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LOTR Campout Begins

Posted by michael on from the crazier-than-a-barrel-of-gnomes dept.

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.

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  1. or when.. by gkuchta · · Score: 4, Interesting

    geeks goes to Enrish classes..

    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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  2. Erm... by jgrumbles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  3. Re:In other news... by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I can't get into the first night showing thing, really. I'd sooner wait a week or two and get a seat in the center of the theater, not jammed between a couple of overzealoud Tolkien fans, where the air is stale and I miss lines of dialogue from 400 other people all going "OOOHH!!!" or laughing at the same time.

    Last experience like this was a midnight showing of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Not a spare seat in the joint, hot, humid and too much background noise. For my $5 (mantinees, y'know :-) and another $7.75 for popcorn and pop (it's part of the experience, but smuggle a can of Pringles and a couple cans of Coke in a winter coat sleeve if you like) I like a smaller crowd. Besides, call me a Troll if you must, I'm actually looking forward to the Harry Potter movie as it looks, unlike Holy Wood productions, done up extremely well.

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  4. Dagorhir. by broody · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

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  5. Re:In other news... by Private+Essayist · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "Besides, call me a Troll if you must, I'm actually looking forward to the Harry Potter movie as it looks, unlike Holy Wood productions, done up extremely well."


    I'm curious as to your use of "besides" to start that sentence. You used it in the context of not wanting to see LoTR on opening night, and thus your meaning evidently is that Harry Potter, unlike LoTR, is unlike Hollywood and done right. Since I've yet to see anyone who has said otherwise about LoTR, and in fact most people think that LoTR is even more unHollywood-like than Harry Potter, I'm wondering what you heard that makes you think this about LoTR. From what I can tell, if you want the definition of a movie done "extremely well," look no further than what Peter Jackson has done with LoTR.

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