Topic: LOL I Can Find Anything I Want About LOTR, Except Where It Will Be Playing! (Read 2785 times)

Corbomite · « **on:** December 03, 2003, 01:20:49 pm »

I have searched and searched and can't find any theater near me that is going to run the extended versions for the week long release. I have found two that are doing the marathon, but I don't want to do that. I know there has to be one somewhere around here, but getting schedule information out of these guys more than one day in advance is like pulling teeth. They know for weeks or months what is coming and they don't tell you until the day before.

KOTH-Steel Claw · « **Reply #1 on:** December 04, 2003, 07:15:15 am »

In our area (Hampton/NN VA, it will be at the AMC 24 theatres. Got tickets to the marathon on 12/16.

Corbomite · « **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2003, 10:11:00 am »

Yay! I found it!! It's at a theater that charges $9.50 though!!

I am going to have to make a serious attempty at an early show here.

KOTH-Steel Claw · « **Reply #3 on:** December 05, 2003, 09:25:21 am »

I'd expect it to be more. The marathon thickets (all three movies the day before the official US release) were $25 each.

RazalYllib · « **Reply #4 on:** December 06, 2003, 09:49:37 am »

I got my ticket

Theator sold out in about 4 hours

All three in a row, I really had no choice in the matter. The decision was made many years ago when I first picked up the LOTR. I liked the hobbit, and knew it was only a prequel of sorts. Was more interested in LOTR. Oddly enough, The first text I read was out of TTT. The librarys copy of the fellowship was checked out and I picked up TTT off the shelf, opened it and started reading at a randomn section. It was Treebeard chapter, close to the beginning I read for a little bit and I recall being struck with intensity of the writing, almost alive. I put it back and went home, scrounged enough $$$ and went to purchase FOTR, that day.

Finished LOTR in short order, purchaseing them one at a time, as a twelve year old, I mowed a lot of grass that summer that income funded my foray into Middle Earth .

Some time after that I checked out a nice hard cover edition of the Silmarillion. It was a different beast altogether. It took a little longer to tackle. In fact I had picked it up and put it down in frustration twice due to the rapid barrage of names and relationships. I decided to create as I read, my own geneology table and notes as I went, to help with the names. That allowed me to finish the thing. I promptly read it again after the first readthrough.

I dont think I could have stopped myself from getting tickets for it. If my town was not a host, I would have travelled to the closest location to ensure I am one of the few to experience it in this manner. I have travelled farther and longer to see the Grateful Dead, no big deal to me. It is going to be a very big event. I would also like to see a mega release next year this time, for the Extended Cuts of all three, perhaps with extra goodies added to all three cause we all know more was shot that did not make it into the EE of FOTR and TTT. That would be a bigger event.

Corbomite · « **Reply #5 on:** December 03, 2003, 01:20:49 pm »

I have searched and searched and can't find any theater near me that is going to run the extended versions for the week long release. I have found two that are doing the marathon, but I don't want to do that. I know there has to be one somewhere around here, but getting schedule information out of these guys more than one day in advance is like pulling teeth. They know for weeks or months what is coming and they don't tell you until the day before.

KOTH-Steel Claw · « **Reply #6 on:** December 04, 2003, 07:15:15 am »

In our area (Hampton/NN VA, it will be at the AMC 24 theatres. Got tickets to the marathon on 12/16.

Corbomite · « **Reply #7 on:** December 04, 2003, 10:11:00 am »

Yay! I found it!! It's at a theater that charges $9.50 though!!

I am going to have to make a serious attempty at an early show here.

KOTH-Steel Claw · « **Reply #8 on:** December 05, 2003, 09:25:21 am »

I'd expect it to be more. The marathon thickets (all three movies the day before the official US release) were $25 each.

