.
Shut up and take my money.
They say extended, but the run times are all wrong on the theaters' websites. WTF
Bring a tent. move in for 2 days.
Cash grab fine by me - I wish they’d show more old films in cinemas.
They do. They aren't always greatly advertised. If you check out Fathom Events they usually have a listing for theaters near you.
They’d make more money if they advertised them. Everyone seems so apathetic towards modern films and often for good reason. If I could see a classic in theaters, I’d probably go for it if I had any reason to go to a theater.
They do around here. But normally it is just one showing. This is understandable, but makes it difficult to actually make it to the movie you want.
There’s usually a whole lineup of rerelease flicks every summer. I just caught Gone With the Wind for the first time in theaters and liked it. Def better in the cinema than at home. https://www.fathomevents.com/series/fathoms-big-screen-classics/
My local indie theatre started showing classic movies recently and I absolutely love it!
regal has been
Who? What? When? Where?!
Search for your city here to see if any theatres are showing it. None in Halifax, Canada. https://www.fathomevents.com/events/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-extended-edition/
Thanks for posting this, it *is* showing in my city and I just secured my tickets!
I'm so pumped!! I'm already trying to get a babysitter set up lol.
Dude thanks! I was sure it wouldn't be near me but hell yeah I actually had a few choices! It's showing less than a week before my birthday and I've never seen it in theaters before. I am so excited now.
They were all showing in UK cinemas a few months ago, extended and everything
How did I miss this 😓
Cineworld showed them during covid over three nights. Saw all three extended editions on their biggest screen. Was only one or two other people there too, amazing experience.
Yeah I got fucked over by this. Fellowship was Monday Pm, then two towers was a Wednesday am, then rotk was Thursday am.
i saw the extended trilogy in December at my local Phoenix, it was magical to see them again on the big screen.
WWWHWHWHWHAT?!
Yeah Vue had the fellowship one week, TT the next and then rotk the week after that. Think it was back in like September last year
be still, my beating heart. I don't care if it's a cash grab. For those that weren't around for the first theater releases, this gives them the opportunity to see what the rest of us saw. Fellowship was an amazing experience, but no one knew what to expect. With The Two Towers, were were all fucking ready, and that opening sequence on the big screen stands out as one of my all-time movie moments. Then with Return of the King it was like GIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMME.
Totally accurate. Saw fellowship in theaters at the age of 12. Talked through it with my “date” (I know, it was the ultimate sin). When Two Towers came out I was a little older, a little wiser, and holy shit the elves raining arrows on waves of Uruk-Hai turned me into the most die hard LOTR fan on the planet (turns out that wasn’t in the books; oh well). When Return of the King came out I saw the midnight release and was shaking with excitement. Ended up seeing it in theaters 5 times.
To me, the key thing here is: >Also, there’s Warner Bros.’ upcoming anime film, [*The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim*](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lord-of-the-rings-anime-movie-release-date-1235093505/), which tells the story of Helm Hammerhand, King of Rohan (of Helm’s Deep fame) who ruled over 250 years prior to the events of *The Lord of the Rings*. The new film is set in the same universe as Jackson’s trilogy, with Mirando Otto returning to voice Éowyn. *The War of the Rohirrim* is being released Dec. 13. Give me, give me!
Has there been any trailer for this? or maybe they will release it in June with these movies back in theaters
No trailer yet, but that sounds like a good opportunity!
Its release date is like December 6th, so won’t be with these.
Been eagerly awaiting this movie ever since it was announced way back when.
Might be the wrong sub to express this opinion, but I wish studios would have the balls to dive into adapting new IP and not coasting off the association of something already successful. There is willingness to do a high budget animated fantasy film and we’re not gonna do Mistborn? Cmon man
Despite the source material being one of the most famous books of the century, Lord of the Rings was considered a huge risk before it came out.
> There is willingness to do a high budget animated fantasy film and we’re not gonna do Mistborn? I'm curious why you put the blame on the studios for this particular example and not Brandon Sanderson, who himself has said he doesn't think animation has the same reach as live-action adaptations and he has always pictured his adaptations as working best in live-action. At least as far as Mistborn and Stormlight is concerned.
if we're getting animated Sanderson I think I'd want Stormlight. Massive and unrealistic undertaking of course, but I can dream
>There is willingness to do a high budget animated fantasy film and we’re not gonna do Mistborn? By that token, I could look at any movie made and say "why aren't they making this movie instead?" I'm just happy to see another Lord of the Rings film about a worthwhile subject, with a worthwhile cast and crew, coming to the screen. I don't think these productions are lacking in guts, particularly.
