The King Returned, Alright
Suffice to say that my prediction was correct. Except this time, instead of a lot of walking, there was a lot of climbing and riding. Frodo looked like he died but he didn't. And the ring made Frodo exhausted. This one was mostly about getting ready for war...and the muppet still had the split personality.
Some observations about the night:
At the movie theatre I attended, there were four 600-seat auditoriums, with shows sold out consecutively on the available half-hours. That's 2400 seats sold twice at $8.50 per ticket. That's $40,800 for the fine folks at AMC theatres. Plus concessions. Not bad.
The audience was expecting great things. When the first commercial came on they applauded. A car commercial. Nice. They applauded the Spider Man trailer. They applauded the reminder to turn the cell phones off. They went bananas when the words "feature presentation" popped up there.
A couple of our party were a bit late in attending so we sent the first 9 to get in the long line, and they wound up in the first third of it. Then we sent four more later, who were in the back third. The last guy and I came in as the line was moving, so we just stepped in with the guys in the last four. Side note: Never, ever, make a hobbit-lover suspicious that he might not get optimum seating even though he's in the back third of the line. And when you try to explain that you'd be happy to move to the back of the line because you had friends in the front of the line saving your seats inside anyway, so there's no appreciable difference, you'll get a lecture on morality and what it means to be a decent, upstanding member of a society.
Three hours is a long time to sit still. Lots of people stood up for a while.
It was obvious that LOTR people have friends who aren't into it because, at numerous parts, half the theatre would lean over to the person next to them and ask things like, "Now, who are those guys and why don't we like them?" or "What's the big deal about that sword again?" They usually had answers they gleaned from reading supplemental books to the original trilogy. Serious people, they are.
The movie ended at least four times...each of which generated thunderous applause. For some reason, we got to see all of what would normally be on the "alternate endings" section of the "special features" section of a DVD.
I still don't get it.
Suffice to say that my prediction was correct. Except this time, instead of a lot of walking, there was a lot of climbing and riding. Frodo looked like he died but he didn't. And the ring made Frodo exhausted. This one was mostly about getting ready for war...and the muppet still had the split personality.
Some observations about the night:
At the movie theatre I attended, there were four 600-seat auditoriums, with shows sold out consecutively on the available half-hours. That's 2400 seats sold twice at $8.50 per ticket. That's $40,800 for the fine folks at AMC theatres. Plus concessions. Not bad.
The audience was expecting great things. When the first commercial came on they applauded. A car commercial. Nice. They applauded the Spider Man trailer. They applauded the reminder to turn the cell phones off. They went bananas when the words "feature presentation" popped up there.
A couple of our party were a bit late in attending so we sent the first 9 to get in the long line, and they wound up in the first third of it. Then we sent four more later, who were in the back third. The last guy and I came in as the line was moving, so we just stepped in with the guys in the last four. Side note: Never, ever, make a hobbit-lover suspicious that he might not get optimum seating even though he's in the back third of the line. And when you try to explain that you'd be happy to move to the back of the line because you had friends in the front of the line saving your seats inside anyway, so there's no appreciable difference, you'll get a lecture on morality and what it means to be a decent, upstanding member of a society.
Three hours is a long time to sit still. Lots of people stood up for a while.
It was obvious that LOTR people have friends who aren't into it because, at numerous parts, half the theatre would lean over to the person next to them and ask things like, "Now, who are those guys and why don't we like them?" or "What's the big deal about that sword again?" They usually had answers they gleaned from reading supplemental books to the original trilogy. Serious people, they are.
The movie ended at least four times...each of which generated thunderous applause. For some reason, we got to see all of what would normally be on the "alternate endings" section of the "special features" section of a DVD.
I still don't get it.
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