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| | | (...) My random thoughts on it below: I just saw this film tonight and I have no significant experience with the material before this, although I may have seen those cartoons from the 80s which did not make that much sense to me then. Offhand, I (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Lord of the Rings movie —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) Despite it being a "trilogy" Tolkien wrote it as one long book and this has always been the chief hurdle in turning it into a movie. But there was no audible sound of disappointment at the showing I saw (or audible snickers in the wrong (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lord of the Rings movie —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | (...) I'm picking on that scene because I just read some of The Two Towers, where Gimli quickly become Galadriel's staunchest defender. And of course it's crucial to the theme of uniting the races despite their old grudges, which the films do try to (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Lord of the Rings movie —Erik Olson
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| | | | (...) All I meant was that the director, Peter Jackson, seemed to be paying a little tribute with his visuals to 'Star Wars' -- and from the audience noises on opening morning, I suspect there are visual in-jokes for former Peter Jackson fans in (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Lord of the Rings movie —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) Rookie! :-) Bruce (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Lord of the Rings movie —Erik Olson
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| | | | (...) Ageist! ok, maybe it was the 3rd grader bragging a little. -Erik (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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