Comments on: The Hobbit to Film in 2007? http://www.anwyn.com/2006/08/31/the-hobbit-to-film-in-2007/ Sometime editor, all-the-time mother, delivering facts, reviews, commentary, and rants. Occasionally in that order. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:34:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: The other daughter, Anwyn's sister http://www.anwyn.com/2006/08/31/the-hobbit-to-film-in-2007/#comment-153 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:29:50 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2006/08/31/the-hobbit-to-film-in-2007/#comment-153 The thing that bothers me most about movies based on books (other then that they so rarely do them justice) is that people who're too lazy to read the books ("Reading is so <i>boring.</i> It's such a waste of time!") think the movies are an acceptable and accurate substitute. The only reason I keep going to the Harry Potter movies is to get ammunition to refute that theory. I can't count the number of times I've been conversing about a good book with someone and heard someone else say, "Oh yeah, I know about that. I saw the movie. Wasn't it great?" *shrieks, wails, gnashes teeth* The thing that bothers me most about movies based on books (other then that they so rarely do them justice) is that people who’re too lazy to read the books (”Reading is so boring. It’s such a waste of time!”) think the movies are an acceptable and accurate substitute. The only reason I keep going to the Harry Potter movies is to get ammunition to refute that theory. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been conversing about a good book with someone and heard someone else say, “Oh yeah, I know about that. I saw the movie. Wasn’t it great?”

*shrieks, wails, gnashes teeth*

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