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Posted by timothy from the hallucinogenic-futon dept.
Slashback tonight brings updates on the recent Google hiccup, LookSmart and the FBI's note-snooping in the Adrian Lamo case, as well as (at long last!) a list of the theaters whose seats will soon be smooshed for far longer than usual under the weight of those dedicated enough to sit through 10 hours of Lord of the Rings. Read on below for the details.

Microsoft thinks LookSmart looks less smart. securitas writes "Internet search company LookSmart was dropped by Microsoft's MSN service today. MSN has decided not to extend its licensing contract with LookSmart beyond January 2004. The news is devastating for LookSmart since, 'Microsoft accounted for approximately 65 percent of listings revenues, and all of LookSmart's licensing revenue in the second quarter of 2003,' according to a company press release not listed on LookSmart's site. The move comes after LookSmart recently launched its own Overture-style pay-per-click service and indicates Microsoft is close to launching its new search engine technology designed to unseat Google for the search crown. All of this is against the backdrop of acquisitions by rival Yahoo. More coverage at SearchEngineWatch and a Reuters mirror at CNN Money."

They could have fixed this if they'd googled for an answer ... powerg3 writes "This follow-up, explains the Google wackiness posted yesterday. Here's the quote from the Google Weblog: '...when a spam result comes up in a search, Google not only blocks the spam, but every result after it. This means that for searches where spam results manage to rise to the top, very few -- sometimes zero -- results will be returned....It's pretty amazing that such a serious bug made it past Google's tests. It will be interesting to see how quickly it's fixed.'"

Pardon me, mum, can I borrow your hard drive? AndreL writes "The Guardian has an update about the BBC's digital archive plans. They're considering using P2P technology to avoid bandwidth bottlenecks. The bad news: because of technical, financial, and legal problems nothing will happen until 2006 at the earliest."

Please arrive in costume if at all. KTecumseh writes "The list of theaters showing the extended editions of LOTR as been revealed. You can check out the list at the official website, and before you look, pray that you live somewhere close by to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime experience. For those that can not make the full 10-hour saga, they are also showing the first two extended additions on different dates, but who wants to miss out on an entire theater of sweaty LOTR fans."

Shamus Arrigan asks plaintively "There is no mention of these ticket sales in any other country. Does anyone know when and where these tickets will be sold at? (Canada especially)"

Wait, are you fellas press? Dangnabbit! ccnull writes "Good news from the inquest against hacker Adrian Lamo. According to a paragraph in a Washington Post column (buried about 3/4 of the way down the story), the FBI appears to be backing off from pursuing reporters' notes in the case. Relevant quote: 'A Justice Department official says the FBI agent "acted out of turn" by not seeking approval from the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan and Attorney General John Ashcroft's press office. "The agent did not follow standard procedures," the official says. "We're just not going to pursue it. It is the policy of the Justice Department to exhaust all other means before seeking information from members of the media."'"

Eh, what's a few orders of magnitude? Grant hayes writes: "It seems the decimal point in the Mono story you ran is being a bit ambitious. We should be reading Mono 0.28, not Mono 2.8. Check the link below as well as links there to other Mono resources; I see 0.28 throughout." Here's the Mono site -- guilty as charged. Thanks for the correction.
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  • Additional article body (Score:5, Funny)

    by macshune ( 628296 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:03PM (#7167552) Journal
    "...a list of the theaters whose seats will soon be smooshed for far longer than usual under the weight of those dedicated enough to sit through 10 hours of Lord of the Rings"


    And also those large folks that will play an inspired game of D&D after the movie.

  • 10 hours of LOTR? (Score:4, Funny)

    by mikeophile ( 647318 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:05PM (#7167564)
    I'm thinking that the title 'Lord of the Inflatable Butt Rings' would be more appropriate for those with more tender hindquarters.

