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New Lord of the Rings Trailer
An anonymous reader writes "Apple is hosting the new trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Of course, the trailer is in quicktime. Looks pretty darn good, in my opinion."
I just finished the 4th disc on FotR, and am ready for TTT to be out now!
As nice as seeing the movie is, if you still haven't, read the book! It's worth it :-)
:-)
Signed: an old-fashioned geek
What kind of news is this? I skimmed it and thought there was a new trailer, got my hopes up, watched it, got mad. Instead it's just that the trailer I've watched 100 times is being hosted by Apple? Even that is weeks-old news. Why is this on Slashdot?
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This is not a new trailer. It has been out for quite a while, at least a month, but probably several.
To play this crap in linux:
l ine/lordoftherings/TheTwoTowers-tlr_fs.l.mov"
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1. wget "http://progressive.stream.aol.com/newline/gl/new
2. Follow instructions on http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/qt-libwine-howto.tx
I'm not sure it will work, but it's worth a try...
I have this very same trailer on my computer. Have had it for a long time now. Slashdot is only about 1.5 months late with this one ;)
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Yep, that's what I did on my nice new 17" LCD iMac. I *clicked* and it ran :-)
No matter where you go... there you are.
For one thing, it's made of more than three books, but it's actually just one long big book in three popular parts. There's something in the forward of the books about this. A Tryptych would be a more accurate description.
It's called "Requiem of the Rings," and it's a mixture of Clint Mansell's Requiem for a Dream and some LOTR sounds. The maker is Ajax Projection and they used to have it up for download. It then moved to War of the Ring but now it's gone from there too. But I'm sure you know where else to look.
.. so if you haven't read the book already (what kind of a geek are you?) but are watching the movies, then DON'T WATCH THIS TRAILER, IT'LL SPOIL IT FOR YOU.
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Belief is the currency of delusion.
Peter Jackson is definitely not commanding a high salary (he doesn''t have enough experience), although I rea;;yy hope they give him a point or two of revenue. The same goes for the rest of the cast: no big budget names there.
Instead, we have got a picture that looks like a lot of money was spent on it. If someone at newline ends up making a bundle out of it, so what, we have ended up with a good film. Rgerttably that can not be said of a lot of movies out there.
whew! good thing i plan to use my roommate's printer, scanner, and paper to forge us some tickets! then i get to see the movie, avoid supporting the MPAA and void the argument that the only way to see a new release for free is to watch a bootleg. don't worry, some day i'll buy dvd to make up for the studio's loss.
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Oh, for crying out loud, can we please stop seeing this post modded up to +5 insightful every single time there's an article about a good movie or CD?
There is no inconsistency between (a) enjoying the creative work of the artists who make these movies and music, and (b) decrying the oppresive tactics of the "executives" who both corrupt the laws of the varying nations to protect their stranglehold on content and rip off the artists who actually create the content.
So yes, enjoy the film, continue to complain about the actions of the suits, and understand that doing one is not the opposite of the other.
not that I disagree, because, for the most part, I don't. However, do you honestly believe that it's your place to say? I doubt that most of the people who spend their lives indulging in these fantasy worlds care about the psychological motives behind doing so. I don't. I think that though fantasy worlds offer someone to unplug from the real world for the time being, isn't that something that all very popular activities have in common (video games, books, TV, movies for a start)? It's not just restricted to fantasy. When you open up the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, are you thinking about your wife who says that she's unhappy, or your kid who's doing poorly in school? Did your reading that one of the possible reasons the Roman Empire collapsed was widespread homosexuality somehow make you remember about the taxes that you weren't be able to pay? Whether it's fake or real, you can escape reality through almost any medium.
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Quicktime is as we all know the most crappy videoformat ever.
QuickTime is an API that defines a file format, not a codec. If you're not happy with the output of whatever codec you're using, use a better codec (or more likely, learn how to tune the one you're using for your subject matter).
It's bloated, and has a ugly player which you can't replace.
You do realise that QuickTime (the API) is not the same as QuickTime Player (the app)?
If you want to write a better movie player on top of QuickTime, knock yourself out - there used to be several such things on the Mac, all using the same API calls as the official player (QuickTime itself doesn't care - it's app agnostic).
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OK, you know the rest.
But I heard that they might even be making a LIVE ACTION version of the Lord of the Rings! I heard Michael J. Fox would play Frodo!
Jesus, how can Slashdot be this far behind?
Of course, the trailer is in quicktime
So fucking what? You think I can't play it on Linux? You're wrong. MPLAYER is the solution.
LOTR *IS* the geek book and now it is being made into a movie. To me that is news for nerds, stuff that matters. Just because the MPAA is evil doesn't mean the director (in this case Peter Jackson) and the actors and everyone else that worked on the film didn't create a great work.
Since the RIAA has gone after music sharers and now they are making copy-protected cd's... I refuse to buy a cd ever again. The movie industry, while pissing me off with macrovision protection and regional encoding, they haven't actually gone after things that make dvd players regionless, they don't (or at least it hasn't come out that they do) rape the artists and keep all the money.
Because of the rise of prices, I now rarely go see a movie in theaters because it's too expensive. For 2 people to go see a movie in the theater, it costs just as much to buy the dvd when it comes out. And for those movies you don't think you'd like, just head over and rent it (or download it).
I love movies, there is no other way to boycott the MPAA than to avoid watching movies except when I go to a friends house to watch it. Movies just aren't prevelant enough on the internet to download and after spending a few hours to download movie if you have a bad quality version you just wasted a lot of time.
If there is really going to be any change, the media needs to show people affected by these things.
Back to the original poster, Peter Jackson is making a great movie about possibly the greatest literary work of the 20th century. And if you don't like it, go to your preference page and check off to exclude movie news. Then you don't have to put up with it anymore.
-Chris
Here is a direct link to the movie:
i ne/lordoftherings/TheTwoTowers-tlr_fs.l.mov
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/newline/gl/newl
This way you can save it to your hard disk (41MB) and not needlessly waste bandwidth (yours, your ISP's, or the host's) every time you want to see it. You can also share it with your friends that don't have broadband by cutting it to a CD. Enjoy.
I'm not entirely sure this is relevant, but it's an interesting tidbit nonetheless.
The best reports are that New Line spent about half a billion dollars making and promoting The Lord of the Rings, all three films, and that includes money budgeted but not yet spent on promotion and advertising for the last movie. Of that half a billion, about $300 million went into making the movies themselves. The $500 million figure includes all the cost of making, distributing, promoting, and showing the movies; basically, the studio's total costs.
According to boxofficemojo.com, The Fellowship of the Ring has made about $860 million worldwide for New Line since its release last year. That's only gross revenue to the studio generated by movie theaters; it doesn't include DVD sales or any other sources of revenue.*
The punchline: if nobody in the world buys a ticket for the next two movies, New Line still will have made about a 72% profit on the Lord of the Rings. They could put The Two Towers and The Return of the King on a shelf, finished but unreleased, and still have made a fortune.
* Historically, the ratio of worldwide box office receipts to worldwide revenues from all media is about 1:1.5. In other words, for every dollar of box office gross, a movie can be expected to generate about $1.50 in video sales, rentals, TV rights, book and toy tie-ins, and so on.
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Somebody wasted a mod point. This is not interesting. There is not copy protection on the extended DVD set, apart from Macrovision and CSS that's on virtually every DVD.
I copied discs one and two to my girlfriend's iBook so she could watch them on the plane on the way to her uncle's house. No problems. Works fine. Just like every other DVD.
(Had to clean off nearly 20 GB to make the damn things fit, though. Hope she doesn't need MS Office until she gets back.)
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