Documentaries Cover the Filming Process, Visual Effects, Editing, Music and Sound, and a Touching Tribute as Cast Members Bid Farewell to Middle-earth and the Characters They Played.

As for The Two Towers, here Sam and Frodo meet Gollum, and Merry and Pippen are stuck with Treebeard (Rhys-Davies) and Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Gandalf (now the White) help Theoden (Bernard Hill) reclaim his soul from Grima Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) and protect his people from an assault on his retreat fortress – Helm’s Deep. Many departments videotaped all they could, from early design meetings to location scouting to the building of the sets, miniatures and creatures.There is a sense of scale here that is unparalleled – you’d have to go back fifty years to see someone attempt something of this scale, but the freedom of digital technology means that it’s not just panning across thousands of people, but swooping from up high, and going everywhere. The fact that the material has been repurposed makes it no less fascinating or necessary to a complete understanding of the films. Also in this section is a still gallery for Abandoned Concepts, featuring the talked about Slime Balrog. Tolkien’s Middle-earth won 4 Academy Awards®* and earned 13 total nominations including Best Picture. Disc Four is “The Appendices, Part IV — The Battle for Middle-Earth Begins” and beings with an introduction from Elijah Wood (1 min.

It’s still not perfect, it’s still not demo-quality, but, apart from the up-in-the-air colour timing issue, it is still better than fans have ever had before. and it reveals the labor that went into the film's 1,488 special-effects shots, more than the two previous films combined. Sign Up for free (or Log In if you already have an account) to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts.Looking back, with the other films finished, it stands apart as certainly the least polished of the trilogy, but to start out a story with this much bang was just what the series needed. I found myself noticing sweat and the texture of paper - all the little things that pop with a great transfer.

The other two movies in the trilogy never really sparked up as much controversy in terms of video presentation – they have always been of better quality than the first instalment, so much so that newly remastered transfers were never really required, and don’t appear to have been struck for this release. It’s difficult to give an overall score for the video presentation of the trilogy here, as we have yet to discern the implications of the colour timing changes on Fellowship. All the supplements are the same, and they include everything from the four disc sets previously released, along with the Costa Botes documentaries – the ones issued with the two-disc EE sets.The second is the more standard "making-of," where they cover the difficulties involved in making the picture (especially the money sequences), though producer Barrie Osborne does mention that since all three were shot at the same time, it's sometimes hard to differentiate between what was for what. That's the one thing that I hated about the DVD version was that you had to switch discs midway through the movie and have hoped they fixed it on the Blu-ray release even though I hear the blu-ray is also 2 disc. S. Lewis, while it also suggests how his time in World War I as a soldier influenced the book (especially the dead marshes sequence). But in finally seeing the sequence, it's easy to see why it was excised; though it caps off two characters who were prominent in the last film, their fates don't really advance the plot that much and the movie already has too much to cover before the battle for Minis Tirith. Howard Shore's thematic, rousing score is pervasive throughout, reminding us of the hope and courage of the band of heroes in this film as they fight (and largely overcome) all odds, often by the skin of their teeth.

It’s not like Fellowship suddenly looked like The Matrix; the green tone tended to be pretty light, and the movie already used a stylized palette. Tolkien's much-heralded literary creation details the journey of young hobbit Frodo Baggins to keep the Dark Lord Sauron from acquiring . And it’s not like this is the only film where we have seen this kind of treatment – movies across the last decade, from Aliens to The Matrix, have all had varying levels of colour correction and colour timing changes applied. Four Hobbits (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd) join up with a Dwarf (John Rhys-Davies) an Elf (Orlando Bloom), a wizard (Ian McKellan) and two humans (Sean Bean, Viggo Mortensen) to destroy a ring that controls the fate of the world. From the origins of the rings, to the splitting of a group of kindred spirits who set out to free the world, from humble beginnings to great expectations.I shall move on to discuss and dissect each individual movie’s presentation, including reference to the colour-timing issues which have themselves led to a massive internet debate. War led to the defeat of Sauron, though the greed, treachery, and lust for power of mankind prevented its destruction, and soon after, it was lost for over two thousand years. His unique approach to storytelling--allowing the footage to speak for itself--results in an intimate and candid backstage pass to the challenges, preparations and camaraderie that went into shooting the timeless trilogy.