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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 469811" data-attributes="member: 151">Then I don't think you were paying much attention last December. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I don't see anyone 'turning on' the movie.  The Colonel made his disagreement with some of the choices known plenty of times before this.  Moreover, I don't see him claiming he didn't like the film anywhere: just that there are things he would have done differently or didn't like the way they were done.  Hardly the same thing as an angry mob with pitchforks and torches.I particularly recall people discussing how they thought that Merry and Pippin contributed little to the story in the movie, and how some folks thought the film too fast, and others too slow.  What's wrong with that?I also remember folks going to see it three times in one week.  To give the original poster the benefit of the doubt, he was summarizing more than one person's review...perhaps he was mixing their reasons together.Just because I think it's one of the greatest films ever made doesn't mean others can't think differently.  Hell, I once knew a guy who thought 'Phantom of the Paradise' was the greatest film ever.</blockquote>