Reply #89: Have to agree...

[kiki]

I love the animated version of LOTR. Jackson turned something that, in Bakshi's film, was dark, mysterious and foreboding, into something schmaltzy and utterly pedestrian.

What pissed me of most about the LOTR movies was the ludicrous amount of hype that surrounded it... the way it was portrayed by pretty much everyone, even in the "thinking" media, you'd expect Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick to rise from their graves just to pay homage to the mighty Peter Jackson. Puh-f*ckin'-leeze.

In fact the level of media indoctrination surrounding these movies was almost Bush-like... I've had screaming, have-to-leave-the-room arguments with both my dad and my brother over it - and it boggles my mind because I am fighting with my nearest and dearest over a series of basic, special-effects-based, mainstream BLOCKBUSTER ACTION MOVIES. Forgive the caps but THAT IS ALL THEY ARE.