[HPFGU-Movie] Re: GOF one movie?

[silverdragon at ezweb.com.au]

From: "severusbook4" <severusbook4 at yahoo.com>
To: <HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com>


> Does anyone remember the epics made only twenty years ago?  Gone
> with the Wind, A Bridge too Far, The Lord of the Rings, the movies
> that lasted four plus hours and had an intermission half way through?
> Why not this in the case of GoF?  I think it would create such a
> stir of nostalga (sp?) tha tpeople would see it just because it is
> so long.  The Matrix Reloaded is right at three hours long, so why
> not GoF being the much needed four hours it screams for.  Sorry for
> the rant, but I was serverely dissapointed. And yes, I saw the
> movies before reading the books, and I loved the first movie for the
> visuals.  Now I associate the book characters with the actors of the
> movies, if they do recast, I will not be seeing any more movies, and
> they will not grace my collection at home.

Oh I *loved* movies with intermission (only *just* old enough to remember it
<smirk> but I loved it...)! People would see it no matter how long it was,
but since WB are so thoroughly convinced we adults (apparently) are all
utters and they are simply making *kid's* movies, I think they feel they
have to go with the 2 1/2 hr format, about as long as most kids would sit
through. I also saw the movies before reading the books and loved them. I
did, BTW, have the books stashed in my wardrobe waiting to give them to my
daughter for Christmas. I thought it would be *very* rude to read them
before I gave them to her <lol>!  But I do confess to sneaking one out every
so often and flipping through till something caught my eye and reading a
little here and there <grin>. The biggest problem is with so much cut to fit
into the movie format, we miss many of those moments which give the books so
much of their humour. Which is very disappointing to me now, as I just love
the humour in the stories.

Nox - A sucker for a good fantasy movie.
~ Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.