Did anyone else besides me find the ending of LOTR funny?

[Android0007]

I don't mean to bash gay people but someone had to say it.
I can't stop cracking up everytime I see the ending for LOTR, this is the gayest ending i've seen in a movie, LoL. The ending suppose to give everyone an emotional feeling but its funny as fu*k how Forto and Sam acted gay.
I know that i'm not the only one who think its funny, cause when I watched it in the theater, it looks as if the entire teenage audience thought that Froto and Sam turned gay.
hahahaha
that was one of the funninest ending I've seen in a movie.

"oh Sam, i'm glad you're with me"
{the hugging and the smiling}

LoL

[Dogstyles]

No I really didn't think it was funny, but I've heard that joke a million times, and it always seems to come from the same type of people....

[Oscar Antonio M]

(SIGH)
I am not gay, but i am beginning to think that people have waaaayyyyyyyyyyy too dirty minds these days.

Basically, now these days, you cannot even kiss your little boy at some place, because people will whisper "Hey, this guy´s an homo!"

When will be back to those times were you couldnt be criticized or something, or that people wouldnt have a "bad thinking" attitude?...

[Oscar Antonio M]

And it seems you didnt pay attention to the film too.
Sam made a pact of loyalty to Frodo.

[Agalloch]

No, I didn't think it was gay. In the context of the story, the two share a bond that few can understand, much the same way fellow soldiers in wars, such as WWII (Band of Brothers anyone) do. And that relationship will only grow stronger and continue to be tested as the story continues.



Agalloch

[jdurg]

Originally posted by Oscar Antonio M
When will be back to those times were you couldnt be criticized or something, or that people wouldnt have a "bad thinking" attitude?...

When society is euthanized. I've only been on this earth for 22 years, but in the last 15 years I have seen society go from "weird," to just plain intolerable. There are so many things wrong with society in general that it would take decades to fix them. Ignorance, laziness, irresponsibility, frivilous lawsuits, etc. etc.

[Oscar Antonio M]

I had a rather strange dream yesterday.
It had The Who´s song "A Quick One While He is Away" and it was me involving putting a bomb on the world that would explode and kill ignorant people.

And it felt apocalyptic at the beginning, but when i realized in my dream i was the perpertator i felt better.

And the ignorant people became open minded, and everything became better.
Not in a corny way, mind you...

[jdurg]

That would be a great weapon. An Ignorant Bomb. When detonated, all ignorant people suddenly become "good" people, or they die.

[Oscar Antonio M]

The human mind and soul is so strange, aint it?.

Maybe, i should go back to school and study psychology or become a neurologist (i am an accountant)

[aintnosin]

[Ravenous]

Ive seen tons of comments on the ending of the LOTR. The gay remarks usually come from lowly individuals whove never had a friend in ther life...

[Indyphantom]

I've never heard this. I can't believe there is such utter stupidity in this world. It makes me sad.

[akrycek]

I'll start with the scary. Some time ago on the Forum on www.theonering.net , some guy asked if they could remove the Hobbits (he mispelled Hobbits, but I can't remember how) from the Lord Of The Rings sequels because he didn't feel comfortable with his little kids seeing these little men going around hugging each other all of the time. He made no mention that he felt any uncomfortable feeling with his kids seeing a man die in agony after having three arrows shot into him. That fact was pointed out to this individual who was probably a troll who apparently had never read the books. That's one great thing I loved about the movie. It's not perfect, but it also wasn't dumbed down to appeal to little kids either. I wish I had the link, but I think the heading was something like "Can We Please Remove the Hobbits From The Sequels?" I had a lot of fun reading his post and the comments that followed. It was scary though that someone would even suggest such an absurd idea.

Now, when I read the Gay remark here, I thought "Oh God. He is talking about Aragorn kissing Boromir's forehead.". I didn't even think about Frodo and Sam. I didn't think either seen was gay myself.

It is sad. I wonder if the same people who think that is gay think the same about the French, Russians, Italians and any other culture where kissing on one or both cheeks is or was a way two men greeted each other. I have to add "was" because I don't know if that is still common or even done that much today.

Now for the funny part. I read somewhere a different version of the Aragorn/Boromir scene. I thought it was going to go the wrong way because it seemed to be written in romance novel style. Boromir said something like "I knew it was wrong, but you urged me on and tied the rope around my ankles so tight." It turns out he was talking about bungie jumping. I think it was a parody of the similar scene in Hot Shots Part Deux that occured between the two female characters.

Krycek

[Welles and Ford Fan]

It didn't occur to me to see Frodo and Sam as gay. But then, I am a LOTR devotee from my college days in the 70's, so I know the stories rather well.

That said, I am not surprised that people have said this, nor do I think it is "scary", not do I fantasize about blowing up these people from the earth. There is such a preponderance of gay-themed entertainment these days*, and gay teachers are now "coming out" in front of their elementary school classes, etc. Society is spending so much time trying to convince people that being gay is okay or good, a source of pride, etc that I can hardly blame a viewer, particularly a younger one, from interpreting a scene where two guys look intensely in each others' eyes and declare their love as being a prelude to a kiss. And Elijah Wood as Frodo does look kinda like Wynona Ryder in male drag.

Much is being taught about how natural man/man erotic love is, but man/man friend love is seldom touched upon anymore. Kids no longer read Shakespeare or Sir Walter Scott or other authors who wrote scenes of friends declaring love for one another. And gay groups don't help. The scenes in the Bible where David and Jonathan declare their love for each other is often seized upon as "proof" that the two young men were gay.

