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IMO.
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anyone mad at the guy who took up all the talkin time so that his friend couldnt say anything?? i think it was for one of the foriegn film awards...
anyway what a a**hole!
your lucky to get nominated for an oscar let alone win one... and he took his friends chance to say something on that stage away from him that he may never get back...
i would have been pissed!
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I think LOTR was totally deserving of all of its awards... i was a bit surprised on one or two but i still think it was the right choice.
anyone mad at the guy who took up all the talkin time so that his friend couldnt say anything?? i think it was for one of the foriegn film awards...
anyway what a a**hole!
your lucky to get nominated for an oscar let alone win one... and he took his friends chance to say something on that stage away from him that he may never get back...
i would have been pissed!
ah, but was ROTK alone deserving? that's my question
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so yes they were... hehe
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It is not that I don't like LOR it is just that I don't know if oscars should be awarded in this fashion.
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The problem is that everyone who voted was voting based on the trilogy. However, every single nomination was for "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King". None of them were for The Trilogy. Warbler says it best a couple of posts before this one.
If you want to honor the man for the work he did on the trilogy as a whole, then create a special Oscar for him like they did in 1977/78 for Lucas and Star Wars since nothing appropriate existed back then. Star Wars did not deserve Best Picture over, I believe the winner was Annie Hall. Thankfully, it did not win because it was not the best picture of the year. But it did deserve recognition for what it accomplished in terms of moviemaking. So they did the right thing and created an Oscar for it. They should have done this for LOTR as well.
I agree with you Gundark. So does my wife. We were fuming. The awards show was a joke. If I hear another reference to "the people of New Zealand", I'm going to vomit. And not a single upset in any major category. Where was this year's Adrien Brody? I was sincerely hoping for Diane Keaton or Keisha Castle Hughes to upset Charlize Theron.
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I don't know, I understand that oscars do that sort of thing from time to time, but if you ask me the only question on voters minds should have been which movie of this year was the best? And, was ROTK alone the best movie? The LOR was a great Trilogy, but since when do oscars go to movie series? Remember the title is "Best Picture" not "Best Pictures" If ROTk alone was not the best movie and lets say Seabiscuit was (and I'm not saying it was, just using it as an example) wouldn't giving the award to ROTK just because "LOR was just too great not to be given best picture at least once" be unfair to Seabiscuit(again assuming that Seabiscuit was the best movie this year and I'm not saying it it)?
It is not that I don't like LOR it is just that I don't know if oscars should be awarded in this fashion.
i know what your saying warbler, and i agree with you but, what can you do. personally i felt that the best movie was lost in traslation. i also felt that the last samuri should have been nominated but it wasn't. what can you do.
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Many of the awards that it won were deserved, but not Best Picture. BP for ROTK? I don't think so. It was, IMHO, the worst of the three. Not to say it was a bad movie, because it wasn't. But to say that it was better than FOTR and TTT is blasphemy. TTT is my fave as of right now.
The problem is that everyone who voted was voting based on the trilogy. However, every single nomination was for "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King". None of them were for The Trilogy. Warbler says it best a couple of posts before this one.
If you want to honor the man for the work he did on the trilogy as a whole, then create a special Oscar for him like they did in 1977/78 for Lucas and Star Wars since nothing appropriate existed back then. Star Wars did not deserve Best Picture over, I believe the winner was Annie Hall. Thankfully, it did not win because it was not the best picture of the year. But it did deserve recognition for what it accomplished in terms of moviemaking. So they did the right thing and created an Oscar for it. They should have done this for LOTR as well.
I agree with you Gundark. So does my wife. We were fuming. The awards show was a joke. If I hear another reference to "the people of New Zealand", I'm going to vomit. And not a single upset in any major category. Where was this year's Adrien Brody? I was sincerely hoping for Diane Keaton or Keisha Castle Hughes to upset Charlize Theron.
IMHO rofk was more pleasing to non lotr people then ttt and fotr. fotr regular was the best of the three, but the TTT EE is the best of all them all sofar.
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IMHO rofk was more pleasing to non lotr people then ttt and fotr. fotr regular was the best of the three, but the TTT EE is the best of all them all sofar.
I can agree with that. You're right. But, before the movies came out, I, too, was a non-lotr person. I didn't know anything about the trilogy outside of the names of the hobbits who went on the journey.
I guess, given enough time, anyone can become an LOTR person. I did. I love it now. And, as people become more familiar with the legend behind the movies and actually read the books and whatnot, their fave will likely change as well. Happened to most SW fans as they grew up and grew a deeper appreciation of the movies. ESB wasn't my fave until I was much older. ROTJ was the most crowd pleasing of the OT despite the first two being far superior movies. C'est la vie, eh?
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I don't know, I understand that oscars do that sort of thing from time to time, but if you ask me the only question on voters minds should have been which movie of this year was the best? And, was ROTK alone the best movie? The LOR was a great Trilogy, but since when do oscars go to movie series? Remember the title is "Best Picture" not "Best Pictures" If ROTk alone was not the best movie and lets say Seabiscuit was (and I'm not saying it was, just using it as an example) wouldn't giving the award to ROTK just because "LOR was just too great not to be given best picture at least once" be unfair to Seabiscuit(again assuming that Seabiscuit was the best movie this year and I'm not saying it it)?
It is not that I don't like LOR it is just that I don't know if oscars should be awarded in this fashion.
i know what your saying warbler, and i agree with you but, what can you do. personally i felt that the best movie was lost in traslation. i also felt that the last samuri should have been nominated but it wasn't. what can you do.
You can vent about it, in this thread