    • Re:10 hours of LOTR? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by l810c ( 551591 ) * on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:12PM (#7167612)
      I don't know how many of theaters have these, but the new theater [megastarcinemas.com] opened up ~18 months ago near us. It has a VIP room with Fat Leather Recliners, separate sound system and private, close bathrooms. $200 for 16 seats. Definatley might be worth it for something like this.

      We got it for LOTR TTT. Tried to get it 3 weeks before Matrix2 and it had been booked for months. We went ahead an booked LOTR ROTK back in June.

      • $12.50 per person? In Orange County, CA many theaters are up to $9.50 for standard seating, so I wouldn't think twice about spending another $3 for a little luxury. I hope we start seeing this sort of thing around here.
        • Sorry, I should have been more clear. That was additional, so + $7.50 ticket it was $20/person. Not something I would do all of the time, but definately worth it a couple of times a year for special/long movies.
        • Well here at Hughes Center in LA county we have the $20 movie tickets for similarly appointed theater. It seems everything is 50-60% premium in SoCal...

          BTW, I don't partonize the place, it is festered with teenagers on dates...
      • I don't know how many of theaters have these, but the new theater [megastarcinemas.com] opened up ~18 months ago near us. It has a VIP room with Fat Leather Recliners, separate sound system and private, close bathrooms. $200 for 16 seats. Definatley might be worth it for something like this.
        Are they still going to show you ads before the movie in that room?
        • Are they still going to show you ads before the movie in that room?

          Yes, but only those regarding the snack bar. After all, only fat cats who pay $13 por a seat can afford to pay $7 for a Crunch bar and $4 for a medium coke.
      • "We got it for LOTR TTT. Tried to get it 3 weeks before Matrix2 and it had been booked for months. We went ahead an booked LOTR ROTK back in June."

        Gonna pop for another $200 so you can bring a girl along?
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    • Too true - I sat through the two together at my house, and my ass was a big sack of hurt! Maybe they should hire staff to rotate us so that we don't wind up getting bed sores ...

  • Toliet breaks (Score:3, Interesting)

    by rf0 ( 159958 ) <rghf@fsck.me.uk> on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:05PM (#7167566) Homepage
    You have to wonder if with the LOTR there will be breaks or will people just have to step out in the middle of films. Now if they were cut together as one large epic that would be cool.

    Rus
    • Of course there will be breaks. As far as editing them together, don't forget that the second movie opens with quite a few scenes from the first movie, and it would be quite a lot of work (not so much that it would be impossible, but quite a bit) to re-edit the whole gandolf/ balrog fight and make it seamless with the first one... meaning that it's not going to be re-edited.

      Maybe some day there will be a fan edit of the whole trilogy into one 9 hour tome.

    • Re:Toilet breaks (Score:5, Funny)

      by kaan ( 88626 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:24PM (#7167670)
      I heard that there will be no toilet breaks, because it's all part of a contest. See, without toilet breaks, that will make it easier to distinguish who is really a hardcore LOTR fan and who is a poser. There will be judges monitoring the audience via hidden camera, and whoever earns the most points as a hardcore LOTR fan (dressing up in costume helps your score) will be awarded a full-size cardboard cutout of, umm, Gandalf. I am completely serious. Really.
      • > no toilet breaks, because it's all part of a contest ...
        > to distinguish who is really a hardcore LOTR fan

        So, you're saying I should sneak in a gallon or so of lemon iced
        tea, just to impress a bunch of lamers with how much I can retain?
        About four hours in, I'd run low on tea to drink, and be able to
        torment people by swishing the ice around in the bottom of the jug ;-)

    • Re:Toliet breaks (Score:5, Funny)

      by product byproduct ( 628318 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:26PM (#7167688)
      Toilet breaks? To enjoy the full experience of a non-stop 10-hour immersion, *real* LOTR fans will prefer this solution [drugstore.com]
      • Or this [southwestmedical.com] solution.

        GF.

        • Re:Toliet breaks (Score:5, Funny)

          by Thing 1 ( 178996 ) on Thursday October 09, 2003 @01:12AM (#7169335) Journal
          Wow that brings back bad memories. They're funny though, so I thought I'd share.

