Entertainment Weekly calls LOTR Trilogy second best movie of the past 25 years

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Kent2010

You can hardly tell where society is going based on some pop EW list.

I can't? Oh. Never mind then.

[Kent2010]

Just saying you can't tell what we like based on a list in a magazine. Did you know Bill Withers' "Lean on Me" is still an extremely popular and relevant song? As you questioned the ways in which this magazine judged impactful movies, music, I'm questioning your use of it to judge whether society is going down the toilet or not.

I hope I'm not coming off as rude, because I don't mean to. I'm new to this whole forum thing and I probably mistook what was meant. It just bothers me when people say we are ruining culture because we happen to like different things than older generations. And felt you needed to know the EW list is anything but representative. Shawshank Redemption and Lawrence of Arabia are still watched and loved by my generation. Fads and brand names come and go, many classics are simply irreplacable. Casablanca, ehh

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Kent2010

I hope I'm not coming off as rude, because I don't mean to. I'm new to this whole forum thing and I probably mistook what was meant.

Nope, there was no mistaking what was meant. Unfortunately, your ire is misplaced. Please see below.

Originally Posted by Kent2010

It just bothers me when people say we are ruining culture because we happen to like different things than older generations. And felt you needed to know the EW list is anything but representative. Shawshank Redemption and Lawrence of Arabia are still watched and loved by my generation. Fads and brand names come and go, many classics are simply irreplacable. Casablanca, ehh

First, I have no idea what 'generation' you are, and I'm quite sure you don't know my 'generation'. Frankly, I don't care. Second, I was not denigrating any generation specifically, I was mocking EW's dim staff and their ill-advised and poorly researched lists. Third, whether or not you choose to believe it, society is going to Hades in a handbasket: the world is going to end in 2012 according to the Mayan calendar, Lindsey Lohan wants to be considered a serious actress, and someone is paying Michael Jackson $1 million a show to perform again. The signs are there for anyone to see, and if any generation is responsible for riding the downward spiral to impending doom, it is the generation currently holding political power.

But on the bright side, The Hobbit movies might be released before the Mayan calendar runs out. Hopefully I'll get to see the first one, in any case. The second movie, which may contain wholly derivative material invented by the filmmaker, I will consign to the flames at world's end.

[Kent2010]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

Nope, there was no mistaking what was meant. Unfortunately, your ire is misplaced.

It was that was my mistake. I thought that from your criticisms of the article (and those who wrote it), and then talking about society going up in flames, you were saying young people (myself included) were causing it because we are the age who like most of the things on the lists. Which is why I felt the need to point out, yes much of the current music and movies we do like, but we still listen and love some of the classics. My bad.