I was hoping for some good voice-overs but alas. When the car got stopped by the tree in the rain, adding absolutely nothing to plot or suspense, I could see it was just fluffer-nutter on a steak. Then when the doctor told Sam to quit smoking I said this has nothing to do with anything! I bet it would have been better if someone told the director they had sixty minutes to tell the story, and not a minute more.

I thought Monsieur Spade was a bit of a bait and switch. Those of us who watched it did so for Dashell Hammett-esque musings with the same noir style in a new setting, and the show gave us a mediocre period piece that hops between several genres but very rarely the one we wanted.

LOTR could have been told with just 2 movies. It's Jackson's way of giving our money's worth. I find it amusing that King Kong 1933 had a 30 minute intermission and it was 100 minutes. Jackson's version was 3 hours and no intermission. Maybe there's better seats in the theaters now.

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Did you feel that the Lord of the Rings trilogy padded stuff out compared to the books or just in general? I have only read the first book so I dunno. I am curious. I do remember the movies having a lot of long shots of the ring in people's hands.
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Did you ever see the original cartoon movie? Much crisper. I'll never forgive Peter Jackson for my wife making me go through 9 hours of bullshit and at least 5 hours of sitting on the floor in line. Read the guy that played Agent Smith felt the same way.

Did you feel that the Lord of the Rings trilogy padded stuff out compared to the books or just in general? I have only read the first book so I dunno. I am curious. I do remember the movies having a lot of long shots of the ring in people's hands.

Someone recommend this Netflix original to me, knowing my penchant for 1940s detective radio shows.

Tried it ( with sound on) for an hour. Had to turn it off because it had a Peter Jackson-esqe way of padding the crap out of every little damn thing. Took ten minutes to show a two minute scene. There's a thing called pacing. The director..er sorry, the newspeak word is showrunner now, the showrunner has almost unlimited time to tell a story so everything drags and drags along.

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