So, while you guys certainly have the right to "bash" these guys who make the gay comments about LOTR, I should think you could understand why they see the movie that way. As things stand now, the only time a guy is supposed to say "I love you, man!" is if he's gay or drunk.

* "Not that there's anything wrong with it!"

[Android0007]

You people take these things too serious, that is the problem with society. You act up when this is just what I think, and i said TEENS, i'm a teen and all the other TEENS that went to the theater thought it was funny.
Do I think that Sam and Froto turned gay? NO.
If you're a wise old man bashing me, you should think before you type, you also had your days, let me have mines, I find it funny, so its funny.

Now, why do I think it look gay? the scene when the guy died with 3 arrows stuck in him wasn't gay to me because it was more serious and honorable but at the ending with Forto and Sam, the smile at eachother with the expression on their faces and the way they talked was funny and looks gay to me and I find it funny. Just because I find it funny doesn't mean you have to, I posted this because I know that other people find it funny like I do.

Why can't old wise men accept the way teens behave? Thats part of life, we will grow out of it. Like I said, you had your days. Everyone see things in a different aspect, kinda like widescreen VS full frame.

SO LET ME HAVE MY FUN! IT IS THE GAYEST ENDING I'vE EVER SEEN in A MOVIE!

[Marq]

I haven't seen this movie yet, so I can't comment from experience.

Android, I see no correlation between your "gay" comment and the issue of young people or "teens" being put down by "old wise men" (I'm 22 - which one am I?). You seem pretty set on acting immature, so I'll leave you be without wasting my time criticizing you. Yes, many of us might use or might have used terms like "gay" to equate with awkward moments in movies (can't recall doing it myself), but I don't see why your trying to convince other people that your (self-admittedly) immature thoughts are the right observation of the ending. Sure it's fun to poke fun at a movie when watching it with some buddies, but we're all big movie fans here, and I think it's become quite obvious whose opinion is in the minority here. Although, Donkey might have found it "gay" as well.

[rtcpenguin]

not funny

[Welles and Ford Fan]

Actually, I think his wise old man remark was aimed at me, because I mentioned being in college in the 70's.

That's funny, because I thought I was defending Android0007 and trying to explain why he might have seen it that way.

I realize now that I was wrong, and that he is just being immature.

Is it any wonder that I prefer to watch movies like LOTR at home on my bigscreen TV with dts rather than listening to a bunch of silly giggling losers who should be watching the latest Austin Powers movie instead of LOTR?

[Kenneth Vestergaard]

Anyone who thinks the last scene with Frodo and Sam is gay obviously didn't pay enough attention to the movie. You don't need to read the entire trilogy to understand the point of that scene. Period.

Have the world really come to a point where two men can't smile at each other without people claiming they're gay?

[pdjennings]

so... what you're saying is....

gay = funny

and

teens = stupid.

mmmkay.

[SephirothClone]

Originally posted by pdjennings
so... what you're saying is....

gay = funny

and

teens = stupid.

mmmkay.

I totally agree! I live less than a mile away from my local highschool (im moving VERY soon!), so this summer i would go to the public pool over there. Little did I know that teens whould be talking about Spider-Man! This is what I heard:

"Spider-Man was so fucking gay, there was like no action! It was so fucking boring dude!"
"Yah man the only nice part was that rain thing with that girl and her tits ans stuff! The story was frigging gay as hell man!"
*Sorry bout the language, I was making an example*

Simply put I hate teens, most are all narrow minded and determine that cool rappers, fast cars, lots of action and zero plot, hot girls, a cool soundtrack, and a great appearence on MTV turns them to a movie.

I hate little kiddy teens that laugh about every little "gay" or "retarted" thing...

[RamonesGirl]

I guess SOME people could view it as gay... I'm a teenager and I didn't think it was (but then I don't think hugging a same sex friend is "gay" anyway) Sam and FRODO are close and they also aren't human so they don't have that whole stigma to worry about... which is a good thing since they're fellow travelers were pretty manly and probably would have given them wedgies and called them many colorful names.

Anyway, have your fun but be careful who you say that around, you might offend someone.

[Lord Crumb]

Android,
don't get all pissy because people aren't siding with your immature mindset. Yes, we've all been there, but you asked for our opinion, and our opinion is that the ending was not "gay", and anyone who thinks that way is obviously not too bright.
Remember: Your question was "Did anyone else besides me find the ending of LOTR funny?". Obviously not.
You know, it's really sad that two men can't state their loyalty to one another or even hug eachother without a large percentage of the population thinking "Oh, how GAY!".
Maybe you should retry you thread in a board where there aren't so many of us Old Fogeys. I suggest doing a search on Google with words like "pee-pee, fart, boobies" and so on.

[Jellodyne]

Just because one man makes sweet love to another, that doesn't make him gay, does it? Because, my god, by your narrow little definition probably 3/4 of this board is gay!

Just kidding, of course. In all seriousness, if anyone thinks two men hugging is gay, they must have grown up in some sort of skinner box with the 'wire mommy' or something. It's all about context, and in this case, the context is friendship/brotherhood/comrade, not wah-wah pedal music.

[Rogue]

And for the love of God, stop calling the main character Froto. His name is FRODO ( as RamonesGirl tactfully implied).

When I read the begining of this thread, I despaired. But seeing the overwhelmingly negative feedback Andrioid's incisive commentary (nothing personal dude, but geez!) has generated, I feel much better now.

[brian]

I'm 18 here, and the thought never crossed my mind. Not cool lumping all of us teens or "older people" together into a similar mindset. Anyways, as this thread is doing nothing but promoting a bunch of negative stereotypes, be it gay, old, or teens and has gotten way off-topic, it's time to close it.