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poliphiloI see there is much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in fandom.
The movie Serenity (which I haven't seen) has divided the followers of the Firefly cult (I haven't see Firefly either.)
Oh come on guys, it's a story. It's fiction. It didn't really happen. That guy that got killed (and you're all getting so worked up about) didn't really get killed because he was never really alive. That was an actor. He got paid at the end of the day and is sitting comfortably beside his pool in the Hollywood hills waiting for his agent to ring.
It's the religion thing, isn't it? We stop believing in God, but it leaves such a huge, gaping, black hole and it hurts so much that we panic and rage and go round looking for things- any old things- to stuff into the emptiness. And so we start believing in Joss Whedon or that guy who made the LOTR films (whose name temporarily escapes me) or (heaven help us) George Lucas.
And just as true believers make themselves blind to the inconsistencies, impossibilities and stylistic infelicities in the New Testament, so fans convince themselves that their favourite TV shows and films aren't in fact a load of crap.
Look, I liked Buffy. I was sort of in love with Willow. But series #7 was garbage, you know it was.
And Lord of The Rings. I love Tolkien (not uncritically) but the movies kinda highlighted all his faults and failed to translate his real merits into filmic terms. Wake up, guys, those films are dull. As dull as the Pentateuch. And I for one never want to see another CGI battle ever again.
As for Lucas- everyone agrees that the prequels are horrible- so why do you keep going to see them again and again? Are you mad?
Wake up, think for yourselves, think critically. Stop being such sheep!
The movie Serenity (which I haven't seen) has divided the followers of the Firefly cult (I haven't see Firefly either.)
Oh come on guys, it's a story. It's fiction. It didn't really happen. That guy that got killed (and you're all getting so worked up about) didn't really get killed because he was never really alive. That was an actor. He got paid at the end of the day and is sitting comfortably beside his pool in the Hollywood hills waiting for his agent to ring.
It's the religion thing, isn't it? We stop believing in God, but it leaves such a huge, gaping, black hole and it hurts so much that we panic and rage and go round looking for things- any old things- to stuff into the emptiness. And so we start believing in Joss Whedon or that guy who made the LOTR films (whose name temporarily escapes me) or (heaven help us) George Lucas.
And just as true believers make themselves blind to the inconsistencies, impossibilities and stylistic infelicities in the New Testament, so fans convince themselves that their favourite TV shows and films aren't in fact a load of crap.
Look, I liked Buffy. I was sort of in love with Willow. But series #7 was garbage, you know it was.
And Lord of The Rings. I love Tolkien (not uncritically) but the movies kinda highlighted all his faults and failed to translate his real merits into filmic terms. Wake up, guys, those films are dull. As dull as the Pentateuch. And I for one never want to see another CGI battle ever again.
As for Lucas- everyone agrees that the prequels are horrible- so why do you keep going to see them again and again? Are you mad?
Wake up, think for yourselves, think critically. Stop being such sheep!
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Date: 2005-10-02 02:16 pm (UTC)(the C did stand for Cecil, didn't it?)
In spite of having all that time to play with, Jackson does very little to develop his characters- and that's why one gets very little sense of the bonds of respect and love which tie the fellowship together.
One of the many things I find hard to forgive is his turning of Gimli into a comic (but unfunny) stooge and the skimping of the growing relationship between him and Legolas.
Bah, the more I think about it, the more I convince myself that Jackson did a lousy job.
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Date: 2005-10-02 03:20 pm (UTC)You're right about the women. Jackson was too respectful here. He had the opportunity to give Tolkien's cosily patriarchal world-view a good shaking- and he didn't take it.
Another thing about the Gimli character is that he was so muffled up in prosthetics you could barely see his face. How is a chap supposed o act under those conditions?
Tolkien's Gimli has great dignity. Jackson's has none.
"ash and cordite smell"- beautifully put.
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Date: 2005-10-03 01:10 am (UTC)I didn't think any of the acting was that wonderful. Not even Sir Ian as Gandalf. If anyone stole the show it was Andy Serkis as Gollum. But who wouldn't steal the show as Gollum?
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Date: 2005-10-03 02:03 am (UTC)