In the producer track, we hear about the infamous car (which was removed), removed footage that didn't work For the week that ended on March 20th, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment's The Croods: A New Age topped both the Blu-ray-only and overall packaged media charts for the fourth week in a row, with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's Monster Hunter coming in second . If all three films in this set looked like this, you wouldn't hear any complaints from any reviewer. The internet would soon become loaded with screenshots, comparisons, all sorts of science analyzing this first film in the set to the point where the improvements in the video became secondary to the puzzling "greenness" of it all.

For separate evaluations of each film's new Dolby Atmos audio mix, please see their individual listings. As far as I can tell, this is all of the available special features disks with the exception of the one exclusive to the expensive collectors edition.What did Peter Jackson or Andrew Lesnie intend for the video to look like, and did they have a hand? For this review, I went back and compared the new Extended Edition of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' to its Theatrical Edition counterpart, especially in scenes that I found to be. With Gandalf and the rest of the Fellowship, their struggle is to survive, to continue fighting against immeasurable odds, facing death with every battle head on, and accepting fate, rather than fearing it.

If I understand correctly, the blu rays are similar to the dvd extended editions released originally, and the remastered ones change the colour to look more like the theatrical releases.

The Two Towers' - It's fun to see the Elven rope gag between Sam and Frodo, even if the scene accomplishes nothing, while the Merry and Pippin extension with their Uruk-Hai captors is unnecessarily added, bringing nothing of note to the table.

The random darkness of the film also got to me, especially when Gandalf first knocks on Bilbo's door, as that shot looks the same on this release as it would if you watched the Theatrical Blu-ray wearing sunglasses, and that isn't even an exaggeration.

As with Part I, this is essentially a "down to the last detail" duplicate of The Appendices, Part 2: From Vision to Reality disc in the previous Extended Edition DVD release. The snow on the ground and the second breakfast sketch do not match the rest of the scenes and where slam dunked in. It's my opinion that The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, in this long form, is an achievement unmatched in the history of cinema. These menus were hand-crafted by the same production crew that worked on the film, so it's a treat to have them in ever better quality.

It was blasphemy that a world class actor like Lee was ever cut from an entire film, so seeing his fate is worth the five minutes it takes. Beyond Wood, there are some solid performances, particularly from David Wenham, and the underrated John Noble (recognizable most these days from his great character in ' Fringe').Artifacting and banding are nowhere to be found in this nearly five hour cut, and skin tones are constantly pitch perfect. Well if the new remastered discs revise The palette for LOR, arguably the revised green on these discs are just as unwelcome. Soon enough, these treefolk wage war against the man that has been pulverizing their ranks for some time, and reek serious vengeance upon their industrial counterparts, with actions very befitting of nature dominating over manmade creation.