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Pointless movie that wastes the actors' talents


What a waste of time! I usually like movies that are low budget but redeem themselves by having good script and good actors. This was not a good story or good movie. Pointless episodes of story bits that dont make sense in the end.

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Have you read the books?

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I'd read them, and I enjoyed the movie. My boyfriend had never read them, and he didn't have a problem following the story. He's not big on fantasy or stories about wizards, but he was impressed with how smart it was, especially for a made for TV movie.

We never get anything this good on American TV, it seems like no one wants to make a mini series about any wizard other than Merlin.

"Rock is dead! Long live Paper and Scissors!"

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LOL you obviously don't know jack about Discworld. Nice failure sir!

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Didn't make sense? There's narration that explains half of it, if it didn't make sense, you checked your brain at the door.
Also, call me old fashioned but... READ THE BOOK!

The only thing that I really had objection to with the adaptation was the constant use of the word 'eight' instead of '7a' or 'the number between 7 and 9' or any of the other many euphemisms, hehe. Admittedly, I'd also have liked a more accurate shade of octarine but it would just be silly to expect them to be able to pull off a proper greenish yellow-purple, lol.

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