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Are you looking forward to adding these long awaited 4K versions of Jackson’s classic Middle-earth trilogies to your collection. But here’s the thing: I’ve been reviewing Blu-ray and DVD quality professionally now for twenty-three years on The Digital Bits, and 4K Ultra HD quality for the last four of those years. And, we’d be remiss not to mention the soundtrack by Howard Shore (that in some respects is just as memorable as the film) that takes viewers on a journey just as the visuals and dialogue do. Classics like Lawrence of Arabia and the Hitchcock collection all the way down to every last Rambo and Resident Evil were 4K’d in 2020, not to mention video games, TV shows, and Top Gun to boot.
Harmony Korine's Aggro Dr1ft aspires to be a new kind of post-movie non-film, but for something featuring a neon-orange Travis Scott on a speedboat full of mercenaries in demon masks, it's just boring. Meanwhile, Aragorn and company enter the horse realm of Rohan, whose king has fallen under Saruman’s spell. The sounds in the forest, especially that of a tree (fairly early in) are downright monstrous in terms of bass and the amount of height and rear channel usage. When the Fellowship attempts to cross the Caradhras mountains now, the sky is a perfect high-altitude electric blue. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy on 4k Blu-ray (as well as in Digital 4k) may be the biggest 4k upgrade of the year.I’ll mention some things specific to those but for the most part, this will be generalized to the whole trilogy itself. We just mentioned The Mines of Moria where there is so much more image to see, but there is also more to hear.
In the first film especially I felt that the original music sounded so much ethereal at times, which is very impressive and a dramatic change-up in mixes that can be extremely intense for the most part. If I distinguish between all the cards, the configurations are all equivalent: None of them is more or less particular than others. In fact, as briefly mentioned, the color timing here feels to have been heavily corrected on a level, in comparison to the original Blu-ray releases, that adds so much more to the presentation. Let me get really, really, really technical, for a bit longer than usual here as I’ll be spanning across 9 discs, in regards to the 4K UHD Blu-ray Discs themselves here for this set.All changes were for the better, in cinematic narrative, and quite simply we are unlikely to ever see its like again. All of the film’s upsampled VFX material is lovely too—obviously the VFX weren’t originally produced in 4K resolution, so they’re not quite as detailed as the OCN and some shots have a very slight digitally-processed look, but they still match up well. Each one of these three films, in either their theatrical or extended version, proves to be pure “demo material” from start to finish. This is Dolby Atmos at its absolute finest and one of the most impressive sets of mixes in the sound format that I have heard to date.
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