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SubjectRe: I've seen LOTR
FromC'Pi
Date01/20/2002 16:53 (01/20/2002 23:53)
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FollowsBill Anderson
"Bill Anderson" <billanderson601@yahoo.com>wrote in message news:3C4AE444.65FD5DFE@yahoo.com...

Bill Anderson
C'Pi wrote:

C'Pi
Good movie.

Pleasurable to see. Entertaining to watch. All the emotional depth of a

wet

Kleenex. A very good movie but I think we can drop all this 'greatest

movie

ever' stuff.

Bill Anderson
Have you seen any "greatest movie ever stuff" in this newsgroup? If it's

been

said here, I've either missed it or dismissed it. Still, I can't yet

explain

the immense attraction LotR holds for me. Maybe I'll come up with

something

after I've seen it again....

Here, AFS, Tolkien newsgroups, I don't remember. I've been around.

C'Pi
I hope they do The Hobbit. Give me Gandalf and Bilbo and forget

everybody

else.

Bill Anderson
Yeah...but throw in Legolas shooting those arrows, and Hobbitkids giggling

over

fireworks, and Arwen fleeing the ringwraiths, and reely big stone statues,

and

horses made of water, and Boromir's last words, and second breakfast, and

(as

you say) Galdalf talking to Frodo about what we do with the time we have,

and

beds filled with feather pillows, and magical mystical villages that are

almost

but not quite as enchanting as some in TPM, and the mines of Moria, and

lovers

in the moonlight, and Sauron swinging that club, and a perfectly-realized Gollum, and the Balrog's whip, and set design filled to overflowing with unexplained but not-insignificant details, and, and, and,....oh, did I

mention

Legolas shooting those arrows?

Which for me sums up LOTR. It's eye candy. Very nice eye candy but eye candy none the less. That is what everybody condemned TPM for. All visual little story or emotion. Well that is how I came away from LOTR. I enjoyed it. But after all the praise and people saying this is how TPM should have been, I was expecting to see a more emotionally developed story. It wasn't there. Now for people that have already read the books it may have been there since they could fill in what was missing, but for people like me who haven't, there was just the eye candy to watch. Not much different from TPM.

C'Pi