Exemplifies the difference and the fall

Rating: 1/10 (3 July 2004)

The difference between art that comes out of the studio system, and art that comes out of a lifetime; if only we could develop a moving image pillar that was not driven by base profit, we might see an expression of Tolkien on "film" that was decent.
The fall? This is the beginning of the end for our civilization; when art is so corrupted that people can no longer even tell the difference, our "way of life" is over; anthropologist, alien or otherwise, will mark the success of these films (and of George Bush, and of television) as the harried and quickened end of "the West," not unlike the fall of Numenor...not that you would know anything about that from these "adaptations..."
What a disgrace! How dare Jackson call this Tolkien!