From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 12/29/2025 7:25 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:   
   > On 12/29/2025 5:42 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   >> On 12/29/2025 9:13 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> What did you watch?   
   >>>   
   >> Over the last couple of weeks I worked my way thru all 12 of the Peter   
   >> Jackson Middle-Earth Extended Edition movies.  Well, technically 6   
   >> movies but each one was ~4 hours long with the additions and had to be   
   >> split between two BR discs.   
   >>   
   >> I watched the 6 Hobbit movies first, then the six Ring movies.  I   
   >> think the Hobbit movies were better.  By the end of the Ring movies I   
   >> just didn't care anymore.   
   >   
   > I don't recall the Hobbit movies being better, but I do recall liking   
   > all three of them.   
   >   
   > But now I have the 18 DVDs of extras to fast-   
   >> forward through for behind the scenes screencaps to make....   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > I plan on watching the two trilogies in a couple of years.  I will   
   > probably just watch the extended movies and not go anywhere near the   
   > extras.  Between owning the DVDs, blu-rays, and now 4K discs I don't   
   > think I've ever watched any of the extras.  I'm not even sure if I've   
   > listened to any of the umpteen commentary tracks on the discs.  It's   
   > just so over whelming I'm not even going to bother to try.   
      
   But!  But!  But, you _LOVE_ all those extras stuff!!!!!   
      
   Hee hee.  Ya, I finished the first of the extras discs and they're going   
   to cover _every fricking detail_ of making the trilogies.  How they   
   tracked down the two most famous Middle Earth artists, how many copies   
   of every costume for every extra they made and how they were stitched,   
   where every location shot is in New Zealand, how they found Hobbiton,   
   the PreViz process, etc, etc, etc.   
      
   You must suffer thru them with me!!!!   
      
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   dirty old man.   
      
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