better than the book

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2002)

So many times a film falls short of the original book, not this time. Jim Harrisons 1979 novella is beautiful, but the film took you so much further and I always wondered why Harrison didnt go that far when he is such fabulous author.
Legends takes you on a jorney that only certain people in the world can actually and literally relate to, but it does give you and accurate look into the glass world they live in. I refer to those of us labeled as passionate fools. Those who are wild like Tristan and Susannah.
A five star rating isn't high enough. And the oscars overlooked this film, including Brad Pitt who deserved the Best Actor for his relentless performance in this film. To date its his best.
My ONLY COMPLAINT and others need to list it if its theirs as well is... ED ZWICK- deleted many nessisary scenes to fit into the time slot allowed at that time of release. It runs 134 minutes. I wish he would release an UNCUT in full sequence, full running time, edition of LOTF. Perhaps it would only be 145-160 minutes long but these scenes were greatly nessisary as stated earlier.
Many of the stills to these scenes exist on the web and are very alluring to fans of LOTF because we KNOW pieces are missing. Pieces to a story, so many of us LOVE.