Did this happen to anyone else?! - Page 2

luinilwen · 01-14-2002, 01:35 AM

i've only seen it once, so far which was on the opening day (boxing day in aust.). firstly, my left ear drum burst on christmas day. that was... excrutiating. my hearing was mong all through the movie

secondly, since we were first in line for the movie (i insisted on being an hour early... AT LEAST!) we had front row seat on the bolcony. bad move. i'm almost as a short as a hobbit so i couldn't see the bottom of the screen. after the movie my brother was talking about the subtitles (when they're conversing in elvish). i was like "there were subtitles?"

after the movie i heard some girl say "that was the worst ending i've ever seen!" i felt like slapping her and saying "that's cuz the story ain't finished yet!" *sigh*

Gerbil · 01-14-2002, 01:49 AM

I'm beginning to think that a large number of people go to the cinema for general escapism, not the specific escapism I used to think they did it for.

These people will go and see anything as it's simply 'something to do'.

These are quite likely the people who will gain nothing from the film and come out with the rubbish we've all overheard.

I've noticed two types in particular that annoy me:

1) Parents taking kids as it's easier to do than look after the kids properly ('we're in the cinema so sit down and shut up'!). Kids will probably be noisy and fidgety as they don't want to be there. Parents ignore them.

2) Drunks. Last showing I went to was 11pm. UK laws, that's closing time at the pub. So from 11 to 11.30 there was a steady trickle of not so steady people staggering to seats. Only to get up every 15 minutes to go to the bathroom

Remarkably enough, most were quite. I assume they fell asleep halfway through the film!

***anduin*** · 01-14-2002, 09:12 AM

Last night I had a kid and his mother behind me that talked the entire way through the movie. His mother had obviously not read the book ("does he not have shoes on?!!")and her son was giving her much needed commentary (his opinion, not mine). I can understand two children discussing the book during the movie....they might not realize how loud they are or that they are being disruptive (as is the most likely case) but adults should know better. I mean, how many times must someone turn around and give a dirty look before someone gets the hint?

bropous · 01-14-2002, 12:04 PM

A well-placed cup with about two inches of beer in it usually does the trick...

You know, anduin, I can't understadn it either....why are people so afraid to lean over and whisper in someone's ear? It's like people now think they have a right to speak in a conversational tone during a film [or, even louder]. then, when someone expresses their right to hear a film for which they paid admission, the miscreants feel they can attack said person. Too many Orcs and too few Elves i nthis world, dear friends....

mirrille · 01-15-2002, 03:26 AM

My friend told me how his parents asked him to take them to see LOTR. Of course, this is a good thing because they don't know anything about the book and it's great to introduce people it the story.

His parents are a little bit English-as-a-second-language. They know nothing about "standard" western fantasy. Seems like he didn't bargain for that.

Through the movie:

Q: How come those people are so short?
A: ...They're hobbits. They're supposed to be short.
Q: Why?
A:...Because hobbits are supposed to be short.

sigh...

Later...

my personal favourite-
Q: What's that thing following them?
A: That's Gollum. He's following them because he wants the ring.
Q: Why don't they just give him the ring, and then he won't follow him?
A: Argh! It doesn't work that way! *sigh...

Poor guy. Having to deal this those questions and people glaring at him too...

I'm glad my dad is a Tolkien fan.

Arathorn · 01-15-2002, 04:54 AM

A friend of mine said she thought it was a horror story. After a week he decided to watch because her other circle kept talking about it and she got wind of its 3 week standing at the box office.

Then she sends me a message on my handphone asking about the movie because she fell asleep....

I feel sorry for her, though...

luinilwen · 01-15-2002, 05:09 AM

my viewing was with my mum and older sibs (they're both tolkien fans). my mother has never read tolkien - in fact she reads books titles "developing the leader within you" and "you can do it!" and "how to win friends and influence people"... *sigh*

i nearly cried after what she said at the end of the movie...
"they should have had mel gibson in it."

Arathorn · 01-15-2002, 05:25 AM

At least she didn't ask you why Dumbledore died

I almost rolled down the aisle laughing

mirrille · 01-16-2002, 12:45 AM

Mel Gibson?

Well...I suppose we could let him be an orc or something to keep him happy.

Yeesh! I mean, we have all those cute hobbits. We have Orlando Bloom.

We have Sean Bean and Viggo.

We have plenty to look at. Why spoil it by putting in someone like Mel Gibson? Well, there's no accounting for taste.

Arathorn · 01-16-2002, 01:06 AM

Hmmm...Mel Gibson as an Orc.....

Grishnakh :"Ugluk, where are ya goen?"

Uglukh: "Ta peck a foight"

Uglukh: I see hundreds of my fellow orcs and uruk hai in front
of fangorn....trying to go to Isengard...well ya foight!"

