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LotR Two Towers Trailer Online

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the provided-you-have-sorenson-and-bandwidth dept.

A few people have pointed out that Apple has put a trailer online for The Two Towers, so if you have broadband and the ability to play video in Apple's favorite format, you can check it out. I'm 0 for 2, so I guess I'll wait. Besides, its only a half a year away ;)

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  1. Go see it in the theater. by User+956 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just go see it in the theater on Wednesday. It's being shown with Men in Black 2.

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    1. Re:Go see it in the theater. by jonabbey · · Score: 5, Informative

      Or better yet, if it's still playing in your area, go see The Fellowship of the Ring one more time, and see the 3 minute preview for The Two Towers that they tacked on to the end of the last reel of the movie back in March.

      There's little in the new trailer that wasn't in the preview, aside from Cate Blanchett's voice over, and there's a lot of cool stuff in the preview that isn't in the trailer.

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      - jon

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  2. Re:Hmm, not much to see in that preview... by reverius · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since you sound like a newbie, I'll explain it for you. I'll try to be as unbiased and non-opinionated as possible.

    Basically, the slashdot community (not as a whole, but large portions of it) dislike Apple and or Quicktime and or Sorenson for one of the following reasons:

    1) Apple is a bad/evil company, and we don't like them.
    2) We don't have Quicktime on Linux, and a few of us use linux while many of us talk about it.
    3) We don't have the Sorenson codec in any other players, so the Quicktime player is required, but isn't on linux (see #2).

    Therefore, it becomes cool to shun Quicktime, or to be proud of not using it.

    Please don't make me say all that again. :)

    -- Reverius

  3. Same Trailer, Much Higher Quality.... by bje2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the same trailer that was reffered to by a story last week...however, it appears to be oh a higher quality...and in a variety of screen sizes...

    also, i saw this after the story was posted last week...from theOneRing.net posted a frame by frame analysis of the trailer...it's pretty cool, and does a good job analyzing what's going on in the teaser trailer...contains major spoilers though, of course, that only matters if you've never read the book...

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  4. Re:Linux: mplayer by matusa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry, it's sorenson level v3 (SVQ3) so both xine and new (cvs) mplayer can play only the audio. Because of the furious work on this front, however, this may change. I hope so.

    I told my friends not to watch the last trailer because of the spoiler.

  5. Re:Rename"The Who Towers" To Something Less Offens by bje2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Atleast PetitionOnline.com posted a sensible response...

    "Please Note: The Two Towers is the title of the JRR Tolkien book originally published in 1954, the second book of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The title was thus established some 47 years prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center towers, and there is no evidence to suggest that Peter Jackson meant anything by continuing the same title other than faithfulness to the beloved Tolkien classics. Furthermore, the two distant, opposing towers in the Tolkien classic have very little if anything in common with the two matching towers of the World Trade Center. -- PetitionOnline.com"

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  6. Re:Hmm, not much to see in that preview... by mjpaci · · Score: 5, Informative

    Set your clock to one year in the future. Launch Quicktime. Close Quicktime. Set clock to correct time. *POOF* no more "Upgrade to PRO" questions.

    --Mike