Huh, now that you mention it...
I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.
River ,'Objects In Space'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 30, 2004 7:08:42 pm PST #1603 of 3902
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Una - Jan 30, 2004 7:28:04 pm PST #1604 of 3902
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Four hours, ten minutes
<whine> If it's already cut together, why do we have to agonise until November to get it? wahhh! </whine>
I can too close that tag. I reserve the right to reopen it at any time, however.
askye - Jan 30, 2004 7:29:58 pm PST #1605 of 3902
Thrive to spite them
A few days ago I found a Willow/Legolas vid, it's set to a country song. I downloaded it wondering exactly how one edited together such a vid. Unfortunatly I don't have the codec to actually play the vid.
§ ita § - Jan 30, 2004 11:56:42 pm PST #1606 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jess, it's true!
I need to find those pics.
Askye -- do you have a link to that vid?
Sean K - Jan 31, 2004 8:51:15 am PST #1607 of 3902
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
If it's already cut together, why do we have to agonise until November to get it? wahhh!
Ah... Cut together does not mean the digital effects on the new sections are done, nor that the score or sound has been added, so if they were to release the cut right now, all the new scenes that had any effects in them would feature actors talking to empty space, or perhaps even scenes of nothing at all, and none of the new scenes would have any music or sound effects.
Nutty - Jan 31, 2004 11:41:17 am PST #1608 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
...and not-finished product like that can be weirdly awesome. (Or it can totally suck. I saw a screener of the Jodie Foster voice X-Files episode -- Never Again -- before Jodie had come in and recorded the voice, and the person reading her lines was awful.)
Suddenly remembering that for months in the TTT cut, something like "surreal galaxy shit" writ on a black screen was all there was for Gandalf's vision of having died and returned on the mountain. They did get around to filling it in eventually.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2004 3:56:51 pm PST #1609 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From EW:
Back in 2002, in response to a special hobbit plea, director Peter Jackson set up his video recorder in his New Zealand home, lined up halflings Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan, and screened the raw footage of The Return Of The King without a single special-effects shot. "Halfway through they all started to cry, and the kept crying to the very end," he says
Frankenbuddha - Jan 31, 2004 5:18:39 pm PST #1610 of 3902
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Uh, has anyone else heard about Harvey Weinstein sticking his snout into the RotK EE and trying to fuck it up because he wants to farm the SFX out to a cheaper company than Weta?
Someone I went to the Wine Expo with today was talking about this, but it's the first I've heard of it.
Does Miramax have ANY say over any of the release aspects? I just thought this sounded wrong, but I wouldn't put it past Harvey to be an asshat becuase none of his films got decent nominations this year (I suspect acting awards don't count for shit with Harvey).
Una - Jan 31, 2004 5:52:35 pm PST #1611 of 3902
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
"Halfway through they all started to cry, and the kept crying to the very end,"
Awww. I'm all verklempt.
bon bon - Jan 31, 2004 6:22:20 pm PST #1612 of 3902
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Uh, has anyone else heard about Harvey Weinstein sticking his snout into the RotK EE and trying to fuck it up because he wants to farm the SFX out to a cheaper company than Weta?
Sounds pretty bullshit! Like a poorly thought out rumor soup of biggest movie of the year + biggest movie asshole of the moment.