Grishnakh: "No, we wull run, and we wull lev"

Uglukh: "Aye, run and you'll lev, foight, and you may die...
but luying in yourrr holes en morrrdorrr many years
frrom now...

Would you be wulleng.. ta trade all the days from

thes day ta that...

For one chance...JUST ONE CHANCE!

Ta tell our enemies...ya can take our lives

but you wull never take.... OUR HOBBITS!!!!!"

Evenstar · 01-18-2002, 07:10 AM

Meanwhile...the guy next to me jumped SO HIGH when the Orcs came..that was hilarious!!! I was bawling when Gandalf "died" and all of a sudden when EVERYTHING was really quiet I let out this big *SOB* which set my best friend laughing at me!!!
We never had any.."is that the end" but we did have a couple of "oooh..." and "oh man!!! I thought this finishes" but my personal favourite was from a guy who came up to me and said "I know your sad sweetie...don't worry...the ring becomes good in the end!!!"
I was a little confused until I realised that he was tipsy cause he fell down the stairs!!!!

Gerbil · 01-18-2002, 10:04 AM

That's the one good thing about having seen it numerous times - I don't jump at the jumpy bits.
For some reason in films I am #1 candidate for leaping out of my seat at the slightest shock tactic. I hate it

Lightice · 01-18-2002, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gerbil
That's the one good thing about having seen it numerous times - I don't jump at the jumpy bits.
For some reason in films I am #1 candidate for leaping out of my seat at the slightest shock tactic. I hate it

I almost laughed, when all people jumped when Bilbo tried to take the Ring from Frodo. I had guessed before, that it would had been made like that. And I could tell later on to my friends "Told ya!"

Evenstar · 01-19-2002, 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lightice

I almost laughed, when all people jumped when Bilbo tried to take the Ring from Frodo. I had guessed before, that it would had been made like that. And I could tell later on to my friends "Told ya!"

Hey...I was one of the people that jumped real high!!!! It scared the **** out of me!!! Especially cause his face went strange!!! I didn't scream...but my friend did!!! I LOVED IT!!!

Luthien Tinuviel · 01-19-2002, 02:46 AM

Oh dear, these horror stories are hilarious! I've seen the movie 3 times, and want to go back for more. 2 of the times i went, it was a wonderful movie viewing experience, and one time, we got there late, and had 3rd row seats, so you can imagine...

Anyways, i just wanted to share my friends horror story. The first time she went, she had to sit behind these drunk guys, and every single time the camera panned to Arwen, EVERY SINGLE TIME, romantic parts, action parts, every time, they would throw their arms up in the air, pointing at the screen, and yell, LIV TYLER ROOOOOOLS!!!!! completely ruining the mood...

Laurelyn · 01-19-2002, 04:19 PM

When I saw the movie for the first time there were these two airhead teenage girls (no offense intended to my fellow teenage girls out there, but these two were real airheads) who spent the intire movie gossiping about their boyfriends, and throwing popcorn at my hair, trying to get the popcorn stuck there, i think. At the end of the movie they said, "What? it ends there? man, that was pointless." My dad and I, who are both devoted Tolkien fans, and were by then quite sick of being bombarded with popcorn, turned around and said, "It's part one of a trilogy," as nicely as we could . . . which I wouldn't garantee was nicely, as we were thoroughly mad at them . . . needless to say, we went and saw it again later, minus the obnoxious vally-girl mallrats.

bropous · 01-20-2002, 12:48 PM

Welcome to the Moot, Luthien Tinuviel and Laurelyn...

I just don't get whatever happened to manners at the movie. Probably went the same way of politeness at the grocery store, courtesy on the road, and the probably mythical "kindness of strangers"....

Luthien Tinuviel · 01-20-2002, 12:53 PM

Thank you bropous! I know, altho i had pretty good movie viewing experiences, the second time i went, (the one that wasn't the best) These really fat people get getting up, and wlaking past me and my friends during the movie, to go get food or whatever, and kept doing it, and then this child kept talking to his mother in the front row, so thats the most horrific tale i have.

Laurelyn · 01-20-2002, 04:09 PM

Thanx, bropous. . . I feel welcomed . . . :-)

Gerbil · 01-20-2002, 10:15 PM

Oh well, yet another reason to be grateful the multi-talented (she can walk and talk simultaneously) Liv Tyler only occupied about 5 minutes screen time in total

01-14-2002, 01:49 AM	#22
Gerbil Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: London, UK Posts: 797	I'm beginning to think that a large number of people go to the cinema for general escapism, not the specific escapism I used to think they did it for. These people will go and see anything as it's simply 'something to do'. These are quite likely the people who will gain nothing from the film and come out with the rubbish we've all overheard. I've noticed two types in particular that annoy me: 1) Parents taking kids as it's easier to do than look after the kids properly ('we're in the cinema so sit down and shut up'!). Kids will probably be noisy and fidgety as they don't want to be there. Parents ignore them. 2) Drunks. Last showing I went to was 11pm. UK laws, that's closing time at the pub. So from 11 to 11.30 there was a steady trickle of not so steady people staggering to seats. Only to get up every 15 minutes to go to the bathroom Remarkably enough, most were quite. I assume they fell asleep halfway through the film! __________________ Gerbil gerbil@theburrow.co.uk

