Are women just bored of the rings?

WayneLigon

Adventurer

• Dec 21, 2003

• #21

Eh, it sounds like the whole thing was basically too complex for the so-called 'reviewer' to handle, so she had to make up stuff to (1) not sound like most other critics, who love it, and (2) make her word-count. If I were her editor I'd probably have said 'Go back and actually watch the film this time, stupid.'

 

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kingpaul

First Post

• Dec 21, 2003

• #22

Richards said:

Even if it was only due to a sudden infatuation with Orlando Bloom, I can't help but see this as a good thing.

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Speaking of Orlando Bloom, has anyone else read FoxTrot recently?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=1065&pg=1

 

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Buttercup

Princess of Florin

• Dec 21, 2003

• #23

I've got to revisit this one. The NYT author says:

They offer an escape into an imagined world of warriors, where emotions are paid lip service but never truly expressed — an approach that is always easy for adolescent boys to embrace.

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Did she even watch the movies? If Sam was not expressing emotion, then I've never seen it. Or how about Frodo? Merry? Pippin? Faramir? Boromir? Gimli? Eowyn?

If she's writing for the NYT, she can't be stupid. So she's just making these claims for effect.

 

Dark Jezter

First Post

• Dec 21, 2003

• #24

My mother and sister are both huge fans of the movie.

In fact, nearly every woman I know IRL loved these films.

 

Hypersmurf

Moderatarrrrh...

• Dec 21, 2003

• #25

Buttercup said:

Or how about Boromir?

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Hell, yeah.

-Hyp.

 

Tarrasque Wrangler

First Post

• Dec 21, 2003

• #26

On behalf of all movie critics everywhere:

I apologize for that particular crackpot.

Anyone who thinks the LotR films are "soulless" should be made to sit through a marathon of Matrix sequels, Sandra Bullock films and any Ben Affleck action film to find out what "soulless" really means before they go bandying that term around.

 

tetsujin28

First Post

• Dec 21, 2003

• #27

Well, I'd kind of say that about LoTR, but I know what you're on about.

 

Abraxas

Explorer

• Dec 22, 2003

• #28

it also arrived with unmistakable social pressure to gush over its sheer size and spectacle. In a cultural version of political incorrectness, expressing anything less than ecstatic praise seems unenlightened if not downright boorish.

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I wonder if the reviewer also said this about Titanic? (An infinitely worse movie to which this statement could genuinely be applied, IMO)

 

Aaron L

Hero

• Dec 22, 2003

• #29

Never forget, it is cool to dislike what is popular, and it is doubly cool to dislike something that was first popular among geeks. Triply cool to be the first to say you don't like it. (But saying "I don't like it either " is a few steps shy of cool, so those people have to be extra harsh and psuedo-intellectual in their dislike to make up for it)

 

Mog Elffoe

Explorer

• Dec 22, 2003

• #30

Not everything is for everyone. For example, neither my parents nor my grandparents would care at all for LotR. If a story can't happen in the 'real' world they simply have no time for it. This seems to be the situation with this critic as well, but instead of stating it thusly she's decided to make it a male/female thing. Personally, what with swordfights, armies clashing, and all sorts of giant monsters and whatnot in them I am surprised that there are as many women that enjoy these films as there are.