<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Its very genre sets it at a disadvantage. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Sadly, that’s very true in any artistic medium. Critics just appreciate realism more than sci-fi/fantasy. Look at Tolkien’s books themselves: fifty years later, the public buys them by the box load and literary critics are still laughing at them. Why?<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I really liked Minority Report, that was a very good movie, do you think that might have a chance at anything? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>That was a great movie, but far too complex for the small-mindedness of the critic.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> The ending ot the Lord of the Rings is a very good ending and I think the "critics" will see it as something great. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>That reminds me of a dream I had. We all sat down in the theater to watch Return of the King. Everyone was so excited, the whole place was buzzing. The whole movie was over in half an hour. It was a romance flick. It had no end, the screen just went black. It was pure horror. The whole place went up in screams of angst, there was popcorn flying everywhere. <P>No doubt if this happened RotK would win Best Film and the rousing approval of every critic in Mordor, er, I mean Hollywood.
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"'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
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