          I was in a bad car accident over a decade ago, I was unconscious and they had to put a catheter in for me to pee. I remember waking up on the gurney saying "I'm peeing and I can't stop!" and they said don't worry, there's a catheter.

          When they took it out it was a very unusual (unnatural!) feeling...

          The worst part though, was when I went to the bathroom an hour later. The nice nurse wanted me to use a bedpan, but I wanted to walk to the bathroom which I did. I sat down (broken collarbone and rib weren't conducive to standing), and when I started...

          I FARTED OUT MY DICK!

          This has never happened before, and I imagined that I had some serious internal damage. But when I told the nurse, she said, "Oh that's no problem, it must have just pushed some air in when we inserted the catheter."

          If that's common knowledge they should warn us... Or maybe that's one of the "perks," watching the look on people's faces (i.e. priceless)...

          Sorry I didn't mention LOTR. ;-)

    • I am thinking how many of the assholes that can't leave their cells phones off for 2 hours are going to make it for 10 hours.

      "Yea dud I am here at the LOTR extended edition"...
      "Oh nothing man, i be out of here in about 9 hours. you wanna hook up"...
      "No, you know i seen this part. I just thought it would be cool to be here"...
      "No, I couldn't get anyone to go with me to the party"...
      "God I know. She is such a slut, and I can't ever get to kiss me"...
      ...
      ...
      ad nauseum

      • Re:Toliet breaks (Score:4, Funny)

        by MuParadigm ( 687680 ) <jgabriel66@yahoo.com> on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @10:04PM (#7168251) Homepage Journal
        Or better yet:

        "The server's down? Look, I'm really sick.... thirty thousand an hour? ... I know we're losing a lot of money, it's just.... At the movies? No that's just my DVD player... Hello? ... Hello? ... I can't hear you... I think we've got a bad connection... (Makes static sounds)... Yeah, this phone has been giving me trouble for a couple weeks now.... Hello?.... (click)"

        Removes phone battery.

        Loses job.

  • Only one theater in Silicon Valley? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by imcleod ( 94945 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:05PM (#7167571)
    The list only shows one theater in Silicon Valley that's doing the screenings, and two others in the SF Bay Area (Dublin, San Francisco). Get your tickets early, folks...

  • Cushions? Weight? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Ignorant Aardvark ( 632408 ) <cydeweys@noSpAm.gmail.com> on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:05PM (#7167573) Homepage Journal
    a list of the theaters whose seats will soon be smooshed for far longer than usual under the weight of those dedicated enough to sit through

    A, the deadly combination of 10 hours of sitting plus the 400 lb weight of your average LOTR nerd ... has been known to reduce the natural life of cushions by 95%.

    • Testing (Score:2)

      by rf0 ( 159958 )
      It depends how much testing is done [oregonaero.com]

      R.

    • What's happened to the concept of Intermissions? (Score:4, Interesting)

      by TPFH ( 92944 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:38PM (#7167752) Homepage Journal
      400 lb weight of your average LOTR nerd
      Avarage?
      Average meaning mean I'm guessing.....
      If 400lb is the mean, what does a relatively heavy LOTR Nerd weigh? (Especially considering that some are quite skinny.)

      And 10 hours.... (and this is not a comment on the weight joke.) it's not just bathroom breaks but meal breaks that will come into play there. And no, eating junk food while watching the movie isn't a meal. Need good protein.

      In the past when a movie was 3 hours long you had an intermission in the middle. It is nice to get up and walk around every hour or so. I remember being suprised when Malcolm X [imdb.com] didn't have an intermission. When they re-released Laurance of Arabia [imdb.com] there was an intermission. I have not seen it yet but I heard that Shoah [imdb.com] had more than one intermission.

      So what happened?
      Did we go through the 80s without any (mainstream) 3 hour movies and after so long a time movie studios forgot the concept?
      • Here, it's playing in a theater that serves burgers and beer. At tables. (In the balcony; there's standard seating below.)

        Not that I like beer, or am likely to go to this showing.

      • Did we go through the 80s without any (mainstream) 3 hour movies and after so long a time movie studios forgot the concept?

        I know I saw two movies in the Eighties with intermissions. I can't remember the second but Gandhi [imdb.com] was absolutely wonderful and had a full intermission.

        I do agree that there should be more of those. When I saw Goodfellas" [imdb.com] in 1990 it was so riviting I never left my seat. I'll admit that it was only two hours, twenty-five minutes, but that was the longest stretch I've ever endured that

      • They don't make any more money, and they are using up the theatre for that much longer. They don't give a damn about you...

        One of the main reasons I haven't gone to a theatre in years.
        • Actually, the theaters would probably love to have intermissions in long movies. They make good coin on the concessions, so any time we're in the lobby and not in the seats is to their advantage.

          It's pressure from the studios preventing this from happening. The studios are getting a piece of ticket sales, so they want to maximize the number of screenings per day and minimize the time in between start times.
      • "Lawrence of Arabia" always had an intermission. From what I gather, the DVD even has the 15 minutes of music and black screen as part of the show! That's a bit silly IMO.

        A couple of years ago, one of the better movie theatres in Toronto was closing, so for the last weekend they were showing "Lawrence of Arabia." A few blocks away at one of the best theatres in the city, they were showing "Apocalypse Now: Redux." Being the enterprising young men, my friend Dan and I saw both shows! We walked from one to t
      • > 400 lb weight of your average LOTR nerd
        Avarage?
        Average meaning mean I'm guessing.....

        Not the mean - he's probably using a weighted average.
  • ...must now be done in Aaahnold's voice.

    In Soviet Rassha, tha moovee watches ten aoahs of yoo!

  • Not just with Lamo (Score:5, Insightful)

    by phorm ( 591458 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:13PM (#7167617) Journal
    Good news from the inquest against hacker Adrian Lamo

    For those that don't really like Lamo, consider this in the large scope that it is, overall, a victory for everbody's rights against rampant abuse-of-power.

    • Re:Not just with Lamo (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Hard_Code ( 49548 )
      Pretend I'm naive here and explain to me how it's an abuse of power. Is this just public info, or are they invading some sorts of "press" protection of sources rights? Does this apply in all cases?

      • Re:Not just with Lamo (Score:2, Informative)

        by dpoppink ( 675384 )
        It's certainly not public info. The FBI was asking for the reporters' private notes, recordings, and other source material. This included material which was taken "off the record" during interviews. In general, reporters are required by law and ethics to protect the confidentiality of their sources (if their sources desire confidentiality). What bugged me most about this situation is that the FBI would go after reporters who reported on Lamo but no one was going after Robert Novak's notes, despite the f
    • yes, but for the paranoid, they have already gotten the information with a secret warrant that the media folks can talk about in exchange for a 10 year contempt of court prison term.
  • Only one listing in denver BUT it is on an IMAX screen. Did they reshoot in IMAX? Or will this just be a bigass screen?

  • The Great White LOTR (Score:5, Funny)

    by orthogonal ( 588627 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:21PM (#7167656) Journal
    "There is no mention of these ticket sales in any other country. Does anyone know when and where these tickets will be sold at? (Canada especially)"

    Glad to be of assistance to all out Canadian (or is it Canadien?) friends!

    Lord of the Rings will be playing at the following theaters (or is it theatres?) for our northern neighbors:
    • Cineplex Odeon, Detroit, Michigan
    • Fenian Moviehouse, Niagara Falls, New York
    • Bill's Movie Place, Seattle, Washington
    • Avalon Theater, Bismark, North Dakota (please note, American coins only!)
    • Ultimax Theater, Montpelier, Vermont

    We hope you enjoy our movies and our hemispheric hegemony! :)
    • (Score:3, Informative)

      Funny? sure
      TrollBait? Perhaps but Informative???????!

      Sheeesh.

      • (Score:3, Informative)

        Funny? sure
        TrollBait? Perhaps but Informative???????!

        Those are Canadian "Informatives".

        The exchange rate is 5/4 of a Canadian "Informative" is equivalent to one American "Funny".

        Were you set up to show my +1 Karma bonus modifier (as you should have been, I've had to whore for a year to keep that bonus!), it would be +4 "Informative" (Canadian), that is, +5 Funny (American).

        Simple, once you know the exchange rate.

        (Yeah, I was amazed to see it get modded "Informative" too. I thoug
        • And yes, I was going for "Funny"; I wasn't attempting to troll.)

          I realize that, but some moderators lack the funnybone necessary to recognize humor and tend to identify posts such as yours as 'troll'. It's just commen enough for me to have given up and started accepting it as 'normal'. The 'informative' thing, though, is just beyond my tolerance.

  • Does anyone know how much the marathon ticket prices are going for? The Loews Theater nearest me mentions the show, but gives no indication of price (http://www.loewscineplex.com/promotions/trilogytu esday/index.cfm [loewscineplex.com])
  • ...that or pick up one of those strap-on urinals. They can't be seen under your clothes. I find they work really well for long car rides or trips to the DMV.

  • Never understood why the "extra" footage... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Hamster Lover ( 558288 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:27PM (#7167691) Journal
    wasn't added to the movie to begin with.

    If you're in for a penny you're in for pound, as the saying goes. What difference is 20-30 minutes going to make on a 3 hour movie? Are people simply going to walk out at exactly 3 hours?

    The extra footage added to Fellowship really fleshed out the story and brought it closer to the book.

    Just my 2 cents.

    • Re:Never understood why the "extra" footage... (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Texas Rose on Lava L ( 712928 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:33PM (#7167723) Homepage Journal
      The shorter the movie is, the more times the theater can show it. The more times the theater shows the movie, the more tickets they can sell. The more tickets they sell, the more money the studio makes. Movie studios tend to do things that they think will make them money.
      • You are right on the money. That's why they will be releasing a 90 minute combination of the highlights of the three movies in all the other cinemas, repackaged as LOTR:FTRD - Lord of the Rings: For The Ritalin Deficient.
      • The shorter the movie is, the more times the theater can show it. The more times the theater shows the movie, the more tickets they can sell. The more tickets they sell, the more money the studio makes. Movie studios tend to do things that they think will make them money.
        Too true. This is why Quentin Tarantino's new movie Kill Bill got chopped in half. [theonionavclub.com]

        • Too true. This is why Quentin Tarantino's new movie Kill Bill got chopped in half.

          Is that it? I thought they were trying to be cool like the Matrix sequels! M47r1X r00lz! ;)

          ObOnTopic: Although I like the long version of Fellowship better, I think it would have been too long to run in a theater without an intermission. Hopefuly these marathons will have appropriate intermissions, or else some of the real fanatics will be hurting... Anyway, I'm SOL here in Nowheresville, USA, so if I want a marathon I'

      • You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the film is what makes money for the theatre.
        it ain't so. [atwola.com]

        It's all about the popcorn & soda
        Yes. The longer the movie runs in the multiplex, the better chance they have of getting a bigger taste of the gate
        but with a movie that has the pent-up demand of this one I would not be supprised if the contracts were modified to tilt even more in favor of the MPAA

    • Because Newline dictated to Peter Jackson that none of the movies could be longer than three hours in their original release. So he cut them to 2h57m, with the understanding that prior to the release of each of the films, the "Extended Special Edition" DVDs could be released in time for people to buy or rent before seeing the next installment.

      All that is explained in the stuff on the DVDs.

      • I completely missed that.

        I saw the "Making Of..." special on TV and that was enough for me.

        I assume that Newline wanted to keep the length down to allow more screenings per day. More screenings = more revenue. This is a bonus for theatres as well since they will sell more concessions for each screening.

        Would have helped if I actually saw the bonus materials, never bothered, I was too hyped to watch the extended versions to care.

