Lord of the Rings Home Marathons? 120
Pepebuho asks: "Given that LOTR 3 is out, how many of you have staged Home LOTR Marathons? How long did they take? Was it fun or did everybody fell asleep by the middle of the Return of the King?"
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
Waiting for extended version (Score:5, Insightful)
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But then, I'm the person who hasn't seen the cinematic edition of any of them.
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But yeah, It was kind of expensive... Might want to rent it instead...
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About a month. (Score:3, Interesting)
gotta wait till november... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:gotta wait till november... (Score:4, Funny)
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Geeks in diapers drinking beer.
And people wonder why the slashdot crowd might not be scoring with the honeys. =)
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This should add another dimension to the films by accurately reproducing the ambient smells of Mordor.
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Trilogy Tuesday (Score:1)
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I survived Trilogy Tuesday!
I'm planning to rent a copy of RoTK for a friend that hasn't seen it yet (was out of the country) but I'm not buying it until the extended version comes out.
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and those of us that work are waiting until this november and doing an Extended Weekend :P
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And memory from that day that sticks the longest was the massive boo-ing that occurred during the Mask 2 preview (which I haven't seen since)... turning towards the New Line Rep, and seeing them taking furious notes on a clipboard.
Nephilium
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a gold
Re:Trilogy Tuesday (Score:2)
> turning towards the New Line Rep, and seeing them taking furious notes on a clipboard.
They got away with just *notes?* You sorry bastards missed a perfect opportunity.
[door to studio exec's office opens and in walks the press flack from the premiere. He has been "tarred & feathered" with a noxious mixture of melted Milk Duds, nacho cheese, and rancid popcorn.]
Exec: So how was the premiere? Did they go ape for the "Mask 2" trailer? [he looks up] Jesus! What happened to you?!
Flack [weakly]: Well
Re:Trilogy Tuesday (Score:2)
Let me tell you, after waking up at four in the morning, standing all morning in the cold Denver weather, and then watching 12 hours of LotR, seeing Shelob come after Frodo was bloody scary. When I got home, my wife asked me how the movie was. Apparently, the only thing I said before crashing into bed was, "It was good. Spiders are frightening. Shelob was huge."
I enjoyed RotK much more the second time, when my senses weren't numbed by sleep d
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That's Impossible! (Score:5, Funny)
That's impossible!
Since clearly all of Slashdot has boycotted buying DVD's due to the rampant evil of the MPAA...
</sarcasm>
- Neil Wehneman
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Flamebait? (Score:5, Funny)
(-1, Capitalist Whore) perhaps.
But not Flamebait
- Neil Wehneman
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DVD & Cinema Marathon (Score:5, Interesting)
Need I tell you fellowship & towers were the extended editions?
He who hosted the marathon had access to a digital projector - thankfully he also had a spare, large white wall to watch everything on. Someone brought along the extended editions of fellowship and towers, and we were off. Well, after about two hours of Mario Kart: Double Dash, that is. To warm up the projector. Yeah.
In the end, sweets were consumed, chips were pulverised, bottles were emptied, LOTR was watched, fun was had. Something like 10am till about 1am all up.
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Daniel
Glittering Prizes!!! (Score:1)
Down here, everybody who went to the 11-hr marathon got a plastic display doohickey containing one cell from each movie. Cool.
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They also did a Kill Bill marathon on the opening day of Volume 2, and that one I did go to. There must not be enough geeks around here, because the Volume 1 screening was before a less than half full theater.
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LOTR Marathon... HECK YEAH!! (Score:1)
Friends? (Score:4, Funny)
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The TRUE fans.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Needless to say, I'm not a "true fan".
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I didn't mind that - the Quenta Silmarillion doesn't really have all that much of an effect on LotR. I was a little annoyed that the whole Akallabeth got left out, though.
Now I'm just hoping that after they get around to filming The Hobbit they consider the tale of Turin Turambar for the next Tolkien project. I would love to see Glaurung at the sack of Nargothrond on screen.
Re:The TRUE fans.. (Score:2)
I agree. Without that part of the tale told in full, it's pretty damned hard to understand Sauron's whole motivation. I mean, how are we supposed to empathize with Sauron when we don't understand where he's coming from?
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That's a serious LotR marathon. Start with "The Hobbit" on Monday night and polish off "The Return of the King" by Sunday.
-Peter
Re:The TRUE fans.. (Score:2)
God, it's taken me the better part of a year to even get through LotR, and I'm STILL not done with it.
Of course, I'm only reading it on the toilet, but still...
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-Peter
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Don't forget The Two Towers: The Purist Edit [wikipedia.org].
