Rings Movie Premiere - Seems Better than HP

[heathernmoore]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Shannon Compton <srae at m...> wrote:
> At 03:28 PM 12/12/2001 -0000, Mahoney wrote:
> >
> >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.
> 
> It was inevitable, really. I was disappointed to see it but not surprised.
> Lord of the Rings is 50 years old, probably 2/3 of the critics read it when
> it was the cool thing to read in college.  Some of them bound to be snotty
> about it, especially when the HP hype has been so overwhelming recently.
> The people who are inclined to be snotty about it are the same people who
> are inclined to dismiss something that is so hugely popular (LOTR doesn't
> count, even though it is hugely popular, because they were 'in on it' from
> the beginning, of course!).  I don't let it bother me.  I am looking
> forward to seeing it, even though I didn't care much for the books.
> 
> Shannon 


 Don't forget, too, that LoTR has been welcomed into the hallowed halls of "Accepted Literature" by now in ways that HP is not yet, and possibly will never be. LoTR has CLIFFS NOTES.