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LOTR Campout Begins
Rocknalle writes: "As reported on The One Ring
queues have have already started lining up for The Fellowship Of The Ring. Team GladBlad (having placed themselves nr. 1-4 in the queue), are reporting live from the event via notebooks and and cellular networking (9.6 Kbps rules! :-). Visit GladBlad and see what happens when geeks goes outside." The other LOTR news I know of is a description of the journalistic teaser trailer. Salon seems to have liked what they saw.
:P
People with jobs report that working between October 20th and December 19th resulted in two months' worth of paychecks!
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I wonder if any Krispy Kreme donut shops, or Chipolte grills have opened up next to theaters for this specifically this reason. I would, if I owned Krispy Kreme.
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Open source loosers are dirt poor. Go flip a burger :)
Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't this movie come out Christmas? Or are the Danes getting it earlier? If they aren't then...whoa.
I remember all that hype about episode 1 for star wars and people lining up for months in advance.
... too extreme, no?
Was it worth it?
I doubt it. I walked up to my local AMC the night before and bought 12 tickets without problem for a show around 8pm on the opening day. As much as I am for camping, I think that this is a little
Did anyone out there actually line up far in advance for Ep1?
If God gave us curiosity
Oh my God, I just went to the cinema today, and saw the Lord of the Rings trailer. It was amazing! It's given me a new reason to look both ways before I cross the road.
:)
Unfortunately I live in the UK, and we aren't getting the film until December (not sure when you lucky Americans are getting it, but it's bound to be before us
And yes, I have read the books. There's still time for everyone else before it starts if you're not too slow.
I went by our cinema, mentioned in the piece, last Thursday and saw the first ones camping there. So I figured that I'd rather wait a bit until the queue time for tickets is limited to a voice in my phone telling me that I am number 2 in the queue. :-)
Sooner or later those notebook and cellphone batteries are going to wear out, and then we'll have some inconsoleable geeks out in the miserable cold.
...my horse is ON FIRE!
*runs away to extinguish blazing quadruped*
I think when people keep telling me that American culture is going down the tubes, all they would have to do is point me to this as evidence and I would be pretty well convinced.
Is your company running tools written by ma
is their server running on a cell-dialup? It can't be the slashdot effect, I actually got throught to the site...
Shift happens. Fire it up.
Thanks for spreading the truth. I had no idea Jon Katz is a turdwhiff.
There ain't no rules here; we're trying to accomplish something.
While I usually feel "to each his own", the occurences in the past month in NYC and the loss of somone close to me (unrelated to WTC attack) has made me rethink my priorities. I've been trying to round out my life, spend a little les time at the office, try new things, considering having a family, etc. There are more important things than a movie despite what the studios would like us to think. And this is what it is, a movie which, while it may provide a few hours of escape & entertainment is not enough to devote two months of ones time to view.
A person spends 1/3 of their life sleeping. If the average person lives to 76 then that gives us 912 months of living time. Lop off 1/3 of that for sleep and there's now 638 months of waking time. That's not much. My friend who passed was 34; she had 285.6 waking months of life.
I'll give two or three hours of my time to try a movie and in my other spare time I'm going to take walks, try cooking, see friends, read, work, learn a new skill, perhaps pick up a hobby. I suggest the people on line for LoTR do the same.
Well at least now the Danes can have a new hobby other than "being Danish": Driving up onto the sidewalk in front of movie theatres and obliterating these kids.
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Sometimes there's no other way to win, except by falling.
What does it mean that the action scenes were described thusly:
I've loved the trailers so far, and even booked a private matinee screening for myself and my programming team in advance, so you know I'm a booster of this film. But these descriptions make me wonder what the Salon writer was trying to get across.
All I can say is that with the release of each passing trailer I become more impressed with Peter Jackson. Considering he's practicly unknown and had $300 Million dropped in his lap I was expecting nothing less than a disaster. But When I started seeing footage I was impressed. Look at some of the camera direction and cinematography that went into some of those shots in the latest trailer. Something as simple as Frodo reading under a tree was given a very artistic, moving camera touch. I've always appreciated artistic directorial styles. Look at Ridley Scott or Kubrick Vs. Spielburg. The first two are ARTISTS, and the movies they make (made in Kubrick's case) each carry the hallmarks of great artistry. Spielburg, on the other hand has never used a very interesting canvas. (There are some HUGE exceptions to this such as the Color Purple or Shindler's List) He gets good scripts and makes solid movies. What will make or break Peter Jackson will be his ARTISTRY. LotR is not a book that could be rendered in a bland style. It's simply too complex, too rich, too magnificent on it's own account. In translation to the big screen Jackson will have to pull out some of those visual tricks to make LotR not only a great book, but a great MOVIE.
If he pulls this off, he'll be considered one of the next great director of American film. If he doesn't, they'll be people lining up to piss on his grave. I sure wouldn't want to be in his shoes...
