I Am Tempted To Wax Derisive

[ralphmelton]

We saw Fellowship of the Rings tonight. It was a good movie, though my listening comprehension and my LOTR-fu were too weak to quite understand everything that was shown.

At the end of the movie, the kid behind us said, "That was a good movie. They were clearly setting themselves up for a sequel."

With some difficulty, I reminded myself that it is through introducing the uninformed to works of merit that the genre sustains itself. Given that, Lori and I explained to the kid that this was the first part of a much longer story, and the second and third movies had already largely been filmed and would be released over the next two years.

But in my head, I thought derisive words.

Comments

[lothie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's so funny -- you've got the Tolkien geeks, you've got the people who just like the stuff, and then you've got the people who do not get it at all.

I had to sit next to somebody the other day who was obviously in the latter group, all impatient after the second hour and stuff, then disbelieving that it just "ended"...oy...

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was amused. The kid was maybe ten or twelve. He wanted to know if they destroy the ring ever. I asked (in my "teacher/social worker voice") if he really wanted to know. He did, so I told him. He is planning to read the books now...

But it was clear his dad had no clue either.

[dr4b]

well, that was sort of my first reaction too, it was like "huh? it just ends there? they don't go in and destroy the thing?" and eli gave me a look and then it was like "yeah yeah, ok, not until book three, got it." of course by the time i see the movie for the first book again i will probably be done the third book, so...