Posted on 11/27/2001 8:56:31 PM PST by sourcery
Not me. If I "boycotted" every movie that had a gay person associated with it, I'd probably never get to see another movie again for the rest of my life.
Did you hear me? Let me say that again...
THIS MOVIE WILL BE BIGGER THAN STAR WARS!!!!!!
Ever since last Tuesday I've been listening to the soundtrack every chance I get. Some tracks on that make for even more lethally fast driving than "Duel Of The Fates" ever was! :-)
Well, yes... It's using one medium to interpret another. Of course, I'll have to wait 'til I see the movie to critique it. I stand by my comment about changing a classic though. If I take a photograph of the Mona Lisa, I shouldn’t use Photoshop to fix her smile.
I haven't seen or heard the delivery of the "come and claim him" line.
I agree that Bombadil is an easy and painless character to cut. (My least favorite part of the book.) I would prefer they cut entire characters rather than change them or rewrite them--It's much cleaner and historically accurate.
There you go--that's better. It's like rewriting history. It is history--for goodness sakes. It's the history of Middle Earth and Tolkien painstakingly preserved it for us, and we shouldn't rewrite it.
Yawn....oh bore...why bother? Not worthy of the effort...yawn.
Will gays boycott Ian McKellen because he starred in a movie based on a story written by a devout Christian?
I remember the movie adaptation of The Shining. It was a good adaptation as screen-plays go, but it lacked something. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I was very disappointed. In a later interview, Stephen King said that Kubrick ruined the movie because he didn't believe in G-d. Therefore, what was intended to be a movie about good vs. evil was simply a movie about Jack Nicholson going crazy. Bingo!
I hope Fellowship does not suffer the same fate.
Shalom.
1) You claim not to like Lord of the Rings or any work of this nature and yet you constantly appear on these threads.
2) The nature of your posts are to show that LOTR is somehow a latent homosexual story.
3) You believe that all such stories, I assume even going back to Roland and the Paladins, are along the same lines as you have portrayed. (i.e. Young man just entering manhood is guided by an older man who is not his father.) And you view this as a commercial of some kind for NAMBLA.
As far as I can see, you are the only one who views the movies as such and then you want to rail against them. The funny thing about projection is that the projector often has no idea why they fixate on things and why the things they fixate on make them so upset. The only other reason that I can come up with on why you want to rain on other people's parade by posting stuff like this is you are a troll looking to cause problems, but I can't believe another Freeper would be that big of a jackass.
There are actually not that many people in this movie, and none of them use magic. Some Wizards do. The Elves do, if you can call it magic. The Elves don't call it magic, but they don't bother to describe what it is. The Elves aren't very interested in people, as a rule.
Shalom.
A hint - this isn't a Tom Clancy novel. The trilogy is all about the characters and how they rise to the occasion. It is almost not at all about the particulars of the occasion and it is definately not about the action.
Shalom.
Good point.
Not me. I understand Israelis boycotting Wagner because Wagner has the spirit of violence and national superiority that Hitler took for his own. (Hitler was a big fan of Wagner). However, LOTR is not about sexuality at all so I can't imagine ever making the link, no matter what the actors do in their own time.
Shalom.
I rest my case. heh heh
Not to my knowledge.
The rings are magical.
Not in today's sense or maybe the Harry Potter sense.
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