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LotR Two Towers Trailer Online
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 ;)
Well, his name was Entwhistle after all.
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Just go see it in the theater on Wednesday. It's being shown with Men in Black 2.
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Huh. Keep your eyes open for "Entwhistle the White", I guess...
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Star Wars EP. III *Yawn*
Lord of the Rings Part II !!!WHOHOOO!!!
I definately sense a cultural shift among geeks. Or is it just that PLOT DOES MATTER!!!
Becomes part of the machine /. wizard sure trys to get any mention of The Who into a headline even if it don't rhyme and messes up the cadence of the song.....
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His grammar is obscene
Ain't seen nothin' like him
In any other website at all
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
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
sadly, a little grammatical mistake makes any discussion on the actual topic impossible.
How true. Which is why it is so important that editorial control be exercised by individuals who are aware of how small details can ruin an otherwise good submission.
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I'm told by secret sources that a guy named "Tolkien"(sounds like a 37337 name) has let the cat out of the bag and has written spoilers to this movie and, get this, The Next One! He must have been a key grip or something on the film crew, as he seems to have real inside information.
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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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.
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~Ahem~ On the topic, I'm am heartend by the fact by the fact these were all filmed at nearly the same time, by the same director. It'll ensure there is no dumbing down as oft happens in sequels these days... Batman comes to mind... I'm sure Spider Man will suffer the same fate... They go from serious to "lets star Jim Carrie in one of these! Wouldn't that be great?!" or "I like the character design. Name? Ummm.. Jar-Jar. See? Kinda just rolls off the tongue."
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Let's just get all the spoilers out in the open to get it open with:
Saruman is Gandalf's father.
Frodo and Samwise are brother and sister.
Legolas? He's an elf.
Liv Tyler is really a genetic experiment to see how hot Steve Tyler's lips look on a woman.
Mordor's primary export? Orcs and spam.
Gimli? He's a dwarf.
Having 1,000,000,000 orcs in your army: 1,000,000,000 gold pieces. Having Strider leading your army? Priceless.
Frodo? He's a hobbit.
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There are several interpretations one can make as to which "Two Towers" Tolkien was talking about: Orthanc and Barad-Dûr, Minas Tirith (Anor) and Minas Morgul (Ithil)... I hadn't heard anyone say they were supposed to be the Argonath before, tho...
In any case, there is a very strong case (see item #3) that the one true interpretation, what Tolkien intended, is for the Two Towers to refer to Orthanc and Minas Morgul, because these are the goals of the split parties of the Fellowship in Books III and IV, respectively. This is in contrast to the above reply that state's Book IV's goal was Barad-Dûr; Frodo and Sam don't even really enter Mordor until Book V. Additionally, the note at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring in the 3-volume edition of LotR refers to Orthanc and Minas Morgul as "The Two Towers", and Tolkien's own illustration for The Two Towers was clearly of those 2 structures.
This was a great trailer until they gave away Gandalf's return. I mean, quite a few people would know this given the wide readership of the books, but for ~half the audience that hasn't read them, isn't this a ridiculously massive spoiler?
Methinks CmdrTaco was entirely too hasty with his message, harrroom harrrrooooommm, very hasty indeed.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
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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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
Yes, that's right. I thought Frodo's character developed in the first book, that Gandalf and Sauman didn't get into a ridiculous punch-up, that the Balrog didn't rescue the fellowship from the orcs, that Frodo defied the Nazgul alone at the ford (thus proving that Gandalf's faith was justified) instead of being rescued, that Galadriel made it clear that Frodo was the doom of the elves but that they still would help him, that the Nazgul were dangerous, that no one had time to stop and play balance-the-5000 ton-pilar-of-rock while escaping from Moria, that the watcher in the lake deliberately locked them into Moria, that the Council of Elrond made some sense, that Aragon's sword was reforged from the shards of Narsil, that The Shire didn't have dancing mountains in it, that the travellers actually noticed the stone trolls in the woods, and that the damn story actually worked.
Silly me, I must be damn near illiterate if I thought I saw all those things in the book when the great Peter "Just Get To The Next Fight Scene" Jackson didn't.
TW
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