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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 08:50:33 -0700
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 21:41:13 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> 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 <nospam@example.net> 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.'"