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Re: I've seen LOTR

Simon H. Lee
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SubjectRe: I've seen LOTR
FromSimon H. Lee
Date01/25/2002 18:22 (01/25/2002 18:22)
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rimrun@NOSPAMdrizzle.com (Rimrunner) choreographed a chorus line of high-kicking electrons to spell out:

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 05:43:49 GMT, Simon H. Lee <not@here.edu>wrote:

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:03:24 +0800, C'Pi <jas221@yahoo.com>wrote:

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C'Pi
When I first came to Taiwan some 13 years ago they would play the national anthem before every movie and you had to stand up while it was playing. Now they don't play it anymore before movies. But for some reason they played it before LOTR. It seamed more like a commercial and people just ignored it, milling around looking for their seats and munching on popcorn.

Rimrunner
I'd rather hear the national anthem than some of the crap that gets piped into American theaters.

Ye gods, I really DIDN'T need to hear "Pump Up the Jam" again.

Simon H. Lee
Wild tangent: I just finished a bus trip to New York City. On the way up, the "in-flight" movie

Rimrunner
Wow. They have movies on busses now?

It's obviously been a long time...

There are a couple of different lines around here that run movies; I've not been ecstatic about the idea, but that might have to do with the previous two in-bus movies I've seen being The Net and Big Daddy...

Simon H. Lee
was _The Dish_, with Sam Neill and various other Australians. People were generally not paying it a huge amount of attention, but at one point in the movie there's a scene with "Please rise for the national anthem of the United States of America."

Rimrunner
Good movie. I really, really liked this. Sam Neill was awesome, and the whole thing was very sweet without actually drowning you in treacle, the way most movies like this try to do.

One reason I generally like British and Australian movies.

Simon H. Lee
Then the theme music for Hawaii Five-O plays...

Rimrunner
*boggle*

That's...sorta funny, actually.

Everyone who'd not been paying attention to the movie up to that point did notice *that* :)

pretty sure it didn't do that in the theatrical release...or did it??

That really was a scene in the movie...

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