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on: April 06, 2014 02:13
The Desolation of Smaug will be available for purchase on Tuesday, April 8th.


Is anyone pre-ordering or buying it? Where? How much?
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on: April 07, 2014 12:09
Nope.... I'm waiting for the trilogy box.
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on: April 07, 2014 07:53
I will get it as soon as I see it. I do not know the cost but An Unexpected Journey was $12.00 in Wallymart. I would think Desolation of Smaug will be about the same.
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on: April 08, 2014 10:09
We were at (not in, wife had a firm grip on my jacket sleeve to prevent me from straying in ) one of the two large consumer electronics chains today, but they were advertising something called "The Elder Scroll(s)", as I remember. Never heard of it, and DoS would certainly be pushed massively and visibly by Warner.
(Trivia note: the German title has been changed to a more archaic wording!)
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on: April 08, 2014 04:59
I will most likly be buying it at Target for $16.00 this weekend.
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on: April 08, 2014 07:30
I have the 3D Blu-ray/DVD combo pack on pre-order from Future Shop. Since it shipped out after midnight, it might be a few days before it arrives. When I pre-ordered my copy, it was listed at a price of $29.99 (so it came to a total of $33.59 with free shipping), but it has now dropped in price to $28.99 (so now the total came to $32.47, a savings of $1.12). Not a bad price for a 3D version (I've only seen DoS in 3D, so it made more sense to get this version, and I couldn't resist having Thorin on the cover, but because of this, I'll probably end up keeping both versions, unlike last year with AUJ).

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on: April 08, 2014 09:15
Bought it today. Dad didn't want to wait so we had to go out and buy it. =D
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on: April 09, 2014 07:31
My friend stopped over unexpectedly with a pizza and asked if I wanted to watch a movie he thought looked good. No cooking? Pizza? Movie? Sounded like a fine idea. Got ready, settled in, he starts the movie. Would you believe it took me several minutes to realize I was watching Desolation of Smaug?

Ate the pizza. Watched the movie. Loved the movie more than the first time. Friend leaves and tells me to keep the movie!! Pure bliss.
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on: April 17, 2014 12:18
Bought a DVD titled "Smaugs Einöde" (Einoede for the umlaut-challenged) today, about an hour and a half ago. Current plan is to look at it tomorrow after a night's sleep. Starting now (OK, in about five minutes after I rev up my 2008 games tower, with the power headphones attached to the active boxes), just after 8 PM, would take me to 11 PM with the usual personal intermissions.
But then, if I feel that more parts than usual of the Games Forum leave me scratching my head, I may be in just enough of a DUH mood to tolerate PJ's "factual errors". Like it's a film in the spirit of JRRT, say "The Color of Magic", which pays tribute to JRRT or PJ by quoting from them.
Tower PC is up and running ...
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on: April 20, 2014 12:32
Well, I did it; after the tower PC was powered up, off went DoS.
And I took it in the mood "I've read that this guy refers to JRRT occasionally, let's see if I can catch him where he copycats."
Nice fantasy movie, great CGI, overdone on action, story thread gets tangled occasionally.
No sense whatsoever to make a list of where PJ differs from TH, as I did in my first cinema viewing of FotR - and that and AuJ were fairly close to the books.
"Let's see if I can catch him where he copycats." is the only sensible approach.
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