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LOTR Campout Begins 189

Posted by michael from the crazier-than-a-barrel-of-gnomes dept.
Rocknalle writes: "As reported on The One Ring queues have have already started lining up for The Fellowship Of The Ring. Team GladBlad (having placed themselves nr. 1-4 in the queue), are reporting live from the event via notebooks and and cellular networking (9.6 Kbps rules! :-). Visit GladBlad and see what happens when geeks goes outside." The other LOTR news I know of is a description of the journalistic teaser trailer. Salon seems to have liked what they saw.
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  • In other news... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Cutriss ( 262920 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @06:17PM (#2455431) Homepage
    People with jobs report that working between October 20th and December 19th resulted in two months' worth of paychecks!

    • Re:In other news... (Score:3, Interesting)

      by ackthpt ( 218170 )
      I can't get into the first night showing thing, really. I'd sooner wait a week or two and get a seat in the center of the theater, not jammed between a couple of overzealoud Tolkien fans, where the air is stale and I miss lines of dialogue from 400 other people all going "OOOHH!!!" or laughing at the same time.

      Last experience like this was a midnight showing of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted [ifilm.com] Festival of Animation. Not a spare seat in the joint, hot, humid and too much background noise. For my $5 (mantinees, y'know :-) and another $7.75 for popcorn and pop (it's part of the experience, but smuggle a can of Pringles and a couple cans of Coke in a winter coat sleeve if you like) I like a smaller crowd. Besides, call me a Troll if you must, I'm actually looking forward to the Harry Potter movie as it looks, unlike Holy Wood productions, done up extremely well.

      • "Besides, call me a Troll if you must, I'm actually looking forward to the Harry Potter movie as it looks, unlike Holy Wood productions, done up extremely well."


        I'm curious as to your use of "besides" to start that sentence. You used it in the context of not wanting to see LoTR on opening night, and thus your meaning evidently is that Harry Potter, unlike LoTR, is unlike Hollywood and done right. Since I've yet to see anyone who has said otherwise about LoTR, and in fact most people think that LoTR is even more unHollywood-like than Harry Potter, I'm wondering what you heard that makes you think this about LoTR. From what I can tell, if you want the definition of a movie done "extremely well," look no further than what Peter Jackson has done with LoTR.

        • I'm curious as to your use of "besides" to start that sentence. etc. etc.

          Besides, as in, there are other places to go, things to do, among them surrender a camping site in line for LotR to see another film.

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        • Why are you arguing over a pair of movies none of you has seen yet?
        • Um, and exactly what *can* you tell us? Like the rest of us, you haven't seen the movie yet.

          Max
      • I'd sooner wait a week or two and get a seat in the center of the theater, not jammed between a couple of overzealoud Tolkien fans, where the air is stale and I miss lines of dialogue from 400 other people all going "OOOHH!!!" or laughing at the same time.

        I agree totally. Plus with my luck, I'd get the guy in the big Gandalf hat sitting right in front of me... I'll probably go see it sometime between Christmas and New Year's.

    • The really bizare thing is I've got tickets for the movie in the second biggest theater in Denmark at 0am 19. december. A friend of mine simply offered to arrange the entire show. And the only reason it didnt become iin the biggest theater, the one these loser are camping for, was becouse they wouldn't show the movie until an hour later(1am).

      Don't wait in line, just take initiative!!

  • or when.. (Score:4, Interesting)

    by gkuchta ( 451185 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @06:18PM (#2455432)
    geeks goes to Enrish classes..

    I wonder if any Krispy Kreme donut shops, or Chipolte grills have opened up next to theaters for this specifically this reason. I would, if I owned Krispy Kreme.
    • Why not just bring a hot dog cart there or something like that? Anyway, this is 4 people, can't make much of a living off of them.

  • Erm... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by jgrumbles ( 515918 )
    Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't this movie come out Christmas? Or are the Danes getting it earlier? If they aren't then...whoa.

