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Pre-ordered mine from Amazon cause it's so much cheaper than anywhere local -- they tend to mail things a day before street date (on the reasoning that you can't possibly receive them the day they're mailed, I assume), so I ought to have it Wednesday, wahoo. I've actually thought about scheduling a day off to allow for the almost inevitability of deciding to sit down and watch all three in a row, but I have a trip from Thursday to Monday during which I won't get anything done, so I don't know if I can afford that.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 22 May 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. I know the feeling -- since I essentially did that with the Trilogy Tuesday showing when ROTK was released, this time around I'll just watch one a night starting Sunday. But when the extended version comes out...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 May 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

*having finished watching the DVD*

Yep, still brilliant. Now, the extended version. *sets some part of brain to somehow wait patiently for seven months*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't be arsed until november. sorry.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i am waiting to purchase anything until it all comes in ONE GIANT BOXED SET. until then i am more than satisfied with the regular & expanded editions that my aunt & uncle have. (they live less than a mile away & i babysit their kids often.)

― Ian Johnson (orion), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

have we been excited about this yet?
http://www.chopsocky.webbed-out.co.uk/debateimages/covers/rotkset.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I know. I know. I wait. Patiently. Maybe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

people that buy these things make my head hurt

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

THEY COST PEANUTS

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It's true I'll have to put off the purchase of the next Peanuts book, maybe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU ARE BEING TEH RIPPED OFF

I BLAME GORGE LUCAZ

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

You shatter my crystal palace. How can you be so cruel?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

ned i am on the INSIDE NOW, through the looking glass

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 23 September 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason I imagine you as Dr. Manhattan and me as Ozymandias.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

does this mean i get to be blue and have an enormous wang?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

If that works for you, sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it too early to pre-order at Amazon?

::waiting anxiously for the multi-hour orgy to come when all three extended editions are in my hot hands::

― Hey Jude, Friday, 24 September 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

FWIW: the 4DVD sets usually sell for around $25 which is not a huge investment for a 4DVD set.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 September 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope this version improves the film: the theatrical version felt too chopped up and chaotic to enjoy.

― Richard K (Richard K), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

that seems to be almost a guarantee after the first two director's cuts.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 September 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm excitedly hammering out the guidelines for a Full Extended Edition Lord Of the Rings Trilogy Drinking Game Marathon Endurance Challenge. I am about to revolutionaryize the drinking game market.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you take a sip every time you see a man with a beard?

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 24 September 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

can you get it without the stupid toys?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 September 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

But the toys make such great conversation pieces. My wife has become very fond of pointing out my Argonath bookends and asking our guests, "Can you believe what a dork my husband is?"

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 24 September 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

if I had that stuff in the house my wife would divorce me

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 September 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I found the Talking Smeagol/Gollum, with 22 phrases, at Goodwill for $10. It is my favoritist thing EVER.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Tickle Me Gollum?

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Where are the Thoughts Of Chairman Ned on the extended DVD of The Return Of The King?

I haven't watched this properly yet, just a skim through the extended or new chapters. Favourite part so far: Gimli tiptoeing delicately across the floor of skulls in the Dwimorberg.

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Where are the Thoughts Of Chairman Ned on the extended DVD of The Return Of The King?

Voila:

The thread for the _Return of the King_ extended DVD

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

from IMDB today:

Shocking fans who had assumed that director Peter Jackson, who was responsible for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, would direct The Hobbit -- a kind of prequel to those films -- and another Lord of the Rings epic, Jackson said on theonering.net website Sunday that he had been advised by New Line that the studio "would no longer be requiring our services on The Hobbit ...[and] was now actively looking to hire another filmmaker." Jackson said that the studio cited the ongoing lawsuit that Jackson filed against New Line in June of 2005, charging that the studio had committed fraud in reporting the revenue for 2001's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which allegedly resulted in Jackson being underpaid millions of dollars. If the notice from New Line was a ploy to induce Jackson to drop or settle the lawsuit -- as Jackson seems to suggest in his message to "Ringers" -- it apparently failed to achieve its objective. In the message, Jackson said that he was "very sorry our involvement with The Hobbit has been ended in this way. ... This outcome is not what we anticipated or wanted, but neither do we see any positive value in bitterness and rancor. We now have no choice but to let the idea of a film of The Hobbit go and move forward with other projects."

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Not surprising. A pity but oh well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

The letter in full.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

> Not surprising. A pity but oh well.

You say that now, but wait until McG is attached.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

Like McG could do any worse.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

John Waters!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

M NIGHT SHYAMALMALMALAN

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

What a tweest!

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

M. Night would be great, he would destroy the franchise perfectly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

pedro almodovar

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

They're gonna hire Brett Ratner, you watch.

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

MIDDLE EARTH IS ACTUALLY MODERN DAY NEW ZEALAND

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Secret twist ending: the Shire is set in MODERN TIMES!

XPOST DAMMIT

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

BILBO WAS SAURON ALL ALONG!

xpost re Shyamalan

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

i was going to suggest bryan singer, but then i remembered 'superman returns' was the worst movie of the year.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

They should do a sixties style Casino Royale move and have M. Night, Singer and Ratner all codirect.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

Woody Allen as all the dwarves.

Harvey Fierstein as the voice of Smaug.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

If Jackson doesn't helm it, will Sir Ians McKellen and Holm want to be involved though? Can't see it being anything more than a laughing stock if they're not.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, they couldn't cast Holm anyway, he's too old for the part. They'll just cast whatshisname who's Harry Potter's friend or someone equally obvious.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

Pete Doherty!

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't Bilbo supposed to look the same at the beginning of LOTR as he does at the end of The Hobbit due to The Ring's anti-ageing effects, though?

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

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