{"id":6289,"date":"2004-09-27T07:47:06","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/27\/two-hundred-and-fifty-minutes.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:30:42","slug":"two_hundred_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/27\/two_hundred_and.html","title":{"rendered":"Two &#8230; hundred &#8230; and fifty &#8230; minutes &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specs on the <em><strong>Return of the King<\/strong> Super-Duper Iridium Extended Ultimate Edition (With Bonus Tracks For Her Pleasure)<\/em> are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lordoftherings.net\/homevideo\/homevideo.html\" target=\"_blank\">out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <em>over four hours <\/em>of RotK goodness.  Add in the four commentary tracks, and you could spend nearly a full day just watching the movie, let alone the extra discs with extra stuff.  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