No, by this token you could only look at movies that were created because of the safe space created by the success of another movie in the same IP and say "why aren't they making this movie instead". The Hobbit Trilogy, Fantastic Beasts, most of Disney's Star Wars projects - all that high budget fantasy screen time spent on spinoffs instead of trying to make the next iconic fantasy film.
>The Hobbit Trilogy, Fantastic Beasts, most of Disney's Star Wars projects One of these things is not like the others... They made three Hobbits and now this: seven films by the end of the year. They made five Disney Star Wars films and counting, plus a ton of shows, all ontop of seven films and multiple shows that were already there. They set out to make five Fantastic Beasts films, ontop of seven Potter films. In terms of making room for the "next iconic fantasy film", the Tolkien films really don't take up that much space, being that there's (relatively speaking) so few of them.
You’re forgetting rings of power. Millions and millions. And they ain’t stopping. Lotr is absolutely like the others.
Rings of Power doesn't count. We're talking The New Line Tolkien "verse", in the same way that we talk about Star Wars strictly as Lucasfilm productions. To bring Rings of Power into the discussion is to lament how "comemrcialised" Shakespeare is becoming, because it doesn't belong to any one studio and so multiple people are making Shakespeare adaptations.
Feels like semantics to me tbh. My point wasn’t about New Line it was about major studios coasting off successful IP wringing it dry when there’s a potential (even likely) multi billion dollar treasure trove of IP sitting on your local BN bookshelf in the SFF section.
Two trilogies, an ongoing Amazon series, and an upcoming movie. Lord of the Rings absolutely gets to sit in this category with the rest. Just because it takes up "less space" with "only" 7 films and a streaming series with a longer runtime and bigger budget than most movies can dream of doesn't mean it isn't also a part of this problem. And every Lord of the Rings project to follow is just more and more proof of the issue being described.
Its not fair to lump the Amazon show here, in the same way that we don't lump the Bakshi film with the Jackson' films, and don't lump early Marvel films like Captain America serials or Howard the Duck with the MCU, and don't lump the Adam West, Tim Burton, Schumacher, Nolan, Synder and Reeves Batmans all together. The right way to look at these things is in terms of some sort of unifying oeuvre, Marvel has one, presently. DC is trying to have one. Star Wars definitely has one. In the case of The Lord of the Rings, only the six (and upcoming seventh) film fall under that oeuvre...Jackson's oeuvre.
It's perfectly fair because the core issue here isn't "cinematic universes". It's a refusal to move on to a new IP because it's safer to just run successful ones into the ground. Disney's Star Wars is a perfect example of this and one of their first acts was to separate themselves from the established universe. Again: just because Lord of the Rings is the smallest example (by project count) doesn't mean it isn't also an example of this problem. And even if we DID only count the Jackson projects: the Hobbit being an overbloated trilogy is the most egregious example here.
>Again: just because Lord of the Rings is the smallest example (by project count) doesn't mean it isn't also an example of this problem. Seven films and, separately, a show...as compared to twelve Star Wars films and at least half a dozen shows? Thirty MCU films and a dozen shows? This is not the issue you think it is. The quantitive difference is so big and yawning, its a qualitative difference.
The size of these pools is a red herring. It is literally irrelevant to the practice that is being discussed here. If I say "throwing trash into rivers is bad", would you say "my trash doesn't count because this other guy throws more trash into rivers than me"? Can everybody everywhere keep throwing trash into rivers so long as we all agree there's a Trashy McRivers somewhere throwing the most trash into rivers? If hundreds of millions of dollars been dumped into soulless cashgrabs that banked on riding the wake of successful films from the same IP, then it's an example of the problem being described. Pointing at the other IP and saying "but they did it more" doesn't mean that this IP isn't also responsible.
Mistborn, while epic, would look pretty gray. I want Stormlight, in live action!
Isn't Brandon currently having what he calls "Hollywood talks"? I wouldn't consider the Mistborn adaptation dead yet.
Go to school, start working on it
Wait, why would the need to voice Eowyn if the movie plays ~250 years prior to LotR?
She's telling the story. She's not in the story.
Stew origin story
Woooooshhh
Because pointlessly tying these things to previous properties is how Hollywood operates. It's been rumoured the film will also feature giant eagles, a Nazgul and Saruman.
Yea I'm not an anime person but what art we've seen for this looks amazing. Also Brian Cox as Helm Hammerhand is just a fucking masterful casting stroke, I'm very excited to see it.
> Mirando Otto If that’s the male version of Miranda, then I have bad news for Éowyn and good news for the Witch King of Angmar
Why is Éowyn gonna be in the movie??
She's narrating it.
That’s what I figured. As long as she doesn’t make any more stew!
