Joy2dWorld
Oriental Potentate
honestly, i wont pretend to be a genius & say i like LOTR bcoz the truth is-- i dont get the point of that "epic".
i like Spiderman better.. heck I even like the Harry Potter books better bcoz it is a deep material that pretends to be light - something it intentionally does in order to get its message across "effectively" to its target audience.
on the other hand, LOTR is shallow material pretending to be "deep." the only message its really trying to say is that -- the ones who have the power to save the world, to overcome evil, is not the great wizards & warriors with all their power & glory, but the lowly hobbits who have no special powers but purity of heart.
so i leave the theater saying "that's it? that's all the fuss is about?"
its like Princess Diana's wedding dress - a simple one would have made her beauty stand out, but the one she wore drowned it out! that film has a great message, but the grandeur & lavishness of the production drowned it out, making it nothing more than a merely entertaining film & its message mysterious to an audience--
i dont even know what kind of audience it is targetting! its not targetting kids, but I dont think its also targetting a more mature audience. the critics praising it-- they think they're wiser than all of us!