CAPalert strikes again - another ridiculous "Christian" review
Öjevind Lång
>Obviously our friend at CAPalert ( http://www.capalert.com/ ) hasn't
>seen the other Christian-based review of LotR which praises the movie
>for its moral values such as "the fate of the world resides in the
>hands of the meek." If you don't know about CAPalert, then be aware
>that this guy hates about 95% of all of the movies he sees. He
>literally counts the number of times such atrocities as "suggestive
>clothing," "offense to God," and especially "the most foul of foul
>words" are used. In his review of "Fellowship of the Ring," he notes:
>
>"The bottom line is that God clearly commands that witchcraft, sorcery
>and wizardry are evil."
>
>"The Christian faith is being hit at all impressionable ages, folks.
>And there is more coming."
>
>"I am not going to try to debate the claims that Tolkien's Rings
>trilogy parallels shards of the Truth shattered from the Bible.
>Satan is very good at making the truth into a lie through the most
>innocent vehicles and by the least obvious methods."
>
>Have fun! :)
Oh, wow. I did. Just dig this: "First, remember that deaths as the result of
warfare/battle or police action are not incorporated into the scoring as
murder but are incorporated into the Wanton Violence/Crime investigation
area. Also remember that while any single issue of aberrant behavior may fit
into two or more of the six CAP investigation areas, only one is permitted.
For example, a graphic death by sorcery may be incorporated into either
Wanton Violence/Crime OR Offense to God OR Murder/Suicide, but only into
one. No duplication is assured."
Or this: "In a middle-earth world, Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) meets
Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKlellan) as Gandalf travels to see Bilbo Baggins
(Ian Holm) to find the 20th of 20 special rings: a rings that wants to be
found. The 20 rings were created with special powers. One of the 20 rings,
named "My Precious", possessed the power to give the wearer power of global
proportion. The one ring conjured in the wearer insane lust."
Sex on the brain, anyone? And what is "a middle-earth world"? And what
happened to McKellen's name? And to spelling in general?
And this: "Tolkien certainly described the evil and demonic characters in
his novel quite grotesquely but not nearly as hideous and vile as those in
this movie. After more than 500 movies I suspect I can say with credibility
that any of the imagery of evil you have seen before now does not match the
evil in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. And there are two
more Lord of the Rings coming."
The reviewer, who almost makes Jack T. Chick look sane, concludes that
Tolkien, under the guidance of C. S. lewis, conspired to undermine the
Christian faith, and that the film makers have now taken up his project.
Öjevind
TWS
"Eirik Dahle Pedersen" <ay...@frisurf.no> wrote in
> Wow, thank you for that URL. Those reviews are hilarious. My friends will
> love seeing this, hehe...
Arghhhh- scrolled through that because I missed your
blurb at the top- top posting can be a pain...
wrob
>
> Oh, wow. I did. Just dig this: "First, remember that deaths as the result of
> warfare/battle or police action are not incorporated into the scoring as
> murder but are incorporated into the Wanton Violence/Crime investigation
> area. Also remember that while any single issue of aberrant behavior may fit
> into two or more of the six CAP investigation areas, only one is permitted.
> For example, a graphic death by sorcery may be incorporated into either
> Wanton Violence/Crime OR Offense to God OR Murder/Suicide, but only into
> one. No duplication is assured."
This man is a pawn of Satan. Doesn't he realise that role-playing games are evil?
> And this: "Tolkien certainly described the evil and demonic characters in
> his novel quite grotesquely but not nearly as hideous and vile as those in
> this movie. After more than 500 movies I suspect I can say with credibility
> that any of the imagery of evil you have seen before now does not match the
> evil in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. And there are two
> more Lord of the Rings coming."
Not only a roleplayer, but praises LotR for the most vivid depiction of evil ever.
BLAS-phemy!
-Ber
Christopher P. Winter
<ojevin...@swipnet.se> wrote (in part):
> The reviewer, who almost makes Jack T. Chick look sane, concludes that
> Tolkien, under the guidance of C. S. lewis, conspired to undermine the
> Christian faith, and that the film makers have now taken up his project.
Oh, good grief... That's like saying that Ron Rapaport (sp?),
under the guidance of Dick Schaap, conspired to undermine professional
sports. It's like saying Lee Iacocca and Henry Ford II plotted the
downfall of the American automobile industry. It's just assinine.