#rather than this as a metaphor for the shitty journalist's opinion that the movie itself wasn't good enough

[andromeda3116]

shit, man, i remember with that weird sharp sort of recall of the stabs of moments in childhood, a shitty op-ed article about the release of fellowship of the ring titled "an ugly galadriel?"

and that has stuck with me for over twenty years, and rises every time i watch these movies and see cate blanchett as galadriel, how fucking wrong that shitty journalist was