# Countdown to ROTK!!!!!!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195 "2003-12-15T21:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/41 "2003-12-17T03:00:37Z")
Gee…Where is everybody? 😃 As in many cities, Nashville is showing the trilogy. A couple of guys in Philadelphia couldn’t get tickets there but could get them in Nashville for $200 on eBay. So they flew down…but forgot their tickets. Their landlord managed to get into their apartment, find the tickets and fax a copy to the theater management. A little traditional Southern hospitality and they were in. Phew! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/42 "2003-12-17T07:58:30Z")
It was FABULOUS! GREAT! WONDERFUL! Neener neener neener! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/43 "2003-12-17T08:50:20Z")
My spoiler-free, five word review: It was _so_ worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/44 "2003-12-17T08:52:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by look!ninjas \* > \*\*My spoiler-free, five word review: > > It was _so_ worth it. \*\* I agree. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/45 "2003-12-17T10:34:40Z")
Well, we’re back. Worth staying up all night. Worth going to see again tomorrow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/46 "2003-12-17T13:12:48Z")
Got home from the trilogy (or as the local New Line representative handing out free crap after the movie called it, the “triology”) about five hours and 50 minutes ago. Actually managed to go to sleep so I could go to work today. TOTALLY satisfying movie for this 35-year LOTR fan. You HAVE to go. You just HAVE to. And the single best moviegoing audience I have EVER sat in a theater with!!! A couple cell phones rang softly – but were not answered – during FOTR. The young man from the theater, Robert, who was our “host” for the day (“Robert! Robert! Robert!”) reminded people to turn them off before TT, and NOT ONE more ring for either of the last two shows. NOBODY talking loud enough for anyone else to hear. People slipping as quietly as they could up and down the aisles if they absolutely HAD to, but most people managed to stay in their seats without moving for the entire ROTK – which was so absorbing that it was easy! And at one very quiet point during ROTK, I swear you could have heard a pin drop in the movie theater. Man, that is the way to see a great movie, with a truly great audience. Thanks, everyone else in the audience at the Harahan theater in New Orleans! And thanks to the Louie at Papa John’s for the free pizza for the whole crowd, the employee discounts at the concession stand, and just a terrific moviegoing experience! ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/47 "2003-12-17T14:01:36Z")
9 hours, 27 minutes. …tick. tick. tick. tick… ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/48 "2003-12-17T14:25:12Z")
6 hours, 5 minutes for me… And I’m going by myself! Because my dumb friends have chosen to wait until this weekend to see it! I am agog! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/49 "2003-12-17T14:52:13Z")
If they’re really your friends, why would they wait? 😃 _yawn_ ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/50 "2003-12-17T16:51:51Z")
5 hrs, 10 minutes until the editorial and design staff of my office mysteriously disappears. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/51 "2003-12-17T16:57:16Z")
I am seeing it in six hours! I hope I won’t cry all over myself again… (I cried at seeing the previews in the movie theatre, I am such a geek). ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/52 "2003-12-17T17:02:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \* > \*\*If they’re really your friends, why would they wait? 😃 \*\* D’oh! Anyone else having “OMG, what if it’s sold out? Should I pop over to the theatre on my lunchbreak to see if I can buy advanced tickets?” jitters? I’m actually nervous! ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/53 "2003-12-17T17:08:46Z")
You don’t have a ticket? I checked on Fandango, and every theatre in Northern Virginia is sold for ROTK tonight, and I doubt Maryland is any better. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/54 "2003-12-17T17:25:25Z")
_stomach drops_ Is that what it means when the option to buy tickets online isn’t present? I checked the theatres in my area on [Moviefone.com](http://Moviefone.com), and only one theatre is offering tickets. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/55 "2003-12-17T17:26:45Z")
9 hours. I got my tix on Fandango too. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/56 "2003-12-17T17:27:57Z")
I’d be stunned & amazed at sellouts; in my previous 5 theater viewings of FOTR & TT, none were close to sellouts. But I’ve got my tix in hand already for this afternoon (T-4 hours & counting…) just in case. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/57 "2003-12-17T17:40:20Z")
I’ve also noticed that Fandango is doing the same thing they did with FOTR & TT–even though it will be showing on 6-7 screens at my 25-plex, only one appears in Fandango. I don’t think it means the others are sold out; it’s just that Fandango doesn’t acknowledge the existence of multi-screen showings. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/58 "2003-12-17T17:50:31Z")
Yes, I can confirm that! **gobear** ’s post so rattled me I decided to run down to the theatre (thank God it’s only 3 blocks from my office) to see if I could buy a ticket in person. Result: yes! It’s sitting happily in my pocket right now. I also asked the man in the booth if any of the other screenings were sold out yet, and he said no, only the midnight showing last night was full. So, kids, if you’re near Bethesda, MD, you have a chance to see it tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/59 "2003-12-17T19:32:32Z")
T minus four hours and thirty-seven minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/60 "2003-12-17T20:00:03Z")
The theater that I was at kept adding showings as each theater sold out. When I bought my tickets yesterday morning, they had three theaters. By movie time they had 5 or 6. ROTK just blows away the first two movies. Unbelievable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195.md?page=4)