Trailer Watching
Going to see "Secondhand Lions" with a bunch of friends tomorrow, but like every other Tolkien geek on the planet I have an ulterior motive beyond seeing the movie.
Yup, as rumoured and advertised by Alliance Atlantis all week, the new two and a half minute "Return of The King" trailer is being attached to all copies of "Secondhand Lions" starting tonight and the Tolkien fan world is a-buzz. Supposedly we get our first glimpse or Shelob, Narsil and the Paths of the Dead. Sam shouts warning to Frodo at Mount Doom, Aragorn is encouraged to claim his destiny, Gollum continues his plots and Merry and Dernhelm charge in to fight at the Pellenor Fields. Sounds like a fun two and a half minutes to me. Hope I'm half as impressed with the two hour movie that comes after it as I expect to be by the trailer :).
Word has it that theonering.net has the new trailer up tonight (hi,
jewelsong :)), but my computer is rather sick right now and it would just be an exercise in frustration to try and download the trailer along with a billion other people tonight, so I will just be patient and wait until tomorrow night. Hopefully I can download it off the main site on Monday after my computer goes through some repairs this weekend.
Tomorrow should be fun, though. A group of seven of us are heading to a Japanese restaurant where, I'm told, they cook at your table, before we head out to the theatre. My friend, Donna, is coming in from Buffalo to do some costuming work for The Gathering with fellow concom member, Trish, and her daughter, Susie. Hope and Tracy from The Gathering concom will be joining John and me, too. Which means, of course, we're -all- anticipating the two minute ROTK trailer more than the two hour movie :).
Don't know what I'm going to think of "Secondhand Lions". I've read both good reviews and bad. I do like Haley Joel Osment, but I often don't like the movies he's in, "The Sixth Sense" being one of the few exceptions. Still he was the best thing about "A.I.", which I rather liked except for the ending, and "Pay It Forward", which I pretty much hated except for Osment. Michael Caine and Robert Duvall have pedigree that can't be denied, too. The last two movies I've seen, "American Splendor" and "Lost In Translation, have ended up better reviewed than I liked them, so we'll see what happens with this movie.
But, hey, seeing Shelob for the first time should make up for anything else. I've waited 25 years to see Shelob brought to the screen.
**NOTE**- I am finally biting the bullet and pulling my computer apart this weekend to fix it from the ground up. I have no idea how long this will take. If you expect to hear from me and don't, likely that is the reason why. Hopefully, I'll be up and running with a better, faster computer by early next week.
Exercise log- I've been lazy, languishing in Rivendell. Have been stock-piling the miles I've walked between home, school, Walmart, etc., though, for when I finally do hit the road again. Ordered a jogbra on-line this week. My fledgling running program begins once it arrives. Thanks so much to Debbie for the great beginner running weblinks that she sent to me.
Yup, as rumoured and advertised by Alliance Atlantis all week, the new two and a half minute "Return of The King" trailer is being attached to all copies of "Secondhand Lions" starting tonight and the Tolkien fan world is a-buzz. Supposedly we get our first glimpse or Shelob, Narsil and the Paths of the Dead. Sam shouts warning to Frodo at Mount Doom, Aragorn is encouraged to claim his destiny, Gollum continues his plots and Merry and Dernhelm charge in to fight at the Pellenor Fields. Sounds like a fun two and a half minutes to me. Hope I'm half as impressed with the two hour movie that comes after it as I expect to be by the trailer :).
Word has it that theonering.net has the new trailer up tonight (hi,
jewelsong :)), but my computer is rather sick right now and it would just be an exercise in frustration to try and download the trailer along with a billion other people tonight, so I will just be patient and wait until tomorrow night. Hopefully I can download it off the main site on Monday after my computer goes through some repairs this weekend.Tomorrow should be fun, though. A group of seven of us are heading to a Japanese restaurant where, I'm told, they cook at your table, before we head out to the theatre. My friend, Donna, is coming in from Buffalo to do some costuming work for The Gathering with fellow concom member, Trish, and her daughter, Susie. Hope and Tracy from The Gathering concom will be joining John and me, too. Which means, of course, we're -all- anticipating the two minute ROTK trailer more than the two hour movie :).
Don't know what I'm going to think of "Secondhand Lions". I've read both good reviews and bad. I do like Haley Joel Osment, but I often don't like the movies he's in, "The Sixth Sense" being one of the few exceptions. Still he was the best thing about "A.I.", which I rather liked except for the ending, and "Pay It Forward", which I pretty much hated except for Osment. Michael Caine and Robert Duvall have pedigree that can't be denied, too. The last two movies I've seen, "American Splendor" and "Lost In Translation, have ended up better reviewed than I liked them, so we'll see what happens with this movie.
But, hey, seeing Shelob for the first time should make up for anything else. I've waited 25 years to see Shelob brought to the screen.
**NOTE**- I am finally biting the bullet and pulling my computer apart this weekend to fix it from the ground up. I have no idea how long this will take. If you expect to hear from me and don't, likely that is the reason why. Hopefully, I'll be up and running with a better, faster computer by early next week.
Exercise log- I've been lazy, languishing in Rivendell. Have been stock-piling the miles I've walked between home, school, Walmart, etc., though, for when I finally do hit the road again. Ordered a jogbra on-line this week. My fledgling running program begins once it arrives. Thanks so much to Debbie for the great beginner running weblinks that she sent to me.