Re: Someone's really good explanation of why LOTR has bored me and so many others. - Czish

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Topic - Someone's really good explanation of why LOTR has bored me and so many others. - clarkjohnsen 13:50:15 12/21/03 (87)

finally read the original article - tunenut 21:03:46 12/27/03 (0)

Re: Someone's really good explanation of why LOTR has bored me and so many others. - Czish 11:54:05 12/25/03 (3)

Perhaps if the movies were in black and white and subtitled........... (nt - dennzio 16:17:27 12/25/03 (2)

Re: Many EXCELLENT films - rico 07:09:14 12/26/03 (1)

Can you detect sarcasm? (nt - dennzio 12:55:50 12/26/03 (0)

Quite simply, it's a yarn for - tinear 05:28:01 12/23/03 (34)

W. H. Auden didn't think so. - Harmonia 19:53:45 12/23/03 (0)

Then Homer and Virgil will be over your head also. (nt - dennzio 12:55:09 12/23/03 (3)

So now you've sunk to comparing the blind one and his - tinear 13:15:31 12/23/03 (2)

The Aeneid was of course Virgil as a Homer wannabe. - dennzio 17:12:28 12/23/03 (1)

PS: you can teach me about D&D someday. (nt - dennzio 17:13:35 12/23/03 (0)

Did you people really miss the philosophical dimension of this epic? - Tadlo 07:40:46 12/23/03 (28)

Doesn't it have to do with insufficient water? - geoffkait 09:06:03 12/23/03 (0)

This is exactly WHAT'S wrong WITH it! - Troy 08:30:06 12/23/03 (19)

Not entirely predictable - Tadlo 16:14:00 12/23/03 (0)

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT! And long live Wagner. nt - clarkjohnsen 14:31:35 12/23/03 (1)

Re: YOU GOT THAT RIGHT! And long live Wagner./The antisemit bastard.nt - patrickU 02:41:16 12/25/03 (0)

With all due respect, you are rudely mistaken. - Audiophilander 10:08:00 12/23/03 (15)

Re: With all due respect, you are rudely mistaken. - Troy 10:50:44 12/23/03 (14)

You offered no real valid literary criticisms, just a very average personal opinion, how could anybody take offense? - dennzio 13:24:40 12/23/03 (0)

"BBs are designed for people to put forth their opinions" - Well, one hopes that those opinions would be informed! - Audiophilander 11:46:31 12/23/03 (12)

BwaaHAAAAAAAA! - Troy 13:06:02 12/23/03 (11)

Re: BwaaHAAAAAAAA! - Tadlo 16:23:00 12/23/03 (0)

And just to show . . . - Troy 13:37:07 12/23/03 (9)

Yep, missed that one. - Audiophilander 14:47:32 12/23/03 (8)

You missed this too - Troy 15:27:24 12/23/03 (7)

I'll accept your intent, but let's get the impression straight. - Audiophilander 22:19:30 12/24/03 (6)

Look past your "red haze" - Troy 11:42:27 12/25/03 (5)

"If I was a troll, I'd have handled my responses differently than I have, goading you even further." LOL! - Audiophilander 23:54:12 12/25/03 (4)

Hey, I'm just playing nice here - Troy 17:29:54 12/26/03 (3)

One last time; I'll see your nice ante and raise it as politely as I can: - Audiophilander 00:48:27 12/27/03 (2)

We just don't see eye to eye - Troy 08:42:43 12/27/03 (1)

"chasing windmills" ...? Wrong movie; wrong book! Terry Gilliam has thus far failed where Peter Jackson succeeded. - Audiophilander 09:21:51 12/29/03 (0)

Yup, just like I missed the great sociological insights of - tinear 08:03:52 12/23/03 (6)

Well, there is this small difference - Tadlo 08:33:00 12/23/03 (5)

Au contraire. The sociological insights ARE - tinear 12:03:17 12/23/03 (2)

Re: Au contraire. The sociological insights ARE - Tadlo 16:39:24 12/23/03 (1)

Ok, fair knight, I yield the field. But still, I think Mallory's much - tinear 11:57:43 12/24/03 (0)

Re: And didn't Wagner... - rico 10:28:29 12/23/03 (1)

One knows one has stumbled into fantasy-land when - tinear 11:59:14 12/23/03 (0)

I must have missed something... - Tadlo 21:23:02 12/22/03 (1)

A fair question. See my remarks just below. nt - clarkjohnsen 14:29:37 12/23/03 (0)

Even if his thesis is true - Bulkington 10:53:23 12/22/03 (1)

"I don't see the argument." OK... - clarkjohnsen 10:01:30 12/23/03 (0)

Clark Johnson: The Micro Brain with the Macro Mouth - Yo Mama 09:43:23 12/22/03 (12)

Hey, Clark might not know a good flick when it hits him in the chops.... - dennzio 10:00:02 12/22/03 (11)