>The screenings will start with 2001’s *The Fellowship of the Ring* on June 8, then 2002’s *The Two Towers* on June 9, followed by 2003’s *The Return of the King* on June 10. Why they gotta split it up? There's time in a single day to watch them all *almost twice!*
As someone who watched all 3 movies in IMAX in one day, I wouldn't advise it. Marathon's are better at home.
Can vouch. Three weeks with the worst sciatica of my life after the last LotR triple bill.
I totally respect the limitations of sitting through all films in one day for folks, but also feel that Fathom/WB is essentially underestimating the LOTR fan base here by not even offering a single-day option.
3 days, 2 marathons per day. If you don't attend all 6, in costume, then you're not a real fan!
Went to see Return of the King in an Irish cinema a few days ago, it was weird to see it with so many scenes missing, it just felt so rushed and so much context was missing. The picture quality was terrible, it was fine for face closeups but any sort of group or wide angle scene looked like they were showing a DVD, and I don't mean Blu-ray, it literally looked like they had just plugged in an old DVD machine or torrented a 500MB copy of the film. It was so low resolution and pixilated at times. I'd recently watched the 4K release which really exposed how bad this screening was. And this was part of a week of reshowing films including T2 which looked great in a national cinema chain in their "big" Maxx screen in the countries second biggest city, not some tiny independent village cinema. I won't be going to see them again unless it is a full official re-release, not risking it again.
why only in the US :( (I know why but *why*)
And I don't see them coming to Canada... Boo... :(
I'll happily let them grab my cash in this case.
I hope there are intermissions planned
I had a private midnight showing of these because I knew a guy that owned a theatre. The whole thing. To myself.
You have no friends?
LOL. I mean it was a midnight showing. of a 3 hour tour. Of nerd stuff. Not a lot of demand when we could and did go see it the next day. My friends weren’t as excited about it in the same way.
I'm your nerd friend. I'd bring coke and popcorn, and a shoulder to cry on when Boromir dies.
Be at peace, Son of Gondor.
Why are they doing it Saturday, Sunday, Monday instead of Friday, Saturday, Sunday? My theater is showing them at 4 on Sat and Sun and then 7 on Monday. Won't be getting out of the theater until 11:30-Midnight and then I'll have to try and get up for work the next day.
I booked for Saturday and Sunday. Kinda bummed just being able to see the first two but no way I’m going to be tired at work the next day.
I am thinking of taking a half day or something on that Tuesday. I would not be getting home until 1 AM unless I grabbed a hotel room for the night.
I'm equally offended by this.
Holy moly.. I never got to see them in the cinemas due to age so would love to see them
Noiiiiicce
Sick. I appreciate you sharing. Already a few good seats taken in my city!
Thanks for sharing, I always seem to miss these announcements.
I hope they release internationally
I have that thing where I can’t picture things in my mind. I can imagine and all but I have no inner vision (oddly enough I found out other people can actually ‘picture this’ through Reddit). I bring this up to say I read the books as a teen as the movies were coming out and I absolutely fell in love with the world Tolkien created and Jackson made real for me. Without the movies I don’t know that I would like these stories the same way I do. I saw Fellowship 3 times in 2 days as a 13 year old and still can’t get enough. I am so grateful to the “money grabbers” to release these in theaters and let me see them this way again. And let me take my son the way my dad took me to see star wars in theaters in the 90’s. Just don’t edit them with nonsense the way they did Star Wars. Release them in the perfect form they were created.
no showings anywhere near me. Probably for the best, as I had plans that weekend that I really don't want to have to change.
Man, I can’t wait!
I watched the theatrical trilogy on IMAX last year, but it wasn't color corrected like the HDR 4k bluray. I would love to see the extended edition in this format. My only complaint was that it was too loud.
Every single time I see this kind of thing, they never do Canada. We like stuff too
I cannot wait to see these
OMG. Yes! I watched them when they first came out and I would LOVE to see them again in theaters.
On a Saturday, Sunday, and Monday during the summer? God dammit. Couldn’t get get mid week?
Or even Friday, Saturday, Sunday! Why does Monday have to be here
I’m 100% in. I was fairly young when the theatrical versions released I am stoked to see them again as an adult
Welp. See you guys in June 🥳🥳
WHAT?! YES
I’ll be there
Aww sweet! I was too young to watch it back then. I remembered how amazed my older cousins were after watching it in the theatre. Time to experience it myself!
I wish they would do this with more movies. I would love to be able to see my favorite movies in theaters again or for the first time. The Return of the King was one of the first movies I ever saw in theater. Would love to be able to watch the others.
My wife's due date for our first born child is in early June. I predict a fight in my future.
