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KayQy · 01-29-2001, 02:40 PM

<BR>The problem nearly everyone has with the movies ultimately boils down to this: we've put the work of Tolkien up on a pedestal higher than Mt. Everest. With reason. But how can we expect even the greatest movie to reach such lofty heights? When I first watched Bakshi's LOTR, I loved it (except for the part where it stopped in the middle.) It was only after seeing it several times, thinking a lot, and listening to the older, wiser *cough* fans on the websites that it started seeming really inferior. So granted that it might still stink no matter how much salt we take it with (remember Lost World: Jurassic Park), maybe we should enjoy it as a movie BEFORE we start picking it apart. <p></p>

01-29-2001, 02:40 PM	#1
KayQy Wight Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Currently Spain Posts: 250	I think I figured it out! <BR>The problem nearly everyone has with the movies ultimately boils down to this: we've put the work of Tolkien up on a pedestal higher than Mt. Everest. With reason. But how can we expect even the greatest movie to reach such lofty heights? When I first watched Bakshi's LOTR, I loved it (except for the part where it stopped in the middle.) It was only after seeing it several times, thinking a lot, and listening to the older, wiser cough fans on the websites that it started seeming really inferior. So granted that it might still stink no matter how much salt we take it with (remember Lost World: Jurassic Park), maybe we should enjoy it as a movie BEFORE we start picking it apart. <p></p> __________________ Do you really want to know / Or are you a little scared, Afraid that God is not exactly what you'd have Him be? --OC Supertones, "Wilderness" "Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter." -- Max Beerbohm