btornado's Journal: 2 EXCELLENT DVDs

So I got Attack of the Clones (AOTC) and The Lord of the Rings extended edition (LOTR:EE) yesterday on dvd. I must say (and I knew it before), that these two dvds are excellent. First of all, I was eagerly anticipating AOTC on DVD because it was SOOO much better than The Phantom Menace, Natalie Portman is bitchin hot, and plus it's just Star Wars. The day has finally come :).

But the we have LOTR:EE. Man if this DVD doesn't have the most amount of extras, then I don't know what does (actually, the Pearl Harbor Vista Series might have this much). First of all, the movie is slightly longer than 3 hours, then there are 4 commentaries, so that's 15 hours right there. (3 hours (movie) + 3*4). Then there are at least six or seven more hours of bonus material on the 3rd and 4th discs, totally a whopping 21-22 hours of material. WOW.

The packaging for the LOTR:EE is totally awesome. It's made of thick cardboard (this is REAL cardboard), and then there is a little pack that contains the 4 DVDs. It all unfolds and looks very nice when laid out. It has a nice booklet with a map of the menus so you can find your way around (there's that much stuff!), plus a free ticket to The Two Towers! All in all, this package is over an inch thick. It's wonderful.

I had some problems with my copy of LOTR:EE that I got from DVDEmpire.com. The second disc would have a very hard time loading, and when it finally loaded, it was very jumpy and skippy. All the other discs worked fine. So today I went to Borders to see if I could exchange it there. Fortunately for me, they let me. I've actually done this 3 times now; having to exchange a defective DVD that I didn't buy there. I just tell them that I lost my receipt. But this new copy works great. I still haven't even watched the movie yet. I've mainly been going through the extras on AOTC before tackling LOTR:EE. It's gonna take me about a week to get through all of the material, but it'll be great doing it.