    • Re:Erm... (Score:3, Informative)

      by DagSverre ( 223837 )
      They might be opening for ticket pre-sales on monday though. I bought my Star Wars ep I ticket two months in advance for instance...


    • Well, perhaps not the Danes, but the Brits. (And a flight to London is cheap. *grin*)

      It opens on the 10th, I believe, in England, and on the 19th on this side of the pond. My girlfriend will happen to be in the Netherlands at the time, and will be flying to London to catch the earlier showing.

      I am tremendously envious. I am a major fan of Prof. Tolkien's works.

  • Echos of Ep1 (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Telek ( 410366 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @06:26PM (#2455446) Homepage
    I remember all that hype about episode 1 for star wars and people lining up for months in advance.

    Was it worth it?

    I doubt it. I walked up to my local AMC the night before and bought 12 tickets without problem for a show around 8pm on the opening day. As much as I am for camping, I think that this is a little ... too extreme, no?

    Did anyone out there actually line up far in advance for Ep1?

    • Re:Echos of Ep1 (Score:2, Informative)

      by DagSverre ( 223837 )

      I walked up to my local AMC the night before and bought 12 tickets without problem for a show"...

      Well, with most shows that is ok, only the ones that are long awaited (I guess that only really happens with movies with geek appeal) get special treatment...

      Also remember that this is Denmark we're talking about, knowing it is probably a lot similar to Norway there is not nearly as many or as big theatres there. If it's anything like Norway we're talking three or four really big and great (thinking mostly the size and quality of the sound systems here, but also some crowd and media coverage is good) theatres in the whole country. People don't want to watch these special movies in a small theatre with average sound (especially because of the aforementioned geek appeal), so people flock to the cities to see the movies even if the local theater would view them at the same time.

      (BTW, With StarWars ep1, in Oslo premiere started at midnight, going through all the night, with breakfast included in the ticket price...the same will probably be done with LoTR)

      Did anyone out there actually line up far in advance for Ep1?

      I know in Norway they did...

      And lining up like this (while not having done it myself) is probably somewhat of an experience in itself. In the Oslo SWEp1 queue lots of people were dressed up as Darth Vader or Darth Maul or Luke or Leia or whatever...they seemed to make a good time out of it.

      • "walked up to my local AMC the night before and bought 12 tickets without problem for a show..."

        Whoops, sorry about misinterpreting that line...

      • Funny coincidence, read my post below... I didn't even realize Gladblad were in Denmark, I assumed they must be crazy Americans :)

        Factoid here, the theatre we were queuing up in front of, the Colosseum in Oslo, is (or was about a year ago) the world's largest THX-certified movie theatre. Watching a movie there is quite an experience, but DagSverre is right - there are only about three movie theatres in the whole country which I consider worth going to at all.
      • You took my quote out of context, let me rephrase.

        I went to AMC the night before it opened and bought 12 tickets for the showing of Episode 1 that was sometime around 8pm on the night of opening. The following day by about 4pm all tickets had sold out, and there was a 2 hour lineup to go see the show with people dressed up, but it wasn't months in the making, more like hours.
      • Well God knows they needed to have fun in the line, since they sure as hell weren't going to in the cinema. Don't think I've seen such an outrageously bad film since Johnny Mnemonic - another one which tried to cash in on FX and bombed out. And Lucas didn't even have the excuse of a bad leading actor - 2 top actors (Neeson, McGregor) plus a good stuntman-actor (Park) and he still couldn't shoot the fish in the sodding barrel!

        Grab.

    • Re:Echos of Ep1 (Score:5, Informative)

      by OblongPlatypus ( 233746 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @06:57PM (#2455487)
      Here in Norway, they start selling tickets to these "big" movies a month or two in advance, and they usually play up to the whole queuing deal in various ways. During the last night of the Ep1 queue, they were showing Ep4-6 on a big screen outside the theatre, held a costume competition, etc. The first screening on the opening day is usually scheduled at 00:01. Basically, it's made into a big deal by the theatres.

