Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary

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:
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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.
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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

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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 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.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"