The Oscars!!!!!!

LOTR overrated? Nah! That award goes to Titanic, which is tie with ROTK as far as Oscars trophies.

well, I (and probably the others) were talking about this years oscars 😉

Originally posted by Kes
I agree. I mean the movie is great and all but it is not the best movie of the year. But considering they were probably judging all 3, its ok. (they should have just waited for the whole thing to be over before they nominated it for best film)
It was the same has every year, no surprises. And some crappy choices:
M&C best cinematography (WHAT???!)

i agree. the third movie was put together real crappy. i mean i only watched it once and i noticed a whole lot of editing mistakes and faulty camera work. plus the story (in my opinion) butchered the book and their were too many gaps in the timline to make the end conversation about the 4 years long journey reasonable. the movie was good but not the winner...Lost in Translation, thats were my money is! thats a great artistic movie!

I will just point out the title should be swept not sweeped 😖mart:

Originally posted by yerssot
don't think they deserved best song either, best music yes, but not song

Yeh, personally I was going for My ain true love (or something like that) Cold Mountain. But then I heard Kiss at the end of the rainbow (or something like that) that was funny!😄

Originally posted by amlap
i agree. the third movie was put together real crappy. i mean i only watched it once and i noticed a whole lot of editing mistakes and faulty camera work. plus the story (in my opinion) butchered the book and their were too many gaps in the timline to make the end conversation about the 4 years long journey reasonable. the movie was good but not the winner...Lost in Translation, thats were my money is! thats a great artistic movie!

IMO Mystic river should have gotten both best adaptation and best film.

i never saw mystic river but i heard it amazing

Originally posted by WindDancer
Well, LS Star Wars is more like Sci-Fi. LOTR is more like Fantasy. So even if Star Wars didn't win many awards in the past is still is one of the best triologies in Movie history.

btw-I'm so glad PJ got an award for best director! He deserves it!

Renée Zellweger didnt deserve that Oscar either. She was good in Cold Mountain yes, probably her best performance but the Iranian actress from The house of sand and fog was waaaaaaaaay better.

the academy ****ed up they should have given the oscar for best movie to FOTR but they didn't

Or just waited till the 3 movies were out. Meaning not nominating till this year.

wasn't FOTR nominated for Best Movie?

Cant remember.

yep they were

atleast according to www.imdb.com

Originally posted by Fire
wasn't FOTR nominated for Best Movie?

Yes, all 3 of them were.

That shouldnt have happen. The movies by themselfs do not qualify for the best of the year IMO.There's always something missing.

This is the first time since that abomination 'Gladiator' won best picture that I agreed with the decisisions.

I think LOTR definately deserved best picture, because the fact of the matter is, obviously more work and dedication went into making LOTR then any of the other movies nominated. And in 30 years, LOTR will still be famouse and have a following, much like Star Wars does today.

The good thing is that LOTR can't be ruined for the fans by crappy sequels in the future.
It's over and done, unless they do the Hobbit, but that's a whole other story 😄

BF> regardless of how dedicated they were that does not make it the best.

If it was that then why not Lost in translation that was made with "only" (I say only cos 4million would make 8 big budget portuguese movies!) 4million dollares and in one month!

Well it took the most talent from all of the different departments to make a film like LOTR. The most work went into that movie. Plus the end result is one of the greatest films of our time, that will definately be remembered by everyone for years too come. Which is more then you can say about any of the other nominees.