So how long do you think ROFTK Will be

[tHe_JeKzTaR]

Cause i remember hearing some where that Peter Jackson is going throw a 3 hour cut of the movie, a 4 hour cut of the movie and even get this a 5 hour cut of the movie.

I know this movie will be the better of the first two all reports say so and i belive Peter Jackson's word.

But really how long do you think the movie will be cause there are some many great scenes from the book that should or would be in the movie and if the movie starts getting cut back for time limit's do you think it will hurt the movie.

My guess is

A 3 hour movie will be good but a little too short for the last chapter of a classic movie (Freaking when does a person say 3 hours is too short but for this movie i think it will be)

A 4 hour movie could just be the perfect choice this way the audience will be left with all great moments on cinema rather than DVD which i think is best.

A 5 hour movie would be way way too long even die hard fans would have a hard time watching for that long i know i would.

Anyway 2003 is the year for big movie and this one is going to be the best of all of them.

[PsYkOoOoO]

ive heard that it's gonna be 3 1/2 hrs long...im not certained though..

[adt100]

All things considered I think the most likely and most appropriate length for the theatrical cut will be arpund the 3 1/2 hour mark. I expect the extended edition to be between 4 and 4 1/4 hours though!

[Lizwise Gamgee]

I want it to be long! I love it so much!
The only thing is, I'm going to need a bathroom installed in the seat, because I can't hold it in that long with all the soda and popcorn.

[PsYkOoOoO]

i dun care!~i will pee in my pants~!i went to the bathroom when i first watched FOTR...and gosh~!what a mistake~!i missed the fight between frodo and boromir~!

[Balrog of Moria]

Originally posted by Lizwise Gamgee
I want it to be long! I love it so much!
The only thing is, I'm going to need a bathroom installed in the seat, because I can't hold it in that long with all the soda and popcorn.

If its that long they will probly have an intermission or somthing like that.

[Balrog of Moria]

Originally posted by PsYkOoOoO
i dun care!~i will pee in my pants~!i went to the bathroom when i first watched FOTR...and gosh~!what a mistake~!i missed the fight between frodo and boromir~!

Thats nothing...The first time I saw FOTR I was with my best friend and girlfriend and the whole time I had to hear them argueing back and forth. I wanted to kill em becasue i missed at least half of the movie

[Brock Landers]

I've heard for this film they're going up to 3 1/2 to 4 hours. When PJ was first accepted to make these movies, newline told him that each film has to be under 3 hours. I remember reading somewhere since they've made soo much damn money, that Newline dropped that parameter and is letting him go all out for ROTK. It's kinda like they know people love these frickin movies and the old & new fans don't care how long it is. The longer the better..........:cool:

[Cipher Jo]

Yeah!

[Brock Landers]

If you've seen the movies in theatres 5 times each for each movie like I have, then you know you've done your part to help make sure ROTK is longer

:applaud:

[adt100]

I don't mind it being up to 4 hours, as long as they don't have 20 minutes of adverts before the film starts - I doubt that'll happen though. An intermission would be good, because however comfortable the seats are, it can start to get uncomfortable after that long!

I can only remember twice having an intermission, about 12 yrs ago, but they're impractical at modern multiplexes.

[Mat]

I hope it lasts forever!

*echo*ever...ever...ever*echo*

[southern]

4 hours if we're lucky

[Lizwise Gamgee]

Originally posted by Balrog of Moria
Thats nothing...The first time I saw FOTR I was with my best friend and girlfriend and the whole time I had to hear them argueing back and forth. I wanted to kill em becasue i missed at least half of the movie

Yeah, my best friend saw FOTR with me and I was so mad. He kept making these stupid comments that he thought were funny.
I even missed the last of the line of the movie when I yelled at him to shut up.

[evilsquishy]

Doesn't matter how long it is because it all goes by so fast for me!:(

[jbailey84]

what does the F in ROFTK mean? I know ROTK = Return of the King, but ROFTK?

[Frizzo the Clown]

I don't know how long it will last, but I'm sure the length will vary depending on which members of the crew you ask. If you ask a guy, he'll tell that its twice as long as the actual length. If you ask a woman, she'll tell you that its not even half as long as what the guy says. :) ;)

Of course, what this really means is...I have no idea how long the movie will be! :p

[evilsquishy]

Originally posted by jbailey84
what does the F in ROFTK mean? I know ROTK = Return of the King, but ROFTK? It's like when people say US of A I guess....weird....

