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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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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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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
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
I think the release dates are the same. The trailer out in the US has Dec. 19th on it, so it shouldn't be before yours. I think this may be true in most countries. Successive release dates don't make much sense to me.
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...
This may be a good time to checkout the original animated films (which I was lucky enough to see for free at Saginaw Valley State College (yean, before it was U.) in the 80's):
The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Return of the King
The plus side, IMHO, is you get to listen to Glenn Yarborough sing. Heaven help us if they have Prince or some other horrible singer do anything in the new films. (Holy Wood train of thought: Well if we can put N'sync in there, then we'll capture the teenager market sector!)
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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
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...
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I'm starting to beleive all those psychologists claiming "games have a negative impact on human behaviour"
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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.
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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?
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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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!
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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
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.
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