      Although I used the world "usually", so far Ep1 is actually the only movie in which the actual queuing process has been hyped in this way. The next will be LOTR, and I'm sure LOTR2&3 and SW2&3 will be handled similarly. Possibly Matrix2&3 as well, I'm not sure if Matrix has had time to acquire enough of a cult status yet though. The LOTR ticket sale starts on November 5th. It's cold outside already, it'll be freezing by then - at least the Ep1 release was in the summer :)

      I also used "theatre", singular, in the first paragraph. That's because the ticket sale was limited to only one theatre in the entire country. Despite that, when I showed up at around midnight on the last night before the ticket sale started, there weren't more than about two hundred people in line before me; I got excellent tickets to the 6am screening on the opening day.

      The conclusion would be that out of the almost 5 million people in my country, only about 200 cared enough about Ep1 to queue up more than 8 hours in advance, despite massive hyping by the theatres. Anyone know the statistics for the states? And is there any queue-specific hyping of the sort I described above going on over there?

      • What you say about ONE theatre isn't entirely correct, I bought my ticket a month in advance in a little theater in Bø in Telemark, and watched it at the same time as it premiered in Colloseum (00:05). I guess my only point is that a lot more than 200 people cared if you count the small local theatres.

        • My point was that 200 people cared enough to be there 8 hours before the ticket sale started. Were they lining up in front of the little theatre in Bø as well? If so, I stand corrected.

          It's weird though, I think I remember them claiming the Colosseum queue was the exclusively first chance to get an Ep1 ticket. There were even people travelling to Oslo from pretty far away just to be in that line.

          • Yeah sorry you are probably correct (no need to camp outside of my small theater, good tickets was assured by simply meeting up the first day of sale). The thruth is I misread your post just a little bit (my mind somehow left out the "enough", I should never have posted at 02:30...)

      • Re:Echos of Ep1 (Score:4, Funny)

        by Black Parrot ( 19622 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @08:56PM (#2455659)

        > Here in Norway, ... I also used "theatre", singular, in the first paragraph. That's because the ticket sale was limited to only one theatre in the entire country.

        Here in Mordor, they aren't going to show it at all.
        • We the Hobbits at Hobbiton are going to watch the movie through cable. We rather prefer be in our homes. It's more confy.

          Our HobbitHoles are well prepared for that event: 2 extra lunches and about half-a-dozen tea-breaks are schedulled for the whole thing.

          And, oh, yes!

          They are going to play the movie LoTR in the Travel Channel.

          Time to go for some dessert!
    • I remember all that hype about episode 1 for star wars and people lining up for months in advance.

      Heck I remember when Episide one came out the first time, when it wasn't even known as episode one (heh), and I went to see it on a whim. Didn't even know what is was supposed to be, had never read a magazine, never saw any promo.

      but the audience participation, the booing at Vader when he first came out, etc. it was all great stuff.

      I imagine some folks lined up, I didn't notice this the time I saw it. Just seemed like a cool movie.

    • Yeah, I remember how overhyped Episode One was. I saw it the day it opened, at the Century Theaters across from Silicon Graphics Silicon Studio Division in Mountain View, CA. And it was a spur of the moment thing. My girlfriend wanted to check it out, and when we drove by the theater, it didn't look too busy. No problem getting a ticket, went right in, theater wasn't full. Extra security guards hired for the occasion standing around looking bored.

      Now, Harry Potter, that's going to be big.

      • Actually both Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and The Fellowship of the Ring are going to open massively huge, to say the least.

        The Harry Potter movie because of the very large under-21 readership of the books, and LoTR because of the long-time Tolkien fandom from the 1960's till now. I've heard both movies are going to be quite good; if that's the case AOL Time Warner is going to be (figuratively) getting a license to print money. :-)
    • Yeah, I did... for me it was a harmless college stunt (the lines outside Mann's Chinese had a "system" where you could camp out part-time and your position in line was determined by how many hours you had logged. Solution: go to class during the day, sleep on the street at night.)

