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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Aberforth @ Oct 2 2006, 11:09 AM) [snapback]29354[/snapback]
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That's possibly the most arrogant thing I've heard you say. [/b]
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Perhaps. But I'm not taking it back. I'm sick of being treated like a minority. The media aims everything at the dumb people. When will it be our turn? Why should we lower our standards and make excuses?
The Lord of the Rings worked because they cared enough to get it right.
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The reason the Harry Potter films can command the budget they do is because they know a lot of people will see it. [/b]
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They don't need to deliberately make a bad movie just to make their money. The half-wits will see it no matter what the movie-makers do.[/b][/quote]
You have yet to give any real criticism of the films. You just keep saying they're awful. I won't believe that you're in this MENSA minority until you give some on target criticism other than "it didn't have every single thing the books did."
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A film has to be a complete whole in a way a chapter of a book or an episode of a tv show doesn't. [/b]
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We don't know that. What we DO know is that trying to cram it into a 2.5 hour movie DOES NOT work. They have proven it four times.
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Yes we do. It's the way films are. It's the way plays are. We've been doing this for a few millenia now. We've figured out that you can't break up something like that and have it work. You're just desperately trying to find a way to have every moment of the books appear on screen. Not only would that not be financially possible, it wouldn't be interesting. You can't approach the films the same way you do the books.