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2012-09-30, 11:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
I let my inner geek rampage free this weekend and this is what it ended up buying. Basically I spent yesterday and today first going through all the extra material and then watch the movies (Fellowship yesterday, Two Towers today).
A very nice weekend indeed!
...What did you do the last time YOUR inner geek escaped?Blizzard Battletag: UnderDog#21677
Shepard: "Wrex! Do we have mawsign?"
Wrex: "Shepard, we have mawsign the likes of which even Reapers have never seen!"
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2012-09-30, 05:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
What. When I heard about the DVD 12-disc set I thought it was rather excessive. But enough content to fit 15 Blu-ray discs? That sounds like less of a weekend and more of an entire week.
^~Cody T.~^
"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are." - Mewtwo
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2012-10-01, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Only the movies are on blu-ray, the extra content is on regular DVD, but you do get digital copies of the movies.
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2012-10-01, 12:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Funny, I actually watched the whole extended trilogy a week ago (thur-sat). I don't really count that as geeking out because I only watched one movie per night. A few years ago I watched the whole extended trilogy in the same day. Needless to say, I didn't do much else that day.
Signatures are so 90's.
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2012-10-01, 01:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
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2012-10-01, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Cool!
I only had time watching through the first two movies and their respective extra materials this weekend
I have not watched the movies for a long time before this, and I have to admit that it recreated my crush on Éowyn. It doesn't help that she is perfectly casted by the LOVELY Miranda Otto. I actually developed somewhat of a crush on her (Éowyn) already when I read the book the first time at 12 years old, she was definitely my favorite character in the book. It resurfaced again when I bought the Tolkien Bestiarium at 14, and bloomed fully when I first saw Two Towers...
Yes, I am patheticBlizzard Battletag: UnderDog#21677
Shepard: "Wrex! Do we have mawsign?"
Wrex: "Shepard, we have mawsign the likes of which even Reapers have never seen!"
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2012-10-01, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
15 blue ray?!?
...what kind of extra stuff they put into? Christopher Lee that recite the whole books?Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
Things that increase my self esteem:
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2012-10-01, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
The digital ghost of Tolkien, as with Neuromancer.
Si non confectus, non reficiat.
The beautiful girl is courtesy of Serpentine
My S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripjat Let's Play! Please give it a read, more than one constant reader would be nice!
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2012-10-01, 04:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Blizzard Battletag: UnderDog#21677
Shepard: "Wrex! Do we have mawsign?"
Wrex: "Shepard, we have mawsign the likes of which even Reapers have never seen!"
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2012-10-02, 04:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
Things that increase my self esteem:
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2012-10-02, 05:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Well on the subject of geeking out with Tolkien, I have an entire cabinet full of LOTR Tradeable Miniatures Game pieces. Basically enough to make a nice tabletop scene with any LOTR faction you can name (Except dwarves. Not enough dwarves.).
And then I bought 4 main sets of Heroscape so that I can make nice hex-based terrain to fight on. And then I bought a bunch of Heroscape accessory sets.
For the amount of money I spent on this, I could have hired a pair of high-quality call girls to spend an entire day with me. I regret nothing!
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2012-10-02, 06:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
uhm.. I have the extended edition dvd sets.. the ones with I believe 4 discs a piece..
are you telling me that the blueray edition has more extra stuff yet?
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2012-10-02, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
For the amount of money I spent on this, I could have hired a pair of high-quality call girls to spend an entire day with me. I regret nothing!
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2012-10-02, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
We are not standing on the shoulders of giants, but on very tall tower of other dwarves.
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2012-10-02, 12:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Sadly the title of greated audio book has already been claimed.
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2012-10-06, 07:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Blizzard Battletag: UnderDog#21677
Shepard: "Wrex! Do we have mawsign?"
Wrex: "Shepard, we have mawsign the likes of which even Reapers have never seen!"
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2012-10-06, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
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2012-10-06, 03:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
I only ever watch the Extended Cut anymore. The theatrical feels so limited. Also with the Extended versions I can kill ~12 hours leading up to New Years every year with my sister and folks.
My family is made of Geek.
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2012-10-06, 03:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2012-10-06, 10:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-06, 10:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
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2012-10-06, 10:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Well I watched all the Harry Potter movies in one sitting, almost literally, I got up once to go the bathroom, and a couple times to post on the computer. That's probably the most impressive marathon I'll ever do.
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2012-10-06, 11:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
I regularly marathon + drinks. Today was X-men. LOTR, Star Wars and the Matrix are all common ones.
On the geeky note, today I managed to score the Watchmen Complete box (with the Black Freighter sequences inserted) for $6.
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2012-10-07, 01:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-07, 01:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-10, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Picked up the same set a couple weeks ago on sale for $40.
Then found out that Costco (I guess Sam's Club for you US folks) is now selling it for just over $30 :/
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2012-10-10, 10:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
We still have Costcos in the US; hell, my grandmother lives only about two minutes away from one.
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2012-10-12, 10:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
Having had a chance to sit down and watch it, an argument can definitely be made. I loved the theatrical cut. I thought they did a good job cutting out stuff while keeping the core of the story. I thought changing the Space Squid to a threat less, well, stupid was a good idea. I thought naming the second gen Minutemen as "the Watchmen" was annoying, but good for the casual viewer. But the symbolic parallels between the Black Freighter and the story are half of the brilliance that is Watchmen.
Veering back towards the topic, I thought that cut did what the extended LOTR did; which is smooth over some of the things that annoyed me most about the theatrical cut (in that case, Faramir being turned into Borimir 2, rather than one of the strongest noble characters in the whole book!)
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2012-10-13, 07:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: LOTR Blue Ray Extended 15 disc edition or "the dangers of geeking out too much"
I dunno, a version of that read by heston would be pretty cool as well. But yeah,james earl jonesMufasa Darth VaderRev. KumaloThulsa Doom reading that book? Badass something that makes sense."Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."