What do you think of Dave Barry's view?

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

You guys, I'm probably going to light some tempers with this, but I thought that that article was ridiculous, only slightly funny, and a waste of time to read. (Don't kill me!)The only parts that I found even slightly amusing were <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> SAMWISE: But who will guide us?<P>FRODO: How about a reptilian computer-generated creature with a bad comb-over?<P>SAMWISE: **** Cheney’s in this movie?<P>GOLLUM: Very funny, Hobbitt-breath.<BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> (I actually <I>almost</I> laughed at that one) <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> LEGOLAS: I have no idea what you’re talking about.<BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> MERRY: Well, Pippin, we escaped the Orcs, and now we are being carried around by talking trees!<P>PIPPIN: Apparently, the audience will swallow anything.<BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> and <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> ...with the help of Gandalf the White, formerly Gandalf the Grey, also known as Gandalf the Beige...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR>I think that the points of the Tolkien fans were being exxagerated to gain a few alughs, because it's really not all that realistic that someone thought that he thought Cheney was in the movies. Come on! I feel like I get most of the jokes, but i think they're lame anyhow. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Anyone who is seriously offended by it needs to get a life. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well, it happens that some people are offended by things more than others. I <I>know</I> I need to get a life, but I'd rather other people didn't tell me a much. And the "apology" was much too sarcastic for my liking, and I would rather he hadn't put it in in the first place. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> 1) You are able to laugh at it. Let's be truthful: Not everyone's going to love as you do and there will be poke-ats.<BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Well of course. I poke fun with LotR myself- but at least I <I>try</I> to not actually be offensive, which it doens't seem like this dude does. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Seriously... if you can't laugh then something is wrong! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I <I>know</I> something is wrong. It's just that <I>I</I> think that what's wrong is in the article.<BR>Okay. Done ranting now. But I still don't like it.<P>~Menelien<p>[ April 30, 2003: Message edited by: GaladrieloftheOlden ]