      Still, the result was disappointing at best. I learned a couple of things:

      1. The people who do this sort of thing are WAY far out of touch with reality, and
      2. Fercrissakes, don't get yourself worked up over the impending release of a film that may or may not be good. A casual "I'll see it when I get around to it, if I hear it's good" attitude makes for a much more enjoyable experience.

      But the ultimate lesson is that people have an amazing tendency not to be able to learn from other people's mistakes. Unless they're so far gone that they think they actually gained anything by camping out for Episode 1...

  • Oh my God, I just went to the cinema today, and saw the Lord of the Rings trailer. It was amazing! It's given me a new reason to look both ways before I cross the road.

    Unfortunately I live in the UK, and we aren't getting the film until December (not sure when you lucky Americans are getting it, but it's bound to be before us :)

    And yes, I have read the books. There's still time for everyone else before it starts if you're not too slow.

    • Re:LotR Trailer (Score:2, Informative)

      by solendril ( 415296 )
      I think the release dates are the same. The trailer out in the US has Dec. 19th on it, so it shouldn't be before yours. I think this may be true in most countries. Successive release dates don't make much sense to me.
      • It's expensive to print a copy of the film so for some films they don't come out in other countries (like here in Australia) for two months or so after the US release because they actually ship the film they screened in the US here to show. You can usually tell too, the film has a few scratches and stuff by then.

        Big budget films that they know are going to rake in the cash anyway are usually same week or week after, and they print copies of the film here for distribution. For example we got Episode I a few days after the US but we won't get Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back for another month.
    • We lucky americans will get it after, and only after, we've been totally saturated by merchandising. Bookstores are already overloaded with *Special* volumes of the books and lots of other crap.

      This may be a good time to checkout the original animated films (which I was lucky enough to see for free at Saginaw Valley State College (yean, before it was U.) in the 80's):

      The Lord of the Rings [imdb.com]

      The Hobbit [imdb.com]

      The Return of the King [imdb.com]

      The plus side, IMHO, is you get to listen to Glenn Yarborough sing. Heaven help us if they have Prince or some other horrible singer do anything in the new films. (Holy Wood train of thought: Well if we can put N'sync in there, then we'll capture the teenager market sector!)

      • IIRC Eny is doing the music. Could be worse. Could be better also (Bill Whelan)
        • If Enya's doing the music and uses analog synth's rather than those terrible digital ones she uses on the albums, it could be pretty cool.

          Still kicking myself for not picking up a like-new Roland analog keyboard when I had the chance...

    • Unfortunately I live in the UK, and we aren't getting the film until December (not sure when you lucky Americans are getting it, but it's bound to be before us :)

      No! Us lucky brits are getting it first! See this [bbc.co.uk]
      BBC news article

      HH

  • I went by our cinema, mentioned in the piece, last Thursday and saw the first ones camping there. So I figured that I'd rather wait a bit until the queue time for tickets is limited to a voice in my phone telling me that I am number 2 in the queue. :-)

    • Avoiding lines (Score:3, Insightful)

      by ackthpt ( 218170 )
      EP1 had lines all over the place, but down in Watsonville, CA (down that is from San Jose and Santa Cruz) was this beautiful new theater with stadium seating and no lines for EP1, I snuck out of work 30 minutes early, walked up to the 3 other people in line, bought ticket, bought fizzy drink and banged grain and then went in to get a seat in the center of the cinema -- the day after it opened!

      You might try calling theaters which are futher off the beaten path and see if they have campers.

      Coming soon, to a screen near you, in Kluge-O-Rama: Invalid form key: AAR1ArWHID !

  • Sooner or later those notebook and cellphone batteries are going to wear out, and then we'll have some inconsoleable geeks out in the miserable cold.

