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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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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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(-1, Capitalist Whore) perhaps.
But not Flamebait
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I started my LotR marathon today while working on some new features in the Slash code. I hope it doesn't show ...
i'm going to raise the ante with a keg and a package of "Depends" undergarments. first one to go to the toilet loses.
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.
Or trying to sync all three movies to Dark Side of the Moon?
Why listen to the same song more than once? Why eat the same type of meal more than once? Why have sex with the same person more than once?
BECAUSE IT IS ENJOYABLE YOU MORON.
I don't like Star Wars but I've watched Metropolis (Fritz Lang) a dozen times. I still enjoy watching it even though I know every single scene by heart.
If people enjoy watching LOTR ten times then let them. Don't be a dickhead and make them feel bad about it.
Metropolis is a silent movie.
...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.
I survived Trilogy Tuesday and all I got was this Ring...
'The staff in the hand of a wizard may be more than a prop for age,' -Hamá, the doorward
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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