{"id":25057,"date":"2003-12-12T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/12\/uk-media-reviews-rotk-2\/"},"modified":"2003-12-12T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T18:30:03","slug":"uk-media-reviews-rotk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/12\/25057-uk-media-reviews-rotk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Media Reviews ROTK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Winterpool<\/b> sends us a breakdown on what the UK media has been saying about ROTK:<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,7943-925181,00.html\" TARGET=NEW>&#8216;The Times (of London)&#8217;<\/a> remarks:<\/p>\n<p><i>The film is not great art. It&#146;s a Herculean assault course that runs the emotions ragged for an exhausting 3hrs 21mins. That said, it would be churlish not to gift the film the full five stars.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/lordoftherings\/news\/0,11016,1105013,00.html\" TARGET=NEW>&#8216;The Guardian&#8217;<\/a> also has their review posted online. Their reviewer had more ambiguous feelings about the conclusion, confessing both admiration and relief.<\/p>\n<p><i>Because on the one hand, The Lord of the Rings is undeniably a landmark in cinema history, a creation of demented, kamikaze passion that all logic suggested should never work and yet somehow did. And on the other,  I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m sad to see the back of it. There are only so many elves a man can ogle in his lifetime, only so many bravura battle scenes one can sit through, and a finite amount of cod portentous dialogue one can endure without wanting to plug your ears with cement&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In fact, for about four fifths of its run, I had The Return of the King confidently filed as a masterpiece &#8211; a big, stirring orchestral epic of a movie, full of blood and heroism and sacrifice and soul. The trouble is that it is also hellishly long, frequently preposterous and as humourless as a cat. By the end I couldn&#8217;t help feeling that it had overstayed its welcome by a whisker. Loitering for a half-baked epilogue, it bows out with a whimper, not a bang.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/features\/featurepages\/0,4120,1104848,00.html\" TARGET=NEW>&#8216;The Guardian&#8217;<\/a> also has a more general cultural piece on an issue that&#8217;s long interested me: how &#8216;nerds&#8217; have come to dominate the imagination of pop culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winterpool sends us a breakdown on what the UK media has been saying about ROTK: &#8216;The Times (of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6w9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}