Because it's sold out, or as good as. In each of the four theatres in Michigan.
Tickets went on sale today. We got close. Very close. I called Southfield and found out they had 16 tickets left.
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elflingsmama called them five minutes later (she had the credit card to buy them over the phone) and they had two--which were sold just as she was trying to order them. I can't get a hold of Grand Rapids or Flint directly, but website information looks grim. Lansing is going by a wristband system. I called them just now. They have 455 tickets available. They've given out 300+ wristbands to date, and they'll start drawing numbers for the line at 6pm. With a limit of 4 tickets a person, that still means a lot of people are going to go home empty handed. Even I am not that much of a masochist.I'm pissed at Peter Jackson right now. Why on earth would they make this such a limited thing? 100 theatres in the entire country? It would sell out in far, far more of them. I'm half-hoping that maybe they'll expand their list.
This really sucks. :(
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Frankly, I'd rather spend a day/evening watching the Extended Editions of Fellowship and The Two Towers with a bunch of people at someone's house and then go to see Return of the King in the theater if I wanted to do it all in one day.
Don't get me wrong, I likes me these movies, but I think 10+ hours worth of them would be more fun with friends in a nonrestrictive talking environment. An example:
::The Fellowship is walking along Caradras (the mountain w/ all the snow) and Legolas is running across the drifts while everyone else plows through::
Me (Interrupting): He can do that because his bones are hollow. You'd probably kill him.
I'm sure that most of the people we know will have both extended DVDs. We should set something up.
Hey, it'd still probably be shorter than Taken, and plenty of people watched that.
(You're welcome for the mental image.)
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*bows down in awe*
It's fifty bucks, but yeah. The producers are there and everything. It's been quite the spectacle the last couple years.
Plus, most of that ticket cost is a donation to Carleton College (where one of the producers graduated, and my friend Mike also graduated), so I don't really mind the extra cost. Help out a college, see a good movie a week early with a bunch of nerds. It's righteous.