{"id":2266,"date":"2003-11-18T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2021-05-31T22:47:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:47:02","slug":"its-a-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/11\/18\/its-a-start\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;s a Star!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/lotrbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; DVD Planet.com came through again, delivering my <i>Two Towers<\/i> Extended Edition last night, and I&#8217;ve stayed up way too late getting all the way up to about halfway through disc three. My reaction isn&#8217;t as strong as with last year&#8217;s special edition. Then, the added scenes helped restore some of the things I missed from the book; here, the added scenes are mostly original additions, and the scenes I didn&#8217;t like in the theatrical version (the Easterlings not seeing Sam and Frodo fall down a mountain, Frodo offering the Ring to a Nazg\u00fbl, and, yes [try as they might to defend it] Faramir&#8217;s useless &amp;8220;character development&amp;8221;) still bug me.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Nevertheless, despite some story problems, the movies are an amazing achievement, and discs three and four ably demonstrate the skill and artistry that went into creating them.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And besides how can I truly fault a movie that has my name in the credits?<br><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/t2t_credits-lg.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/t2t_credits-sm.jpg?resize=450%2C254&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"254\" title=\"My name in the credits\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>P.S.<\/b>: I&#8217;m still next to Sean Astin, but sadly on a different line.  Hopefully this is only a temporary separation. Remarkably, the Fan Club credit sequence is almost half as long as last year, raising the question why someone would want their name included on only <i>one<\/i> movie?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; DVD Planet.com came through again, delivering my Two Towers Extended Edition last night, and I&#8217;ve stayed up way too late getting all the way up to about halfway through disc three. My reaction isn&#8217;t as strong as with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/11\/18\/its-a-start\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr","category-movies","category-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}