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Jeff Head

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antiterror13 said:
Hi Jeff.

the Hobbit is produced and directed in NZ and by NZer .... We are very proud about it for a tiny country with only 4M population. Same thing with the trilogy.
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Yes...I am very well aware of all of the Tollkien series films being made in NZ.

And you should be proud. The mountain scenery in NZ rivals any of the Alpine reions of North America, South America, Europe or Asia in my opinion in terms of beauty.

Perhaps not nearly as extensive of an area covered by those mountains as in some of the other loations...but what you have is extremely beautiful and wonderful alpine country. Having lived in the inter-mountain west of the United States for the past 20+ years, I can tell I would be at right at home in that country there in New Zealand.

And as to watching all six together. Well, once I get the three extended versions of the Hobbit, we would be talking 24 hours straight movies and that would ruin at least the last couple of the Trilogy. So, for me, two days. Get up andeat breakfast at 7 AM and then get started about 8 AM, watch the first Hobbit and take a lunch break, watch the next one then dinner break, then watch the third and hit the sack. Then a repeat on the following day with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Have to be on one of those three day weekends though so the honey-dos will not get neglected.! LOL!
 
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vesicles

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Jeff Head said:
Yes...I am very well aware of all of the Tollkien series films being made in NZ.

And you should be proud. The mountain scenery in NZ rivals any of the Alpine reions of North America, South America, Europe or Asia in my opinion in terms of beauty.

Perhaps not nearly as extensive of an area covered by those mountains as in some of the other loations...but what you have is extremely beautiful and wonderful alpine country. Having lived in the inter-mountain west of the United States for the past 20+ years, I can tell I would be at right at home in that country there in New Zealand.

And as to watching all six together. Well, once I get the three extended versions of the Hobbit, we would be talking 24 hours straight movies and that would ruin at least the last couple of the Trilogy. So, for me, two days. Get up andeat breakfast at 7 AM and then get started about 8 AM, watch the first Hobbit and take a lunch break, watch the next one then dinner break, then watch the third and hit the sack. Then a repeat on the following day with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Have to be on one of those three day weekends though so the honey-dos will not get neglected.! LOL!
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I once tried watching all 3 extended editions of the trilogy AND the extra features for 3 movies. It took almost 24h. Well, I was able to finish the movies without falling to sleep, but managed to actually watch only less than half of the features. I negotiated with my wife to get this one-day "break". In exchange, I had to do dishes for a week. I'm not sure it was a wise idea though. staring at the screen for 12h was fine, but continuing doing that after that for another 6-8h was close to torture. Then I had to wash dishes for a week... Not sure it was a smart thing to do...
 
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vesicles said:
I once tried watching all 3 extended editions of the trilogy AND the extra features for 3 movies. It took almost 24h. Well, I was able to finish the movies without falling to sleep, but managed to actually watch only less than half of the features. I negotiated with my wife to get this one-day "break". In exchange, I had to do dishes for a week. I'm not sure it was a wise idea though. staring at the screen for 12h was fine, but continuing doing that after that for another 6-8h was close to torture. Then I had to wash dishes for a week... Not sure it was a smart thing to do...
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Sounds like the 24 challenge, where you watch a whole season of 24 in a 24 hour period, up to you if you want to watch it all back to back and do it in less than 24 hours or take 10min breaks between episodes for stuff they don't ever show Jack B doing, like going to the toilet, drinking water or eating just to name a few things.

If anything, your hobbit marathon was probably harder because there are quite a few 'slow' parts where nothing much happens and it is easy to drift off, whereas every episode of 24 is jam packed with action to help keep you going.

Although whatever you do, don't try the 24 drinking challenge, even with beer. Taking a shot every time Jack shoots, kills or 'interrogates' someone will probably kill anyone who tried it.
 
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I saw Django Unchained on Christmas. If you're a Sergio Leone fan, you'll probably like this one but it's bloodier to the point of laughable. I can see why Bill O'Reilly singled this movie out regarding the Connecticut school shooting. It had nothing to do with it. The violence was cartoonish. What bothered Bill was probably something entirely different. It's the kind of thing where you always see it portrayed in a lot of action movies so you're use to it but if the roles were switched it would be alarming to a hypocrite.
 
vesicles

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plawolf said:
Sounds like the 24 challenge, where you watch a whole season of 24 in a 24 hour period, up to you if you want to watch it all back to back and do it in less than 24 hours or take 10min breaks between episodes for stuff they don't ever show Jack B doing, like going to the toilet, drinking water or eating just to name a few things.

If anything, your hobbit marathon was probably harder because there are quite a few 'slow' parts where nothing much happens and it is easy to drift off, whereas every episode of 24 is jam packed with action to help keep you going.

Although whatever you do, don't try the 24 drinking challenge, even with beer. Taking a shot every time Jack shoots, kills or 'interrogates' someone will probably kill anyone who tried it.
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24 is also one of my favorites. Another one is "Heroes". I never thought about watching 24 back to back... Good idea!
 
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Funny, the other week I was having a discussion with a Guardian film journalist who argued that the Chinese movie industry was incapable of beating Hollywood in China's own box office suggesting the West had superior quality. I told him most of the Hollywood movies that were big in China are not considered quality movies in the US. Now you have this small Chinese movie beating them.
 
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Wow, Lost in Thailand has made $160 million in China and is now on track to beating the Chinese box office champ Avatar. It's only fitting that the Western entertainment news media of late has been laughing at how Chinese domestic movies are incapable of beating Hollywood movies in China.

In other news, John Woo was interveiwed on reports he was being considered to direct Expendables 3. Could be just fan rumor or this could be the studio throwing names out there just to see the reaction. But Woo's reaction is he's open to it but has certain conditions like no studio and producer interference. I guess that just knocked him down the list if it exists.
 
ABC78

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Un-friking believable Netflix streaming video of The Flowers of War is a version where the fire fights have been edited down and no subtitles, WTF?(I did not watch the rest of the movie because I don't have the stomach for that kind of subject matter.)
 
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I went to watch Lost in Thailand yesterday, I have to say it was pretty funny.
 
bladerunner

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antiterror13 said:
Hi Jeff.

the Hobbit is produced and directed in NZ and by NZer .... We are very proud about it for a tiny country with only 4M population. Same thing with the trilogy.
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Actually outside of Wellington the opinion was pretty evenly divided in most parts of NZ as to whether the Hobbit was or was'nt made in NZ. What brought this on was the Hollywood studios wanting such huge tax breaks, in fact the "Suits" claimed that financially there was'nt much gain for NZ if one factored in the inconvenience.
 
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