<div class="IPBDescription">Sorry for all the topics</div><a href="http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/50reasons.html" target="_blank">50 Reasons Why Lord Of The Ring Sucks</a>
Its supposed to be a joke! Joke! Laugh! funny? haha? oh... <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->
To be honest I think it's quite possibly the stupidest thing I ever read, so incredibly and utterly stupid I didn't even find it funny, and I didnt even bother reading to half-way, but that's just my oppinion.
If anything Warcraft stole orcs from Dungeons And Dragons. All of this is so full of holes that it's just plain stupid, and makes me hate people that think like this even more than I already do <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo--> .
You people are wierd. I mean, this is just as good as all the other crap thats been slung at us! <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
Seriously though, the star wars galaxies forum liked it. Of course it was more entertaining there because they get mondo traffic, ensuring there were 15-20 people who believed it.
Actually, it's near the bottom of the list of things that's been slung at us. And if you actually believe that there aren't reasons for things like why Gandalf's hair didn't flame up when he was...'fighting' the balrog you are a silly fool. Once again I bring up the orc thing, if that ### makes the assumption that orcs were stolen from warcraft, then I can say that warcraft stole orcs from D&D. Elrond stolen from Agent Smith from the Matrix...um...no. I wonder if this guy is actually serious about all of this crap, or he has an incredibly lame sense of humor, and therefore, should be taken out back and put down like a lame horse.
Although I understand that the author means absolutely none of this and intended it to be funny, I really didn't think it was that amusing. I dunno, I just think it was waaay too overblown and out of proportion.
Okay, that was the most ignorant webpage I've seen for a while. The person who wrote it obviously had *no idea* that the LOTR movie was actually taken from a book, and thought the movie was a stand-alone adventure.
"Hollywood can't make a movie these days without crapping out a sequel the next year to squeeze more money out of the sheep. Guess what; there's ANOTHER LOTR movie coming this Christmas."
Well guess what, Dumbo, there are 3 books which prescribe a story. The first movie only showed the first book. Can you guess what the next two movies will be?
Sorry...this is not funny, unless you find humour in laughing AT the person who wrote it.
Okay, on further speculation, the only logical conclusion I can make is that the guy who wrote that was aware of how stupid his points were, and isn't in fact as ignorant as he makes himself out to be. It's still stupid, though.
Ok, to give some background, i checked out the site. It is a site with parodies of lots of stuff. Its all sarcastic. They dont mean it. None. Its FUNNY! you know, that thing where you laugh! ah well.
<!--QuoteBegin--TychoCelchuuu+Aug. 30 2002,00:05--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Aug. 30 2002,00:05)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Its all sarcastic. They dont mean it. None. Its FUNNY!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I didn't think it was <b>that</b> funny.
The Orcs were obviously stolen from PC game maker Blizzard and its Warcraft series. Too bad Blizzard is apparently too scared to sue New Line over it.
prolly the biggest ######## of the site..... LOTR (the book) has been out since 1955, they dont even kno a #### about it.....
The Battle Droid Syndrome.
The mutated muscular soldiers of Mordor turned out to be hilariously ineffective soldiers, a dozen of them held off by a single dying human. Apparently they made the beasts by crossing Orcs, Goblins and the French.
another ######## of the site......
The Asbestos Wizard.
We all saw Gandalf fall into the molten core of Middle Earth after his battle with the firebeast thing. Well, I guess the Gandalf action figure must have sold well, because in the slap-together sequel coming up this year Gandalf is back. I wonder if they'll even bother to explain it. Maybe he'll be resurrected via voodoo, a la the corpse in Weekend at Bernie's II (look closely and you'll notice LOTR steals several elements from the WAB films).
ough this place is filled with nonsense stupid ########, if they had the books, they wouldnt say this stupid thing....
Invisible Implausibility.
Every time Frodo or Bilbo went invisible with the ring they should have also gone BLIND. Your eyes cannot function unless light is reflected off the cornea. If light passes through it (as must be the case with invisibility) sight is no longer possible. Also, rings do not turn you invisible.
jeez its a damned magical ring.... they can do anything <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
Go-Go Gadget Arrow Sprouter.