[Brock Landers]

Originally posted by jbailey84
what does the F in ROFTK mean? I know ROTK = Return of the King, but ROFTK?

Maybe it's in the theme of ROTFFL(rolling on the *****ing floor lauging)

ROTFK: Return of the *****ing King

;)

[PsYkOoOoO]

Originally posted by Frizzo the Clown
I don't know how long it will last, but I'm sure the length will vary depending on which members of the crew you ask. If you ask a guy, he'll tell that its twice as long as the actual length. If you ask a woman, she'll tell you that its not even half as long as what the guy says. :) ;)

Of course, what this really means is...I have no idea how long the movie will be! :p

:hehe:

[Madskillz]

Well PJ said "as long as it has to be" i would say 3:45 , TTT went fast i didn't even feel the 3hours..

[Lizwise Gamgee]

Originally posted by jbailey84
what does the F in ROFTK mean? I know ROTK = Return of the King, but ROFTK?

I think it means R for return, o and f for of, t for the, and k for king.

[charade]

Return of Fredrick, the King?
The Prussian Emperor who appointed Bismarck, possibly the greatest politician in the last thousand years, rises from the dead..
Er, excuse me.



A 5 hour cut too long? Man, the night TT came out they had a FotR/TT marathon. 6 hours flew by.

And I think most die-hard fans would sit through a 20 hour movie which mirrored the book exactly. Three of them.
Even I would

[Liete]

FOTR is 178 minutes long and TTT is 179 minutes long so basicaly 3 hours..

[ShadowsInMordor]

Well however long it it, when it finally comes out on DVD, I'm going to take the whole day off. And watch every single movie that very same day....ahhh paradise.:D :grin:

[adt100]

Hopefully there'll be special screenings showing all 3 films consequtively, with just 5 minute intermissions.

[LegolasIsntSexy]

ROFTK = Return Of ****ing The King?...riiight

anyways, if this movie is less then 3 hours i will be PISSED, this movie better be AT LEAST 3 1/2 hours long. they need to go all out on this final chapter. one things for sure, the night before ROTK comes out, im watching FOTR and TTT to get psyched. ****in' a.

[evenstar]

Theres alot of story to fit into ROTK (note no f) so hopefully that means 1 lovely long film or 1 terrible rushed and edited film, but im going with the first one.

[Brock Landers]

Originally posted by LegolasIsntSexy
ROFTK = Return Of ****ing The King?...riiight

'Tis only a joke duder

[Megaman]

i would kill for a 4 hour long movie, and a 5 to 6 hour extened version,

peter jackson said before that he had it cut down to 6 hours, so theres go to be a lot of used stuff

[Madskillz]

Rotk has to be over 3hrs. or else the theatrical release will sux, too much happens 3:45!! ....lol

[dr_evil]

i think it will be 3 hours and 40 minutes


i am defiantly going to a nice theater when is not to busy so i can lift up the armrest and lie down and watch it:p

[PsYkOoOoO]

im not sure if i prefer a empty theatre or a crowded one..its uncomfortable in a crowded theatre...but watching a movie in an
empty theatre's boring...like watching tvv....i wanna watch ROTK in a big big big theatre with loads of ppl..so we can all cry together at the end...

[evenstar]

I dont want the cinema to be to full because then you get all the annoying peeps that complain (whos he, wasnt he dead ect ect), plus i like to sit right in the middle, five rows back. You get a really good atmosphere when its full though, ahhh only 235 days left to go...

[dr_evil]

i want to see it in a semi-full theater so i can lay down and waych ot and i am not lonely in that big theater

[LegolasIsntSexy]

Originally posted by Brock Landers
'Tis only a joke duder

yes duder i got that, was just goin along

[FVD]

Well I don't mind ROFTK (haha) to be up to 4 hours. Well hey I mean with epics like Lawrence Of Arabia and Gone With The Wind being that long, why not ROTK? Complete the entire LOTR trilogy at a good 10 hours maximum.

FVD.

