New Line Cinema and Dreamworks Pictures
I enjoyed Prince of Egypt and Road to El Dorado a few years ago. Though having quite a bit of religious connections, they were still interesting, and I liked the songs. From these two movies, I figured out Dreamworks Pictures’ cartoon drawing style. I had rented Antz as well, and liked how it put viewers in the point-of-view of ants.
On May 26 2001, I saw Dreamworks Pictures newest relsease, Shrek. Though I liked the happy ending and its emphasis on plunging the surface, with personality as a much greater priority than physical traits, I found the movie itself somewhat stupid. It lacked elegance, manners, and etiquette, with burping and gas, with encouraged bad manners and improper behavior. The movie could do without them.
In August, I was in theaters again sitting with other moviegoers, when the one for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings caught my attention. I knew I had to see the movie after its release in December. On February 3, 2002, the movie left me dazed and confused, so I began to read Tolkien’s wors and watch LOTR movies though I am still not happy with all the unnecessary deviations from the books.
I have always been more disappointed with The Two Towers than FOTR because it has way too many unnecessary and illogical changes as well as too many useless details, such as violence and love scenes. I eventually heard that the studio had been largely responsible for all that. However, I was unaware of the studio for LOTR until July 16, 2003.
I volunteered and attended Comic-Con 2003, and sat through almost all the Tolkien-related panels. One of them was "New Line Cinema Freddy vs. Jason and The Lord of the Rings." I had always hated Freddy Krueger and Friday the 13th, because they were too scary, violent, nasty, and improper, promoting crime and other negative aspects of society. I began to suspect that workers of New Line Cinema love unpleasant things, and it would probably explain the upsetting changes in LOTR movies.
I also continued to see more movies, especially animated ones, from Dreamworks Pictures, including Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. Shrek 2 was better than its first movie, but they failed to leave out the burping, gas, and bad table manners. There have been many movies I had seen without realizing they were from Dreamworks.
In December 2003, I enjoyed Elf, but was disappointed by some burping and bad table manners. I was once again angry at the unnecessary deviations from the book when I went to the midnight premiere of The Return of the King on December 17, 2003. A few months later, I rented and emjoyed Secondhand Lions, but when I watched the deleted scenes I was mad at New Line Cinema again. They seemed to have something against showing and repeating good aspects, and preferred bad ones.
When I attended the Comic-Con 2004 panel, "New Line Cinema: Blade: Trinity, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Cellular, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," after a long wait and struggle with a huge crowd of unpleasant people my suspicious about New Line Cinema adoring unplesant content seemed confirmed. They showed scenes from the movies, and for ROTK, it was about the SE DVD. I hated and refused to see all the movies of this panel, except the ROTK. They were all about crime, violence, and other unpleasant issues. Besides, whenever a hot actor, actress, or producer appeared or was mentioned, almost everyone yelled and screamed as loud as they could on purpose. Not only did that hurt my ears, but I also couldn’t hear the important information present. The same occurred for every bad word spoken. This told me that New Line Cinema fans were mostly improper people. From that day on, I detested that studio.
When they released the preview of Shark Tales, I knew I would not like to see it, because there seemed to be too much improper content. I then began to hate Dreamwork Pictures when it came to computer animated movies.
I later bought the ROTK SE DVD, and was again disappointed after watching it. I have all three LOTR SE DVDs, and they all have quite a few things in common: exaggerating negative aspects and diminishing positive ones. They spent so much time on fighting, love, graphic details, and other unimportant unpleasant scenes, but left out many hospitality, friendship, and other significant pleasant ones.
New Line Cinema workers seem to have something against showing proper and positive things. I wonder if their goals are the corruption of society and promotion of negative things. As for workers of Dreamworks Pictures, they appear to prefer bodily processes and bad manners in computer animation. I have heard that they try to appeal to certain audiences, especially young ill-educated males. That is no excuse. Besides encouraging unpleasant behaviors, they are being sexist, classist, and agist. The purpose of movies is to tell stories by pictures, speech, actions, and sounds, not show unpleasant content or promote discrimination.