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but.. but... I return you to my "one moron" statement! The actions of one moron is almost never news! I did notice late yesterday that, at least then, the publicity had not garnered a lot of new responses, either of the serious kind, or the mocking kind. I haven't been back there today.

I don't think the general public would ever have thought a fantasy movie, set in another world and another time with Wizards and Hobbits and... you know... would ever be "about" the WTC. Even if they were not familiar with the books. And if they did think that from the title, upon learning that it is a fantasy film, they would say... Oh, I guess it is about something else.

Let's just consider for a moment that someone DID write and release a movie about the WTC. WHY is that, on its face, disrespectful or insensitive? And to restate for the record, the WTC was never The Two Towers, but the Twin Towers. I say all this to get it out of my system because it ticks me off, not because I think you need to be told any of this... hehehehe < /rant > (for the moment) I may resume at any time)

I don't think it's necessarily the idea that people would think it was about the WTC, but the question is, would they think, "ah, Hollywood is trying to cash in again" just by using the name, regardless of the topic of the movie. This is essentially what that idiot is trying to claim, isn't it? The title was being questioned even clear back in the fall, just before FOTR came out--PJ himself was a little nervous about going ahead with the title. So it's something that might still be on peoples' minds, even if they don't go as far as this moron did in his wild, uninformed speculations.

It's like when someone posts a really stupid conspiracy-theory article here at FR. Maybe it's stupid to begin with, but by the time Freepers are done ripping it to shreds, everyone is far better informed about the topic than they were before it was even posted.

I guess I'm just trying to look on the bright side...it's stupid that he's getting the airtime, but it does put LOTR in the news and it turns around to something positive for LOTR rather than negative. I don't think it's possible to make negative press for LOTR, no matter how hard people try.