LOTR letters to the editor
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- atomica0
Ok I guess I'm the opposition here. I like fantasy, I like lord of the rings, and I love old school P. Jackson stuff. But to a point I have to agree with the editorial. LOTR is tired. It's spent, over marketed, and we've known the story for years, its in no way new and unique. And a swift as AI engine shouldn't make a plot any more enjoyable. Yeah, I appreciated it as a technical feat of excellence, but that couldn't make an old story even more attractive. Harry Potter and the Matrix on the other hand, were fresh ideas, we really had no clue what was coming in M2 and M3, unless you were a sap reading all the leaked stories on the interweb. Not to mention, the matrix became so much more than bullet timing, in fact it seemed to not come back much at all in the second and third. And we were introduced into an entirely new civilization, not something we've played with in D and D for decades. Something fresh, at least in my eyes - this is not something LOTR offered me. There was nothing new that I could see after compiling several aged fantasy flicks and a d20 with an AD&D 2nd edition ;) That's what makes it dreary. IMHO, of course.