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Lord of the Rings Home Marathons?
Pepebuho asks: "Given that LOTR 3 is out, how many of you have staged Home LOTR Marathons? How long did they take? Was it fun or did everybody fell asleep by the middle of the Return of the King?"
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We decided not to do this until the full-length version is out. No real point doing the marathon before then, is there?
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One movie each weekend. With the extra features on the DVD. And yes, some people fell asleep.
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what's a marathon without the extended edition? You wimps gonna try it with the theatrical versions? Bah! I'm waiting for the motherload, this november it'll be me and my friends, a minifridge, 3 extended editions, and one very long day...
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Those of us that are real fans were at Trilogy Tuesday.
A Lord of the Rings marathon?
That's impossible!
Since clearly all of Slashdot has boycotted buying DVD's due to the rampant evil of the MPAA...
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Need I tell you fellowship & towers were the extended editions?
He who hosted the marathon had access to a digital projector - thankfully he also had a spare, large white wall to watch everything on. Someone brought along the extended editions of fellowship and towers, and we were off. Well, after about two hours of Mario Kart: Double Dash, that is. To warm up the projector. Yeah.
In the end, sweets were consumed, chips were pulverised, bottles were emptied, LOTR was watched, fun was had. Something like 10am till about 1am all up.
When RotK came out, my girlfriend (who's a huge LOTR fan) and I sat down with a few six-packs and two large pizzas at around 2:30ish and were done with the first two before 10:00ish (yeah... you know chicks... having to take bathroom breaks and pausing to get up and go to the fridge every once in a while) to go stand in line and catch the midnight show on opening night. I imagine if you have plans to watch all three, just write the ENTIRE day off.
I don't know if I'd mod that Flamebait.
:).
(-1, Capitalist Whore) perhaps.
But not Flamebait
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Down here, everybody who went to the 11-hr marathon got a plastic display doohickey containing one cell from each movie. Cool.
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Look, I liked LOTR as much as the next guy, but I have more important things to do with my time than sit down and watch 6 hours of movies that I've already seen plus 3.5 hours of the 3rd movie all at once. And no, I didn't go to the theaters to see LOTR-3. The first time I saw LOTR-3 was this past weekend on DVD on my 65" widescreen (yes, part of the reason I don't bother with theaters anymore! heh).
It's like Star Wars. I don't quite understand the desire to watch it 500 times. I have watched four of the five StarWars movies in my life time and I know what happens in them. Why would I want to see them a second time? If I'm going to spend another 10 hours in front of the television, it's at least going to be with NEW movies.
Not to be a curmudgeon. I honestly have never understood people who claim to have seen a film 5, 10, 20, 50 times.
I started my LotR marathon today while working on some new features in the Slash code. I hope it doesn't show ...
I actually did an anti-marathon. When I saw TFOTR I watched it in 2 1.5 hour parts. I don't know why someone would spend 20 hours watching it when they could be doing something constructive like sleeping or sitting around doing nothing.
Why don't you guys have friends or journals?
Until the extended edition of the last movie comes out I won't be doing a marathon. Once it is out however I shall partake in the fun
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..done that. I watched a LotR triple feature in december. First two movies where full length. I gotta admit that I was this close to fleeing the cinema before the Battle of Helms Deep. But I hadn't watched RotK before, so I dragged thru. No fun.
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Me and my friends have beed doing this with tv series published on DVD -- one season at a time (that's about 22*40min).
;)
That's a challenge for real tough guys
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My room is not fully darkenable, so I need to wait for the winter months so that the marathon can start at 16:00.
a fine terrapin-affiliated university on the east coast showed all three movies from 5pm to 4am. what they didn't tell us is that the first two were gonna be the extended cuts (seems like they didn't know this actually), and we winded up having a grand total of twenty minutes between each movie to get our food on... around the time the eagles landed, there were people in the theater who were laughing uncontrollably for no reason except that wait, they're eagles! hahahahah! HA! good stuff though. i'll never do it again.
It was from about 2pm to midnight, I think I was the only one to stay for all three. And no I didn't sleep.
in a NOC that has five 61" large rear projection screens. We really only need four to monitor the network. So while I'm on weekend shift, I plan on using one of them to watch all three, since my shift is 12 hours and I'm the only one on my shift :)
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I'm going to be screening all of them together in my just redone movie room with a 8' wide screen from DLP projector. I will have to re-arrange the furnature some in order to get 12 or so people in the room at the same time.
Between that and fresh stove popped corn, it should be a hit with the gang. I have already done the first two in a row before ROTK came out in theaters and I expect that this one will go the full 11-12 hrs easy.
...I doubt I would ever do a marathon of the series.
It was plain boring in many sections of the movie that we began to improvise by doing a bit of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ourselves of the movie.
Some things came up:
- Hobbit love. Those guys REALLY dig each other.
- The akwardly long glances in the end of the movie were too long to take seriously, with the causal smiles thrown by the Hobbit characters, you begin to wonder what else does that ring do to them.
- Alot of pot references in the movie.
- The main human character turns down the advances of a human princess. "I can't give you the love you desire" Dude, it's free *boink boink* and you're turning it down?!!? Refer to Hobbit Love.
- It took the White Wizard nearly an hour to ride to the top of the castle. Yes we knew it was a BIG castle when we first saw the grand shots, now you take us on a roadtrip to the top.
- Why did it take 3 movies to get to the volcano? Everytime we get to a checkpoint, we get a reminder of the volcano and see it in the distance. This is the longest roadtrip in HISTORY. What ever happened to horses? What about those HUGE birds?
If I were to watch the movies again, it would be to write a guide on how to watch them all in less time.
...because I fell asleep in the middle of the first movie, never mind the third.
Well... I was planning a Band of Brothers marathon but I haven't found the time yet.
Are there any kind of health issues from being sit and still for 10 hours straight? I mean, like the people who die for being many hours sitting on a plane?
Watch the extended versions, and pass around a joint every time they mention 'pipeweed.' I'm not a big smoker myself (if you know what I mean) but even the real stoners in the group found it hard to keep up. The rest of us were so high, we didn't even know where the phone was. Heeeelp!
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We're waiting until they release the version edited so all 3 movies are run together into one big 10 hour epic :-D
I actually think they're doing it... I hope they'er doing it... THEY'D BETTER BE DOING IT! *raises fist*
We have watched the 3rd movie, however. We just couldn't wait to see it again.
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I think he's going to recut the whole thing into one 14 hours long "Complete" version. Another whole weekend stuck in the house. To complete my fantasy movie series musings - Episode III will suck even more. Harry Potter will die. Hopefully not as a virgin. Support literacy. Eat alphabet crackers.
Eight hours of a Hollywood special-FXathon? No thanks. If I wanted to watch actors get chased by special effects for nine hours, I'd play a computer game, where at least I could keep my actions consistent :-) (unlike that wizard in FOTR who was invincible in all those fights, then fell down a hole in the mountain!!)
I watched the first two movies on Sunday, and then purchased and watched the third movie on Wednesday. I have read the books enough times that I could have slept through any part of it and not known I missed anything!
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Just watched the Hobbit Cartoon. Does that count?