tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post598397750186512935..comments2024-03-16T14:43:09.430-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: Movie Review: StardustAustin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-6486885819729805102007-09-20T07:16:00.000-05:002007-09-20T07:16:00.000-05:00Ah, good call. I'm with you on that one.Ah, good call. I'm with you on that one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-35546721714422092502007-09-19T20:37:00.000-05:002007-09-19T20:37:00.000-05:00Unless of course the book-to-movie translation is ...Unless of course the book-to-movie translation is the Lord of the Rings, in which the movies were a vast improvement over the extensive descriptions of foliage and epic Elvish poems that constituted that boring ass book. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, that's right Tolkien fans-I went there. Bring it.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-50162946786745636502007-09-18T13:25:00.000-05:002007-09-18T13:25:00.000-05:00I read the book. It's great. I was nervous about i...I read the book. It's great. I was nervous about it, admittedly, since I was reading it AFTER seeing the movie, but I think it actually allowed me to appreciate the differences even more b/c I didn't feel like I was just replaying the movie in my head. I think if the ending wasn't pretty much the same I would have been upset. <BR/> I think all of us who read books just need to get used to the fact that the movie will never live up to the book and understand that books are sometimes only merely guidelines for movie scripts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-12534507032870244972007-09-14T08:11:00.000-05:002007-09-14T08:11:00.000-05:00Yeah, we're gentlemen of leisure, not gentlemen of...Yeah, we're gentlemen of leisure, not gentlemen of accuracy...Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-30181838297961680102007-09-13T22:25:00.000-05:002007-09-13T22:25:00.000-05:00I'm to busy leisuring to be accurate.I'm to busy leisuring to be accurate.Dr. Bitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13568570859981368717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-42848026285193629742007-09-13T22:15:00.000-05:002007-09-13T22:15:00.000-05:00Ok, guys, it's STORMHOLD, not Stromhold or Strongh...Ok, guys, it's STORMHOLD, not Stromhold or Stronghold. We'll have to work on the accuracy of these reviews, won't we?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com