User: WhiteFantom

There seem to only be three responses so far, including my own, but I noticed something. On the question regarding the comment about having an affair both with someone half one's age and someone twice one's age, there were three responses; one was "Had an afair with someone younger," one was "Done both!" and one was "Done neither but am interested" (I'm paraphrasing the answers, by the way). The last one about having done niether was my response, meaning that both other people had had affairs with someone half their age. In the last question about our current ages, there were only two responses, meaning that one person had elected not to answer that question. One response was "Female age 20-30," and that one is me; the other response was "Female under 20." Taken with the other question that means both other respondents besides myself have had an affair with someone half their age, that means this female under 20 must have had an affair with someone under 10 at the oldest...which is disconcerting to say the least.

I'm sincerely hoping that person simply misread the question and though it meant having had an afair with someone any younger than one's self, rather than specifically half one's own age. A 20-year-old girl with an 18-year-old guy is no biggie; a 20-year-old girl with a 10-year-old boy is concerning.

--Jeni

I agree about the 4-hour movie because of the movie being geared toward children. I wouldn't mind, but then, I'm nearly 24 years old...children get fidgety after about an hour, and most are significantly fussy after more than two hours even if it is a movie they really want to see. I think it's a miracle the HP movies thusfar released have been as long as they have been, really (though I'm quite glad of it, personally).

However, I disagree with you about the two-part release--they wouldn't have to be released months apart, for one thing; I heard buzz a year or two ago that they were thinking of doing it in two parts and releasing the second part only a month after the first. This would be beneficial to them because it would mean more money--people would pay for a whole other movie ticket just to see the second half of the story, so Warner Bros. would get more bang for their buck, so to speak. It also wouldn't make any difference in the children's ages because the whole thing would be filmed and finished at the same time and merely released in a staggered fashion (it wouldn't really increase filming time much either, because they already film far more than can fit into the alotted time as it is and simply must edit for length afterward; in this case, they'd film about the same amount as usual but they'd cut less).

All three LoTR films were filmed at the same time rather than one after the other in three seperate productions, and those were meant to be three seperate stand-alone movies in a vast saga that couldn't possibly be presented in its entirity on screen. Filming GoF as completely as possible and releasing two 2-hour movies a month or so apart would be nothing in comparison, and wouldn't take any additional time than creating a chopped-down 2 and a half hour version for a single release.

--Jeni

========== In Reply To ========== No matter what writers, directors or even producers say, no Hollywood studio is going to allow a G- or PGR-rated movie to go over three hours. This is because no cinema would agree to screen it, because of the extra costs involved cleaning up after kiddies with poor bladder control. So the question is: who decides what gets cut? The writers and directors who are making the movie and have some respect for the material? Or some Hollywood CEO because the film-makers decided they couldn't have cuts on their conscience?

And the idea of two separate movies won't work either. You'd have to release them months apart, which would slow down the whole series, which might be OK with other series but not one featuring adolescents, who are going to be going through puberty as the movies are made. I mean, a 30-year-old can be made up to look 20, but no amount of prosthetics will make a 15-year-old look 12.