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(...) I just think it has great style -- way more style than most films. In a way the story is almost incidental to the main agenda of presenting a series of blacker than black comments and political criticisms about the modern world, and often (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Eh? I am not sure what this means... (...) I don't know anything about Tolkien -- was he a university professor? In what way did he put Beowulf on the map? I am not sure that people have really ever forgotten their myths and folklore, although (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I meant to ask you who and when is being rehashed. I was also going to bring up earlier that Tolkien is the guy who put Beowulf in the 20th-century curriculum. (...) Hmm... Liv Tyler (Arwen) is Elven. She is like her father Elrond, whom I hope (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I only saw a teeny piece of it, but it looked to have been better than that. Less cheese. I remember thinking that the lion looked fairly decent. -- Hop-Frog (25 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, I was entertained. The movie is good , just perhaps not great. But no, nothing about the movie made me stop and think about anything save its obvious visual beauty. Most of the stuff passing as a plot is little more than rehashed Norse (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Aha! You seek hairy minifigs! Or midgets... (25 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Erik Olson wrote in message ... (...) Shorter, stockier, hairier, less smooth. The guys in the posters look like human teenagers with mutant feet :-). Kevin ---...--- NEW Tank Engine custom train set: (URL) Annual SYSTEM Creativity Contest: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This line of argument is of course only fair when taken as "of course there is a deficiency in its incompleteness, but the next film will turn that into an asset." (You will probably be let down again at its ending... it too should have the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) What is your picture of hobbits? Bigger heads? (Rankin/Bass?) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (URL) thanks, Shiri! ROSCO (25 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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