Rings Movie Premiere - Seems Better than HP

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"luminary_extraordinaire" wrote:
> First round of premiere reviews is here.
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Indeed, it *is* rather more fashionable to effuse about a 'grown-up,' 
pseudo-art-house flick than an engaging, wonderful, but 'kiddie' 
flick, isn't it?

You know, I wonder if 'critics' approach the books expecting the same 
kind of fare, as they seem already to be doing to the movies.  
Because, hi, apples v. bananas, here.  Both fruit (or rather, 
containing magic and magical quests), but that's *all* that is 
essentially the same.

And I hope this is not inappropriate to say here, but I am not a 
movie snob.  I will enjoy a movie because I enjoy it, and attend a 
movie because it catches my fancy, and not because it is critically 
acclaimed or not, or more or less 'important' than another.  Thanks 
to time constraints as well as other interests, I don't go to movies 
in the theater very often.  I've made repeated trips to see HP, and I 
enjoyed the heck out of it; but I'll wait for Lord of the Rings to 
come out on DVD, though I'm sure it will be a nice movie, too.  I'd 
rather save that movie time to see, for example, Billy Bob Thornton 
et al in Monster's Ball (which looks like a killer, emotionally; wow) 
when it comes out in the US next February, and in the meantime 
cultivate very contented and thrilled memories of HP.  So go my 
preferences.  

I do, though, hope that JKR and all the rest involved in the HP film 
take the LotR movie snobbery in stride, and recognize that what 
they've made is *different* and fantastic on it's own merits, 
regardless of what the poncy critics et al say.

No more blithering.  And I do hope I haven't offended anyone; LotR 
fans here, good on you, and I'm sure you'll adore the film!  I just 
had a bit of snippy fit to get off my chest, esp. in regards critics 
and some movie snobs I have the misfortune of working with.  I'll 
shut up now.

Mahoney