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I kind of agree with him
Apr. 13th, 2003 02:55 amAn excerpt from the review of Fellowship of the Ring, which a coworker just saw for the first time this weekend:
"But despite my overall approval of the movie, I can sum up my greatest disappoint with the movie in three words ... "NO FLYING MONKEYS". Now come on guys, the "Wizard of Oz" was made in 1939 when a smoke machine was considered state-of-the-art special effects. Yet it was chock full of savage flying monkeys. And not only that, they had great theme music... if you think about it I'm sure you can get that theme running through your head "Ta duh duh duh ta duh duh ... Ta duh tuh duh tuh duh tah -DUHHHH".
But the Fellowship of the Rings, with a gazillion dollars and sixty plus years of special effects development couldn't even come up with one flying monkey. Granted the Orcs were pretty close. With wings and goatees they could have made halfway decent flying monkeys. But the creative team for the movie missed the boat, and left the finished product thoroughly bereft of airborne simians.
Now I haven't seen the second movie. Maybe they corrected this significant artistic flaw. I can only hope. Maybe I'll check out "Wizard of Oz" over the weekend in the meantime, and watch a quest through an enchanted land filled with mythical creatures and purveyors of magic the way it's supposed to the carried out --- under constant threat of attack from vicious winged monkeys."
Larry is.... special.
"But despite my overall approval of the movie, I can sum up my greatest disappoint with the movie in three words ... "NO FLYING MONKEYS". Now come on guys, the "Wizard of Oz" was made in 1939 when a smoke machine was considered state-of-the-art special effects. Yet it was chock full of savage flying monkeys. And not only that, they had great theme music... if you think about it I'm sure you can get that theme running through your head "Ta duh duh duh ta duh duh ... Ta duh tuh duh tuh duh tah -DUHHHH".
But the Fellowship of the Rings, with a gazillion dollars and sixty plus years of special effects development couldn't even come up with one flying monkey. Granted the Orcs were pretty close. With wings and goatees they could have made halfway decent flying monkeys. But the creative team for the movie missed the boat, and left the finished product thoroughly bereft of airborne simians.
Now I haven't seen the second movie. Maybe they corrected this significant artistic flaw. I can only hope. Maybe I'll check out "Wizard of Oz" over the weekend in the meantime, and watch a quest through an enchanted land filled with mythical creatures and purveyors of magic the way it's supposed to the carried out --- under constant threat of attack from vicious winged monkeys."
Larry is.... special.
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