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Lord of the Rings Theatrical Trailer

Posted by michael on from the one-compressed-video-format-to-bind-them dept.

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.

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  1. I swear... by Raymond+Luxury+Yacht · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... 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.
  2. general accent giggle - US or what? by fantomas · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  3. They ARE using Akamai!! by CaseyB · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Choose providers who can handle this sort of load balancing, like Akamai."

    Here's the HTML of the link to the file:

    <a href="http://squeeze.sorenson.com/video/fellowship ofthering_fs.zip"><IMG SRC="http://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/a8a1a3fc413 633/www.apple.com/trailers/newline/fellowship_of_t he_ring/images/index_18.gif" WIDTH=99 HEIGHT=23 border="0"></a>

    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.