  • This Salon guy's scaring me (Score:5, Insightful)

    by stevens ( 84346 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @06:59PM (#2455492) Homepage

    What does it mean that the action scenes were described thusly:

    • "distinctive vision" — "distinctive" is often used as a euphemism for "screwy."
    • "edited frenetically in the modern style" — frenetic? modern? I hope this isn't describing the string of 1/10 sec cuts that films like Tomb Raider called an action sequence.
    • "such jittery vision" — This is worrisome. I'd rather not see LOTR with "jittery" anything.

    I've loved the trailers so far, and even booked a private matinee screening for myself and my programming team in advance, so you know I'm a booster of this film. But these descriptions make me wonder what the Salon writer was trying to get across.

    • Booked a private matinee screening for your team?!?!?! Damn i need to talk my boss into that. Sure it might be overkill for 4 guys bit it would be cool.
      • Booked a private matinee screening for your team?!?!?! Damn i need to talk my boss into that. Sure it might be overkill for 4 guys bit it would be cool.

        There is a theatre near us with 24-26-seat VIP rooms (comfy chairs, endtables, lots of legroom, etc.) We're not reserving a large theatre just for 30 people. :-)

        Plus, I won't mind the smaller screen for this showing--you're closer to it so it looks fine. Plus, I'll probably see the movie three more times in normal theatres anyway.

        • Damn I don't think their is anything like that in my town or I would rent it out myself (damn hick town at least Cost of living is cheep):(. But I bet all of us will be taking a long lunch to go see in anyways so it's all good.

  • High Hopes (Score:4, Insightful)

    by solendril ( 415296 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @07:03PM (#2455498) Homepage
    All I can say is that with the release of each passing trailer I become more impressed with Peter Jackson. Considering he's practicly unknown and had $300 Million dropped in his lap I was expecting nothing less than a disaster. But When I started seeing footage I was impressed. Look at some of the camera direction and cinematography that went into some of those shots in the latest trailer. Something as simple as Frodo reading under a tree was given a very artistic, moving camera touch. I've always appreciated artistic directorial styles. Look at Ridley Scott or Kubrick Vs. Spielburg. The first two are ARTISTS, and the movies they make (made in Kubrick's case) each carry the hallmarks of great artistry. Spielburg, on the other hand has never used a very interesting canvas. (There are some HUGE exceptions to this such as the Color Purple or Shindler's List) He gets good scripts and makes solid movies. What will make or break Peter Jackson will be his ARTISTRY. LotR is not a book that could be rendered in a bland style. It's simply too complex, too rich, too magnificent on it's own account. In translation to the big screen Jackson will have to pull out some of those visual tricks to make LotR not only a great book, but a great MOVIE.

    If he pulls this off, he'll be considered one of the next great director of American film. If he doesn't, they'll be people lining up to piss on his grave. I sure wouldn't want to be in his shoes...
    • If he pulls this off, he'll be considered one of the next great director of American film.

      Gee - I'm sure he will be so happy about that since he is a New Zealander and lives in New Zealand where he is making the film.

      Zilch

      • I know that he's from New Zealand, but it IS New Line Cinema, which, last time I checked could be reasonalby referred to as "Hollywood." Secondly, the diffrence between a relativly small film like Heavenly Cretures and something like LotR is ENORMOUS. He is almost unknown when it comes to making blockbuster films. Frankly, it makes me even more impressed with him that New Line would hand him $300 million. I hope that this was because they think he's a great director and not because they simply has too much cash laying around.
        • He also did Frightners - which everyone seems to have forgotten about - it was filmed just outside Christchurch, and the computer graphics etc done in Auckland. (Yeah yeah, I know, it stared Michael J Fox, so therefore it was an "American" film - as are all English Language films I hear)

          Zilch
        • Oh, and I think to be "from New Zealand" you actually have to leave. I think you can safely say "He is a New Zealander" in this case (since he lives and works there).

          Zilch
    • He'll be the next great director of New Zealand film. His main problem is that he isn't an unknown, but rather more as a director of gory, cult horror films (Dead Alive(aka Brain Dead), Bad Taste, etc.) and this is quite a departure from his previous work. As a fan I think he might do a very good job with it, but it's not what he's known for by any stretch.

