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I'm kinda happy it won...I preferred Seabiscuit and Lost In Translation but neither was a masterpiece.It still bugs me that they give best film editing to films that could have been cut to two movies or at least shaved 40 minutes from each one. They call it good editing blegh.
Predictable to the end. I'm glad Canada won something not because I've seen any of the films but hey I'm Canadian. Just as good a reason as any when it comes to Academy Awards.
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The film that could have run one and one half hours less in time, and still been a huge bore.
Mmmmmm...........there's a good reason for the need to have three films, uh, the story line involved was a TRILOGY. Congrats to all the winners.
Congratulations to all who won; a monumental effort
Having said that I watched the 1st film and that was enough to convince me I wouldn't bother with the next 2, but then I wasn't a fan of the book either
Had to see what all the fuss was about tho'
Bronx cheer in my direction, please
Graham
But I have often seen Star Wars supporters debate and argue about their love of what is essentially "Cowboys and Indians" in space versus the grand epic(which simply means long) Lord of the Rings. The LOTR crowd argues that Star Wars is based off LOTR and is thuis weaker blah blah.To me Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back(forget the miserable rest) were far superior to the Lord of the Rings movies for one main reason. Star Wars had the same ridiculous writing and is in the fantasy/sci fi(if you can call it that) world.
The difference is that Star Wars was a giant comic book with larger than life TONGUE firmly in cheek adventures. Not everyone likes Star Wars of course and I would not say they are masterpieces but they were cotton candy for the brain and was a good bit of silly fun. LOTR takes everything SOOO seriously and in the end is just far too distanced emotionally. Star Wars has a bit of Mel Brooksiness in there which is why Spaceballs was a wreck you can't lamopoon somehting that kinda already has it's own built in lampoon in the character of Han Solo.
Star Wars does not attempt to be serious - sure they have a constructed conflict and take you, the audience, to another world just as LOTR did. The difference is I had a good time laughing at the Star Wars absurdity and the adventura and colourfulness of characters(even if comic book deep). Lotr had the same caricture characters, the same amazing visuals of another world - but a faceless dark villain and likeable characters that have zero charisma.
Basically what saved Star Wars from suffering the same staleness and, to put it bluntly, boredom, was Harrison Ford's Han Solo. He is the wink wink nudge nudge to the audience that this is still a shwashbuckling adventure in space and isn't as serious as it leads on. The new Star Wars movie was and is SOOOOOOOOOO horrible that I shut it off half way through - CGI gimmicks instead of likeable or at least FUN characters. They're all moping around with big grandious politics that just come out laughable(not funny laughable unfortunately).
LOTR needed humour, it needed to not take itself seriously and with ~9 hours it needed some sort of character development...Lost in Translation had an hour and a half - nothing much happened and yet everything did. I can understand not liking it - we each bring our own backgrounds to the movies.
But if the LOTR films are an indication of the books I'm glad I won't be reading them.
I think the book is actually the problem.The movies are spectacular fantasy based on a book that poses as fantasy which is actually more more of a male adolescent philosophy. Which is, after all, Norse Mythology!
Still, one whale of a lot better than the Matrix grouping.
How does one define a sophomore? (Rhetorical!)
Oh, Lord. "Here come de flames! Here come de flames. Order in de courtroom, here come de flames!"
Apologies posthumously to Pigmeat Markham (and in a lesser way, Rowan and Martin on "Laugh In" for doing "Pigmeat")
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go see a two hour film about all of the poor Russians dying a slow, painful and miserable death due to radiation poisoning from Chernobyl (sic). I mean, most had a shitty life there to begin with, so why not throw another little twist into it? But, for some morbid folks, that's gripping, lol.Yeah, that's how I want to spend my leisure time after a tough week in the real world.
Chris
You did behave in an intelligent way! I suffered through the three of them....
in quitting while I am ahead. As I get older, I find I just don't have the patience I used to; I was 17 when I read LOTR and was relieved when it was over. I was just too stubborn to quit once I was 1/2 way through that doorstop!
It wouldn't last a handful of chapters with me now and be forever shelved, and I have always loved reading
Too much good "software" remains to be discovered, and never enough time
Graham
Yes. And very firmly and definitively, yes.
I was lured from my son in law ( free tickets..)
But beside the social issue, there are no exuses. But from time to time I want to keep in touch with what´s going on....
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