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   From: mr@sandman.net   
      
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    Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
      
   > > I did find the extended sliding scene to be more than a little   
   > > silly.   
   >   
   > I had my children, all four of them (aged from 13 to 21), with me in the   
   > cinema, and of the five of us, I think I was the most tolerant of the   
   > whole goblin town sequence -- and I also found the escape of the Dwarves   
   > (and Gandalf) to be much too long.   
   >   
   > This was, however, my only objection to the film as cinema audience.   
   >   
   > As a Tolkien student I am pleased that the story has so little in common   
   > with Tolkien's because this frees me to enjoy it at a different level --   
   > I can accept the world and the story of the film as being something   
   > wholly different from Tolkien's world and story.   
      
   "Wholly different" indeed. The movie "The Hobbit" and the book "The   
   Hobbit" is as different as the movie "Jurassic Park" and the book "The   
   Hobbit". :-D   
      
   > > If you want to see one done right, watch The Empire Strikes   
   > > Back.   
   >   
   > I'm wringing my brain to recall what scene you are thinking of -- I'm   
   > sure that once I'm told, I'll be slapping my forehead exclaiming "Doh! Of   
   > course!" but at the moment it slips my mind ;-)   
      
   Lukes "slide" down the shaft after having misplaced his hand, mayhaps?   
   Not as long by a longshot, so that really can't be it. At first I   
   thought he meant the speeder chase on the moon of Endor (not really a   
   "sliding" scene, but he did mention the pod race, another example of a   
   non-slide), but that's in Return of the Jedi, not Empire.   
      
      
      
      
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