Hippy Alert

OldBloke · December 17, 2002, 10:49:28 PM

Frenzy and me are off to watch LOTR:TTT tomorrow and i'm like a kid on Christmas Eve. :lol: :oops:

MAD_ness · December 17, 2002, 11:09:44 PM

Damn.......someone got there before me .......couldn't get in for Wed , had to settle for Thurs .......... so don't spoil it now !!!!

Dr Sadako · December 17, 2002, 11:12:22 PM

I have tickets for this Saturday.

Bought the LOTR 4 DVD box and watched the long version.

Anonymous · December 18, 2002, 12:23:02 AM

QuoteI have tickets for this Saturday.

Bought the LOTR 4 DVD box and watched the long version.

Me too. it is much better than the cinema version - flows better!

OldBloke · December 18, 2002, 07:47:48 AM

Ideally I too would have watched the DVD version before seeing TTT but the missus bought them for me for Christmas and won't let me at 'em.

albert · December 18, 2002, 07:58:04 AM

QuoteIdeally I too would have watched the DVD version before seeing TTT but the missus bought them for me for Christmas and won't let me at 'em.

Yeah I know the feeling, my missus bought them for her sister and won't let me watch them :cry:

smilodon · December 18, 2002, 02:54:33 PM

It's going to be a tad odd watching TTT before TFOTR but f you can't wait....

TeaLeaf · December 18, 2002, 05:33:24 PM

QuoteFrenzy and me are off to watch LOTR:TTT tomorrow and i'm like a kid on Christmas Eve. :lol: :oops:

Can I take it from the above that two of our best Zombies will not be present for the match that we 'had' (past tense) a good chance of winning tomorrow night?

In which case you both ought to update availability - Oldie to tell us whether he is there or not, and Frenzy to amend his 'Maybe' to a 'Maybe if the local cinema cancel the film and I manage to get a bus home quickly enough'.

:lol: :lol:

TL.

sheepy · December 18, 2002, 05:37:58 PM

oi oi, i was supposed 2 c it 2day but the mate i was going with decided to go out with his GF instead!

Dr Sadako · December 18, 2002, 06:27:13 PM

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Can I take it from the above that two of our best Zombies will not be present for the match that we 'had' (past tense) a good chance of winning tomorrow night?

So the rest of us zombies are just chopped liver then huh! :evil: :wink:

Tufty · December 18, 2002, 07:01:41 PM

had to settle for thursday aswell but theres 13 of us going so it should be fun, cant really remember what happened in the fellowship though, guess ill figure it out

smilodon · December 18, 2002, 08:53:13 PM

I've been fortunate enough to see both TFOTR and TTT recently and if anyone is thinking of seeing The Two Towers before The Fellowship of the Ring and assuming they haven't either read the book or are very familiar with the story....well they may struggle to work out what is happening. Peter Jackson definately assumes you have seen the first (there's no "Previously on .........") and dives straight into the second installment. When all three have been released I imagine they will stitch wonderfully into one long story (as do the three books obvioulsy :wink: ).

Think about grabbing a copy of the Fellowship on DVD before you go. That being said The Two Towers is a spectacular film even if you haven't seen the first film, it's just that there is an epic story going on, as well as the mindblowing visuals, that may be hard to follow if you come in half way through so to speak.

Either way enjoy

sheepy · December 18, 2002, 11:53:28 PM

i only watched the 1st installment of lotr a coule of weeks ago on my friends say thast it was really good [i wasnt really that intersted at all] i saw the 1st 1/2 of the 1st dvd round his the i wathcehd the whole 1st file round another m8s.
i really wanna c the 2nd film no 1 say what happens or ur in 4 a serious kicking at the next LAN.

smite · December 19, 2002, 07:53:11 AM

So oldie were there ENTS in it and if so did they look pants?
Have they missed any key story lines out of this one like they did in the first film?
Your oppinion is appreciated....

CiM · December 19, 2002, 09:51:48 AM

(no spoilers below unless you didn't know that ents featured in the second film. But then, the only way that'd be a problem is if you haven't read LOTR, and then you won't even know what ents are anyway.)

The ents were too skinny by far, and had knees.

A lot of liberties were taken with the plot, even more so than in TFOTR. Lots more, in fact. In fact, come to think of it, very few details were the same as in the books, but I suppose the plot in the book is so interconnected on so many levels that they had to change things a bit.

(Some of the changes were just crowd-pleasers though. Which is fine, because that's what these movies are for after all.)

There was the good old hollywood-style "hit the crowd over the head repeatedly and very hard with all the important plot points" - which, in a film that condensed, means the old Hammer O' Smashing is brought out very often.

I smelled the distinct whiff of cheese quite often, but they're having to pick up in the middle of an epic fantasy adventure story (complete with romance) - I suppose it's incredible how little cheese there actually was...

The acting was almost flawless (although many of the characters were different in the film to how they were in the book) and the SFX were great.

I think the special edition will be a lot better - like in TFOTR, it'll probably flow better and make more sense.

Those ents did look silly though

- CiM