01-14-2002, 12:04 PM	#24
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	A well-placed cup with about two inches of beer in it usually does the trick... You know, anduin, I can't understadn it either....why are people so afraid to lean over and whisper in someone's ear? It's like people now think they have a right to speak in a conversational tone during a film [or, even louder]. then, when someone expresses their right to hear a film for which they paid admission, the miscreants feel they can attack said person. Too many Orcs and too few Elves i nthis world, dear friends.... __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-15-2002, 04:54 AM	#26
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	A friend of mine said she thought it was a horror story. After a week he decided to watch because her other circle kept talking about it and she got wind of its 3 week standing at the box office. Then she sends me a message on my handphone asking about the movie because she fell asleep.... I feel sorry for her, though... __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

01-15-2002, 05:25 AM	#28
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	At least she didn't ask you why Dumbledore died I almost rolled down the aisle laughing __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

01-16-2002, 01:06 AM	#30
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	Hmmm...Mel Gibson as an Orc..... Grishnakh :"Ugluk, where are ya goen?" Uglukh: "Ta peck a foight" Uglukh: I see hundreds of my fellow orcs and uruk hai in front of fangorn....trying to go to Isengard...well ya foight!" Grishnakh: "No, we wull run, and we wull lev" Uglukh: "Aye, run and you'll lev, foight, and you may die... but luying in yourrr holes en morrrdorrr many years frrom now... Would you be wulleng.. ta trade all the days from thes day ta that... For one chance...JUST ONE CHANCE! Ta tell our enemies...ya can take our lives but you wull never take.... OUR HOBBITS!!!!!" __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures... Last edited by Arathorn : 01-18-2002 at 10:42 AM.

01-14-2002, 01:35 AM	#21
luinilwen Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney AUSTRALIA Posts: 368	i've only seen it once, so far which was on the opening day (boxing day in aust.). firstly, my left ear drum burst on christmas day. that was... excrutiating. my hearing was mong all through the movie secondly, since we were first in line for the movie (i insisted on being an hour early... AT LEAST!) we had front row seat on the bolcony. bad move. i'm almost as a short as a hobbit so i couldn't see the bottom of the screen. after the movie my brother was talking about the subtitles (when they're conversing in elvish). i was like "there were subtitles?" after the movie i heard some girl say "that was the worst ending i've ever seen!" i felt like slapping her and saying "that's cuz the story ain't finished yet!" sigh

01-14-2002, 09:12 AM	#23
*anduin* Entwife Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: louisville Posts: 3,718	Last night I had a kid and his mother behind me that talked the entire way through the movie. His mother had obviously not read the book ("does he not have shoes on?!!")and her son was giving her much needed commentary (his opinion, not mine). I can understand two children discussing the book during the movie....they might not realize how loud they are or that they are being disruptive (as is the most likely case) but adults should know better. I mean, how many times must someone turn around and give a dirty look before someone gets the hint?

01-15-2002, 03:26 AM	#25
mirrille Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 479	My friend told me how his parents asked him to take them to see LOTR. Of course, this is a good thing because they don't know anything about the book and it's great to introduce people it the story. His parents are a little bit English-as-a-second-language. They know nothing about "standard" western fantasy. Seems like he didn't bargain for that. Through the movie: Q: How come those people are so short? A: ...They're hobbits. They're supposed to be short. Q: Why? A:...Because hobbits are supposed to be short. sigh... Later... my personal favourite- Q: What's that thing following them? A: That's Gollum. He's following them because he wants the ring. Q: Why don't they just give him the ring, and then he won't follow him? A: Argh! It doesn't work that way! *sigh... Poor guy. Having to deal this those questions and people glaring at him too... I'm glad my dad is a Tolkien fan.

01-15-2002, 05:09 AM	#27
luinilwen Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney AUSTRALIA Posts: 368	my viewing was with my mum and older sibs (they're both tolkien fans). my mother has never read tolkien - in fact she reads books titles "developing the leader within you" and "you can do it!" and "how to win friends and influence people"... sigh i nearly cried after what she said at the end of the movie... "they should have had mel gibson in it."

01-16-2002, 12:45 AM	#29
mirrille Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 479	Mel Gibson? Well...I suppose we could let him be an orc or something to keep him happy. Yeesh! I mean, we have all those cute hobbits. We have Orlando Bloom. We have Sean Bean and Viggo. We have plenty to look at. Why spoil it by putting in someone like Mel Gibson? Well, there's no accounting for taste.

