The importance of intelligent debate - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

HCIsland · 04-21-2003, 08:46 AM

The thing that gets to me in this forum is how so many of the threads just degenerate into "I hate this" statements with supporting arguments being little more than "I loved this character/scene in the book and PJ should be linched for changing it." All this adds little to anyone's understanding of the films.<P>The book forum is there to enhance peoples' understanding of the books. Shouldn't the movie forum be about doing the same? Disagree with stuff sure, goodness knows there's things I disagree with, but every thing in the films are done for reasons and I think we can better appreciate the difficulty of this task by trying to explore those reasons.<P>H.C.

04-21-2003, 08:46 AM	#35
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	The thing that gets to me in this forum is how so many of the threads just degenerate into "I hate this" statements with supporting arguments being little more than "I loved this character/scene in the book and PJ should be linched for changing it." All this adds little to anyone's understanding of the films.<P>The book forum is there to enhance peoples' understanding of the books. Shouldn't the movie forum be about doing the same? Disagree with stuff sure, goodness knows there's things I disagree with, but every thing in the films are done for reasons and I think we can better appreciate the difficulty of this task by trying to explore those reasons.<P>H.C. __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor