GoF length -- money talks?

[werebearloony]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 10/14/2003 4:10:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
> Lord of the Rings proved, once 
> again, that people will sit through a 3+ hour movie if it is 
> entertaining.  
> I, for one, would like to see GoF made into TWO three-hour movies!  
Then 
> maybe they'd be able to get most of the good stuff in it!!  ;-D
> 
> Lynda 

 Now Me:
Well,I'd like to see that too but I have a feeling we're gonna see 
nore of a toned down two and a half hour version.  However, have any 
of you seen the previous Lord of the Rings movies, the animated 
ones.  They are awful.  Really funny, but awful.  I saw the movie 
version of The Hobbit in fourth grade and it was so terrible that I 
decided never to read the stuff this "Tolkien" guy wrote.  I have now 
read LOTR 5 times but that is because 25 years later a fan of the 
boks made a wonderful movie that was true to the book, a long enough 
length to incompass the work, and because my friends forced me to go 
see it.  So don't give up, if the movie sucks I'll hop on a train 
after I turn 17, read HP, become a director and 25 years later I'll 
make movies that do the books credit.
don't let the muggles get you down
~~loony
PS: The train thing is a reference to Peter Jackson's infamous first 
reading of LOTR on a train trip when he was 17.  Yes I know how 
obsessed I am.  How are you?