        I would buy the extended versions in a heartbeat, but I am waiting until all
    • I don't think that its that people will walk out, but that a lot of theatres list the runtimes of their movies. There is probably some magic number that increases attendance for a move.

      Of course, with LotR fans, this is probably irrevelavant.
    • Are people simply going to walk out at exactly 3 hours?

      No, but they might start getting bored or uncomfortable. Moreover, they might not see it in the first place if they know ahead of time that it's going to be 3 and a half hours, with no intermissions. A decent movie, I think, can sustain the viewer's interest for 2.5 hours. At that point, people start needing to go to the bathroom, or get sleepy from having been in a dark theatre for so long, or are uncomfortable from sitting in one place for the en

    • The reason for this is pretty simple. 3 hours is the maximum cut-off time that studios will accept movies in most circumstances -- especially movies that will appeal to more popular people. The reason? Well...at 3 hours runtime, plus trailers, load-in, and clean-up time, you have about 3:30 at a breakneck pace. That leaves the following times available for post-matinee showings

      4:00
      7:30
      11:00

      Three showings a night, per screen. A mere additional 30 minutes of footage would push any third showing to midn
    • If they gave you the extra footage right off, you wouldn't go back and buy the DVD a second time now would you?
  • I wonder how many incidents of Deep Vein Thrombosis [doh.gov.uk] there will be among those sitting through the 10 hour epic?

  • Definition of insanity (Score:3, Insightful)

    by bstadil ( 7110 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:32PM (#7167715) Homepage
    The old story about insanity defined as "doing the same thing over and over expecting different results", pretty much sums up anyone entering into a close relations with Microsoft.

    The list of companies being f****d is legio,can anyone come up with a company that did well?

    Not being bought by MS but working as a close partner with MS, and lived to tell the tale.

  • LOTR screening in Baltimore (Score:4, Informative)

    by guacamolefoo ( 577448 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:32PM (#7167717) Homepage Journal
    I just called the Senator theater (in Towson). Here's the deal:

    Tickets for the trilogy are $35. They go on sale Saturday the 11th at noon. No more than 10 tickets may be purchased at once. The trilogy will be shown back-to-back-to-back on December 16th (Tuesday) starting at noon. The Senator theater is at www.senator.com or 410-435-8338.

    GF.
    • sale date is October 11, btw.
    • Incidentally related... has anyone been having trouble reaching http://www.senator.com? I haven't been able to get there in weeks. Mozilla says that the site can't be found (DNS error), but every other site these days that does that goes to SiteFinder. This one doesn't.

      Can someone post the IP address if they can get there?

      Thanks.
    • The phone message for the Senator also said that they take cash only. So hit an ATM before going.

      To reply to another post, the Senator's web site has been down most of the day.

      Tickets go on sale at the Cineplex Odeon Uptown in DC tomorrow at 1, though the Washington Post web site says 12. Limit of 4 per person, but the price is only $26 and change, at least that's what I was told over the phone. About 4 people were in line about 45 minutes ago.

      The Senator is my backup plan.
    • There is a God.
      I don't think there is any theatre quite like the Senator.

      I wonder if they will play a cartoon before the movies???

  • Now a man figures it's his relationship with Microsoft, so he'll take what he wants from it. Yeah... well it don't always work out that way...

    You'd think that before a company entered into a relationship with a company like Microsoft (Or SCO... whoever...) the aforementioned company might... you know... look at Microsoft's past history or something? It's like marrying a woman with 7 divorces. She might not divorce you, but that's not where I'd put my money. What are these people thinking "Oh, the past is

    • The MSN deal paid something like $14 million up front, and they got MSN to look the other way while LS sold slots in their directory feed. It was slimy, but profitable, and for LS, this was all they needed. No other search engine made a similar deal with LS - even those that used the LS directory got it for almost nothing up-front, and only a share of the clickthrough revenue.

