Originally posted by Discos
(I was shall we say "maturing" into the Kevin & Perry face of my life) [/B]
what face are you in now?
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i like fantasy, because it adresses humanity on a level that has long been forgotten... in a world where the average persons primary concearn is what color phone to get, or how to save their company money by overworking and underpaying people... it's nice to have the option to look into someone elses imagination to a world they created where peopele have to unite and face a comon enemy and face death and sacrifice for something important...
..with some dragons and other creatures thrown in to spice it up.
I love tolkien, I've never read any other fantasy but i do love the genre,
it needs more films, at least enough to have it's own section in the video store, i'm sick of walking over to science fiction for fantasy... I'll never really like the fact that they got bunched up together. (I do like sci-fi though). but all we have in the genre outside of LOTR is Connan (a trilogy that never got finnished), willow, 1000 versions of the story of king authur, a few 70s flicks about dragons, that awfull D&D movie (I love Tom Baker but he's no elf, he's more a dwarf or Tom Bombadil type), and some cartoons.
and although LOTR is going to inspire a buch of cheap knock offs, at least it's sparked an interest in the field which will hopfully manifest through some rather noteworthy directors...