"Zero respect for the nastiness." Thanks, but... - clarkjohnsen 09:51:47 12/23/03 (5)

"Yo Mama is suffering through pubesence" How generous of you, Clark! "Take pity" So says our compassionate curmudgeon... - Audiophilander 12:06:35 12/23/03 (4)

Hey, you can't fault a guy who likes toy trains. (nt - dennzio 12:57:04 12/23/03 (3)

Or toy audio systems? nt - clarkjohnsen 14:50:59 12/23/03 (2)

Or overpriced tea. (nt - dennzio 04:59:30 12/24/03 (1)

So, you've had it? And you *know*? Details, please. nt - clarkjohnsen 09:58:43 12/26/03 (0)

Right on both counts and comment on reviewer BS - Yo Mama 12:41:26 12/22/03 (3)

Then comment ont this... - dennzio 13:37:05 12/22/03 (2)

Re: Then comment ont this... - Yo Mama 16:18:15 12/22/03 (1)

Thanks. (nt - dennzio 17:24:00 12/22/03 (0)

Hold on, dennzio! - Audiophilander 10:45:56 12/22/03 (0)

That's not it - Troy 08:47:02 12/22/03 (0)

There is a big difference between fantasy and myth, at least as I define it. - Audiophilander 23:06:14 12/21/03 (9)

"As for Mr. Ross's opinion..." - clarkjohnsen 09:27:52 12/22/03 (7)

Excuse me, but I thought that this was the Video Asylum Film Forum. - Audiophilander 10:32:54 12/22/03 (6)

"...a stuffed shirt music critic's opinion." LOL! As low-brow as you've become... - clarkjohnsen 09:47:51 12/23/03 (5)

Three responses to date? Indeed, I'm impressed; your audience is growing! - Audiophilander 10:39:52 12/23/03 (4)

Three *intelligent* responses. Makes all the difference. - clarkjohnsen 14:53:41 12/23/03 (3)

The difference is that you've succeeded in making asterisks out of your three supporters. (nt) - Audiophilander 22:29:05 12/24/03 (0)

Oh giggle! Severius. You two deserve each other's admiration. (nt - dennzio 05:03:21 12/24/03 (1)

Bad dennzio, ...bad, bad! - Audiophilander 22:45:28 12/24/03 (0)

Re: There is a big difference between fantasy and myth, at least as I define it. - rico 08:09:14 12/22/03 (0)

Re: Maybe... - Dave-A 20:29:53 12/21/03 (10)

"Do you like foreign films?" LOL! Yes! - clarkjohnsen 09:21:26 12/22/03 (9)

Re: All good films? - Dave-A 15:54:59 12/26/03 (0)

Only thing worth smiling about was Johnny Depp. (nt - dennzio 09:52:53 12/22/03 (0)

Re: How can one smile at the " Pirates of the Caribics " for - patrickU 09:37:29 12/22/03 (6)

Rarely do I find myself supporting one of Clark's assertions, but... - Audiophilander 11:02:29 12/22/03 (5)

Re: Rarely do I find myself supporting one of Clark's assertions, but... - patrickU 11:16:22 12/22/03 (4)

Perhaps you would prefer Master and Commander. - dennzio 12:03:21 12/22/03 (1)

Re: Perhaps you would prefer Master and Commander. - patrickU 12:27:21 12/22/03 (0)

Sorry, but I beg to differ. - Audiophilander 11:33:32 12/22/03 (1)

Re: May your wishes comes true... - patrickU 11:41:03 12/22/03 (0)

This was the quote that caught my eye last week... - Harmonia 19:29:30 12/21/03 (1)

"Repeated attempts in the intervening years have not changed muy mind." - clarkjohnsen 09:11:01 12/22/03 (0)

If the movie bores you so much, why do you keep commenting on it? - Dalton 17:22:48 12/21/03 (2)

Thge comments were Alex Ross's. nt - clarkjohnsen 09:16:02 12/22/03 (1)

So? Does one need to post individual reviews which concur with one's preconceived notions... - Audiophilander 09:44:19 12/22/03 (0)

Get over it. It's a movie. Eat some beans. (nt - dennzio 14:21:23 12/21/03 (2)

Boston half-baked beans... - Audiophilander 08:08:30 12/22/03 (1)

Some folks fancy themselves as the high brow set. - dennzio 09:50:40 12/22/03 (0)

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Re: Someone's really good explanation of why LOTR has bored me and so many others. - Czish 11:54:05 12/25/03 (3)

Perhaps if the movies were in black and white and subtitled........... (nt - dennzio 16:17:27 12/25/03 (2)

Re: Many EXCELLENT films - rico 07:09:14 12/26/03 (1)

Can you detect sarcasm? (nt - dennzio 12:55:50 12/26/03 (0)