Diwundrin, LOTR can be understood if you think about creeping industrialisation of green and pleasant England and the carnage of the Great War. Throw in some Anglo chauvinism and wrap it all up in generalised mythology and a messianic message and you have most of it covered.
Warri, (and yeah, I know you're geeing me up
) when I want to be educated with a 'message' I'll go to school.
Not into straight out fairy/elf type fantasy so couldn't even finish reading LoTR book. I just didn't care what they doing to who enough to bother.
I watch movies to be entertained. To be carried to a World away from the familiar. I want to see fantastic scenery, or fantastic action or have a good laugh. But not necessarily in the same movie. If I feel the need to ponder the lessons of history or the inner workings of the psycho, or the terminally romantic, I'll just watch the TV News or a reality show.
Why pay good money for reality?? We can watch the neighbours and be more entertained than we are with some of those deep and meaningful, relationship exploring, intimate insights into the human psyche type 'message' movies.
If you want to see the History of that 'green and pleasant England' plagiarised by the best TV series ever made just watch Game of Thrones. :biggrin-new:
Ron, yes, Lonesome Dove was a standout. I'd read the book and still enjoyed the mini series, that doesn't happen too often sadly.
I've read all the GoT books too, it too stays pretty close to the imagined 'world' of the books.
The only movie I ever sat through while the end credits rolled and the lights came back up was Apocalypse Now. That was stunning, the only war movie that ever gave me a glimpse of the realities of what it would be like to have gone through that. I was working with a few Vietnam vets at the time and it explained a lot about how they were somehow 'damaged' compared to those who hadn't been there.
Every time I hear complaints about women not being treated equally I remember how glad I was to be one back then and couldn't be called up.
I guess that was a 'message' movie, which just goes to show that I dunno what I like after all.
Yes boys I hear you hurrumphing, we women are like that, deal with it. :biggrin-new:
