How many people realize that Elijah Wood was in Back to the Future 2? And how about that music, kind of fitting even as it’s foretelling right? Of course seeing as how he was calling a golden oldie shooting game a ‘baby toy’ there wasn’t a lot of reason to really remember him since a lot of people probably shook their heads and said something like ‘kid’s don’t know what’s fun’, or something similar. It’s true, nothing makes you feel quite as old as when kids from the upcoming generation decide to call your favorite pastimes lame or unfit for kids of their age. Remember when a Gameboy was the biggest thing around? Now kids can play almost all those games on their phone if they have the right apps.
It almost hurts in some ways to think that kids now think of most of the stuff we grew up with as increasingly lame and too slow to really keep their attention. But at the very least Elijah Wood is probably feeling it at this time since he’s in his late thirties and has possibly heard the same thing from the current generations that grew up after him. That’s just the way things go, as we did it with our own parents and grandparents when we were younger. But even worse than this is that the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which the music is alluding to, is now starting to be considered as close to old school as can possibly be. And I’m not talking about the old cartoons or the original story. The most current incarnation of the story, in which Elijah Wood was the star, is now considered to be getting close to old school since the movies started coming out in 2001. As of now this would make them retro, but in a couple of years they could be called vintage.
Thankfully it doesn’t really matter to fans, as they’ll love the series no matter what so long as it’s kept the way it is, which doesn’t seem likely since Amazon is still apparently attempting to come out with their own version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This time around however it’s being touted as a series, which could mean that we’ll see a lot different story than was presented by Jackson and his cast. It could very well follow the prose and stick as close to the source material as possible, in which case it seems like it might actually be more accurate. That could be a good thing and a bad thing however. For all that the films pulled away from the source material at times, they still kept to it in an attempt to entertain the audience rather than lull them to sleep as parts of the book did with avid readers. As good as Tolkien was, and he was very, VERY good, his use of prose at times and flowery speech could detract from the story.
We all have to get old eventually, and so do the things we enjoyed. But for some reason kids always seem to find an inadvertent way to rub in the older generation’s face.
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