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13 Nominations to Rule Them All
PatSmarty was among the onslaught of people who noted that the Oscar Nominations have
been announced and that FotR has 13 of them. Beautiful Mind
and Moulin Rouge also in there too.
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I always stay on top of Slashdot so that not a single Oscar nomination passes me by. Does anyone know how Snow Dogs is doing in the Oscar race?
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It's wonderful of course that LOTR has so many nods, but it was expected.. What I wasn't expecting is how many nominations Moulin Rouge received. I personally find that fantastic. It's definitely a love/hate movie, but dude, few movies achieve its level of artistry.
Though, I think A Beautiful Mind should have gotten an effects nomination, since it takes damn near wizardry to make *math* look cool.
"In the end, we all fall back on fiction." -- Lonely Planet
Forrest Gump
Rain Man
the list goes on and on
Im sorry but it doesnt take a genuis TO ACT RETARDED
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I guess I didn't pay enough attention to the previews when it came out. I thought it would be a musical with some original music. Most of it was just pop songs scored differently. bleh. Can't believe how long it was either. I had to stop myself from laughing because my finance was enjoying it and I knew if I wanted to have any hope of sex that night that I'd have to enjoy the movie too. ;)
They just had Jennifer Connelly on the Today show talking about her nomination. yum yum. She's been intelligent eye-candy in enough movies, it's about time she was nominated.
Of course you know LOTR won't win Best Picture. It doesn't have any mentally handicapped people or crazy people in it (unless you count Saruman? Maybe they should have promoted it as "Boromir: One mans journey through madness" or "The Dark Lord: He saw the world differently")
"HI THIS IS BOROMIR. GIVE ME THE RING"
"I think that's a little too enthusiastic Boromir"
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
In Sean Penn's case, he wasn't even acting.
Meanwhile real news like Google's Linux based search engine appliance passes without even a mention
Those bastards at the MPAA want to destroy your civil rights! If they have their way, we will all be living in an Orwellian nightmare! The Slashdot community should fight them! Boycott! Boycott!
2 seconds later....
OOHH! Academy Awards? Cool! LOTR RULEZ! I saw it 34 times and gladly gave the MPAA hundreds of dollars! HOORAY FOR THE MPAA!
On the contrary, It takes a very good actor to act retarded in a believable fashion
"We were half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold."
-- Hunter S. Tolkien
Mediocre films are released early in the year, because it's easier to get the "BEST FILM OF THE YEAR" accolades.
...And in this year's Oscar nominations, Russel Crowe leads the pack with his moving performance as a father of two in "My Boring Life". A little-known fact about this movie is that Crowe did all his own stunts, including the washing-the-family-car scene, the mowing-the-lawn scene, and the going-to-work-and-coming-home scene. Critics acclaimed his portrayal of a mid-forties office worker as "stupifying", "stunning" and "narcoleptic".
Why in the hell would Lord of the Rings get nominated for best picture???? If it wins, it will be up there with Schindler's List, Amadeus, and Gandhi. What the hell happened? Now we have drivel like Gladiator and Titanic getting best picture???? If the standards were this low before we would be seeing Encino Man and Hercules In New York up for best picture. So next year we can expect to see Crossroads nominated for best picture?
NO JSBSB NOMINATIONS!? I'm going to go bitch on the internet now...
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
The tale of a modern hobbit...
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.coms doomed to die,
I was visited by a mighty computer-magician who knew many secrets.
During our conversation I told him about that I had installed a new
Windows version. I showed him the install CD which was perfectly
round and glittered magnificently.
My friend face became dark when he saw the disk. To my astonishment
and distress the wizard threw it into the microwave oven and turned
it on at the maximum. I gave a cry and tried to turn it off , but
the magician held me back. Holding my breath I watched as the CD was
revolving in the oven. Then the magician got the CD from the oven and
dropped into my hands.
- It's quite cool. Take it!
The CD was unscratched and cold and it seemed to have become thicker
and heavier in my hands.
- Hold it up! - said the magician. - And look closely.
As I did so, I now saw fine lines, finer than the finest pen-strokes,
running along close to the center of the CD. They shone piercingly bright,
and yet remote, as if out of a great depth.
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- I cannot read the fiery letters - said I in a quavering voice.
- No - said the magician, - but I can. The letters are hexadecimal,
of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which
I will not utter here. But this in the Common Tongue is what is
said, close enough:
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
It is only two lines of a verse long known in SysAdmins-lore:
Three OSs for the Corporations under the sky,
Seven for the Software-lords in their halls of Silicon Valley
Nine for Mortal
One for the Dark Gates on his dark throne
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the Shadows lie.
He paused, and then said slowly in a deep voice.
- This is the Master CD, containing the original source code of
Windows. This is the CD that he lost many ages ago, to the great
weakening of his monopolistic power. He greatly desires it - but
he must not get it.
I sat silent and motionless. Fear seemed to stretch out a vast hand,
like a dark cloud rising in the East and looming up to engulf me.
- This CD, - I stammered, - How, how on earth did it come to me?
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. - Ludwig von Mises
[i]Seriously, everybody, what films deserve nominations but were so long ago that they've been forgotten?[/i][p] Memento. But you'd expect that.
...I think I'll have second breakfast. Then a couple of lunches, supper, dinner, late night snack...
> Still, it's a wonderful day indeed when *anything*
> by Tokein is nominated for an Academy Award.
The day would be more wonderful if Tolkien was getting credit instead of the plagarist Tokien
ID-10-T is a way of life
Yeah, I think we all want FOTR to do well. I feel the same way about ABM, although RH's vision may differ substantially from what SN had in mind. IIRC, GL overcame similar obstacles in TPM...
:-)
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Dude, I'm sure your post was really insightful and all. It's just that I am not sure how to read it.
Dude, I think you misspelled "Tolkein."
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD