It’s the DVD box set of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Special Extended Edition!
12 DVDs containing 35 hours of video!

I wanted to have the DVDs from the moment I heard about the first movie. But I waited… and waited… and waited some more… for the extended versions and the trilogy box.

And then I thought it was a bit expensive, 130 euros or so. So I doubted… and waited… and doubted some more…

Until Proxis reduced the price, a few weeks ago, to Eur. 69.99! That was it, no more doubts, I just had to have it.

So, now the question is: when am I going to watch all that? I don’t know! Let’s see, if I start right now, I’ll be finished… Saturday morning around 4 am! OK, let’s go!

BTW, I just noticed that other shops have lowered their prices as well (of course!), but I’m pretty sure Proxis was the first.

By the way, I recently found some of the Star Wars movie scripts, so I tried to collect all of them from various sites. I’ve got all six of them now. See my wiki. Upon my search I came upon The Internet Movie Script Database. If I had known that before… Anyway, if you want any other movie script, check out IMSDb!

My brother and sister-in-law from Bristol were here for the weekend, so the four of us went to the cinema in Vlissingen. It’s a very funny movie about 4 wacky animals who… well, just read the rest from Ari’s weblog. BTW, I do agree with Ari that it’s not as good as, for example, Shrek. But it’s nice.

Oh, I’m already looking forward to 7 hours of ROTFLMAO.

I ordered two boxes, the first one containing three dvds and the second one another two dvds. And all that for only 25 euros!

Do you remember Statler and Waldorf?

Waldorf: Nurse! There’s something wrong with this TV!
Statler: What’s that?
Waldorf: It’s on!

And how about the Swedish Chef? Bork, bork, bork. He even has his own google translation and a USENET news group named after him: alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork.

There are lots of funny sound files and movies to be found on the internet, but I will only point you to this one: Mahna Mahna in mp3 or mpeg movie format.
Warning: If you’ve never heard this before, it will remain stuck in your head for weeks!

Mr. Incredible, at his dull job at an insurance company. Lucius Best, a.k.a. Frozone, played by Samual L. Jackson – you really recognise the actor in the character! And of course baby Jack Jack, especially at the end of the movie. All of them are just marvellous!

Before the feature film, one of Pixar‘s short films was shown: Boundin’, also quite hilarious!

Oh, and the tickets, I just bought them online. You go to the Belbios site, buy them with your credit card, and print the barcode you receive. Keep this in front of the scanner at the cinema, and your tickets are printed! No need to wait in those long queues.

Wow! What a great movie!
The story by Tolkien is fabulous, of course, with everything he created around it: the maps, the languages (with pronounciation!), the family trees, et cetera. But Peter Jackson also did a fantastic job, directing the movies, and keeping very close to the original story (as far as I can see).

Just as a year ago, with TTT, there were a few things in the movie I couldn’t remember from the book – and I’ve read it twice!
But I got the book out, as soon as I came home… and the movie really is amazingly close to the book. And if you have the illustrated version of the book, some scenes in the movies will even look familiar!

A few links, for more info about J.R.R. Tolkien and his work:
tolkien.co.uk,
tolkienonline.com,
tolkiensociety.org,
lordoftherings.net,
lordoftheringstrilogy.com/.

I know, I know, I’m a few days late, but I’ve hardly been online in the past two weeks!

My girlfriend and I went to Lyon for a few days, just before Christmas. She has worked there for almost a year, about 8 years ago, so it’s like a second home town to her.

It’s a beautiful town, with its Cathedral in Vieux Lyon, the Basilica and Roman amphitheatre in Fourvière, and The Confluence of the two rivers Rhone and Saône.
Update: I almost forgot the magnificent wall paintings, all over town.
We also visited the nearby medieval city of Perouges, a very small, but very nice and very old town, certainly worth a visit.
If I have the time, perhaps I’ll scan some of the photographs for my gallery.

Anyway, we came home on Christmas Eve. We didn’t do anything special the rest of the holiday. We celebrated Christmas at home, with our parents, and New Year’s Eve with friends and – of course – visited family on New Year’s Day.

Oh, we saw The Discovery of Heaven on television. A great movie! Very intruiging. I had seen it in the cinema already, two years ago, and after that got and read the book, which is also very good!

Well, it’s back to work now! For a few days, that is… Next Friday, we are flying to Bristol, to visit my brother and sister-in-law. “Hey”, the observant reader will say, “didn’t they live in London?”
Yes, you’re right, they did. But not anymore. They moved. That’s why we’re going to visit them, to see their new house!
And maybe they have a cinema there too… so we can go and see The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King!

Yes… well… what can I say?
I had to see it, of course. I had seen the other two, so I wanted to see this one too. But it’s disappointing! No, not the special effects, those are great, as expected. But the story – it’s just too easy… It’s a shame, maybe they should’ve just stopped after the first one.