Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Joe S (A) on January 02, 2002 at 18:21:39

In Reply to: willful blindness posted by ishmael on January 01, 2002 at 14:05:24:

I love pseudo-intellectuals who try to justify personal taste with logic. And I have tried to read fantasy on more than one occasion but my patience for good vs. evil, quests / vengance tales spiced with magical amulets and sorcerers is limited at best. Is that really so bad or hard for you to understand? And by the way I like SF and have been a voracious reader of all kinds of books over the years but Fantasy is the one thing I can't abide....

I watched Lord Of the Rings two days ago and saw a simple minded drivative story as predictable as a grade school primer filled with cheap and manipulative directorial effects to advance an otherwise motionless story. I mean, how many times do we have to see directors make charcaters act like fools to advance the plot of their films without complaining? In this case I mean the painfully obvious device of having characters surrounding the hero act like fools in order to attract the attention of enemies just so another set piece battle can occur when things drag for just a bit too long. A device this film stooped to not once but twice!

I didn't like it. I'm not saying you shouldn't. But I am saying that people who don't find fantasy interesting are not going to be transformed into fantasy genre lovers by this movie.

joe