01-18-2002, 07:10 AM	#31
Evenstar Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Neverneverland Posts: 215	Meanwhile...the guy next to me jumped SO HIGH when the Orcs came..that was hilarious!!! I was bawling when Gandalf "died" and all of a sudden when EVERYTHING was really quiet I let out this big SOB which set my best friend laughing at me!!! We never had any.."is that the end" but we did have a couple of "oooh..." and "oh man!!! I thought this finishes" but my personal favourite was from a guy who came up to me and said "I know your sad sweetie...don't worry...the ring becomes good in the end!!!" I was a little confused until I realised that he was tipsy cause he fell down the stairs!!!!

01-18-2002, 10:04 AM	#32
Gerbil Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: London, UK Posts: 797	That's the one good thing about having seen it numerous times - I don't jump at the jumpy bits. For some reason in films I am #1 candidate for leaping out of my seat at the slightest shock tactic. I hate it __________________ Gerbil gerbil@theburrow.co.uk

01-19-2002, 02:46 AM	#35
Luthien Tinuviel Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Middle Earth Posts: 38	Oh dear, these horror stories are hilarious! I've seen the movie 3 times, and want to go back for more. 2 of the times i went, it was a wonderful movie viewing experience, and one time, we got there late, and had 3rd row seats, so you can imagine... Anyways, i just wanted to share my friends horror story. The first time she went, she had to sit behind these drunk guys, and every single time the camera panned to Arwen, EVERY SINGLE TIME, romantic parts, action parts, every time, they would throw their arms up in the air, pointing at the screen, and yell, LIV TYLER ROOOOOOLS!!!!! completely ruining the mood... __________________ The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hamlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen, Of stars in shadow shimmering. Tinúviel was dancing there To music of a pipe unseen, And light of starts was in her hair, And in her raiment glimmering There Beren came from mountains cold, And lost he wandered under leaves, And where the Elven-river rolled. He walked alone and sorrowing. He peered between the hemlock-leaves And saw in wonder flowers of gold Upon her mantle and her sleeves, And her hair like shadow following. He sought her ever, wandering far Where leaves or years were thickly strewn, By light of moon and ray of star In frosty heavens shivering. Her mantle glinted in the moon. And on a hill-top high and far She danced, and at her feet was strewn A mist of silver quivering.

01-19-2002, 04:19 PM	#36
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	When I saw the movie for the first time there were these two airhead teenage girls (no offense intended to my fellow teenage girls out there, but these two were real airheads) who spent the intire movie gossiping about their boyfriends, and throwing popcorn at my hair, trying to get the popcorn stuck there, i think. At the end of the movie they said, "What? it ends there? man, that was pointless." My dad and I, who are both devoted Tolkien fans, and were by then quite sick of being bombarded with popcorn, turned around and said, "It's part one of a trilogy," as nicely as we could . . . which I wouldn't garantee was nicely, as we were thoroughly mad at them . . . needless to say, we went and saw it again later, minus the obnoxious vally-girl mallrats.

01-20-2002, 12:48 PM	#37
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Welcome to the Moot, Luthien Tinuviel and Laurelyn... I just don't get whatever happened to manners at the movie. Probably went the same way of politeness at the grocery store, courtesy on the road, and the probably mythical "kindness of strangers".... __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-20-2002, 12:53 PM	#38
Luthien Tinuviel Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Middle Earth Posts: 38	Thank you bropous! I know, altho i had pretty good movie viewing experiences, the second time i went, (the one that wasn't the best) These really fat people get getting up, and wlaking past me and my friends during the movie, to go get food or whatever, and kept doing it, and then this child kept talking to his mother in the front row, so thats the most horrific tale i have. __________________ The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hamlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen, Of stars in shadow shimmering. Tinúviel was dancing there To music of a pipe unseen, And light of starts was in her hair, And in her raiment glimmering There Beren came from mountains cold, And lost he wandered under leaves, And where the Elven-river rolled. He walked alone and sorrowing. He peered between the hemlock-leaves And saw in wonder flowers of gold Upon her mantle and her sleeves, And her hair like shadow following. He sought her ever, wandering far Where leaves or years were thickly strewn, By light of moon and ray of star In frosty heavens shivering. Her mantle glinted in the moon. And on a hill-top high and far She danced, and at her feet was strewn A mist of silver quivering.

01-20-2002, 04:09 PM	#39
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	Thanx, bropous. . . I feel welcomed . . . :-) __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

01-20-2002, 10:15 PM	#40
Gerbil Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: London, UK Posts: 797	RE: Luthien Tinuviel's post Oh well, yet another reason to be grateful the multi-talented (she can walk and talk simultaneously) Liv Tyler only occupied about 5 minutes screen time in total __________________ Gerbil gerbil@theburrow.co.uk

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