Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 08:50:33 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: <6s2fbjp79ss6krm7h9cjq9j800m3hsedpc@4ax.com> References: <2fa0664b-353c-34ac-4fac-232cf6b32b14@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 17:50:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c554ae8849e258504f341b9c36548085"; logging-data="760787"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19HREnp2YjAdfmEr2LC5GdjzJh54blujwA=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1oPsf7dXPYbG3Cjyf0j5PJjkVqU= Bytes: 3138 On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 21:41:13 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote: >On 8/9/2024 8:31 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote: >> On 8/8/2024 2:19 PM, The Horny Goat wrote: >>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 10:40:08 +0200, D wrote: >>> >>>> Sigh... why would they make 3 seasons of a book that one reads in a = few >>>> days? It will only be like the Hobbit a long and tedious wait = between >>>> actual scenes from the book. =3D( >>>> >>> I was mostly irate at the movie version of Lord of the Rings since = one >>> of the scenes they filmed but left on the cutting room floor was the >>> death of Saruman (who a lot of people considered a rip-off of the >>> death of Mussolini) after the fall of the Dark Tower. >>> >>> No question it was my favorite LoTR scene though the "Speak Friend = and >>> Enter" scene was the funniest from the books. >>=20 >> You can see the scene in the Extended Edition, integrated in its = proper >> place (in the movie chronology, not the book's). >>=20 >> I do recommend the Extended Edition. And disrecommend *any* version >> of the Hobbit trilogy. >>=20 >>=20 >> pt > >The second scene in the Hobbit trilogy is funny with all of the dwarves=20 >walking into Bilbo's house with the round doors and stealing all of his=20 >food and beer. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D2skcNR3jYzs The Elf-Dwarf romance spanning the second and third was also interesting -- it is entirely PJ's idea, and it shows what PJ could have done had he, instead of butchering the novels, just done his own story set in Middle-Earth. But nothing in any of them is good enough for me, at least, to recommend any of the films. I once re-read /LOTR/, called up each scene as it was in the films, and dismissed that forever from my memory. That doesn't entirely work, of course, but I found it deeply satisfying. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"