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Originally Posted by Bêthberry

Of course we always welcome your "dissent"voice, Sauce. Some of us, however, don't think "popularity" is always the most logical way to extend the debate.

Agree with Bêthberry. It's quite possible that The Saucepan Man and I have already had this discussion (was that a pan sailing by my head? ), but my riposte regarding 'popularity' has always been that the movies as created are exactly one point of data. What can you predict with one value?

We have no idea how more or less popular the movies would have been if specific scenes were added, deleted, changed, etc. There is no way of knowing what the correlation is between Dwarven flatulence and box office gross - whether positive, negative or none.

I'm not wearing PJ's shoes (I do wear shorts, though), and so I don't know why he chose to do what he did. It just seems to me that instead of shooting high, he went the safer route - for this specific issue - of Hollywood as usual.