Best Buy was giving away to the first 150 RotK customers at each store a copy of the all-LotR Entertainment Weekly special issue and some microwave popcorn and candy. The magazine is pretty cool, but doesn't have too much that looks to be new to anyone who's watched all the documentaries and listened to the commentaries on the extended dvds. Apparently, Toys R Us is handing out a $10 Frodo figure, and they're also price-matching the other stores.
Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
'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.
Kathy A - May 25, 2004 8:51:29 am PDT #2640 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Kathy A - May 25, 2004 8:54:19 am PDT #2641 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Cereal to add--if anyone interested, I've finally gotten into some fanfic writing of my own. You can check out the two LotR stories I've written here, if you'd like.
Nutty - May 25, 2004 9:16:56 am PDT #2642 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The magazine is pretty cool, but doesn't have too much that looks to be new to anyone who's watched all the documentaries and listened to the commentaries on the extended dvds.
Agreed. It was one of those, "okay, I know you people are capitalists, but this is ridiculous" type of situations. Like, those of us cursed with good memories caught details repeated from previous EW articles. I know the poor movie-people did the same interview 100 times, so the same anecdotes are all flying around everywhere, but the least the editors could do was make sure the EW 'special issue' was actually special.
sumi - May 25, 2004 11:20:08 am PDT #2643 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
I hear that Borders is giving away 4 posters -- but I'm sure supplies have run out by now.
Pete, Husband Of Reason - May 25, 2004 1:08:22 pm PDT #2644 of 3902
Not got a lot to say...
Feh, I don't care about giveaways. I headed to Target where I picked RotK up for a mere $14.99.
So far I've watched the first two documentaries on the disk and I have to say that a) The narrator is horrible and b) Apparently the documentaries were created by different teams who didn't do much conferring; there is an unforgiveable amount of replication between the two. Thank god for more Hobbit smack-talk, that's all I can say.
DXMachina - May 25, 2004 1:12:15 pm PDT #2645 of 3902
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Kind of glad I didn't plan on getting this one.
§ ita § - May 25, 2004 1:12:30 pm PDT #2646 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
there is an unforgiveable amount of replication between the two
I'm not sure which ones made it onto the disc, but I think there were two (maybe three) documentaries airing under separate names that differed by at most five minutes of footage.
Very frustrating.
But I expect (thanks, TiVo) to have seen all these extras already. That's been the way with the theatricals -- they assemble the documentaries that aired.
The new stuff is on the extended.
Connie Neil - May 25, 2004 1:26:20 pm PDT #2647 of 3902
brillig
Are the commentaries different between the theatrical and the extended releases?
Kathy A - May 25, 2004 1:28:23 pm PDT #2648 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
There are no commentaries on the theatrical. Only extras are on the second disc--I'm looking forward to seeing the supertrailer, myself.
§ ita § - May 25, 2004 1:29:16 pm PDT #2649 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is that the same supertrailer that was on the site for a while? That thing was gorgeous, and I'm psyched to see it big.