[Dininziliel]

Lindil writes: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> PJ had a once in a multi-decade chance to do it right and like frodo at mount doom, at the end he claimed the script for himself. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Oh, well said! And it's even more apt as the closer to the end of the films he got, the more he changed the story.<P>Fingo writes: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Reading these posts I was struck with the thought, that unless we all got the chance to make our own Lord of the Rings movies, we'd never be truely satisfied with someone else's rendering of it. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I love the idea of having Jackson's raw footage, or just be able to use what's in the extended versions. The technology will soon be available. Unless I was having aural hallucinations, Jackson mentioned in TT extended version that he would enjoy seeing others' versions. How lovely if we could all have our own personal versions. This could be another ground-breaking milestone for Jackson's LotR.<P>Trippo the Hippo writes: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I think there have been alot of valid points raised many that I agree with but I think that its important that we dont get to worked about them at the end of the day its just a movie. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>This very thought occurred to me upon reflection after I logged out last night. "It's just a movie," "Keep telling yourself, 'It's only a movie,'" (which was a tag line for a very bad early schlock shocker in the early 70's). I was thinking about my reactions and those of others. I'd really like to be free of my expletives deleted and just enjoy the movies for their own sake, but even on that level, there are too many glaring gaffes in continuity which shine out all the more because of all the money and time up there on the screen. <P>However, I hope I am managing to stay on the up side of feeling down about the movies. I shouldn't like to be a Gollum about it all, as if the book was "my Precious"! <P>I think that w/RotK it will be much easier to separate the movie from the book--the vast changes should at last create a comfortable chasm. I'm only going because, as a wise friend told me, "You can't <I>not</I> go," and because I saw a picture of <I>The</I> Witch King of Angmar on a Nazgul in a book about the movie. That's about it. Oh! And I want to see Sam, Gollum & Frodo at Mt. Doom. (That's still in the movie, right?) sorry.<P>If even half the people leave the theatre thinking and talking about faith, hope, and Love--in these faithless, hopeless and loveless times--instead of the cool stunts, awesome battle scenes, and how cute Legolas is, then much can be forgiven.<p>[ 12:55 AM December 14, 2003: Message edited by: dininziliel ]