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Lord of the Rings Home Marathons?

Posted by Cliff on from the movie-watching-of-epic-proportions dept.

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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  1. Waiting for extended version by jnicholson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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    "Do not drill any holes in your cat - it will not like it."
    -- Nick Davies
  2. gotta wait till november... by monkeyserver.com · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  3. Re:Um. No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm only 27 (soon, at least)

    So that'd make you 26 yeah?

  4. Re:Um. No. by piggy · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It depends if you watch a movie merely for the plot, or if you gain some additional sort of enjoyment from it, be it art, style, the mood it creates, or the mindless sense of abandonment of reality. Keep in mind that listening to a song just for the lyrics will grow old very quickly, but clearly that is not the only reason many people listen to music. The point is that while you may only derive pleasure from a movie's plot, someone else may enjoy other aspects.

    Your comment "You can quote an entire movie line by line and I'm the moron" makes as much sense to some people as the equivalent "You know all the lyrics to an entire song" or "You know all the lines from a play" or.... Well, I hope you get the point.

    In the end, while "listening to music is not at all like watching a movie [for Seumas]", it may be a similar experience for other people. Become a little more open minded, man.

    Russell