Re: Most disappointing films.

On 3/5/2025 8:46 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:59:32 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 2/18/2025 3:30 AM, D wrote:

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On Tue, 17 Feb 2025, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
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In article <f0dc1e8c-b338-1261-cf4d-5ff6d5f503e4@example.net>,
D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025, William Hyde wrote:
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In a conversation the other day I came up with a list of these, and
to my
surprise they were all SF/F.
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(1) The Return of the Jedi
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(2) The Lord of the Rings (Bakshi version)
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(3) Dune (Lynch version).
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Not that I haven't seen far worse movies, but in each of these cases
I was
expecting something better.
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Of course other people may have different lists.  And I did like Dune
somewhat more the second time I saw it.
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William Hyde

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I agree with Dune. LOTR (b) I saw when I was 12, haven't seen it
since, so
cannot say. I like 1. On my list are all the new star wars movies.
Absolutely horrible! They should have let the original 3 stand, and not
produce prequels that dishonored the memory of hte original. =(

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Rogue One is pretty good.

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Maybe I shall have to look into Rogue one. Andor is pretty good. Maybe
Rogue one is too?
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I actually quite enjoyed TFA, but then I didn't believe Han was
actually dead (I was pretty sure that with the big build-up on Maz,
her connection with the Force and having gotten a light saber
possibly through teleportational menas that she was going to pull
some mojo that would be revealed later.  TMF me.)

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"Rogue One" is awesome.  It is based on the single line in the Star Wars
IV movie (the first one), "Many Bothans ??? gave up their lives for this
information.".

 /A New Hope/ (aka Star Wars IV) came up for viewing about a week ago.
That line was not in it.
 

Lucas kept re-editing the original trilogy so one can no longer be certain exactly WHICH version you will be watching unless you have it on disc.
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