The Hype of the Rings

With the Fellowship of the Rings just around the corner, the Slashdot Submissions bin is overflowing with stories about the film since it premiered in the UK already for you lucky brits. If you don't mind a little spoilage, here is the guardian's review, the BBC review, the telegraph review, some pictures from the premiere, and one last review. Also, Scifi.com is reporting that the film has already been pirated. The reviews have their nitpicks, but on the whole its looking good. M : LOTR tattoos!

Comments

Don't complain about the hype.

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't have to see it. I'm boycotting the movie and all associated marketing because I am convinced that the movie will be awful. It's a given; you can't compress a few hundred pages of text into a two-hour movie. Also, almost every movie made after 1992 in the US just makes me sick... it's sad that I have to watch European and Japanese films to find substance and originality.

The moment that I heard about the LOTR movies, I knew that watching them would destroy the precious associations that I have with those books. I still reread them every few years. I know that it will suck, I know that it will be a kid's movie marketed to kids and made with the sole purpose of making money. There will be no art in it. These movies aren't being made by artists who want opportunity to show the world their impression of one of the greatest fantasy epics ever. They just want money, and see LOTR as an established "franchise" to leech off of.

Anyway, I watch hardly any TV, so I haven't seen any LOTR commercials. I don't read newspaper ads. I hardly ever go to the theater. I don't visit many mainstream news websites. Thus, I am effectively insulated from the hype. The fact is, I've heard more LOTR crap on Slashdot than I have anywhere else. The only other way that the LOTR movie has touched my life is when I saw a poster for it at a McDonald's last week.

Thankfully, Slashdot is merely re-leeching the hype for its own advertising revenue, and I'm not being force-fed the hype like I would be when watching TV. I don't read LOTR story comments, I don't click on any of the links, and I refuse to watch the trailer. It's all good.

So... if you're being "overhyped," it's your own damn fault. Despite what so many of you anti-corporate technology amateurs think, it's possible to live a life without being trodden upon by the AOL/Disney/whoever machines of doom.

-- The_Messenger

Pirated

[shanek]

What? You mean to tell me this movie was pirated without using DeCSS??? Is that even possible?????

Re:The Turd Report 12/11/2001 (with poll)

[avandesande]

First i rinse with hot grits.
Then i get a rimjob from natalie portman.

shrek sucked

[alprazolam]

I bet the same people who thought that Shrek was funny as opposed to redundant, boring, and predictable will love the movie.

The more I hear about it, the more I expect it to suck, like most movies that are made for mass consumption.