[moviegeek]

watch it be 3 1/2 hours, intermission for 15 minutes and then another hour to go. Or maybe all that without the intermission

[PsYkOoOoO]

Originally posted by moviegeek
Or maybe all that without the intermission



i love that...haha

[Phil Parma]

I'm guessing four hours for the theatrical cut and six hours for the Extended Edition. ::Crosses fingers::

[adt100]

The latest rumour from TORN is indicating over 4 hour running time for ROTK! :D

Personally I'd be happy to sit through that long a film if it meant doing justice to the story, however I do think that for the theatrical cut such length is pushing it a bit far. I'd expected no more than about 3hr 45 for the theatrical, and 4hr 15 for the EE. Of course this rumour is only concerning a rough cut, and I would be pretty surprised if it did reach the 4 hour mark.

It shows though how it might have been better to have kept Shelob and the Smeagol/Gollum transformation in TTT as the book.


"ROTK: 4hour and 20 Minute Running Time?
5/08/03, 2:37 pm EST

The following is from bikkit.com and should be classified as a RUMOR only.

(ROTK) is indeed, far and way better than both Fellowship and Two Towers. It was a 4 hour, 20 minute cut of the film. Feeling that he has proven audiences will gladly sit for 3 hours of quality cinema, Peter Jackson will try to leave the film's 1/6 of a day total time as is."

[LOTRfan]

I wouldn't mind sitting for rotk that long and i don't think people who saw the first two would either as long as there is an intermission of some kind. i seriously think theaters should do that half way through so people don't pass out because its so exciting and they don't want to leave.
And they have to have an intermission for it if they show it on imax like they were thinking because the reels can only hold two hours and need to change part way through.

[adt100]

Yeah, even with modern comfy cinema seating much beyond 2hrs it can start getting a bit uncomfortable. Thing is, with such a long film a lot of cinemas might be unhappy devoting even more time to just 1 showing.

[PsYkOoOoO]

i think 3hrs is just too short...i want more...

[adt100]

D'oh another false rumour bites the dust!

These people, they get us all excited and then it turns out totally groundless. :rolleyes:

"Here is a report that comes from VERY reliable sources within the LOTR camp. In regards to this story we posted yesterday (which wasn't even our story, it came from another site). Take a look at what our insider has to say:

This is nonsense. They are still cutting the movie and do not know how long it will be, but it definitely won't be 4hrs & 20 minutes, nor should it be" from TORN.

Thought 4.20 seemed far too long.

[Phil Parma]

I would have been very pleased with 4 hours, twenty minutes. Anything under four hours will be too short, in my mind.

[LOTR RING]

Originally posted by Phil Parma
I would have been very pleased with 4 hours, twenty minutes. Anything under four hours will be too short, in my mind.

HERE,HERE!
(raises his mug to Phil)

[Boods]

Originally posted by Phil Parma
I would have been very pleased with 4 hours, twenty minutes. Anything under four hours will be too short, in my mind.

agreed .. at least 4 hours ... as long as it can be ...

[adt100]

I'm sure the Extended Edition will definitely top the 4 hour mark. :)

[PsYkOoOoO]

Originally posted by adt100
I'm sure the Extended Edition will definitely top the 4 hour mark. :)

yummy..

[Megaman]

i would sit though a 5-6 hour movie, but there would have to be a 10 minute intermision

[evilsquishy]

Intermission :sleepy:

[PsYkOoOoO]

i dont really care how long its gonna be...

[Lizwise Gamgee]

They *should* put an intermission, but I really doubt they would. Hey, look at that! Only 7 more months to go!

[PsYkOoOoO]

Originally posted by Lizwise Gamgee
Hey, look at that! Only 7 more months to go!








great.........................................:mad :

[adt100]

This is the latest news from TORN on the length:

ROTK Running Time: 3hr 10mins?

Ingve writes: According to the biggest newspaper here in Norway, the running time of ROTK will be 3 h 10 min. PJ is working to make his first 4 hour cut into a 3 h 10 min cut. It is confirmed in the article by the LOTR distributor in Norway, SF Norway.


First thoughts, of course, are Noooooooooooooo!, no, no, no, no, NO! :eek: :(

That's just not long enough to fit in all that is needed in ROTK, given that so much was chopped from TTT. Hardly making it 'as long as it needs to be', as I thought PJ originally said.

Second thoughts were, how genuine is this? How privy would a Norwegian newspaper be to such information? Having said that, realistically I'd think the final length would actually be getting fairly much decided upon over within the next month or so, given all the SFX work that is being done. It's surely not very efficient to create a film and all the SFX for say 4 hours, if the film will only be 3hrs.