      Unfortunately even a monopoly like MS had to wake up someday, and realize that the revenue can be theirs alone, for the cost of a

  • 10 hours! (Score:3, Funny)

    by CdnShaggy ( 683274 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:34PM (#7167733)
    I will be the guy in the front, with the box around my neck, selling the depends for 8$ a pop!
  • People want to sit in a cinema and watch LOTR for 10 hours? seriously? sometimes i am either ashamed to be a geek or wonder if i really am one.
    • I agree. I get restless watching a movie as it is, which is one reason I hardly ever watch them. I don't have a short attention span - I can spend all day coding or reading a book. But movies are inherently boring - nothing to do but sit in the dark and watch. Who wants to eat three delicious dinners in a row?
    • I'm definitely a geek, but I'm not going. I might see the individual showing of the extended editions earlier, but the ten hour marathon? No way!

      After seven hours I'll doze off and completely miss the ROTK. No way am I going to miss the first day of ROTK. I would have to turn in my geek card.

      Next year though when ROTK:Extended comes out on DVD, we are planning a big-screen TV and comfortable-sofa party. Plenty of time for bathroom breaks, stretching your legs, calling out for pizza, etc.
    • while sitting in the same seat?

      I'd tear that geek cad up right now if I were you. I don't even blink at the thought of spending ten hours in a theater. Not even just for LOTR, I could handle even a Care Bare's Movie trilogy if I were in the right mood.

      The key is to offset the ridiculous periods of sitting and staring with equal amounts of walking or hiking. So a ten hour movie binge means a nice ten hour hike the next day (or the day before, probably better to give you a reason to sit).
  • The Regal Cinemas Hacienda Crossings in Dublin is just down the street. I asked my wife if she was interested. She looked at me like I was insane. My daughter, on the other hand, is all for it.

    I tried to convince my daughter to make herself up like an elf. She has an elfish quality about her, so it seemed natural, but she rejected the idea. Well, she's more Drow than Elf since I'm convinced that she is evil (she's a teenager).

  • what about the ROTK Extended Edition? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by r5t8i6y3 ( 574628 ) on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @08:59PM (#7167851)
    sounds a bit annoying to me. sitting through the FOTR Extended Edition then the TTT Extended Edition and then the finale - the ROTK squeeze me into a tolerable amount of time for most people Edition. talk about a let down. after i see the ROTK the first thing i'll be speculating about will be what scenes were missing that will be on the ROTK Extended Edition DVD.

  • The Guardian has an update about the BBC's digital archive plans. [snip] The bad news: because of technical, financial, and legal problems nothing will happen until 2006 at the earliest.

    The good news: a delay could allow time for Ogg Theora to mature, so that a patent and royalty-free video format will be available as an option.

  • this search [google.com] is fixed (displays more than 1 result).

  • Me (Score:2)

    by sharkey ( 16670 )
    but who wants to miss out on an entire theater of sweaty LOTR fans

  • UK Cinemas? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Jobby ( 135237 )
    Anyone know which UK cinemas this is going to be showing at (if any) ?

  • LOTR x 3 (Score:2, Funny)

    by Scholasticus ( 567646 )
    Okay, lemme get this straight ... it's a story about a hobbit who has to throw the One Ring of Power into Mount Doom to save Middle Earth from the Dark Lord Sauron. It starts off with Bilbo Baggins leaving the Shire and walking off on a long journey. Then Frodo & Company walk to Bree, after which Aragorn joins them and they walk to Rivendell. Then Legolas, Gandalf and Gimli join them and they set off walking toward the Misty Mountains ... you get the idea. Our way of appreciating this epic of walkin
  • And they're NOW SOLD OUT at my theater. Whew! I got there just as the box office opened, to quite a line around the corner. They sold out in about 1 hour.

    Anyway, I cannot wait. As I have a renaissance costume for the Renaissance Faires I attend, I'll be wearing that. I also bought a special package that lets me eat all the hot dogs, popcorn, soda, candy, and whatever else I want for the snack bar all day at no extra charge.

    This is going to be SO SWEET!

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