      • Re:High Hopes (Score:2, Informative)

        by ainsoph ( 2216 )
        ummm. He also did the film Heavenly Creatures , which wasthe first time people noticed Kate Winslet. It was a shocking film based on a true story of two childhood friends who drifted into a fanstasy world and commited murder.

        The film is quite critically acclaimed I might add, and has been the reason I have had trust in PJ's ability to direct LOTR.
    • One correction:

      Peter Jackson [imdb.com] (www.imdb.com) hopefully won't be considered one of the next great director[s] of American film, as he is a New Zealander. And he wasn't as unknown as you might think, as he had previously directed Kate Winslet in the wonderful Heavenly Creatures [imdb.com].
    • Whats kind of funny is that here in New Zealand when people think about Peter Jackson - its his splatter films Brain Dead, Bad Taste and Meet the feebles that come to mind. I recently went on an overseas holiday and while in Bangkok I shuffled through a couple of the VCD bins the street vendors set up - and what was the first thing I saw? Bad Taste! The wicked Peter Jackson flick with lines such as 'Looks like Darryls' gone Apeshit!' and a higher body count that Rambo II.
      But we can't forget his two hollywood pieces, Heavenly Creatures and the Frightners, both filmed locally and both pretty good cinematic pieces (particularly Heavenly Creatures). Some people around here believe his the only current director who could pull it off - no Hollywood bullshit or elitist Indie Hip-ness - just a film-maker with a great sense of Fantasy.
  • there is always going to be *something* that is going to incite/intice die hard fans.

    LOTR, Macs, Linux, BSD, Rocky Horror, ect.

    Especially the latter, if you think about it. I've seen it and was somewhere between mildy amused and not impressed.

    No matter how much you keep your mind open to possibilites, well, some things you'll never be able to explain...like riding a motorcycle..."If you don't know, I can't explain" pretty much sums it up.

    Oh, metamoderators out there, we need to keep an eye out a little more...some fuckwit with mod points keeps modding down funny comments. Overrated/troll seems to be "favorite" choice...puns, dry humor, mixed metaphores, seem to be beyond this person(s) sub 70 IQ. It almost approaches censorship'esque levels.
    If it is one person, his privelage needs to be revoked/rebuked, if it is many exibiting this moronic tendancy, it still does not make it right. Lack of a sense of humor is *thier* problem.

    Sorry for the rant, it has been bugging the shit out of me lately. Just because *you* don't get it/like it does not mean it is not funny.

    IMO (in Moose's opinion, naturally).

    Heh, I also had a funny comment to post, but the rampant idiocy lately has made me think twice. Pardon the egotistical comment, but you don't get an additional +1 bonus for being a fricking troll, now, do you?

    There, I feel better. Like pissing in the wind, yeah it is a bad/pointless endeavor, but sometimes you *just got to!*
    • If we don't find a comment funny, then should we just assume that it's supposed to be funny and mod it as "funny"? OK: Chipmunks and butter. I find that funny, even if it's not in your taste in humor, mod it up! Yea!
  • LOTR is a masterpiece. I doubt Hollywood will treat Tolkein's work with the respect it deserves. No doubt they will ignore some of the subtler aspects of the story to turn it into a simple good guys vs bad guys action adventure.

    I will probably go and see it anyway, but I just hope they haven't destroyed Tolkein's vision completely.

    • I'm willing to bet nobody could do it justice for you.
    • It's a movie. Of course Jackson will "ignore some of the subtler aspects of the story." You can only do SO MUCH with film, nit. You can't cram LOTR into 9 hours and even dare DREAM of capturing "the subtler aspects." It will be the Cliff Notes version, done in visually stunning style concentrating on the one unifying theme of the book - the Ring and its destruction. Shazam. You want subleties? As in all cases - read the books!

