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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 08:51:48 -0700
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 21:31:07 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> 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:
>>=20
>>> 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.
>>=20
>> No question it was my favorite LoTR scene though the "Speak Friend and
>> Enter" scene was the funniest from the books.
>
>You can see the scene in the Extended Edition, integrated in its proper
>place (in the movie chronology, not the book's).
>
>I do recommend the Extended Edition. And disrecommend *any* version
>of the Hobbit trilogy.

I've never seen them -- I checked for years but I could not rent them
for streaming (or from RedBox on disc). They were a for-sale item
only.

I have long since lost my interest in seeing them.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"