--Phil (Annoying Tolkien purist)
Um. No. (Score:5, Interesting)
It's like Star Wars. I don't quite understand the desire to watch it 500 times. I have watched four of the five StarWars movies in my life time and I know what happens in them. Why would I want to see them a second time? If I'm going to spend another 10 hours in front of the television, it's at least going to be with NEW movies.
Not to be a curmudgeon. I honestly have never understood people who claim to have seen a film 5, 10, 20, 50 times.
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Try being out in the middle of nowhere, with no movie theaters or television stations, with a VCR and a few prerecorded tapes. Your entertainment choices are limited to listening to shortwave radio or watching a movie for the Nth time.
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Some pretty funny stuff in there. And Jennifer Runyon, of course. :-)
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--FilmGuru
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I take it you dont own any dvd's, just rent them from netflix or wherever?
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People still don't believe me there looks like there is a constellation of stars looking like a dog in the space cloudes of "godfellas".
Re:Um. No. (Score:4, Funny)
Why listen to the same song more than once? Why eat the same type of meal more than once? Why have sex with the same person more than once?
BECAUSE IT IS ENJOYABLE YOU MORON.
I don't like Star Wars but I've watched Metropolis (Fritz Lang) a dozen times. I still enjoy watching it even though I know every single scene by heart.
If people enjoy watching LOTR ten times then let them. Don't be a dickhead and make them feel bad about it.
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You can quote an entire movie line by line and I'm the moron. Christ...
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Your comment "You can quote an entire movie
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Metropolis is a silent movie.
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Even in real life: have you ever wanted to pause and really think it over? Now, a good movie can be like that but a lot faster.
So, yes, there is a point in watching a movie more than once, given it contain a little more then dancing colors on a (65"?) widescreen.
Re:Um. No. (Score:2)
Um... obviously *not*...
A.
Re:Um. No. (Score:1)
Well, it depends on the movie. I never understood why anyone would watch something like Something's Gotta Give even once.
But a movie like The Godfather, or Rashomon, or The Seventh Seal? That's altogether different. There's more to a good movie than the plot. Some people just don't know what to look for.
You probably have some kind of art hanging somewhere in your home. Why would you look at it more than on
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So that'd make you 26 yeah?
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Hm (Score:5, Funny)
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actually the contrary (Score:2, Interesting)
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no extended rotk == no marathon (Score:1)
Been there.. (Score:1)
Only LOTR? (Score:2)
That's a challenge for real tough guys
Robert
Re:Only LOTR? (Score:1)
THAT seperates the men from the boys
self-torture (Score:2, Funny)
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What I thought was funniest, was after eleven hours everyone's eyeballs shrinking and imploding into puffs of flame the same time Sauron's did...
I work (Score:1)
Re:I work (Score:2)
Sprint network goes down for 12 hours before technician catches it and fixes it. Phone company rep stated, "Hey, he was watching RotK! You're lucky the network came up at all that day."
In the next month or so... (Score:2)
Between that and fresh stove popped corn, it should be a hit with the gang. I have already done the first two in a row before ROTK came out in theaters and I expect that this one will go the full 11-12 hrs easy.
Finally seeing the third installment.... (Score:3, Funny)
It was plain boring in many sections of the movie that we began to improvise by doing a bit of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ourselves of the movie.
Some things came up:
- Hobbit love. Those guys REALLY dig each other.
- The akwardly long glances in the end of the movie were too long to take seriously, with the causal smiles thrown by the Hobbit characters, you begin to wonder what else does that ring do to them.
- Alot of pot references in the movie.
- The main human character turns down the advances of a human princess. "I can't give you the love you desire" Dude, it's free *boink boink* and you're turning it down?!!? Refer to Hobbit Love.
- It took the White Wizard nearly an hour to ride to the top of the castle. Yes we knew it was a BIG castle when we first saw the grand shots, now you take us on a roadtrip to the top.
- Why did it take 3 movies to get to the volcano? Everytime we get to a checkpoint, we get a reminder of the volcano and see it in the distance. This is the longest roadtrip in HISTORY. What ever happened to horses? What about those HUGE birds?
If I were to watch the movies again, it would be to write a guide on how to watch them all in less time.
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for a *real* challenge... (Score:1, Funny)
You'll forgive me posting as anonymous coward. Employers have ears!
Hehe (Score:1)
Wait for Peter Jackson's Version (Score:2, Interesting)
Hollywood special FXathon (Score:2)
Re:Hollywood special FXathon (Score:1)
Um, you do know the movie was made entirely in New Zealand, right?
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LOTR:ROTK (Score:1)
The Hobbit Cartoon (Score:1)