(2023-01-09, 09:53 AM)Stamper Wrote: I had all but given up on the LOTR saga due to Blu-ray blandness and messing up, but I recently stumbled in a case on the old french DVDs and put them on for a spin, and I was surprised to find they are localised with french titles (for all theatrical cuts).
I found the DVD box set of the Special Editions, so will watch them this week to check if they have french titles too.
Those old DVDs are the way the original masters were before the Blu blunder, so I guess they represent how they looked in the theaters.

I have Chinese bootleg DVDs of the Limited Edition (Theatrical + Extended) that have no bonuses, but they have DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete audio for the Extended Editions.
Until good fan restorations appear for the Extended Editions, I will be sticking to my Chinese Limited Edition bootleg DVDs.

Thank God for being born Chinese in the Philippines, where bootlegs run rampant to this day.
The DVD was a gift from my uncle for my 10th birthday in 2010.

What’s funny with the DVD is that the title at the front is Japanese, but the spine is in Chinese, and the discs don’t have Japanese dubs or subs, but there are Chinese subs.

Interesting! So I checked, and the extended versions french DVDs also have the titles and credits in French.
Now I need to check the Blu-ray to see if this was ported or not.

(2023-01-09, 09:53 AM)Stamper Wrote: I had all but given up on the LOTR saga due to Blu-ray blandness and messing up, but I recently stumbled in a case on the old french DVDs and put them on for a spin, and I was surprised to find they are localised with french titles (for all theatrical cuts).
I found the DVD box set of the Special Editions, so will watch them this week to check if they have french titles too.
Those old DVDs are the way the original masters were before the Blu blunder, so I guess they represent how they looked in the theaters.

FOTR was not graded before it hit theaters on first run, looked terrible

(2023-01-26, 11:50 AM)Stamper Wrote: Interesting! So I checked, and the extended versions french DVDs also have the titles and credits in French.
Now I need to check the Blu-ray to see if this was ported or not.

I don't have the French BD box set (I'm French, but I hate it when titles are localised, so I imported the movies from the UK), but I asked a friend and he said that the titles were also in French on the Blu-ray set.