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.

Comments

Echos of Ep1

[Telek]

I remember all that hype about episode 1 for star wars and people lining up for months in advance.

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 ... too extreme, no?

Did anyone out there actually line up far in advance for Ep1?

This Salon guy's scaring me

[stevens]

What does it mean that the action scenes were described thusly:

• "distinctive vision" — "distinctive" is often used as a euphemism for "screwy."
• "edited frenetically in the modern style" — frenetic? modern? I hope this isn't describing the string of 1/10 sec cuts that films like Tomb Raider called an action sequence.
• "such jittery vision" — This is worrisome. I'd rather not see LOTR with "jittery" anything.

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.

High Hopes

[solendril]

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...

Re:What a bunch of losers

[DeadMeat (TM)]

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.

So Denmark's an American colony now?

Avoiding lines

[ackthpt]

EP1 had lines all over the place, but down in Watsonville, CA (down that is from San Jose and Santa Cruz) was this beautiful new theater with stadium seating and no lines for EP1, I snuck out of work 30 minutes early, walked up to the 3 other people in line, bought ticket, bought fizzy drink and banged grain and then went in to get a seat in the center of the cinema -- the day after it opened!

You might try calling theaters which are futher off the beaten path and see if they have campers.

Coming soon, to a screen near you, in Kluge-O-Rama: Invalid form key: AAR1ArWHID !

People should try as hard to stop the SSSCA

[ajm]

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.