Crimes Against Tolkienity

[QuickSlash]

To the point about marketing: I generally don't have much of a beef about that except for the very expensive things. Did they really need to make over-priced busts of the characters? I doubt it. Action figures, replicas, those are very nice. I'd like some replica jewlery and weapons myself, but I lack sufficient funds. <P>One problem, I *do* have, though, is something I saw on tv about an hour ago on TNT. I'm one of the people who stops everything s/he's doing when a commercial for the movie comes on, no matter how many times it's been seen. This time, however, they sliced in scenes of basketball for no apparent reason. It seemed to be made to glorify the sport (Using lines such as, 'Become who you are meant to be'), however, at the end, they only told when the movie will premiere. Seems rather pointless and degrading to the film to me.<P>As an afterthought, there's still what JRRT would've wanted. Personally, I don't think he would've wanted the movie made at all, so I suppose I'd say he wouldn't be happy with any of this wonderful nonsense. <p>[ 6:53 PM December 16, 2003: Message edited by: QuickSlash ]