I'm really getting tired of wimps

Wimps come in all kinds of forms. There's the physical wimp (guy/gal can't stand pain of any kind), the emotional wimp (please don't yell at me), the intellectual wimp (please don't threaten my worldview), the social wimp (please accept me into the "IN-Crowd"), and combinations of all four.

Andrea Lewis is an Intellectual/Social Wimp. In her review of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy she betrays her wimpish leanings. The article fairly reeks of an inability to accept that a faithful adaptation of classic literature could possibly be just that (A FAITHFULL adaptation) She seems to think that the story should have been rewritten for modern times to alleviate any pain Wimps like her might feel from viewing it. Peter Jackson did the unforgiveable. He stuck to the script as written by Tolkein. LOTR was based in part on Celtic and German mythologies. The Characters reflect that. But Wimps like Andrea are incapable of seeing anything other than a racial motivation in films like this. The Fear inherent in all Wimps paralyzes their brains. The plain and simple truth is that color shouldn't matter. Whether the hero is white or black or orange and yellow with blue polka-dots and vice versa for the antagonist should make no difference. In fact the only people who notice anymore are the Wimps like Andrea. Makes you wonder if maybe the whole race issue might go away if Wimps like Andrea would just toughen up and accept that we aren't out to get the "Black Man".

We like the film because it was fun to watch. It had action, it was nostalgic, it had romance, it was epic, it was in short, a GREAT Fantasy Film. Period. No other motivation was present. No secret conspiracy to bring racism back to America. Not every Hit can be multicultural. Maybe the LOTR is so good because It transcends race issues. You don't think about their color when you view the movie whether that color is black white yellow or pasty grey (thats golem if you dindn't know).

I was going to post a review of her review but someone already posted a better one than I could write. You can view it here.