NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/fan/tolkien/55

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From: [e-mail] (WE'RE ONLY HERE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ALL HERE)
Subject: Re: Lord of the Rings - the movie?
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Summary: Another movie
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Date: 24 Nov 92 02:46:59 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (T. K. Narayan  student 09-1 writes...
>    I heard sometime ago that an animated version of Lord of the
>Rings had been released a few years ago. I have tried to lay my hands
>on the tape (i.e. hoping it had been released on video) but haven't
>been too successful at it. Does anyone have any details about the
>movie or was the whole idea about the movie a figment of my imagination?
>
Major dissapointment. But then most movies taken from books are.
What made it doubly disspointing is that it was only the first half
of the Lord of the Rings. I was trying to get some friends interested
in Tolkien, and this movie turned them off more.
    It seems amazing to me that in the days of Police Academy V,
and Jaws III, and God knows what other sequel, that Hollywood wouldn't invest
the money to make an extravaganza of the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings.
They proved with Willow that they can make the necessary special effects.
And they are obviously running out of ideas (ie. good cop shoots bad guy
and gets the girl). It would cost a pretty penny, but people would go
absolutely NUTS over it (at least I would. But then, I'm not totally
sane anyway).

>-T.K.

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