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SINGAPORE : Just as the hype around Matrix
Revolutions dies down, it is time for Lord of the Rings
mania.
2,000 tickets for a 12-1/2 hour movie marathon
of the entire trilogy were snapped up in less than a
day.
The final episode of the Lord of
the Rings: The Return of the King sees Frodo and Sam continue
their quest to cast the One Ring into the fires of Mount
Doom.
Men, hobbits, elves, dwarves and the rest of
Middle-earth's creatures fight the ultimate battle against
Sauron's army of orcs who laid siege to the capital of
Gondor.
But for those of you have forgotten the
storyline in the first two Lord of the Rings movies, how about
a 12-1/2 hour movie marathon, which culminates with the final
instalment which hits big screens around the world on December
17.
Benjamin said: "It's a matter of what I'm watching
and not the length. Because if you really enjoy what you are
watching, then time isn't a factor."
Farhan said: "I
think it's a cool thing to do, because it's a wholeday thing
and you just get one after another so that it won't stick in
your mind basically."
Tickets for the trilogy marathon
went on sale at midnight on Thursday, but surprisingly there
were no snaking queues before the box-office at Orchard
Cineleisure opens.
Where were all the fans? They were
online.
Han Yi said: "Last night I tried to check the
website of the cinemas but it's quite slow and don't know why
just can't get tickets."
Daniel said: "Stayed up late
last night to get tickets and it was a bit hard because online
it was ridiculously crowded so I think we got shut out of the
website quite early. And by the time I got on, there weren't
any tickets left, so I had to come down here this
morning."
Online traffic was slow because hundreds of
people were logging onto cinema websites.
But all the
marathon tickets at Golden Village, Shaw and Eng Wah cinemas
were sold out by Friday morning.
Cathay still had
tickets in the afternoon because it reserved half for box
office sales.
But these were soon snapped up as
well.....even the very front row seats. -
CNA
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