RazalYllib · « **Reply #9 on:** December 06, 2003, 09:49:37 am »

I got my ticket

Theator sold out in about 4 hours

All three in a row, I really had no choice in the matter. The decision was made many years ago when I first picked up the LOTR. I liked the hobbit, and knew it was only a prequel of sorts. Was more interested in LOTR. Oddly enough, The first text I read was out of TTT. The librarys copy of the fellowship was checked out and I picked up TTT off the shelf, opened it and started reading at a randomn section. It was Treebeard chapter, close to the beginning I read for a little bit and I recall being struck with intensity of the writing, almost alive. I put it back and went home, scrounged enough $$$ and went to purchase FOTR, that day.

Finished LOTR in short order, purchaseing them one at a time, as a twelve year old, I mowed a lot of grass that summer that income funded my foray into Middle Earth .

Some time after that I checked out a nice hard cover edition of the Silmarillion. It was a different beast altogether. It took a little longer to tackle. In fact I had picked it up and put it down in frustration twice due to the rapid barrage of names and relationships. I decided to create as I read, my own geneology table and notes as I went, to help with the names. That allowed me to finish the thing. I promptly read it again after the first readthrough.

I dont think I could have stopped myself from getting tickets for it. If my town was not a host, I would have travelled to the closest location to ensure I am one of the few to experience it in this manner. I have travelled farther and longer to see the Grateful Dead, no big deal to me. It is going to be a very big event. I would also like to see a mega release next year this time, for the Extended Cuts of all three, perhaps with extra goodies added to all three cause we all know more was shot that did not make it into the EE of FOTR and TTT. That would be a bigger event.

Corbomite · « **Reply #10 on:** December 03, 2003, 01:20:49 pm »

I have searched and searched and can't find any theater near me that is going to run the extended versions for the week long release. I have found two that are doing the marathon, but I don't want to do that. I know there has to be one somewhere around here, but getting schedule information out of these guys more than one day in advance is like pulling teeth. They know for weeks or months what is coming and they don't tell you until the day before.

KOTH-Steel Claw · « **Reply #11 on:** December 04, 2003, 07:15:15 am »

In our area (Hampton/NN VA, it will be at the AMC 24 theatres. Got tickets to the marathon on 12/16.

Corbomite · « **Reply #12 on:** December 04, 2003, 10:11:00 am »

Yay! I found it!! It's at a theater that charges $9.50 though!!

I am going to have to make a serious attempty at an early show here.

KOTH-Steel Claw · « **Reply #13 on:** December 05, 2003, 09:25:21 am »

I'd expect it to be more. The marathon thickets (all three movies the day before the official US release) were $25 each.

RazalYllib · « **Reply #14 on:** December 06, 2003, 09:49:37 am »

I got my ticket

Theator sold out in about 4 hours

All three in a row, I really had no choice in the matter. The decision was made many years ago when I first picked up the LOTR. I liked the hobbit, and knew it was only a prequel of sorts. Was more interested in LOTR. Oddly enough, The first text I read was out of TTT. The librarys copy of the fellowship was checked out and I picked up TTT off the shelf, opened it and started reading at a randomn section. It was Treebeard chapter, close to the beginning I read for a little bit and I recall being struck with intensity of the writing, almost alive. I put it back and went home, scrounged enough $$$ and went to purchase FOTR, that day.

Finished LOTR in short order, purchaseing them one at a time, as a twelve year old, I mowed a lot of grass that summer that income funded my foray into Middle Earth .

Some time after that I checked out a nice hard cover edition of the Silmarillion. It was a different beast altogether. It took a little longer to tackle. In fact I had picked it up and put it down in frustration twice due to the rapid barrage of names and relationships. I decided to create as I read, my own geneology table and notes as I went, to help with the names. That allowed me to finish the thing. I promptly read it again after the first readthrough.

I dont think I could have stopped myself from getting tickets for it. If my town was not a host, I would have travelled to the closest location to ensure I am one of the few to experience it in this manner. I have travelled farther and longer to see the Grateful Dead, no big deal to me. It is going to be a very big event. I would also like to see a mega release next year this time, for the Extended Cuts of all three, perhaps with extra goodies added to all three cause we all know more was shot that did not make it into the EE of FOTR and TTT. That would be a bigger event.

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