The Biggest Bald-Faced Lie of All?

bropous · 11-14-2002, 02:37 PM

Okay. Last night when I found the Extended Edition was on VHS, I called Media Play, they only had two copies left and the guy set one aside for me. But here's the rub:

Mr. Media Play Guy, thinking he was talking to some moron without a clue (okay, okay, according to some he may be right), actually had the nerve to say he has already seen all three films!!!!!! Can you believe this schmuck?

He said his friend has a cable modem and that they were able to download, over the Internet, all three films from the Wingnut Films website. Here's the funny part: He said it took them a week-and-a-half to download all three films...

Yeesh. Why do some people think they have to lie to impress strangers? We all know the third film ain't even really "in the can" yet. Besides, if there WERE downloadable films at wingnut, I bet you a dollar to a donut hole we all here at the Moot would at least have had the link for months.

Da noive of some people.......what a shmoo. I just acted astounded, said "awww cool!" at the appropriate moments, 'cause if I had been completely honest he would have sold off my copy of the Extended Edition!

LOL, the things we Tolkienites will put up with to get what we want.....

***Rían*** · 11-14-2002, 02:43 PM

That's pretty funny, bropous! And I would have done the same thing - "Ok, yeah, uh-huh, just GIMME MY DVD!"

***IronParrot*** · 11-14-2002, 11:59 PM

Wow! He saw the current form of ROTK already? Man, I wish I could spend a week and a half downloading unfinished, untextured animatics!

BeardofPants · 11-15-2002, 12:06 AM

You know, here in New Zealand we have those type of people. They're called Dick Smith Electronics employees....

cassiopeia · 11-15-2002, 12:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BeardofPants
You know, here in New Zealand we have those type of people. They're called Dick Smith Electronics employees....

LOL!

I had to walk around a hot shopping centre looking for the FOTR video. I had these sandals on and the strap broke, and now I have blisters on my feet. The things I put up with.......

What a moron, Bropus! Downloading all three from the official Wingnut site?

PJ would kill them!

Lizra · 11-15-2002, 08:08 AM

Did you milk it at all? "Wow! You're kidding! That is so awesome? What was RoTK like? What happened when the Gollum fell in the (spoiler)? "

Lollypopgurl · 11-19-2002, 09:45 PM

I would have done that too!!

Anything to get that DVD!

viggosbeard · 11-20-2002, 10:29 AM

hanging is too good for them there people !

Lanelf · 11-22-2002, 12:59 AM

I would have been going "Yep, wow, really?" that whole time then the moment I had the DVD in my grubby little paws I would have told him exactly how impossible that is! Whee, that'd be fun!
Lanelf.

viggosbeard · 11-22-2002, 08:53 AM

Ive just had the work place know - it - all in my office looking at my screen saver and hes just informed me he can get TTT pirate dvd - Im not sure which bit of " no you cant you dickhead " he didnt understand, but after repeatedly laughing and calling him a Grishnak, he left my office in a huff ! Like I say hanging is too good for them !

Elf.Freak · 11-24-2002, 11:35 AM

i would say, "can i just have the DVD?!" but, call me crazy if u want, i like waiting for the movies to come out rather than download them & watch them. Why? Because i like to imagine what the next film would be like!

*everyone stares at me* "crazy person..."
oh well...

Blackboar · 11-27-2002, 02:15 PM

I would kill to get RotK! I would love to see that movie now but
I woud only tell people I trusted otherwise everyone would want to see it! Besides some people just wouln't believe you.

**Nurvingiel** · 11-28-2002, 04:09 AM

If you really want to know what happens, read the book!

And anyway, it doesn't take a week and a half to download a movie with a cable modem. Good story Bropus.

Claenoic · 11-28-2002, 09:36 PM

My cousin's cousin appears to have ordered TTT on the internet. I said to the cousin that told me that I would believe it when I saw it. He seemed pretty confident however. Should I be worrying?

EDIT: Lookee that, 400th post!

Gerbil · 11-29-2002, 06:43 PM

Actually I'd have led him on with false info, eg:

So how did the huge dog monster look like that Frodo encounters?

or...

What was the battle between Sauron and Gandalf like? Did the Balrogs join in or what?

And then laugh in the pathetic fool's face.
Seriously, I'd go out of my way to ridicule the sad git. People like that deserve it.

