The PJ Diaries 10 - Attention, Attention!

So, just the other day, I've read an "interesting" comment on the Facebook page of the Hobbit movies, saying that "these movies are made for people with no attention spans, who would never read a book". Which would have been stupid enough on it's own, but then the person added, that the movies are terrible, because they turned 300 pages into 3 long movies... 
So basically, making the story more complex and longer, somehow makes it easier for people with short attention spans to follow them... -_-
I repeat, he claimed that a story with more characters, more storylines, a longer running time, much more complex world building, more continuity, more complex motivations and so forth, is easier to follow than a short book with a singular point-of-view character, a single, very simple storyline, and very simple motivations and events... 
He also seemed to be under the impression, that he is some "higher being" for reading a 300 pages children's book... Because - obviously -  only geniuses with an IQ of over 9000 understand the incredibly complexity of that certain book. Which Tolkien meant as a bedtime adventure story for his kids... -_-
And I'm not saying, that the book is bad, by any means. I do say, however, that the fact, that there are people who are so blinded by obsession and a false sense of intellectual superiority, that they treat a simple little children's book like it was some ultimate masterpiece which contains the secret to spiritual enlightment, that only the worthiest of all - them - can truly appreatiate, is just sickening to me...
These are the same kind of people, who ALWAYS hang out on pages dedicated to things they hate, just so they can spread their mindless hate all over the place... The same people, who don't even know the meaning of the word "argument", because they think that they are always right by default, and just declaring things makes them right.
Sounds an awful lot like a bunch of orcs, doesn't it?


Watch Peter Jackson battle trolls, critics, purists and all kinds of dangers on his way to turn the Hobbit into a movie!

I think it's fair to say that Sir Peter Jackson is one of the most beloved directors of all time. However, he is also one of the most criticized ones, at least online.

I have to say that I NEVER saw any other director, who was critisized for literally EVERYTHING he ever did, every single little decision he made, as much as Peter Jackson seems to be. (I guess that makes him the Anti-Nolan in that aspect...)
But I guess that's what you get, when you make films for one of the most unsatisfiable of fandoms, and of course, when you make something THIS BIG and THIS SUCCESSFULL, then you get trolls and know-it-all-critics comming out of the woodwork too, so that's another thing...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that everyone who dares to dislike something is a troll or an idiot - but there were quite some "complaints" that I saw online that made me headdesk pretty hard...

NOTE: All complaints and critics potrayed in this series actually come from REAL comments I encountered online... 
Yes, that means some people really said these things... But you know, what they say: You can only parody smart people - with stupid ones, it's enough to quote them... 


Disclaimer:
The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit (c) Tolkien, New Line Cinema

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