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3 W00t's for ROTK
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:43 am
by Loneranger
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:08 am
by Dragon Master
I want to go see it man!
However this is the wrong place for this, totally! But, there is no right place for it.
Maybe we need an other chat forum.
*sigh*
DM
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:41 am
by adm_matthew
Can't you at least put it in the RIGHT FORUM?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:16 am
by TwoTonic Knight
Okay, the usual number of changes that for the most part would be better if they left it as Tolkien wrote it, and strange decisions on what was clearly left on the cutting room floor (for inclusion in the extended version DVD) and what was included, but the movie is simply spectacular.
I have waited for this for...well, longer than most everyone on this board has been alive (hint, JRR Tolkien was still alive at the time I first read LOTR). As spectacular as the movies are, the book is still better. But all in all, the movies (extended versions preferred) are more than I could have ever truly expected. It was worth the wait for the technology to get to the point where the visuals could be done justice and someone brave enough to commit to all three films at once.
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:41 am
by JPinoy
Ok... so who is gonna collect a bunch of MegaBlok knights for use as Orcs and BrikWar against my armies, and have a Pelennor Fields type battle?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:59 am
by TwoTonic Knight
JPinoy wrote:Ok... so who is gonna collect a bunch of MegaBlok knights for use as Orcs and BrikWar against my armies, and have a Pelennor Fields type battle?
Brikwars is a skirmish game (1 fig equals 1 individual). I doubt even Jimmy Parks has enough figures for that. Go with Fantasy Rules!
I can't say that I like Megablok figs. They have always seemed chintzy in comparison to Lego. Nor are they're proportions as pleasing.
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:06 am
by wlister
You can amass a lot of them for really decent prices though and the Vorgan and the Norvagen figs make great creature armies. Not as good as Lego, sure, but at least they are readily available. Except where they have sold out...
Say what you want about Megabloks, they know how to design "playability" better than anything TLC has done for years. And "playability" is supposedly why castles of the last decade have lacked the "realism" we used to see back in the Classic era.
Will
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:19 am
by JPinoy
How many does Jimmy Parks have?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:15 pm
by Troy T. Moore
Seen the movie yesterday after I wrote my Anatomy and Physiology final.... WOW!!! Although unlike when I bought the Two Towers DVD, I will wait for the extended version of this one, perhaps even a boxed set, probably available this time next year.
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 5:06 pm
by lemon_squeezer2
The ROTK was - it was...
I still can't get over it. I watched it last night and I love it! Sure this is the wrong place to post, but my goodness! I just want to tell everybody to watch this movie! While watching the siege of Minas Tirith I felt pride for a country that dosen't even exist. It was an awsome movie.
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:00 pm
by TwoTonic Knight
JPinoy wrote:How many does Jimmy Parks have?
Last I saw over 4,000. Something close to 300 barded horses.
Let me dig a bit:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=11528
Pictures of massive minifig armies. Still not enough for a 1 for 1 Battle of Pelennor Fields - which might I say, is simply the most massive battle ever put to film.
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:41 pm
by TwoTonic Knight
Troy T. Moore wrote:Seen the movie yesterday after I wrote my Anatomy and Physiology final.... WOW!!! Although unlike when I bought the Two Towers DVD, I will wait for the extended version of this one, perhaps even a boxed set, probably available this time next year.
Burn The Two Towers DVD and get the extended version. I was disappointed in the film, but the extended version added back in all the parts that made the film so maddening. The Return of the King has all sorts of bits that are obviously going to appear in the extended DVD (but not the Scouring of the Shire, since Jackson never liked that chapter and didn't film it), but it didn't suffer as nearly as much as the middle film did from their lack. I will wait for the extended version of The Return of the King, however.
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 7:13 am
by timber_wolf899
went to the 11:45 showing yesterday morning with my gf.
when we got there we were informed that an organization had bought out all the seats. i was very unhappy!
and while we're off topic. I ran my monthly spyware check today and now IE is opening rnadom windows to the point of crashing my system. anyone know how to fix?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 3:10 pm
by Devari
timber_wolf899 wrote:and while we're off topic. I ran my monthly spyware check today and now IE is opening rnadom windows to the point of crashing my system. anyone know how to fix?
Sounds like you have a worm, or perhaps a virus. Update your virus checker, and run a system scan.
I once had a worm that kept trying to connect to the internet (back in the old days of dial-up). These ShiftyBrick connection windows kept popping up, much like your browser.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 2:17 am
by architect
Great Movie, wrong forum
So if you must be completely offtopic please post in General Lego. Thanks
This topic almost was melted in the fires of mount doom
Ben E.
Sets Admin