Personally, I bet ROTK looks like a dog's dinner at the moment, and the chances of anyone having bothered to string it all together in a format is fairly remote.

Gerbil · 11-29-2002, 06:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Claenoic
My cousin's cousin appears to have ordered TTT on the internet. I said to the cousin that told me that I would believe it when I saw it. He seemed pretty confident however. Should I be worrying?

Yes - worrying that people will lie so blatantly just to try to get a perceived 'one up' on someone else.

Or, even funnier, he could have thought he'd done it legitimately, then he gets sent a pile of any old cack after the place he's ordered the DVD from has cleaned out his account.

Apparently some people need to learn the hard way...

Nunc · 11-29-2002, 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BeardofPants
You know, here in New Zealand we have those type of people. They're called Dick Smith Electronics employees....

ROFL - of course being just across the water from you, we have plenty of the schmucks here too in Oz...

BeardofPants · 11-29-2002, 10:36 PM

You have my sympathy. I had not realised the evil had spread that far.

There's probably some credit in there being a hack of TTT out there somewhere, but ROTK? Doubtful.

cassiopeia · 11-30-2002, 01:49 AM

LOL, yes evil has spread here. I went to DSE, looking for a DVD player and they had TWO in my price range. And some dopey looking employee who wore a suit that didn't fit and who looked like he was 13 asked us if we wanted assistance. But I digress, I doubt the ROTK is anywhere near finished, they might even need to film some more scenes. TTT was only finished a few months ago, wasn't it?

Gerbil · 11-30-2002, 03:12 AM

Indeedy - I seem to recall that even as recently as a few months ago they said they'd only built the Shelob monster and hadn't started animating her yet.

THere;s still a whole year of post-production / effects etc. (along with the inevitable reshooting of old stuff / new footage that PJ will want to do in the time). While not as PP obsessed as say, the new SW films, it's still the difference between blue screen here there and everywhere, and an actual coherent visual treat.

11-14-2002, 02:37 PM	#1
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	The Biggest Bald-Faced Lie of All? Okay. Last night when I found the Extended Edition was on VHS, I called Media Play, they only had two copies left and the guy set one aside for me. But here's the rub: Mr. Media Play Guy, thinking he was talking to some moron without a clue (okay, okay, according to some he may be right), actually had the nerve to say he has already seen all three films!!!!!! Can you believe this schmuck? He said his friend has a cable modem and that they were able to download, over the Internet, all three films from the Wingnut Films website. Here's the funny part: He said it took them a week-and-a-half to download all three films... Yeesh. Why do some people think they have to lie to impress strangers? We all know the third film ain't even really "in the can" yet. Besides, if there WERE downloadable films at wingnut, I bet you a dollar to a donut hole we all here at the Moot would at least have had the link for months. Da noive of some people.......what a shmoo. I just acted astounded, said "awww cool!" at the appropriate moments, 'cause if I had been completely honest he would have sold off my copy of the Extended Edition! LOL, the things we Tolkienites will put up with to get what we want..... __________________ "...[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.

11-14-2002, 02:43 PM	#2
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	That's pretty funny, bropous! And I would have done the same thing - "Ok, yeah, uh-huh, just GIMME MY DVD!" __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

11-14-2002, 11:59 PM	#3
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	Wow! He saw the current form of ROTK already? Man, I wish I could spend a week and a half downloading unfinished, untextured animatics! __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

11-15-2002, 12:06 AM	#4
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	You know, here in New Zealand we have those type of people. They're called Dick Smith Electronics employees.... __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

11-15-2002, 08:08 AM	#6
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	Did you milk it at all? "Wow! You're kidding! That is so awesome? What was RoTK like? What happened when the Gollum fell in the (spoiler)? " __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats!

11-19-2002, 09:45 PM	#7
Lollypopgurl Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 222	I would have done that too!! Anything to get that DVD! __________________ a violinist...

