[Martinus]

Originally posted by Rictor
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LOTR is NOT about the WTC towers.

[color=66ff00]Please God tell me that this is a joke? I desperately need you to tell me that no human being claimed that LOTR had anything to do with the WTC?
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[karajorma]

The saddest thing about this is that the whole movie is about people resolving their differences and coming together against a common enemy.

Gimli: I never thought I'd die side by side with an Elf.
Legolas: What about side by side with a friend?
Gimli: Aye. I could do that.

How could this guy have missed the point so completely?

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Please God tell me that this is a joke? I desperately need you to tell me that no human being claimed that LOTR had anything to do with the WTC?
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Sadly someone did. A guy started a petition about how the 2nd movie should be renamed because The Two Towers was obviously an attempt to cash in on the destruction of The Twin Towers.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Anyone any idea of where he lives? I'll post an0n to him first class.
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[Stealth]

yeah, but it's usually ignorant people that say that... as if a book written 60 something years ago is trying to cash in on the WTC incident?

anyway, other reviews that have amused me include that the third movie particularly was full of "homosexual elements", and that the "spider" scene didn't belong in the movie, it should be in Harry Potter.

i need to go dig up the reviews i read

[karajorma]

I think he may have been joking (not certain but I've heard people say that) but you should have seen the number of people who didn't realise that and signed on.

People are stupid when it comes to this sort of thing. For a long time I've been tempted to circulate a rumour about how John Williams is obviously an al-Qaeda agent (because you can quite clearly hear the choir sing Osama at two points of the StarGate theme tune) just to see how far it would go.
 The only reason I haven't bothered is cause I'm sure there would be people who'd take it too far.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Stealth
yeah, but it's usually ignorant people that say that... as if a book written 60 something years ago is trying to cash in on the WTC incident?

[color=66ff00]Ignorant?!? Utter utter ****head more like!

I don't think I've been this shocked by the level of idiocy humanity can reach. Lets hope his new years resolution is to think before stating something so perfectly and sublimely cretinous.

ARRRRH!
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[Nico]

Originally posted by Stealth
yeah, but it's usually ignorant people that say that... as if a book written 60 something years ago is trying to cash in on the WTC incident?

You didn't know? Tolkien's real name is actually Nostradamus

[Solatar]

People are stupid, and from what I've seen most stupid people are from America...can't wait until I'm old enough to move outta this dump...

[aldo_14]

i have a throery about that....I reckon the US has the same average percentage of idiots as other countries.  but, because it's such a big country, there are so many idiots that they can plumb even greater depths of, well, idiocy.  And it's obvious because there's more free speech / greater access to media like the internet than in the other huge countries like China or India.

[Nuclear1]

HAY W3 R KNOT DUM W3 R k00l!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111oneoneoneoneoneoneone


But seriously now, some people are just plain dumbasses. Nuff said.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by aldo_14
i have a throery about that....I reckon the US has the same average percentage of idiots as other countries.  but, because it's such a big country, there are so many idiots that they can plumb even greater depths of, well, idiocy.  And it's obvious because there's more free speech / greater access to media like the internet than in the other huge countries like China or India.

I don't believe it's just that. There are plenty of other people online from other countries so America shouldn't getting as dreadful press as it gets. I think there are two main reasons that it has such a lunatic/idiot percentage.

1. America was founded by people fleeing religious persecution in the old world. While that's a nobel cause it does mean that every crackpot who could afford it jumped on a ship and went there.

2. America celebrates stupidity in a way other countries don't. In america being bright isn't seen as as much of a goal as being popular/beautiful. Look at who they elected president! The man is obviously not that smart and yet he got in. Ronald Regan did the same dispite obviously not playing with a full deck.
 In most other countries we like people who govern us to be smart.

[diamondgeezer]

And they like the people they govern to be thicker then them. Everyone's a winner.

[Nico]

Originally posted by aldo_14
i have a throery about that....I reckon the US has the same average percentage of idiots as other countries.  but, because it's such a big country, there are so many idiots that they can plumb even greater depths of, well, idiocy.  And it's obvious because there's more free speech / greater access to media like the internet than in the other huge countries like China or India.

Hive mind theory! W00t

[WMCoolmon]

In these times when a homicidal maniac from Texas (the Texas capital punishment policy under Bush) has stolen the American throne and called for a "crusade" against the "evil doers" in nations that white people have been invading, terrorizing, raping and pillaging in for 5000 years with zero provocation, I think we could manage some cultural sensitivity in our popular culture which one must acknowledge has a powerful propaganda affect on the general population that participates in it.

Incredible, he even manages to make a connection between LotR and the war in Iraq.

Of course there are redeeming images and ideas portrayed in the films such as the Ents protecting the forests by destroying the industrial military complex as well as the fact that white people can be turned to evil to join forces with all the evil dark skinned man flesh eating Orcs and Uruk-hai.

Hmmm...I guess what he's trying to say is that war is bad and we should all be friends with evil dark skinned man flesh eating Orcs and Uruk-hai.

[Shiva-jin Buu]

Exorbitantly unbelievable stupidity.

[Solatar]

In America there are SOME smart people...but we'll never outweigh the dumbasses.

[TrashMan]

Somebody e-mail him the link to this post!
Let him see what people think of his bright insights!

[IceFire]

I don't think these reviewers actually know what they are doing nor do they know what Lord of the Rings is nor do the even get the point of the whole story.  I'd be shocked if any of these reviewers had read the books either....because they just don't seem to get the movie.

Instead what we typically get with these "experts" is their opinion and they are excellent at writing their opinion and thats pretty much it.  To me, a good review is where the reviewer has knowledge of the subject he or she is reviewing can successfully relate to it and then point out what elements were good and which were not.

For all the cultural sensitivity that is being preached about I don't see one shred of it in this review.  The source is totally invalid and completely mistaken in his view - fortunately its just as easy for one of us to publish a review as it is someone like that.

[Solatar]

Not to mention that saying the Urak'hai are like native Americans isn't very nice either...