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The L0tR Motion Picture Trilogy Exhibition

Posted by timothy on from the toys-to-drool-over-but-not-on dept.

cremegg writes " BBC News has a story on the upcoming exhibition at the London Science Museum where fans of the trilogy will be able to explore the high-tech toys used to create the special effects in this epic project."

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  1. Re:LOtR 3 Movie Marathon by GoofyBoy · · Score: 2, Insightful


    How many hours sitting in one spot?

    Why not do this:
    Wait until all extended versions are out and get/rent a big screen tv.

    Watch at your own pace with more movie.

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  2. Damnit it's not a trilogy by rmohr02 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is a common misconception that LotR is a trilogy. It is not. It is a single novel, composed of six books, commonly published in three volumes. From this, the movies are really more like the first, second and third discs in a really really long movie.

    (Sorry. Just one of my pet peeves.)

    1. Re:Damnit it's not a trilogy by american+dissident · · Score: 5, Insightful
      The books are irrelevant to this event.

      Sadly, they were pretty much irrelevent to the movie makers as well.

  3. Re:Still can't beat the books by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well, i bet this fish has been beaten death quite a number of times..

    but they're different mediums.

    or you could argue that opera version of some theatretical play is better than the plain theatre version, but there would be very little point in it. as a game the quite new title pirates of the caribbean sucks but the movie on the other hand is ok, and they have just about much in common as a book and a movie would have with the same title and resemblance in characters.

    the movies are ok movies, and that is what matters. it doesn't matter if you're imagination is better or not in your opinion than the work done on film.

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  4. Re:L0tR? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Back in the olden days... it was very much popular to use the letter O rather then the #0 simply because manual typewriters didn't have a a #0, nor a #1 for that matter.

    Lowercase l and the ltter 0 were most adquate and it was up to the user to actually tell the diffrence, just like today when most fonts make #1 and l look so similar, let alone O and 0. Older typewriters you'll note have only 23456789.

    In fact, my factory invoice for my 1966 ford f-250 uses lowercase o for it's pricelist of options. Otherwise, you wouldn't notice their use of the letter o at all.

    Now why it got popular for k-rad hacker d00ds to actually employ their use of the #0 is beyond me.