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.

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.