[HPFGU-OTChatter] Extended Movies... (was: Re: Ordering UK version ...)

[OctobersChild48 at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/14/07 1:18:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
bboyminn at yahoo.com writes:


> On this issue of cutting the heart out of the movie
> for no reason other than needing to make it LESS THAN
> 2-1/2 hours, I think Warner is hopeless foolish and
> completely misguided.
> 
> As Roger Ebert once said, no good movie can be too 
> long and no bad movie can be too short. 
> 
> Simply make a good movie and we will sit there as long
> as it take to tell the story.
> 
> Just one man's opinion.
> 
> Steve/bboyminn
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  

Sandy responds:

This woman will second your opinion. This business of capturing the *essence* 
of the story while keeping the run time to a minimum is bullcrap, because 
they are not capturing the essence. The last movie, in particular, came up 
woefully short of the mark. I would be willing to sit through a 4 hour movie as long 
as they provide an intermission for a potty break. But, if they did make the 
movies any longer than they do we would only be on movie 3 instead of movie 5, 
considering how long it takes to make them, and Dan would be 30 for the last 
one. I wonder, though, if they have set that 2 1/2 hour limit because they see 
their audience as primarily kids. Kids really don't have a long attention 
span. But when I went to see GOF, there wasn't a kid in the audience. There were 
teenagers, but no kids. Granted, it was the midnight show, but it was sold 
out. 

Sandy, wondering what has been sacrificed to keep OOP, the longest book, down 
to 2 1/2 hours, although OOP did have a lot of wasted page space.


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