[Rizor]

Well, I still wouldn't trust 3 hours 10 minutes just yet. There's still a good six months for everything, and who knows what'll happen? Last year several official sources gave us running times, but they all came out false.

[adt100]

I suppose so, only 3 weeks ago a report was of a cut over 4 hours (the top of this very page).

Wish they would keep teasing us like that. It's en emotional rollercoaster here - and it's only a film after all!

[PsYkOoOoO]

whats the longest movie?im talking bout the theatrical releasE?

[Megaman]

ben hur maybe?? im not sure

[Snaga]

I hope it's around 3 hours and 20 minutes or so. That'd be nice. -)

[adt100]

With the amount left to fit in, and all the talk of 'however long it needs to be' I seriously thought that it wouldn't come in short of around 3 1/2 hours, with a maximum of 3 hr 45.

I can understand PJ and NL not wanting to go about 3hr 15, because that is a damn long movie anyway, and given the 43 minutes added to TTT EE I would certainly expect the same for ROTK, giving an almost 4 hr Extended cut! My only concern is that quite a bit may have to be cut/merged in the theatrical cut, which won't then really be possible to redeem in the EE w/o dramatically altering the story.

[PsYkOoOoO]

Originally posted by Megaman
ben hur maybe?? im not sure



how long was it?4 hrs right?

[adt100]

Gone With The Wind (1939) - 3hrs 44 mins
Ben Hur (1959) - 3hrs 33mins

The interesting things to note here are that these 2 films are to are 2 of the most succesful in movie history.

1. Ben Hur won the (equal) most awards Academy Awards of all time 11, Gone With The Wind is 3rd with 10 Oscars.

2. Taking into account inflation, GWTW would still top the worldwide total box office gross of all time.

Now, doesn't that tell PJ something about how well films between 3 1/2 and 3 3/4 hrs can do! :)

[PsYkOoOoO]

wait.....i thought the only 2 movies which won 11 oscars are titanic and the ten commandments?(sp?)

[evenstar]

I dont think the running time would put anyone off watching it, there are already rumours of cutting down the romance between Eowyn and Faramir, I dont want to loose any more!

[adt100]

Originally posted by PsYkOoOoO
wait.....i thought the only 2 movies which won 11 oscars are titanic and the ten commandments?(sp?)

Nope. Ben Hur and Titanic both won 11 (clearly the Academy had gone a bit loony in '97). Next up is actually West Side Story with 10, Gigi, The Last Emperor and The English Patient with 9. Gone With The Wind actually only won 8 now I've checked.

Not that Oscars mean all that much of course, (until ROTK sweeps the board next year ;) )

[Rizor]

The 1996 version of Hamlet is 4 hours and 2 minutes.

[PsYkOoOoO]

i think theoden can ans the question...well how long's ROTK gonna be?


theoden:'AS LONG AS YOU CAN GIVE ME!!'

[LOTRfan]

Originally posted by evenstar
I dont think the running time would put anyone off watching it, there are already rumours of cutting down the romance between Eowyn and Faramir, I dont want to loose any more!

I actually wouldn't mind missing that. It would probably be on the ee anyway. It's not very key to the story. I only picked up on some hints in the book about it. It wasn't given very much focus- almost nonexistent. Now, come to think of it, it's kinda like Aragorn and Arwen's story -how it was barely in the books. We all know how that turned out for the movies....

[adt100]

I found out recently on another thread that 3hr 20 is about the longest a film can be in theatres without an intermission, so expect around 3hr 15 for the theatrical cut.

[juggalo4life]

i hope its long

i hope its at least longer then the others

AT LEAST THEATER WISE!

ee should be longer

[Cirith Ungol]

Hope theatrical's at least 3 1/2.

[Rizor]

Originally posted by adt100
I found out recently on another thread that 3hr 20 is about the longest a film can be in theatres without an intermission, so expect around 3hr 15 for the theatrical cut. I guess at 3:20, it's considered a criminal offense against our bladders. :D

[The Moose]

3 hrs, 15 mins is my bet

[adt100]

Yes, that's is by far the most likely outcome IMO, all indications point to that. Much different and I really will be surprised.

[The Moose]

which is good. as intermission, and heaps of effect would be lost