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Old 01-03-2003, 11:28 PM   #21
doug*platypus
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Bill me old cobber, no need to apologise to me at all if you want to degrade and bemoan the new Star Wars movies. I think that drama-wise they're terrible. Although I didn't make it very clear, I was referring to the original Lucas who made the Trilogy, not the new Lucas who seems to have lost the plot. Anyway, if I'd known how many irrelevant posts mentioning Star Wars this quote would bring out I would have left it anonymous!<P>I hold to my belief that a much greater build up and tension would result from showing The Choices of Master Samwise at the end of TTT. Its full dramatic effect won't be appreciated if placed at the start of ROTK. I think that the second instalment of a three-part story is a great place to have a cliffhanger, and turn audiences into ravenous monsters clamouring for the next movie. Of course we're all looking forward to it, but imagine the horror and anticipation experienced by readers of TTT back in the 50s, when they realised they'd have to wait a year for the gripping conclusion. I don't think a flippant reference to "her" is enough to make a cliffhanger. Once again, I believe the filmmakers have left us in pretty much the same place as they did at the end of FOTR. At least they could have foreshadowed a confrontation of Saruman by Gandalf. Instead Saruman appears utterly defeated.<P>PJ and co have gone to great pains to try and explain that TTT and ROTK are not sequels, they are continuations of the same story. True for the books, definitely, but I think the changes that have been made make the TTT movie too similar in the unfolding to FOTR. With the source material they had to work with, I'd say they've done a pretty good job of hashing it up. I like the costumes, though.
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