To: teroknor{at}yahoogroups.com
From: Steven Maguire 
Reply-To: teroknor{at}yahoogroups.com

On 14 Jun 2003 12:49:56 GMT teroknor{at}f100.n379.z1.fidonet.org wrote:

> Peter Jackson has done a remarkable job making the most impossible
> book set
> into a movie, and keeping the story coherent.  Telling it in
> "chronological" order instead of through dialogue
"flashbacks" works, and
> works well.  Some things were placed differently, but I've read LoTR
> recently, and it's all there.

Oh, I agree.  Seeing Gandalf leap off the roof of Orthanc instead of
wathching him tell it in Council was much more exciting.

> Let's see the entire movie, and the extended DVD versions before panning
> the movie, howzabout?  It's about like filming /The/ /Oddyssey/, for
> crying out loud.

Yeah, The Odyssey is a prime example of how *not* to adapt a
book/myth/whatever to the screen.

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