Tuesday, September 19, 2006

The Lord of the Rings backlash

There's some pretty funny gags in Clerks 2 at the expense of Lord of the Rings - and it seems that it is open season on this trilogy of films that once delighted us and now makes us wish they'd never bothered and Peter Jackson had never been born. The funniest gag involves one of them doing impressions of all three films - basically walking - revealing how lame the plot that involves nothing much other than travelling. There is also a lot of jokes about the potential for romance between the hobbits.
I must admit I liked the first film despite never having read the book (I wasn't either a hippy or a nerd) but by the 2nd one was beginning to think that we'd been conned; why couldn't they condense it into three hours and save our bottoms the sensation of going totally numb? Why was there no colour in it? Anyway you couldn't really say anything bad about it at all at one time but now of course - it's open season. Fire away - watch this funny little animation of how the trilogy should have ended.

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