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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2024 21:41:13 -0500
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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. =(
>>>
>> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> pt

The second scene in the Hobbit trilogy is funny with all of the dwarves 
walking into Bilbo's house with the round doors and stealing all of his 
food and beer.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2skcNR3jYzs

Lynn