Way to go! Hey, I think I will quit my job and go on welfare for this one!
You might try calling theaters which are futher off the beaten path and see if they have campers.
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
First of all, for my rant: Anyone stupid enough to wait out in the miserable cold to watch a movie for the glory of seeing it first should be hit in the crotch many times. I'll go to the local movie theater and do it myself. If you hear someone attacking a bunch of people's genitailia, that'll be me. Taking a line from Lewis Black, "If you know anyone that has done this, take a pencil, sharpen it, and shove it in [their] eye."
Second of all, the Fun Thing: Take a bunch of your friends, preferably the huge (read: well-built) friends with you to the theater a few hours before they sell tickets for Lord Of The Rings. Walk up near the front of the line and subtly slip in line about 7 or 8 people behind the front. If anyone says "get to the back of the line", just ignore them. If they try and get an attitude, get your huge friends to step in (preferably with a "Guns don't kill people, I kill people" Happy Gilmore shirt) and say "Is there a problem here?" In the end, see how many self-righteous nerds turn off their laptops in the middle of playing M:TG, and then step in, so they are 15th in line, not 8th.
The manager at the local 18-theater-a-plex lives across the hall from me and we're really good friends. If I wanted, I could see the movie for free, and without waiting out in the cold to do it. I could also get free popcorn and Dr. Pepper.
Imladris has a several forums devoted to activities and gatherings planned around the world.
Anyone in Birmingham, AL planning to camp out for tickets?
there is always going to be *something* that is going to incite/intice die hard fans.
LOTR, Macs, Linux, BSD, Rocky Horror, ect.
Especially the latter, if you think about it. I've seen it and was somewhere between mildy amused and not impressed.
No matter how much you keep your mind open to possibilites, well, some things you'll never be able to explain...like riding a motorcycle..."If you don't know, I can't explain" pretty much sums it up.
Oh, metamoderators out there, we need to keep an eye out a little more...some fuckwit with mod points keeps modding down funny comments. Overrated/troll seems to be "favorite" choice...puns, dry humor, mixed metaphores, seem to be beyond this person(s) sub 70 IQ. It almost approaches censorship'esque levels.
If it is one person, his privelage needs to be revoked/rebuked, if it is many exibiting this moronic tendancy, it still does not make it right. Lack of a sense of humor is *thier* problem.
Sorry for the rant, it has been bugging the shit out of me lately. Just because *you* don't get it/like it does not mean it is not funny.
IMO (in Moose's opinion, naturally).
Heh, I also had a funny comment to post, but the rampant idiocy lately has made me think twice. Pardon the egotistical comment, but you don't get an additional +1 bonus for being a fricking troll, now, do you?
There, I feel better. Like pissing in the wind, yeah it is a bad/pointless endeavor, but sometimes you *just got to!*
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
I will probably go and see it anyway, but I just hope they haven't destroyed Tolkein's vision completely.
Although the movie opens on December 19th, these people are not lining up for a two-month wait. The ticket pre-sale starts next Tuesday, so it's more like 4 or 5 days.
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(invalid form key? WTF?)
Locked home for over a year, camping in front of his computer, camping in a game of Quake, going out for the first time since forever, for something OTHER than his job, and guess where he's going? CAMPING in front of the theatre...
:)
I'm starting to beleive all those psychologists claiming "games have a negative impact on human behaviour"
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
Freakin' campers. Now you can't even go to the movies. They're everywhere.
jeez, just used to be that you couldn't get to the quad damage.
~z
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Look out for those of us into Dagorhir. As far as I can tell almost all of us are planning on turning out in garb, in force.
~~ What's stopping you?
This is off topic, but I have too much karma. Will someone mod me down? Down with the karma cap! I may be forced to troll. Could be fun.
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Yeah, poor form replying to your own post... but *READ* my post, the main point was *ON TOPIC*, yet, true to form, it was modded as *OFF TOPIC*...c'mon.
Talking about the *draw* of LOTR, Rocky horror picture show et al was and is one of those *INEXPLICABLE* things in life to those on the "other side".
How was that offtopic? Topic == LOTR, reply talked about "LOTR"...off topic how?
Like I said...FW moderator out there.
IF, and that should be said again **IF** my **ENTIRE** post is offtopic/troll, shit mod it as such...this post and my previous were not.
READ the MODERATOR's GUIDELINES...sheesh.... **I HAVE, FW moderator, HAVE YOU?**
POM (Pissed Off Moose)
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They'll all be disappointed unless they made some major plot changes. I hear they were actually trying to make a 2 hour movie with all those useless characters running around. I pray that Jackson went through with his plan to merge Merry and Pipin as well as those two bad guys whose names start with 'S'. And it'd be nice to see some skin on Liv Tyler -- which is at least a remote possibility now that she's the star.
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posting anon to preserve bla bla bla...
