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With the weather a bit on the wintry side for many of us, I was lining up some good DVD trilogies to catch over the next few weekends.

LOTR (Extended Editions with Bonus Discs) - this one may take some time to digest - starting with this one tonight.
then:
Indiana Jones (with Bonus Disc)
Star Wars (Ep IV-VI with Bonus Disc)
Bourne Trilogy
X-Men
Austin Powers (for $h!ts and giggles)

These should give the ol' home theater a good workout..and tide me over till spring!

There have been 2 previous LOTR marathons in the past. I think that I was the first a few years ago, and someone did one a year ago. Search my posts and you will find what happened during mine...

All I can say is plan for breaks to get up and stretch... Plan for MANY breaks!

Here is the link to my story and experience with a LOTR movie marathon...

Nick's LOTR Extended Edition Marathon

And here is Zarak's story from his marathon...

Zarak's LOTR Marathon

Yes, mine was about this time a year ago. I think it was actually the week between conference championships and the superbowl, so that football would not interfere. I'll have to go back and read the link you dug up to see what I wrote. It was certainly fun, and something that I would like to do again sometime. Although the next time I do it I will be watching them all on HDDVD or Blu Ray. I'm not planning on another marathon until after they come out in hi def.

I'd like to do a Matrix marathon at some point as well. I've seen the first movie a bunch of times, but only once each for 2 and 3.

So I just went back and read my original thread. It must be a case of you only remember the good parts, as I said I didn't think I would do it again in that thread, yet in the post just above this I was ready to do it again in HD. I was also apparently off by a week, as we did it the Saturday of conference championship weekend, so still had football to watch the next day.

BTW...anyone heard an update recently of when these movies will be released in HD?

I need to add Matrix and Alien (quadrilogy?) to this list...
and Godfather (although we can skip #3, right? )

I don't think Godfather 3 was bad. It just wasn't nearly as good as Godfather 1, and Godfather 2 which, arguably, might be the best sequel ever made.

I think you could probably just skip the last two Alien movies, too.

You're not supposed to acknowledge their existence, Ken. Didn't you get the memo?

Technically, I'm not. There are (technically) 6 Alien movies.