really sad.

[souleman]

tyger_claw> I am not sad at all. I think it is sad that people are that ignorant that they would write a petition like that though.

Anyone see spiderman? There was supposed to be a scene near the end where spidey was in a giant web between the twin towers. Originally they were going to delete it, then they decided to keep it in, then they decided to delete it, and about 2 weeks before the movie came out, they said the sceen was staying in the movie. Well, obviously the sceen isn't there now, so.....

The spiderman thing is understandable (yet still stupid), but messing with something from over 20 years ago is just rediciulus. I think we should take all new $20 bills out of circulation now that someone has found a way to fold the bill and you can see the towers and pentagon burning. Anyone who agrees with me can just mail me all there new $20 bills, and I will make sure that they are properly taken care of

[emrys]

true speak the word bro

[huntx7]

Everything today is related to 9/11. Ingorance....it gets most, and when it does, it grows.

[Faqt]

I have to agree...that is sad. To respond so emotionally to words is in human nature...unfortunately.
People will always find something to be upset/offended by (ie-when I was in High School one of our yearbooks had a midevil theme...the teacher who had advised the yearbook staff that year had to deal with a group of parents that decided it was satanic.)
Sorry bout the tangent, it's just one more example of people having to little of importance in their lives and trying to make an issue out of something that isn't in order to feel self-riotous.

[souleman]

Faqt> I agree completely. Why else would i have started this thread in the first place

[uraloony]

Heh thats not only sad, thats lame. I know many people have been hurt, but why should we petition them to change the name? If you hate the name so much, boycott the movie, but a petition? Get real... Better yet, get a life.

[Mostasteless666]

I agree with you, souleman, as well as with many other posters. if these people are so angry over the movie title, why not be angry over the book title as well? why not be angry about all the made-for-tv movies about 9/11 coming out?

[Rewandythal]

Wtf?
They can't change the name of the film, thats what the goddam books called!
F***ing hell, when will these people *Move* *On* ??

[debwalin]

F***ing hell, when will these people *Move* *On* ??

I think this may be asking a bit much of people. It would be very hard to just "move on" if something like this had cost you your spouse/parent/child. From a psychological standpoint, this event was more traumatic than anything a lot of us will ever have to deal with in our lives.

However, there does come a point when it's pushed too far. I think expecting the title of a book written 27 years before an event occurs is pushing it way too far. I haven't read the Lord of the Rings (please don't hate me...lol) or seen the movie, but from my understanding, it doesn't even deal with NYC, does it? It's just like anything else, you have people who are going to protest ANYTHING that comes along, and then you have the ones who jump on the bandwagon behind them.

I also think that some of the TV networks may be pushing their luck with the made-for-TV movies. It's too early for that crap. It hasn't even been a year, and I think they may face a backlash they aren't expecting.

Deb

[KorpDeath]

Hey ya'll. Might want to sharpen your pencils.

The Hobbit: or There and Back Again. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1937. (There was a second edition in 1951, and a third in 1966. Reprinted many times.) The Annotated Hobbit, Introduction and Notes by Douglas A. Anderson, Houghton Mifflin, Boston and HarperCollins, London, 1988.

The Fellowship of the Ring: being the first part of The Lord of the Rings. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1954.

The Two Towers: being the second part of The Lord of the Rings. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1954.

This makes them look even more ludicrous.

"This is what happens when you take a fool and add a bleeding heart." -KorpDeath

source: http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/index.html