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[andrewducker]

[Poll #1527471]

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Casual Day

[cdave]

I wear a short sleeved shirt. That costs more and looks nicer than the Matalan whites I wear in the rest of the week.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

This is my first casual day since the dress code was only instigated last week. (Apparently the chief exec thought he had instigated it two years ago when he started but no one actually passed this along.)

[andrewducker]

Who brings in a new dress code now? Do they make you wear ties?

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

No, there is no way he could get away with that. It is just no jeans, trainers, T-shirts or sweatshirts.

[andrewducker]

Aaah, so business casual? I can live with that. Ties, to me, are an abomination (and uncomfortable). I prefer t-shirts, but I can live with shirts.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

The only problems is that I have a business wardrobe, I have a casual wardrobe, not I don't have a business casual wardrobe. Before I used to pull this off by jeans plus shirt but alas, no more.

[andrewducker]

Aaah, I don't wear jeans, so most of my casual trousers are black Primark ones.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I am a programmer. I wear what I like ;)

Not seen the extended editions. I only know of the one with the extra long rolled r's. ('Frrrrrrrrrrrrodo, you must take the rrrrrrrrring into Morrrrrrdorrrrrrr'.)

[andrewducker]

If you were a programmer working for, say, RBS, you'd be wearing a shirt and tie :->

The extended editions are (IMHO) vast improvements over the originals.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

This might be why I won't be working for RBS anytime soon!

[broin.livejournal.com]

I have a lovely, non-nerdy friend who wants to watch either all the LotR movies, or A New Hope > Jedi one weekend. But that leads to some interesting dilemmas.

We could watch the stripped down LotR, but you're missing stuff. But how many hours are the extendeds, total? 12 hours?

OR, we could watch SW, but then you've the problem with the remastered editions being shit, and I don't know how easy it is to find the originals.

[andrewducker]

Extended editions are apparently 11 hours and 23 minutes. But well worth it :->

I watched all 6 movies of SW about two years ago, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. But then I like the remastered editions (well, now Han no longer shoots second).

[broin.livejournal.com]

wtf? Is he back to shooting first again?

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

In the DVDs they shoot *almost* simultaneously, but with Han *slightly* before...

[broin.livejournal.com]

...

So, off to The Pirate Bay, then.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Ann bought both versions, and eventually watched the latter series in rotation.

[andrewducker]

I did that the time I watched them with my flatmate - we watched a disk at a time. So 6 evenings (over a couple of weeks) of 2 hours each. Worked pretty well actually.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

We did this one New Year's Eve - it was worth it.

[simont]

I watched the cinematic editions a few months ago, having watched the extended editions most recently before that. There were only about four things from the extended editions that had stuck in my memory well enough for me to notice not seeing them in the cinematic cut:

• the Mouth of Sauron
• the fate of Saruman
• the ridiculous avalanche of skulls
• the drinking-game scene.

Of those, leaving out the first two was roughly neutral, and leaving out the last two was a definite improvement. Case closed, I say.

[andrewducker]

The big scenes didn't worry me so much, and ROTK didn't benefit as much - but Fellowship was vastly improved by the extended editions. The original cut feels very rushed to me, while the extended edition has numerous bits that are somewhat extended to give scenes and characters time to breathe.

"Notable among the restored scenes is a new beginning to the film (following the prologue) that concerns Hobbits and the Shire. The Bag End scene with Bilbo and Gandalf is extended to include a conversation about the Sackville-Bagginses. Bilbo's birthday party is extended. New scenes include conversations at the Green Dragon, Frodo and Sam spotting Wood Elves on their way to Bree, and the Hobbits' march through Midgewater Marshes. The Council of Elrond, Moria, and Lorien are expanded as well. The extended edition contains many character-building elements, showing sides of various protagonists (notably Aragorn and Galadriel) that were absent from the theatrical cut, which was largely edited around the character of Frodo."

[matgb]

I agree with this.

I have the three extended edition DVD sets, and TBH if I'm going to sit and watch a really long film, I might as well watch it without stuff being cut out, they're long enough, the few extra bits don't make a huge difference to the time it takes to watch.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of dress code = wear clothes

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

So, "casual" ≠ "naked"?

[andrewducker]

Well, that's one end of the casual spectrum :->