Legolas shoots arrow after arrow at his enemies, and yet the number of arrows in his quiver never decreases. I guess elves have glands on their back that secrete arrows.
actually he rans out of them in the 2nd movie <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
Homage or theft?
The "happy village of little people" idea was stolen from Willow.
the book was written in 1937, when hobbit was made, and thats the idea of the race, willow stole it from lotr in that case.......
Weighty issues.
AKA "Plot Hole No. 273." Even with all that walking and light eating, the character of Sam only got fatter.
when they finish the trip, all of em are really thin...
Too many notes.
No movie should be over two hours long. Did we need that whole thing in the mine? Didn't it seem like they were just adding pointless scenes in the middle to pad it? It's like they decided beforehand they wanted three hours and used filler to flesh it out.
they ripped off a lot of stuff from the books......
Rationalization for violence.
Why is the black octopus creature painted as the bad guy when it attacks, when one of the fellowship had clearly been throwing rocks at it?
nobody ever sayed that the octopus was the bad guy, he was the guardian......
my opinion of this site.......... PURE ########, nonsense stuff and stupid points...... the only fun thing was the gandalf burning eyebrows
I can understand that not all points are THAT funny, but bottousai, it seems as if you haven't understand the meaning of sarcasm in this page. The fact that it IS bullsh**t makes it funny in my opinion. The points are so horrible wrong and ignorant that they are funny again (at least for me). But well, it's hard to argue about sense of humour, everyone has another...
He's clearly having a go at the fanatics that make lists of the miniscule flaws in perfectly good films. He was also struggling to make his target of 50 items on that list.
The article was entertaining but ran on too long after it's point was made to remain funny.
Well, I stopped reading it. I didn't think it was funny because he just tried too hard. Humor just happens, you can't really think about it all that much. You know? That was a poor parody.
i did understood the meaning of it, and i sayed that coz is some of the points are so stupid that they are an insult..... and i love that book, the movie, Teh action figures (??) <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> so i couldnt resist such a blasfemy.....
Ok, i understand you, but i think its a bit "weird" to be injured by parody( at least if someone knows that it isn't serious). Anyways, I love the book also, i like the film, I don't know the actionfigures and i doesn't think that it's blasphemy (well, Tolkien isn't a God for me <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> )
<!--QuoteBegin--JediYoshi+Aug. 30 2002,14:00--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (JediYoshi @ Aug. 30 2002,14:00)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I find the <a href="http://omfg.org/" target="_blank">Ohio Milling & Farming Group</a> more intresting.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> There as a Law Firm that calls itself Mofo. I think originally they didn't know. Er not THEY, but whoever chose the name. Im sure the lawyers are a bit ######.
<!--QuoteBegin--Merkaba+Aug. 30 2002,13:43--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Merkaba @ Aug. 30 2002,13:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Okay, that was the most ignorant webpage I've seen for a while. The person who wrote it obviously had *no idea* that the LOTR movie was actually taken from a book, and thought the movie was a stand-alone adventure.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Aaaah!!!!!
Of COURSE he knew it was a book. It was humorous to pretend that movies inspire all. This is a form of humor some like to call satire. It was a joke. Made to poke fun at those who take it way to seriously.
I thought most of it was really funny. Although he was stretching to hit his 50 mark. I've seen the rest of the site. I used to frequent it, at one time. <a href="http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com" target="_blank">It</a> is very funny, in my own minor opinion. It is full of the same kind of HUMOR and SATIRE. Nothing on the site should be taken too terribly seriously.
PS - To those that are still scratching their heads, HE KNEW THE MOVIE WAS BASED ON A BOOK, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. Take a quick step back and laugh at it all. And try not to take him too terribly seriously.
-Ryan!
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. -- Konrad Lorenz
See? Now this thread is beggining to turn out like all the other ones in this forum, people understanding it, and some thinking its funny and some thinking its not funny! Whatever happened that made this go over not as well better not happen again; it wasn't any good.
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What's wrong with it?
If it was trying to come off as sarcastic, it didn't succeed... at least not with me.
