GOF one movie?

[Tracie]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Jodi Robertson" 
<nostrebor at r...> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "severusbook4" <severusbook4 at y...>
> To: <HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:50 PM
> Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: GOF one movie?
> 
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > Severus
> 
> Spartacus comes to mind.  A friend and I years ago went to a 
theatre (Fox
> Theatre in Detroit) to see it.
> Jodi

I don't think it would be a big problem to take kids to see GOF if 
it was 4 hours with an intermission...I was eight when my parents 
took me to see The Sound of Music.  I was mesmerized by it...and it 
was over before I was ready for it to be.  Harry Potter would 
surpass that...Kids wouldn't ever want it to end in the first 
place.  GOF...4 hours long with an intermission...I see no problem 
with that at all.  GOF 2.5 hours...BIG PROBLEM... I hear the "the 
book is the book and the movie is the movie" rhetoric all the time.  
Well, I think they should remember...there would be no story for a 
movie WITHOUT the book...

Tracie...who hates to see ANY book butchered for movies...