      Derek

  • Big clarification (Score:5, Informative)

    by OblongPlatypus ( 233746 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @07:41PM (#2455566)
    Although the movie opens on December 19th, these people are not lining up for a two-month wait. The ticket pre-sale starts next Tuesday, so it's more like 4 or 5 days.

  • That's my Geek! (Score:4, Funny)

    by tcc ( 140386 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @08:07PM (#2455595) Homepage Journal
    Locked home for over a year, camping in front of his computer, camping in a game of Quake, going out for the first time since forever, for something OTHER than his job, and guess where he's going? CAMPING in front of the theatre...

    I'm starting to beleive all those psychologists claiming "games have a negative impact on human behaviour" :)

  • jeez (Score:5, Funny)

    by zerocool^ ( 112121 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @08:23PM (#2455615) Homepage Journal
    Freakin' campers. Now you can't even go to the movies. They're everywhere.

    jeez, just used to be that you couldn't get to the quad damage.

    ~z

    • Re:jeez (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I'm just waiting for the next slashdot story:

      LOTR fan goes on a shooting spree outside of theater with prototype railgun.

    • uh... LOL

      Just a sec, let me find my railgun...

  • That Evil Gandalf (Score:4, Funny)

    by Ellen Spertus ( 31819 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @08:24PM (#2455616) Homepage
    According to the San Francisco Chronicle [sfgate.com]:
    This first installment focuses on Frodo (Elijah Wood), the Hobbit, who embarks on a quest to destroy the One Ring before the evil Gandalf (Ian McKellen) can get his hands on it.

  • Dagorhir. (Score:2, Interesting)

    by broody ( 171983 )
    Look out for those of us into Dagorhir [dagorhir.com]. As far as I can tell almost all of us are planning on turning out in garb [dagorhir.com], in force.
      • As far as I can tell almost all of us are planning on turning out in garb

      Isn't all that foam and nylon a fire hazard in a crowded theatre? ;-)

      I shouldn't tweak though; no doubt some of my lot [regia.org] will be going in kit. But I'll be pecked to death by crebain before I call it "garb". ;-p

  • They'll all be disappointed unless they made some major plot changes. I hear they were actually trying to make a 2 hour movie with all those useless characters running around. I pray that Jackson went through with his plan to merge Merry and Pipin as well as those two bad guys whose names start with 'S'. And it'd be nice to see some skin on Liv Tyler -- which is at least a remote possibility now that she's the star.

  • My question is, who's going to camp out Slashdot so they can be the first to post "Worst. Movie. Ever." when the Lord of the Rings review gets posted? :)

  • People should try as hard to stop the SSSCA (Score:5, Insightful)

    by ajm ( 9538 ) on Saturday October 20, 2001 @10:00PM (#2455730)
    If only people would put one tenth as much effort into trying to stop bad laws such as the SSSCA as they put into waiting to suck at the corporate teat of the company that pays for those laws we might not be in such a bad state. LOTR will probably be a good movie, but it's not as important as having Disney/Hollywood control your digital life. Wake Up.
  • one movie ticket: $10 (NYC)
    one tub of popcorn: $3
    production of LoTR: $270,000,000

    Gandalf v. Balrog onscreen: priceless
  • So, the Danes can purchase their tickets 2 months early. Come 19th December I will be living in Toronto... can any Canadians tell me when the tickets will go on sale there, where to go to get them, and where the best place to see the movie will be (I'm going to be living just west of King and Bathurst)?
  • Middle Earth is in the northern hemisphere (this can be deduced even if it's not specifically stated in the book; e.g., elephants come from the south). And Middle Earth's sun sets in the West.

    New Zealand is upside down. It won't work ;^p
  • Maybee he is wik dem c0mp00ter geks, waitink fur den LOTR m00vie.

    Mind yu, a m00se bite kan be viry nastey.

    -Had to be done-

  • ...with a bunch of people who've been waiting in line for over a month? They'll absolutely reek.

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