Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary

On 8/11/24 08:57, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 8/10/2024 11:51 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 21:31:07 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
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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. =(
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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.

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You can see the scene in the Extended Edition, integrated in its proper
place (in the movie chronology, not the book's).
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I do recommend the Extended Edition. And disrecommend *any* version
of the Hobbit trilogy.

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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.
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I have long since lost my interest in seeing them.

 The Extended Editions of LOTR can be "bought" (about $15 a pop)
on several online services.
 The only other option appears to be a subscription to MAX (ie, HBO's
streaming service), which is often bundled with Hulu or Amazon. You
might check if you have those.
 I use the 'JustWatch' app to find what services carry what movies and
shows.
 pt
 

I thought this was SF written not SF bad movies reviewed?
I am sick and poor so I never got to see LOTR nor the extended
Hobbit but I read the books when I was still young.
Now there have been very few real SF movies but lots of horror
movies and i exclude those from the SF category even if the
set dressing is SF.
I read all of the Charlene Harris books I could find and so I decided
to watch the whole cinematic interpretation and found it even more
than the books less fantasy and much more horror.  However it left
out Sookie Stackhouse's unique heritage which gave her telepathic
powers as well as well as many other things.
I have also read the other books by Tolkien including the stuff
put together by his heirs. I have tried to avoid the latest expansions
though, I think it is called "the Fall of Numenor".
I try for lighter topics these days than the extended story of autocratic decadence and impiety leading to catastrophic action
which mythologically reconfigures the Middle Earth into a spherical
world. And some sort of new myth of history starts.
bliss
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