<BR> Re: LOTR is mightily good, but not sacred!</b><br><br> I'm not exactly sure, MU. I'd probably offend a whole lot of people if I typed what I thought, so I won't, but I can say the following.<br> <br> A picture conveys a thousand words; but I'd rather conjur up my own pictures from those thousand words. I'd rather develop my own interpretations, my own thoughts, my own criticisms, and not have to be so narrow minded as to agree with the director's interpretations. <br> <br> Movies are new-age propoganda...get some well known, liked actor (who, by the way, gets payed $10m a film and pays no taxes cos he's above the law) to kick a football and you can guarantee that a whole lot of people are going to start kicking footballs more than they did before. <br> <br> I'm generally against capitalism and commercialisation/globalisation as well, and considering Hollywood represents just about all of those to the highest percentile imaginable, my dislike of Hollywood is pretty self-explanatory; but that's getting ugly. (I'm more the idealistic, equality-for-all, social services type of person. ) <br> <br> Also: I never said that movies and books can strictly not</b> both be enjoyed equally and in their own rights, simply that <i> I</i> will never enjoy movies as much as I do books. I go to the movies. I enjoyed Dude Where's My Car, (not that great an example ) and I'm sure I'll enjoy Lord of The Rings, but, to repeat myself, IMHO the book will always be better. <p>- <i>enep</i></p>
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