A Simple Question

Rating: 9/10 (23 March 2002)

3,000 people have commented on this movie, almost all just gushing away about its cinematic perfection. Yes, I agree the movie is excellent and will probably garner bundles of Oscars and make the studio heads as rich as Midas.
I'd look to use my little space to raise a small, but troubling question about the film. Where is the sex? I'm not talking about graphic depictions, but the standard relationship between men and women (or hobbits, elves and orcs); You know; romantic love, a simple sexual tension, perhaps even a bit of carnality. It appears to me that for a full 3 Â½ hours, love, romance, and physical desire are virtually non-existent. The movie shows us the manufacture of Orcs, but what about everyone else?
The hobbit-heads I've met almost universally disparage the Harry Potter books and film as "for children" whereas Tolkien's trilogy and Jackson's film are "for adults". Think again.