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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
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     Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
   > In message    
   > Lewis  spoke these staves:   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
      
   >> 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 ;-)   
      
   Luke gets his hand chopped off, drops off the platform (Nooooooo! That's   
   Impossible!) and into the abyss, then ends up going on a short slide   
   into ome sort of tube and then drops out of the bottom of the cloud city.   
      
   The slide is very short, that was sort of my half-serious point.   
      
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