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> look you realy want 3 9 hour LOTR movies?????
Yes I do. Well, maybe not 9 hours, but I'd have happily sat through the full cut including the 40-odd minutes that we're taken out to trim the length of the film.
Comparing The Fellowship of the Ring to Harry Potter is like comparing Star Wars to Button Moon.
Imagine that....
A Button Moon movie....
> They're both beaten by their own books.
The films cut out LOADS of the
> story/background/dialogue/details.
Personally, I think that the films are
> equally good at showing the action in a way that words can't, but generally, the
> books are so much better.
Yeh, but the one thing that LOTR cut out that did the film a wonderful amount of good was the poetry. For crying out loud, half of the books were poetry, in the Fellowship of the Ring, there was a whole chapter which was one long poem/song thing. Glad to be rid of it, I tells ya.
slik ~_~
Of course they had to miss bits out!
The films cut out LOADS of the story/background/dialogue/details.
Personally, I think that the films are equally good at showing the action in a way that words can't, but generally, the books are so much better.