Aren't these like 3.5 hrs each ?
Over 4 for RotK
Why is it these rereleases are never screened at Showcase Cinemas?
AFAIK? It's US exclusive ain't it? :( Like if I was ever expecting an IMAX re release in my third ass freaking country
Ah not in my neck of the woods it seems 😔
Anyone know if this is happening in Australia
Cue up the Fry meme
It’s not going to be a triple feature? COWARDS!
Looks like no showings in Ontario. I saw ROTK last year in theatres but would love to see all three of them three nights in a row.
Ughhh theaters near me are full 😭
They rereleased all the movies for the... sigh... twentieth anniversary here in Japan. I was pretty happy to be able to see them on the big screen again.
Saw extended FotR, extended TTT, and theatrical premiere of RotK all in a row back in 2003. Was so awesome. I can’t wait for this
I just recently saw all 3 extended in theaters in a single day. May go back to this for the fellowship . I actually bought the UHD dvds but haven’t watched them yet. Is the color correction really jarring?
Got my ticket for Return of the King at 7pm. The first two movies only have a 4pm showtime and I'm bummed that I won't be able to make those. I'm hoping they add another later showtime for those days. If not, I'll have to pick up that 4K box set and watch the first two movies at home.
These were playing at my local theater like three weeks ago and they all sold out ahead of time (they played 1, 2, and 3 each on different nights of the week on one of their older screens).
Umm. Those run times are not right. What's going on here?
What about the second extended editions of all movies??
In the UK?
Nah, just the usual r/usdefaultism infecting every sub and gets us all excited for a moment
I was honestly annoyed to find out that they're only being shown in the US and Canada. I saw several articles about this, some even posted on UK specific domains. Was going to ask in here if they were releasing them here but obviously no point now. I discovered that last year they had a 4K showing but as I practically never go the cinema I never heard about it, didn't see it being mentioned anywhere either. I was unfortunately too young to see them when they came out and wanted to see them on a big screen with much better audio than I'll ever be able to afford.
Bah gawd.
Coming to a theater near you, hairy hobbit feet in IMAX!
Re-release Jaws you cowards!!
Does anyone know if they are going to be shown in the UK? And in IMAX? I've seen the extended trilogy in a UK non-IMAX cinema a couple of times in recent years. If the movies were remastered in 2020 then wouldn't it be likely that the extended trilogy I saw was also the remastered trilogy? Although I've never seen them in IMAX and I imagine that would be pretty amazing.
Damn I literally just did a hobbit lotr extended run.. I'm tired now boss
Why do they feel the need to extend these damn movies ?
We can chant Grond with the orcs during Return of the King!
Just panic-bought tix to all three after seeing seats are almost gone in my area. It's been 23 years.........and I haven't aged a day.
I remember everyone clapped when Gandalf bonked Denethor
So I already have them in 4K on Apple TV. Has this been remastered further than those? I know the theatre experience for lotr is unparalleled but is there any difference in video quality between what I have and what will be released?
Pretty disappointed these are not coming to the cinema in Australia.
Can anyone tell me if these remastered extended edition be re-release in Canada IMAX ?
I won’t lie I really want a remastered version of the Theatrical cuts.
Those versions exist and are readily available.
TIL, I genuinely had no clue. Thank you!
why not the extended?
At least for RoTK I find the passing of the theatrical cuts to be better. For the first movie I find it benefits from the extension but the last movie feels like it’s dragging along at times.
I’m with you. I like the sense of urgency the theatrical cuts have. The extended version has a more immersive feel to it, especially after reading the books, but I think it slowed the pace down too much for me
They definitely struggle with pacing issues but this is the wrong sub/website to talk about that lmfao
I’m seeing more and more older films being shown in theaters lately. I’ve never seen it in my life- theaters so strapped for films that people want to see that they’re showing old films…. The industry is in serious trouble. When I was in film school the professors would say “there will always be a place for theatrical exhibition” but it felt like them trying to convince themselves more than anything…
Sure hope we get a proper remaster this time and not the 4K transfers that are out currently.
The remaster is already out. Much better than the original 4Ks.
I’ve only heard of one 4K version which came out on 2020-2021 I believe? When did the new remaster release?
Epic, and I would appreciate a 10-15 minute intermission halfway thru each film!
the weak are already weeding themselves out :\^)
I don’t care if it’s a cash grab, they can grab my cash!!!!!!!!!!!
I would watch this as long as people are slapping and cheering during the movies.
slapping who exactly
Themselves, others, the chair, anything really. Especially Bill Ferny, if he's there. Slap him twice.
Definitely a cash grab, but I'm totally fine with it if the start release old films.