On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:39:19AM -0400, Starshadw at aol.com wrote: > For me, as a lover of fantasy, I have to basically agree with > you re: fantasy films. Which is not to say I don't enjoy > re-watching Hollywood's attempts at fantasy films, because I do > occasionally re-watch them - mostly for nostalgia, I think. I > can say I enjoyed most of them, but that I always felt they > fell short of what they "could/should" have been. -thinking- Of > course, the fact that most of the fantasy films had > good-looking men in them (remembering David Bowie's codpieces > in Labyrinth)...but I digress! Ahem! ANYway....heh....was just > curious how you (and everyone else on the list) felt about > FotR. FotR was the first one that Hollyweird made a serious effort with, and they got it mostly right. Most of the rest end up being rather horrible because Hollyweird doesn't understand the medium. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org)