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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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  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. DVD & Cinema Marathon by Kalixis · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Just before Return came out in the cinemas, we planned the following:
    • Watch Fellowship of the Ring.
    • Watch The Two Towers.
    • Watch Return of the King at the cinema.
    • One after the other.

    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.
  4. Um. No. by Seumas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  5. Hm by pudge · · Score: 5, Funny

    I started my LotR marathon today while working on some new features in the Slash code. I hope it doesn't show ...