Posted by Scott Bubar on August 12, 2001 at 10:01:54:
In Reply to: Is posted by Rich/Mohican Press on August 12, 2001 at 08:29:24:
Was trying to find out about the "other" DVD. Clicked on the little LOTM icon at your review that takes you to Amazon.
They had nine "You may also be interested in these items..." movies.
You have to understand, I have purchased very few movies for myself over the years and generally speaking rarely want to see a movie twice.
But out of the half dozen or so I own, two of them are among the Amazon nine--The Patriot, and Rob Roy. I have a third, rented, sitting in my living room for later--Lawrence of Arabia--perhaps my all-time favorite movie though I generally have no great desire to rewatch it.
This of course isn't counting LOTM itself. I went to buy the tape a few months ago, but the store only had the DVD version. I recalled your review and looking about realized the future belong to DVDs, so I held off getting LOTM until I finally picked up a DVD player.
When I got it, I almost picked up yet another movie that is among the Amazon nine--Gladiator. But my son said he'd seen it enough for the time being (we'd been renting the tape--he's more into the movie than I am, but it could grow on me).
While I was there, I clicked on the customer reviews. They weren't favorable, to put it mildly. Perhaps you should put a link to your review over there. I like the director's cut myself. I do wish they offered both versions in the set, and it would be nice if you could have a choice of letterbox or "TV" format, but otherwise no complaints.
: Oh, a note on the Bloopers: The bus blooper is only visible, for some strange reason, on THX versions of the video, not on the original video release. It's also seen in the 35mm Theatrical Release of the film, the laser disk, and the DVD (both versions) ... Weird!