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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.
People with jobs report that working between October 20th and December 19th resulted in two months' worth of paychecks!
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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.
when salmon are outlawed, only outlaws will have salmon
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.
And when people keep telling me that American stupidity runs rampant, I point to John Q. Condescend here who blames American culture for Danish fans obsessing over a New Zealand produced movie based on a book written by an Englishman.
After I have received the wisdom of good teaching, I will untiringly teach all people. - The Teachings of Buddha
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...
The culture still originated from America...
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
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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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
sig?
I went to Star Wars I because I knew there'd be lightsaber fights in line. I was right. Got there 2 hours before the preview, and watched Reservoir Dogs on my Laptop's DVD with six other people I didn't know in my general vicinity.
It was a _fun_ time, definitely not a _waste of_ time.
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?
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.
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? :)
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.
development.lombardi.com
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!
Be sure and email Wesley Morris, author of this fine article, and let him know what you think.
Finnegan? Is it really you?
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
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.
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...
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)
...by an Englishman living in South Africa ?
...with a bunch of people who've been waiting in line for over a month? They'll absolutely reek.
Edith Keeler Must Die
...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?!?