Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary

On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 11:23:41 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Sat, 10 Aug 2024, William Hyde wrote:
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Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 8/10/2024 1:23 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 10/08/2024 10.50, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 21:41:13 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

 

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

 
The Elf-Dwarf romance spanning the second and third

 
The WHAT? I am very glad that I didn't go to any after the first, with
its 3-D roller-coaster.
 

 
There are a few scenes in the Hobbit trilogy that stand out, but
the amount of ridiculous stuff with no respect whatsoever for
the original material is overwhelming.

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The three movies could perhaps be edited to make one good three hour
movie.  Even a pair of good two hour movies, possibly.
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William Hyde
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I think this is close to the truth.

I think it is correct that a one-film version could be produced that
would be a /lot/ better than what we had to put up with with three
films. But it would still be a profanation of JRRT. The stench of PJ
is hard to remove when it is in every scene related to the book.

But what's the point? The Rankin-Bass /The Hobbit/ covers the ground
pretty well, and is a lot closer to JRRT's story.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"