Don't Mess With My LOTR

[blodeuedd]

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.

Comments

Bad reviewer! *smacks him onna head*

[punkieg.livejournal.com]

Where would one find reviews by this guy you are referring to?

Re: Bad reviewer! *smacks him onna head*

[blodeuedd.livejournal.com]

www.juicycerebellum.com

Re: Bad reviewer! *smacks him onna head*

[blodeuedd.livejournal.com]

Plus, his grammar sucks.

Re: Bad reviewer! *smacks him onna head*

[punkieg.livejournal.com]

One should never mess with you....

*ESPECIALLY* when it comes to grammar!!

=D

*urm*

[bashy.livejournal.com]

I don't quite get why you were reading the review of a nobody in the first place..

but it's true though that the female roles are underused - little princesses that don't do much apart from being pretty.. Someone described LOTR as a little boys story - as it sure doesn't aspire women to a lot except to be pretty enough to be courted by a manly man..

Re: *urm*

[blodeuedd.livejournal.com]

I read him 'cause he's amusing, and he occasionally agrees with me on what is a good or bad movie.

As for the females being underused, I was peeved that he didn't even mention Eowyn in his whole review. And I don't see them as being underused, I see it as sticking to the source material (except for those dream sequences). Though they may not show up as much as the male characters in the book, Galadriel and Eowyn represent the wise-woman and warrior-princess archetypes just as Gandalf represents the shaman.