Don't Mess With My LOTR

Reading a review of "The Two Towers" written by a guy who has steadfastly decided to hate all three installments, I was struck by two things. First of all, his comment to the effect that Tolkien couldn't develop characters worth a damn shows us just how much he knows about an author to whom the history, not the players, was the point. Also, what kind of a stupid comment is "The two female roles are sorely underused" (meaning Galadriel and Arwen)? I guess Eowyn doesn't count, she probably wasn't chesty enough for him. But then, this guy prides himself on supposedly seeing through all the crap Hollywood puts out (he mentions it in about half his reviews) though for the love of whatever's holy, I cannot comprehend how he managed to find it in him to give a passing grade to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.