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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-15 (Sunday)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:56:59 -0800
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On 12/16/2024 10:23 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 12/16/2024 6:08 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>
>> What did you watch?
>>
> The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim (Theatrical)
> 
> A New LOTR movie released only days before New Line would have lost the 
> rights to make LOTR movies if they hadn't released a movie within 10 
> years of the last one.  (The Hobbit part 3.)  Not bad actually but felt 
> like a STV production.  Worth checking out if you are a Tolkien fan.
> 

I don't know.  I'm a huge fan of th elive action movies, but I just 
haven't been able to build up *any* enthusiasm for seeing this thing in 
the theater.  But I was thinking maybe I'd just do a blind buy, and 
watch it whenever I next watch the original trilogy.

> (And can find a movie theatre.  A few weeks ago the biggest movie 
> theatre in terms of number of screens in my county, and also the closest 
> to where I live, was closed down with no advance notice.  When I went 
> looking for another theatre I went to the next nearest and discovered 
> that IT had shut down a year ago!  Between those two something like 1/3 
> to 1/2 of movie screens in my county are _gone_!  I had to drive 10 
> miles to see this movie.)
> 
>