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New Trailer For The Two Towers
Drakkar writes "As most of you know, the new trailer for the Two Towers was online last night for AOL users, but the link was given on the official site, LordofTheRings.net. It's in real player format. A new trailer with higher quality will be up tonight, midnight ET.
This new piece of film is awesome. (the song at the end of the trailer isn't from the TTT soundtrack, it's from the movie Requiem for a Dream)" xTK-421x points to more links: "Now available is the new 3 minute trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Available here in MOV and here in RM. Reported first at Aint It Cool News."
Bah, it's in RM and MOV formats....!
After the amount of junk the players for both of those installed on my machine last time I tried them I won't have them on my machine.
Anyone know any software for windows that will play either of those formats without installing a whole load of junk as well?
Sig is taking a break!
Clint Mansell, by the way, is a goddamn genius.
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Gandalf says (when giving backstory in the books) that he believes that The Artist Formerly Known As Smeagol was of hobbit-kind. Make of that phrase what you will. Various usenet threads (recent example) have discussed this to death.
"The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life"
I still find the trailers exciting, if for no other reason than to see how characters and scenes are being realized. The short flash of Treebeard's bottom half intrigued me in this one - I can't wait to see a higher resolution version.
Gee, how many times are we gonna ask this question? ~sigh~ If you actually are serious, pick up THE BOOK and check out the original publication date....1954. And anybody who is so mired in sensitive political correctness as to think the name ought be changed can suck my ass.
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"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
They'll just use the money you spend on this movie to try to take away computers. Have a little self-respect for goodness' sake.
Best. Comment. Ever. Enjoy!
Of course, this may have been discussed in one of the previous umpteen LOTR threads I have completely ignored.
I am a believer of momentum and curves.
Star Wars?
Star Wars?
You know, there are just some people who WANT to be reminded, and any excuse to be reminded will do it for them.
When you lose someone you care about, everything reminds you of them, even things that make absolutely no sense as something to trigger the memory.
Personally, I would have taken as an insult to Americans and the human race if he had changed the title of The Two Towers. Why? Simple, it would have been claiming we can't heal. It would be announcing to the world that Jackson didn't think Americans could recover from tragedy.
You know what? In the grand scheme of things, 9-11 was NOT that massive a disaster. True, it killed thousands of people, and yes it changed the country, but worse things happen all over the world, and the rest of the planet recovers. The people learn to live life without the people they lost. Did you hear about the recent bout of floods in China? How about the starvation that's ravaging Africa? Hell, what about AIDS in Africa. Yes, losing over 3,000 people in one day is terrible, but it happens all over the world. Americans are just too ethnocentric to see the rest of the planet as anything other than the Disney / Hollywood sanitized tourist attraction on TV. Terrorism is nothing new, it's as old as human conflict. Human conflict has been going on since the dawn of the species itself. From the moment our ancestors first picked up a weapon in the Fertile Crescent, we've been killing each other.
Clearchannel releasing a list of songs that might offend, people being chastised for speaking out against the ongoing war and every other patronizing thing that's been going on disgusts me.
People don't heal or recover from emotional trauma if they don't face reality. Those who retreat into a shell where all traumatic stimulus is hidden wither and die.
There were times in the last year where I saw the entire country morphing into Ms. Havisham from Great Expectations. Unable to deal with the groom running away on her wedding day, she locks herself in her room and never emerges. She withers and dies in her wedding gown. The windows are shut and the curtains sealed to prevent light from entering. She froze herself and her memories at a time just before her loss, when she was still filled with the promise of marriage and a family.
Erasing the WTC from photos and movies, pretending it didn't exist, is no different than what Ms. Havisham did. It's hiding from reality, letting the wounds fester. We've been bitten by a rattlesnake and are refusing to drain the poison. Refusing to think about what has happened, the poison works its way into our blood and kills us.
We have to face reality, and that means picking up the things we enjoyed before the disaster and enjoying them again. If a man loses his wife, he can't shut himself up forever and never see the sun again.
Yes, changing the name of a movie is a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but it is one step on a road we must not take.
The saying "That which does not kill us makes us stronger" is more true than people realize. Physically, most the country is unharmed, but if we crawl into holes and let our liberties be drained away and our lives become a mass of traumatic material that must be avoided, we will wither and die. The events will not have made us stronger. We will have died inside.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
I know the feeling, I cannot watch TV news without being reminded that our democracy is is turning into a corporate facist state.