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Lord of the Rings Theatrical Trailer
BadmanX writes: "The brand new Lord of the Rings trailer that ran on several shows tonight (including the season premier of Angel) is available for download from Apple's Quicktime site." Hmmm. Mirrors definitely needed.
This, of course, was the 1st draft of Dubya's speech last week. Glad he toned it down.
... I bet Jobs is sitting at a desk somewhere just watching hits pile up and giggling like a school girl at all the people trying to watch.
Damn you! Damn you for toying with out hopes and emotions!!! *sob* Don't you think next time it might be a good idea to use something more powerful than an LCIII and an Appletalk cable for a web server, you sadistic bastard!?!?!
/me bangs head on desk/
Ceci n'est pas une sig.
Doesn't everyone wish they hadn't seen Phantom Menace? I remember before it came out, everyone was so stoked about how cool it was going to be. After Jar-Jar...blah.
FreeBSD for the impatient.
Modern Humorists take on it all... http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0101/rings/
J-aims
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Yup, the pronunciation is always fun, fits in with that whole thing about reading a book first and having the film shatter your imagined choices on how the characters would look and talk...
It will be dead funny as per usual for all the heroes to have American accents (though I guess the money came from the USA and they made the film so why not, and it's no more or less valid than any other accent). The best bit though is I hear a lot of the filming was done in New Zealand, for the big scenes they pretty well rounded up anybody who could ride a horse to be in it, some of our pals got jobs. So, imagine the scene from the film:
A battle, outside the gates of Mordor (or summink)...
Gandalf (our hero, in a Texas accent): "I will vanquish thee, oh evil spawn of darkness, back to whence thy came!"
Evil orc dressed in gothicky black wielding dead big axe (in broad Kiwi accent): "No worries mate! Choice!"
Not sure what the answer is but it always cracks me up...
"Choose providers who can handle this sort of load balancing, like Akamai."
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Here's the HTML of the link to the file:
<a href="http://squeeze.sorenson.com/video/fellowshi
Note that they ARE using Akamai -- for the 449 byte image used for the link. It's only the 30 Meg movie that's on the dial-up iMac.
Sharron and Tracey are the whiny, bitchy girlfriends of Sauron. See, they didn't know about each other, then Sharron saw Tracey leaving Minas Morgul one day and figured out that Sauron was two-timing her. So then, in order to quiet her down, Sauron had to give her a ring and promise to marry her. She didn't want just any ring, she wanted the One Ring. So Sauron had to send out his Riders to find the Ring. (They were all glad to get out, Sharron's whining was getting on their nerves.) Of course, I've given away about 90% of the movie now, but the ending where Tracey shows up and there's this big oil wrestling finale between her and Sharron is worth the price of admission alone.
I'm getting 65K/sec on this. I love you.
Now it is impossible to download Morpheus from Download.com. Do we need to begin having mirrored distribution of the software that distributes widely-desired titles?
oh *No* We've broken the internet.