Seriously though, the star wars galaxies forum liked it. Of course it was more entertaining there because they get mondo traffic, ensuring there were 15-20 people who believed it.
"Hollywood can't make a movie these days without crapping out a sequel the next year to squeeze more money out of the sheep. Guess what; there's ANOTHER LOTR movie coming this Christmas."
Well guess what, Dumbo, there are 3 books which prescribe a story. The first movie only showed the first book. Can you guess what the next two movies will be?
Sorry...this is not funny, unless you find humour in laughing AT the person who wrote it.
p.s. aaah scary, Merk, you have 1234 posts.
I didn't think it was <b>that</b> funny.
The Orcs were obviously stolen from PC game maker Blizzard and its Warcraft series. Too bad Blizzard is apparently too scared to sue New Line over it.
prolly the biggest ######## of the site.....
LOTR (the book) has been out since 1955, they dont even kno a #### about it.....
The Battle Droid Syndrome.
The mutated muscular soldiers of Mordor turned out to be hilariously ineffective soldiers, a dozen of them held off by a single dying human. Apparently they made the beasts by crossing Orcs, Goblins and the French.
another ######## of the site......
The Asbestos Wizard.
We all saw Gandalf fall into the molten core of Middle Earth after his battle with the firebeast thing. Well, I guess the Gandalf action figure must have sold well, because in the slap-together sequel coming up this year Gandalf is back. I wonder if they'll even bother to explain it. Maybe he'll be resurrected via voodoo, a la the corpse in Weekend at Bernie's II (look closely and you'll notice LOTR steals several elements from the WAB films).
ough this place is filled with nonsense stupid ########, if they had the books, they wouldnt say this stupid thing....
Invisible Implausibility.
Every time Frodo or Bilbo went invisible with the ring they should have also gone BLIND. Your eyes cannot function unless light is reflected off the cornea. If light passes through it (as must be the case with invisibility) sight is no longer possible. Also, rings do not turn you invisible.
jeez its a damned magical ring.... they can do anything <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
Go-Go Gadget Arrow Sprouter.
Legolas shoots arrow after arrow at his enemies, and yet the number of arrows in his quiver never decreases. I guess elves have glands on their back that secrete arrows.
actually he rans out of them in the 2nd movie <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
Homage or theft?
The "happy village of little people" idea was stolen from Willow.
the book was written in 1937, when hobbit was made, and thats the idea of the race, willow stole it from lotr in that case.......
Weighty issues.
AKA "Plot Hole No. 273." Even with all that walking and light eating, the character of Sam only got fatter.
when they finish the trip, all of em are really thin...
Too many notes.
No movie should be over two hours long. Did we need that whole thing in the mine? Didn't it seem like they were just adding pointless scenes in the middle to pad it? It's like they decided beforehand they wanted three hours and used filler to flesh it out.
they ripped off a lot of stuff from the books......
Rationalization for violence.
Why is the black octopus creature painted as the bad guy when it attacks, when one of the fellowship had clearly been throwing rocks at it?
nobody ever sayed that the octopus was the bad guy, he was the guardian......
my opinion of this site.......... PURE ########, nonsense stuff and stupid points......
the only fun thing was the gandalf burning eyebrows
The article was entertaining but ran on too long after it's point was made to remain funny.
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There as a Law Firm that calls itself Mofo. I think originally they didn't know. Er not THEY, but whoever chose the name. Im sure the lawyers are a bit ######.
Aaaah!!!!!
Of COURSE he knew it was a book. It was humorous to pretend that movies inspire all. This is a form of humor some like to call satire. It was a joke. Made to poke fun at those who take it way to seriously.
I thought most of it was really funny. Although he was stretching to hit his 50 mark. I've seen the rest of the site. I used to frequent it, at one time. <a href="http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com" target="_blank">It</a> is very funny, in my own minor opinion. It is full of the same kind of HUMOR and SATIRE. Nothing on the site should be taken too terribly seriously.
PS - To those that are still scratching their heads, HE KNEW THE MOVIE WAS BASED ON A BOOK, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. Take a quick step back and laugh at it all. And try not to take him too terribly seriously.
-Ryan!
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
-- Konrad Lorenz
It's still not really that funny, though.