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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?
"Do not drill any holes in your cat - it will not like it."
-- Nick Davies
One movie each weekend. With the extra features on the DVD. And yes, some people fell asleep.
Simon's Rock College
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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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...
</sarcasm>
- Neil Wehneman
My legal education, in nifty podcast format
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.
I don't know if I'd mod that Flamebait.
:).
(-1, Capitalist Whore) perhaps.
But not Flamebait
- Neil Wehneman
My legal education, in nifty podcast format
I don't have any friends you insensitive clod!
I think I think, therefore I think I am.
Marxist evolution is just N generations away!
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?
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.
...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 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.
The opposite happened here... the movie theater didn't seem to understand what they were getting into... They had *one* booth open to buy tickets... and they sold out in under an hour (good on-line sales...)...
And memory from that day that sticks the longest was the massive boo-ing that occurred during the Mask 2 preview (which I haven't seen since)... turning towards the New Line Rep, and seeing them taking furious notes on a clipboard.
Nephilium
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. -- Bertrand Russell
Indeed - and did Mr Cooper pay attention when he watched FOTR? There was the small matter of the Balrog, who dragged "the wizard" down "the hole". He didn't just fall. The two Maiar spirits then fought for about 10 days before Olorin (who was variously known as Gandalf, Mithrandir, The Grey Pilgrim etc by the peoples of Middle Earth) finally slew the un-named Balrog (known only as "Durin's Bane").