11-20-2002, 10:29 AM	#8
viggosbeard Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey Posts: 247	hanging is too good for them there people ! __________________ You cant resist her Shes in your bones Shes in your marrow And your ride home You cant avoid her Shes in the air In between molecules Of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Only in dreams

11-22-2002, 12:59 AM	#9
Lanelf Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The Second Drawer Down Posts: 407	I would have been going "Yep, wow, really?" that whole time then the moment I had the DVD in my grubby little paws I would have told him exactly how impossible that is! Whee, that'd be fun! Lanelf. __________________ Hey, I'm back! resounding silence You didn't even notice I was gone, did you? Well, I'm back now anyway. Artemis Fowl must find Mulch Diggums! You'll never shut down the real Napster

11-22-2002, 08:53 AM	#10
viggosbeard Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey Posts: 247	Ive just had the work place know - it - all in my office looking at my screen saver and hes just informed me he can get TTT pirate dvd - Im not sure which bit of " no you cant you dickhead " he didnt understand, but after repeatedly laughing and calling him a Grishnak, he left my office in a huff ! Like I say hanging is too good for them ! __________________ You cant resist her Shes in your bones Shes in your marrow And your ride home You cant avoid her Shes in the air In between molecules Of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Only in dreams

11-24-2002, 11:35 AM	#11
Elf.Freak Orli's lil fan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sugar World/Orlando Bloom Cloud Posts: 464	i would say, "can i just have the DVD?!" but, call me crazy if u want, i like waiting for the movies to come out rather than download them & watch them. Why? Because i like to imagine what the next film would be like! everyone stares at me "crazy person..." oh well... __________________ >>--elven arrow--> ~ Give a man a fish and he'll feed for a day, give me a fish and you'll only get it back! ~ I've gotta new avatar! looks kinda like me...anime style! ~ LOST: Orlando Bloom. If found, please send him straight to Elf.Freak

11-27-2002, 02:15 PM	#12
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	I would kill to get RotK! I would love to see that movie now but I woud only tell people I trusted otherwise everyone would want to see it! Besides some people just wouln't believe you.

11-28-2002, 09:36 PM	#14
Claenoic Queen of Prolonged, Unexplained Absences Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Texas. 'Nuff said. Posts: 556	My cousin's cousin appears to have ordered TTT on the internet. I said to the cousin that told me that I would believe it when I saw it. He seemed pretty confident however. Should I be worrying? EDIT: Lookee that, 400th post! __________________ Very Biased Alternate Script (but it's funny!):Click here! FREAK RAIN!!!!!!!! O.o Queen of prolonged unexplained absences and long, loooong car rides. Well, hullo everyone. As you can see, I don't hang out here muchly anymore. There's a good reason for this. Y'see, I've been hanging out at a different chatboard called Cardboardia. So far, I've been havin' a blast. Not that I don't love the TLA, but the magic of Entmoot is lost on me. So, as soon as TLA ends, so will my existance here, probably. Who knows though? I might stay. Highly unlikely however. This is a good bye in advance, then. Unless you want to join me and my group of friends at Cardboardia. Cheers! Last edited by Claenoic : 11-28-2002 at 09:56 PM.

11-29-2002, 06:43 PM	#15
Gerbil Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: London, UK Posts: 797	Actually I'd have led him on with false info, eg: So how did the huge dog monster look like that Frodo encounters? or... What was the battle between Sauron and Gandalf like? Did the Balrogs join in or what? And then laugh in the pathetic fool's face. Seriously, I'd go out of my way to ridicule the sad git. People like that deserve it. Personally, I bet ROTK looks like a dog's dinner at the moment, and the chances of anyone having bothered to string it all together in a format is fairly remote. __________________ Gerbil gerbil@theburrow.co.uk

11-29-2002, 10:36 PM	#18
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	You have my sympathy. I had not realised the evil had spread that far. There's probably some credit in there being a hack of TTT out there somewhere, but ROTK? Doubtful. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

11-30-2002, 01:49 AM	#19
cassiopeia Viggoholic Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 1,749	LOL, yes evil has spread here. I went to DSE, looking for a DVD player and they had TWO in my price range. And some dopey looking employee who wore a suit that didn't fit and who looked like he was 13 asked us if we wanted assistance. But I digress, I doubt the ROTK is anywhere near finished, they might even need to film some more scenes. TTT was only finished a few months ago, wasn't it? __________________ Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

11-30-2002, 03:12 AM	#20
Gerbil Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: London, UK Posts: 797	Indeedy - I seem to recall that even as recently as a few months ago they said they'd only built the Shelob monster and hadn't started animating her yet. THere;s still a whole year of post-production / effects etc. (along with the inevitable reshooting of old stuff / new footage that PJ will want to do in the time). While not as PP obsessed as say, the new SW films, it's still the difference between blue screen here there and everywhere, and an actual coherent visual treat. __________________ Gerbil gerbil@theburrow.co.uk

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