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Fellowship of the...what???

 
 
Warrington Minge
09:00 / 13.01.02
I've been to see Lord of the Rings twice now and loved every minute but something has been puzzling to me. I downloaded the trailer from the official site before the film was released and I have now noticed in the trailer there are two scenes that do not appear in the movie. Do any of you guys know what they are or what they represent? Are they from the following movies perhaps?

 
 
pointless and uncalled for
09:25 / 13.01.02
What's the address for the trailer. I might be able to offer a better opinion if I can veiw it in context?
 
 
dawntreader
09:40 / 13.01.02
Scenes from Two Towers? or maybe they were cutt.. hummmm
 
 
Warrington Minge
09:40 / 13.01.02
Wisdom of idiots/potus

It was taken from the first trailer to be issued from the LORD OF THE RINGS official site about mid-last year. I would imagine the trailers have now been updated with new ones.

It might be worth hunting on the following url.

http://www.movie-list.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi

[ 13-01-2002: Message edited by: Warrington Minge ]
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
10:37 / 13.01.02
Actually, on closer inspection, the first picture appears to be a hobbit and a soldier on next to a brazier on a raised city wall.

The next place for that to happen that I can thing of would be Gondo and thus would be from the Two Towers.
 
 
The Natural Way
14:24 / 13.01.02
There's also a bit, in one of the trailers, where Frodo and the gang are presented with gifts by Galadriel and co. Definitely cut.

You are aware that there's gonna be a Two Towers trailer stuck on the end of a new print, screening sometime soon?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:37 / 13.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Guns 'n' Runces:
You are aware that there's gonna be a Two Towers trailer stuck on the end of a new print, screening sometime soon?


Really? Ah, good, an excuse for viewing number four...
 
 
King Mob
02:34 / 15.01.02
why was this a good movie? worth seeing?

3+ hours of characters with little personality traveling to destroy a ring and they don't even destroy the fucking thing.

this seems to me that people just like it because they read the books when they were young and see the movie simply as a sort of nostalgia.

ohhh, that guy is good with an ax. ahhhh...
 
 
Warrington Minge
06:03 / 15.01.02
Sorry King Mob

I have never read any of the books. I just love the movie. Ian Mckellen was great as Gandalf. Viggo Mortensen ( bad spelling ) was great also. I loved the characterisation in LOTR. I love the sense of it being a really long journey. The story rocked for me.
 
 
videodrome
06:03 / 15.01.02
That situation with the trailer happens relatively often. The trailer is often cut early on in the schedule, especially with a picture like this that needs to be promoted way ahead of time. They use whatever footage has been shot, some of which inevitably gets cut from the final release. Personally, I like it - I find the idea of promoting a film with footage that represents it, but isn't actually used, kind of interesting.

And King Mob:
3+ hours of characters with little personality traveling to destroy a ring and they don't even destroy the fucking thing.

That's not really much of a valid critique, is it? Sure, the bit about the personality, but as for the rest, you did know this was a trilogy, right? I mean, come on.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
06:03 / 15.01.02
They do *so* have personality. See rantings and ravings here.
 
 
videodrome
10:41 / 15.01.02
Well, yeah, they do. My point was more that, yes the level of detail in the characterization is arguable, and somewhat subject to point of view. The fact that the story doesn't 'end' is, however, not and as such not even worth bringing up as a criticism.

When I saw LOTR (in typically over-educated Harvard Sq, no less) there were a number of people in the lobby who expressed, um, dissatisfaction at the fact that the film (whine) didn't even end (/whine). Arseholes. I'm still irritated by that.
 
 
Sam Lowry
20:21 / 15.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Warrington Minge:
...Do any of you guys know what they are or what they represent? Are they from the following movies perhaps?


The first pic apparently shows Merry and King Théoden... if so, then it's from the second film...
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
10:51 / 16.01.02
quote:Originally posted by King Mob:
3+ hours of characters with little personality traveling to destroy a ring and they don't even destroy the fucking thing.


Please tell me this is a joke...
 
 
I, Libertine
10:54 / 16.01.02
I hear the DVD will be coming out this summer, and there's talk of including a 4+ hr. Director's Cut (with all the stuff left out...Galadriel's gifts, orcs pursuing from Moria to Lorien, etc.).

But as far as I know the theatrical release will be on there too.
 
 
Bear
21:34 / 17.01.02
Like I've said I wasn't impressed with this but someone in the office just got a mail stating -

quote:has anyone else spotted jay and silent bob in 'Lord of the rings'?
silent bob = "fat elf" they're walking down the main street of bree pissed


Anyone know if this is true or just some joke?
 
 
I, Libertine
10:14 / 18.01.02
Somehow it doesn't annoy me nearly as much as the idea of N'Sync in a Star Wars movie.

If it is true...I think it's pretty funny. Snoochie-boochies for the hobbit folk.
 
 
I, Libertine
10:15 / 18.01.02
And...

Fits right in with those (unintentional?) stoner jokes about the Shire's best weed...

...and Saruman (well-groomed) telling Gandalf (all ratty and natty) that the halfling leaf has clouded his mind...
 
 
Ofermod
23:24 / 18.01.02
Don't know about the second picture, but the first is from Two Towers, I think. I'm at work so I don't have the book to check this (and I last read it almost three years ago) but that first one would be where either Merry or Pippin swears his allegience to Theoden. I think.
 
 
Just Add Water
20:54 / 22.01.02
Aksherly, when they come to Bree, one of the first humans they "meet" (the burping one) is Peter Jackson himself. He does kind of look like Silent Bob. Or is that a fatbeardist statement?
 
  
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