My question is, who's going to camp out Slashdot so they can be the first to post "Worst. Movie. Ever." when the Lord of the Rings review gets posted? :)
This, to me, pretty much sums up the difference between geeks and nerds. It's a distinction that most people probably don't share, but to me geeks are people who get really excited about a movie like Lord of the Rings. Nerds implies a certain social desperation that might make camping out for a movie seem like a good thing to do.
Not to be condescending, but god damn... those guys are nerds.
If only people would put one tenth as much effort into trying to stop bad laws such as the SSSCA as they put into waiting to suck at the corporate teat of the company that pays for those laws we might not be in such a bad state. LOTR will probably be a good movie, but it's not as important as having Disney/Hollywood control your digital life. Wake Up.
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I prefer, non governmental governmental agency in the place of corporation. Hell the only difference between a company and a government agency is that you at least have a choice, and therefore a chance to reduce corruption and tyranny with a corporation.... of course, that ONLY works when people take responsibility for their purchases and other actions. Imagine that! Living by the very standards you wish to impose on someone else!
one movie ticket: $10 (NYC)
one tub of popcorn: $3
production of LoTR: $270,000,000
Gandalf v. Balrog onscreen: priceless
Let's get drunk and delete production data!
..+1 Informative. You know it's true.
Be sure and email Wesley Morris, author of this fine article, and let him know what you think.
So, the Danes can purchase their tickets 2 months early. Come 19th December I will be living in Toronto... can any Canadians tell me when the tickets will go on sale there, where to go to get them, and where the best place to see the movie will be (I'm going to be living just west of King and Bathurst)?
Waiting for Frodo
I'd hate to have to walk pst a line of BO to go see a movie that comes out before LOTR. However the smell might accurately create the smell of some of the creatures in the LOTR books/films so in a way it would add to the immersion of the film.
OH NOES! TEH INTARWEB IS BORKEN!
How about Bert, Gandalf, and Ossama Bin Laden?
I believe Juanita
Middle Earth is in the northern hemisphere (this can be deduced even if it's not specifically stated in the book; e.g., elephants come from the south). And Middle Earth's sun sets in the West.
;^p
New Zealand is upside down. It won't work
No, your children are not the special ones. Nor are your pets.
A story by a South African of British parentage.
A large number of British actors.
Filmed in New Zealand.
This might not be the usual Hollywood fsck-up.
....I'll reserve my geeky pre-conceptions about this until it's released.
I've had openning night tickets for LOTR for a couple weeks now. Last time I was at the theater I said, "Hey Mike, can you score me a few tickets for LOTR?" He said, "Not a problem."
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
The only queue I'll be in to watch this movie is the one in Creative's FSERVE on Undernet.
With the success of crouching tiger perhaps this gorgeous french film will be released in the USA. I notice most US films assume their audience can't read (the characters read the signs out loud) so subtitled films must be rare over there...
Maybee he is wik dem c0mp00ter geks, waitink fur den LOTR m00vie.
Mind yu, a m00se bite kan be viry nastey.
-Had to be done-
He didn't, he didn't, and you won't.
Thank God.
DNA just wants to be free...
Shopping at BookSense.com also supports local Independent bookstores (rather than the big chains). Though you don't have to buy anything to enter the contest it seems...
A common attitude of people from Toronto, most of whom consider civilization to begin and end at their city borders because they're so ignorant they've never been anywhere else.
I've lived in half a dozen Canadian cities. I've also lived in New York City, Seattle, and rural Connecticut. And of all the places I've lived, the very last one I'd ever live again would be Toronto.
Toronto manages to combine the worst aspects of both countries. It's got the pompousity and pretention of Canadians but without their gentle and friendly nature. It's got the crime, filth, and overcrowded nature of the worst of American cities but without America's prosperity, resources, opportunity, confidence, and bolder style of friendliness. It's a city where all conversation seems to just be searching for opportunities to kick others in the teeth. When I moved to New York City, I was amazed at how much nicer everyone was.
Canadians are a divided people in many ways, not just the obvious French/English thing. But one thing I found universal among all was an extreme dislike of Toronto and everything associated with. As one Canadian put it, "we should build a wall around Toronto so high that not even ideas get out".
$20 for URL for roughcut.
Well, perhaps not the Danes, but the Brits. (And a flight to London is cheap. *grin*)
It opens on the 10th, I believe, in England, and on the 19th on this side of the pond. My girlfriend will happen to be in the Netherlands at the time, and will be flying to London to catch the earlier showing.
I am tremendously envious. I am a major fan of Prof. Tolkien's works.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
...with a bunch of people who've been waiting in line for over a month? They'll absolutely reek.
Edith Keeler Must Die
that in New-Zealand, the sun doesn't set in the East ;)
...that would be an Englishman born in South Africa of English parents whose family moved to England when he was four years old.
Woo-hoo -- do I win?!?