All I’ve got to say is that’s a lot of time in a theater.
Man - my ass will have melted by the time I get thru that ;)
Holy crap. That’s what, 10 hours in the theater? No thanks.
It’d be great if the extended Two Towers was shown locally, since I missed it the first time, though.
My bladder isn’t big enough to sit through one movie.
My bladder isn’t big enough to sit through one movie.
Nobody’s is. That’s why the popcorn comes in those collectible plastic buckets.
It’s like a marathon of geekery. I am so stoked!
There’s always the conductor’s bottle option…
Variety sez the schedule New Line is asking is:
Fellowship @ 3pm
Two Towers @ 7pm
ROTK @ 11pm
At least 12 hours, if not more at this point.
I did the tripe feature for Back to the Future marathon back in 1988 because I was so cool back then.
I still have a button that reads “I saw the future Back to Back to Back.”
By the end of it you can feel a little bit beyond caring, but there’s a definite feeling of camaraderie with your fellow movie goers…
All the fans will be cheering at the end of it
All the normal people = ::thud:: “zzzzz”
… .I’ll be watching the whole set back to back… but in the privacy of my own home, with lots of coffee, and a vacant toilet near by.
That doesn’t make any sense. Why would they do the extended versions of the first two movies and the regular version of the third? I thought they were going to wait and do them all around the same time like Lucas did with Star Wars.
I’m still going, though :D
Well, at least we have the fucking DVD’s of LOTR. Star Wars? Nah, George isn’t done pissing off the fans enough yet.*
*I’m not bitter **
** well, just a little.
And he’s announced he’s only going to release the shitting remix editions on DVD.
See, that really pisses me off. I don’t have a problem with the special editions, per se. Some of the changes are neat (some not… Greedo shooting first ruined the Star Wars SE for me), and they are his movies–he can do what he wants with them. But they aren’t the same films that I saw in theaters in 1977 (and so on), and it’s annoying that he seems to want people to pretend that they are. What are my options if I want to watch the original Star Wars? Is that piece of childhood nostalgia lost forever? Why not put both versions on the DVDs? Do the original versions embarass him or something? They shouldn’t. They represent the best work he’s ever done in his career.
Lame.
BTW, there is a petition to get the original versions on DVD. Go sign it.
Don’t waste your time, it’ll never happen. Lucas has said, in about a thousand interviews, that the special edition is the Star Wars trilogy. He doesn’t see them as two seperate things. For him to put the original out would basically mean admitting that he was wrong and that the special edition wasn’t the perfect one. Good luck finiding examples of that bastard admitting he was wrong about anything when it comes to Star Wars. Maybe at some point he admitted that Jar Jar sucks, but I doubt it.
Yousa thinkin yousa people gonna get the special edtions onsa dvd?
I haven’t followed Lucas’s career hyper-closely, but it seems the guy gets stupider and stupider all the time. He started out well with the Star Wars movies and creation of his studio and after that a series of poor decisions happened.
Doesn’t the guy have advisers that help him out? Or is he surrounded by Yes-Men that grit their teeth in a hideous smile while bobbleheading at his latest bright idea?
I think its in the national interest to get this guy a CAT Scan. Hopefully a tumor or something is behind all of this and after a brief surgery we’ll rediscover Lucas’s old self. At this point, I can’t see even a lobotomy affecting Lucas negatively.
ROTFL
I don’t think I could spend 12 hours in a cinema - but I’d sure as hell give it a shot.
If you look at the really old interviews with Lucas he always regarded Episode IV as “Unfinished” because he didn’t get to do certain things he was planning (His example was the cantina scene, the make up guy was sick they day they were shooting it, but since he was a new director he had to go with what was available…).
I remember when Star Wars SE was coming out they talked about how it was originally planned to only update Episode IV, but then they decided to retouch up all 3 movies to clear up some things.
Shrug, on the whole, the new versions do have issues - I don’t like Greedo shooting first, I don’t like Boba Fett inserted into nearly every scene in Jedi - but overall they’re improvements. I’ve still got my THX LD’s and the Really old Widescreen Videotapes kicking around if I want to watch the old school versions
It’s not really a question of whether or not they are better. You could argue that a colorized version of a B&W classic is better (all right, I wouldn’t), but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s not the same. The Director’s Cut of Blade Runner is better, but that doesn’t mean that I want Ridley Scott to burn all remaining copies of the theatrical release. I’d love to see a special edition DVD with both versions, actually. Lucas trying to eliminate all evidence that the original versions of three of the top grossing films of all time ever really existed… it’s just dumb.
Yeah, my point is that to Lucas these are the real versions of the movies, what should have been released originally if he had the time/money/technology.
While it’s a goofy point of view I understand where he’s coming from with it.