Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Ground Ork


I assume that's a Warhammer 40K ork.
Hope it's not a cheap gretchin substitute.



Ground Ork

I would like to take this time not to address the amusing misprint on ground pork package, but instead to write about orcs. Briefly and in a poorly realized manner.

Orcs are many things to many people. With the coming of the Lord of the Ring films, they became one specific thing to many more people, and that was my greatest fault with the LotR trilogy. The orcs sucked. They sorely suffered from guy-in-a-mask-on-Star-Trek syndrome.

You want orcs? You want scary fucking orcs that'll make you wet your pants? Rankin and Bass orcs, that's where you go. They're abso-fucking-lutely the most unhuman, evil looking orcs you'll see in moving pictures. They are twisted, stubby limbed, shifty eyed walking mouths full of hatred and teeth, not a guy with a fake vampire fangs and some black face paint. I mean, fuck!, at one point an orc is about to bite off Frodo's head! The live action orcs cannot begin to compare to the animated versions, it's not even a fair comparison.

And as long as I'm here, I'll say the Rankin and Bass dwarves were dwarfier, the elves elfier in the case of wood elves and more majestic in the case of the not-wood elves. The hobbits are more charming, and the trolls about a zillion times more interesting. Hands down.

The Lord of the Ring movies were entertaining, but I honestly believe that the Rankin and Bass films were better at capturing a J.R.R.T. feeling and I could only imagine how much more fantastic they could have been given a gabillion dollars like the Hollywood blockbuster which has, sadly, redefined on-screen fantasy. The Lord of the Ring books weren't about backflips and overdone fighting, and that's about all the LotR live action films were - action films with backflips and incredibly long fight scenes.

So, yeah. All you folks who think the live action version was better can go to hell, and not MY hell as you are completely and utterly foreign to me and I don't want you hanging around for eternity. And those of you who babble on about the greatness of the LotR story and never read the books, and I've met you, can come over here and lick this cat shit stain off my desk as I can't imagine any other possible use I might have for you - unless I was to take a core sample of your stomach fat, mold it into a vagina, microwave it up to body temperature and use it to pleasure myself. That you would let me do that sickens me.

8 comments :

  1. I hope you mean "gretchin substitute." "Gretchen" is a German girl.

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  2. Ach. As I only admire the Warhammer games and do not play, I hope my slip is forgiven.

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  3. I always thought that the Lord of the Rings should come bundled with the Rankin/Bass version.

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  4. The carttoon version of Lord of the Rings is for kids, I see it at the kids section of the video store.

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  5. Your a fucking retard.

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  6. Yes, the real version of the Lord of the Rings is better than the cartoon. I can't wait for the Hobbit.

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  7. I'd like to take a moment and say that I'm a little surprised at the quality of the responses to this post. There are misspellings, grammatical errors and improper punctuation galore.

    I think this is another sign of the whole Lord of the Rings live action version problem: These few samples of people sallying forth to defend it are indicative of a class of folks distinctly different from those of us who grew up reading the books. I associate a certain amount of... bookishness with the works of Tolkien, and find that sadly lacking in the few pro-movie responses I see here.

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