I'll make it quick, cause how much can you really say about going to the movies all day? It just ended a while ago and I just got home. It started at 1:30 yesterday afternoon(actually maybe 20 minutes after that because they waited for everyone to get in), and it finished at 1:30 this morning. There were breaks of maybe 25-30 minutes in between the movies (longer if you didn't sit through the credits, which I didn't until the end of the last one I sat through about half of them). We all got these badges with lanyards to get in and out, they had some annoying kid from the Jimmy Kimmel Show running around with a camera crew (he also made a wholly forgettable speech before "Two Towers"), and the guy that was in the Sauron suit for the movie spoke briefly before "Return of the King". Afterwards we got a little trinket for being crazy enough to sit through all that: a little metal picture frame with actual film cells from each of the three movies. We also got free parking validation for the whole day.
I will say that I'm not worn out, my ass is not sore from sitting there all day, I didn't find myself getting bored or tired or anything like that, and I never even had the slightest urge to get up and go to the bathroom during the movies (although I went before each one even if I didn't have to 
). I will simply say this: in my opinion, that is the best way to watch those movies. Maybe not in the theater if you're not up for that kind of an endurance test, but those movies are really meant to be watched back to back to back. It's probably because, unlike most (or any) other multi-episodic movies, these were all made at the same time and are all part of one story. Sure they can entertain just by watching one all by itself, but really it's best to watch a movie beginning, middle and end, even if it takes three movies to accomplish that. Anyway, that's just how I see it. However, because of that, I don't know how often I'm going to watch these movies because I do think I'll probably want to watch them all in a row from now on. I dunno, I'm probably babbling cause I'm all hyper from sitting still all day. I'm gonna go to bed cause I gotta get up for work in a few hours. Night-night.
Comments (8)
the kid from the kimmel show wasn't by any chance doing the triumph the insult comic dog routine was he?
Posted by fhqwhgads | December 17, 2003 10:08 AM
Posted on December 17, 2003 10:08
I think he was trying to, but he wasn't funny at all, so it's hard to tell. He had no jokes at all, he didn't openly mock us or anything, and he was making his little speech while we were all in the theater in our seats waiting for them to start the movie. Thankfully there were assigned seating and hence no line for them to film us all in. Most irritating was after "Return of the King" the Kimmel kid and his camera crew were waiting immediately outside the exit of the theater and they filmed everyone coming out with the kid asking over and over "who died?" I think it was clearly an attempt to replicate Triumph's hilarious encounter with the Star Wars fans, but it was so unoriginal and uninspired it was really just lame.
Posted by Yams | December 17, 2003 12:12 PM
Posted on December 17, 2003 12:12
Darth Vader: (Pointing to his electronic chest plate) This one here is for my life support system.
Triumph: Oh yeah? Which one of these do I press to call your parents to come pick you up?
Posted by fhqwhgads | December 17, 2003 1:40 PM
Posted on December 17, 2003 13:40
Yeah, see that thing was fucking hilarious. I guess I shouldn't have expected much humor from a 12 year old kid (how funny could he be?), but then again, what the hell is Jimmy Kimmel doing using some awkward, dorky kid for something like that? It was unclear to me whether his audience was supposed to laugh at us losers for going to the all-day thing or whether they were supposed to laugh at this dorky kid. Maybe it's a regular segment on the show or something though, I don't know, I'v never seen it.
Posted by Yams | December 17, 2003 5:22 PM
Posted on December 17, 2003 17:22
i think the kid has an earpiece so they can channel cool words through his mouth. you know, like cyrano de bygerac, only to mock instead of love.
Posted by fhqwhgads | December 17, 2003 6:48 PM
Posted on December 17, 2003 18:48
If so, then they need to find some funny people there on that show to talk to the guy through the earpiece cause I don't even remember him attempting to make a joke at all. His speech before "Two Towers" was basically "here's the moment you've been waiting for" blah blah blah, pretty typical stuff. The only thing that was different about it was that someone yelled something at him cause he was all dressed up like Aragorn and he said "you guys should talk" or something like that, but really that was it. He only spoke for maybe 30 seconds. Then, like I said, afterwards he was just sitting there saying "who died?" over and over. Just to give you an idea of how much the guy bombed (or just how little people thought of him) when the Arclight employee was introducing the dude who played Sauron he said "I've got someone who wants to say a few words, but don't worry, this time it's someone cool." To be honest, based on what I saw, I'd be surprised if Jimmy Kimmel used any of that unless it was to laugh at the kid. Either that or I missed the real comic gems he was throwing around elsewhere, cause it really just looked like they threw some rather awkward 6th grader up there to conquer his stagefright. It wasn't that I was offended by the kid (I was mostly just confused), but he just wasn't funny at all. "Punch Drunk Love" (which I'm watching right now), now THAT is funny.
Posted by Yams | December 17, 2003 9:11 PM
Posted on December 17, 2003 21:11
I think that's the same kid they used on the Man Show, back when the Man Show was funny. Now they have the bohunk from Fear Factor and some other dweeb running it. What was funny as two nerdy type guys hosting the show has turned into some varsity high school lockeroom with as much subtlety as a car wreck.
Posted by Ponnerbell | December 18, 2003 6:46 AM
Posted on December 18, 2003 06:46
I never saw the Man Show either, but I've heard this complaint before, that it started off great and got bad in a hurry. Anyway, I looked it up and it turns out the kid's name is Andy Milonakis. I couldn't find much of substance about him, but here's a picture:
Posted by Yams | December 18, 2003 9:27 AM
Posted on December 18, 2003 09:27