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LoTR Takes 4 Oscars
E1ven writes "The Lord of The Rings: The fellowship of the ring won four awards, including Cinematography, Makeup, Music (Score), and Visual Effects. "
At least they have 2 more chances for Best Picture or Best Director. They
definitely deserved the ones they got.
Why do we give a damn about the Oscars? This is simply the fscking Hollywood types patting themselves on the back.
These are the guys who are pushing the abomination of CBDTPA.
These assholes have an overinflated sense of their own importance. I mean, they essentially shut down Hollywood Blvd for a week before hand. A fscking week!
Do we really care about these jerks?
P.S. Since I didn't watch, did Valenti make a Grammy-ish "Evils of Piracy" speech?
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
"A beutiful mind" is a movie based on a anti-semetic book, and the film retains lots of the anti-semetic elements. Israel and Great Briton and Japan are our only somewhat-powerful allys, and it would be STUPID to loose Israel in such a strategical position.
/. are not nerds.
With websites all over claiming that Israel is terrorizing the palestinians, and the media against Israel (I bet you never heard Arafat is recieving money from the EU, and then gives it to his terrorist networks...).
A lot of nerds liked it? Get a life! Lots of folks on
This will probably get moderated down even though it has sense, contrary to the parent post.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
That was the most significant award given all evening. In case you weren't paying atttention, that was the first Best Actress award to go to an African-American. Ever.
It's only signifigant because we make believe it's signifigant. Has the acadamy awards made a *point* of chosing winners in a racist way over the past 74 years? Have they sat around the table and said, you know, I'd really like to vote for so-and-so, but she's black, and I hate blacks, so I'll vote for Jodie Foster instead?
Sorry to break it to you, but no.
Before you start saying that this actress somehow has a special place, or that some great event has been achieved here, ask yourself where the Eskimo, Japanese, Indian and Afgani women getting thier "Best Actress" awards are? Is it just super racism that now only black and white women have won? No, it's just that everyone else isn't busy making the kind of tripe movies that get nominated for Oscars.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
Wow, could you be any more delusional, offensive, or egotistical? It's obvious to me you consider yourself superior to the majority of the American public. Guess what? You aren't.
"It solves the problem in a way that the stupid deny themselves exposure to interesting things."
What a wonderful way for you to feel self-righteous about your viewing habits. Did you ever stop to think that some of us prefer not to see movies with an "R" rating simply because we have more important things to think about than this image of some guy having his head blown off play through our heads the next day? Movies receive an R rating generally due to language, violence, or sexual content (and, in some rare cases, mature themes absent any of the above). Some people choose to be polite by refusing to use gutter language, and choosing to ask those using it to refrain from doing so in their presence. Some people choose to remain faithful to their spouses in both thought and action by avoiding graphic depictions of others having sexual relations. Some people choose to avoid seeing gratuitous violence because even the thought of killing another human being makes them physically ill, and movies depicting them makes them want to barf.
"the poorer, and land owning people of the midwest have disproportunate power to that of the richer, more liberal people in the cities."
Oy, veh, what another spurious helping of horse manure this is. Farmers are not all poor. Some are, some aren't, same as you get in cities. Land owners, similarly, are not poor. Land is a commodity by which wealth has been measured since time immemorial. As to the issue of disproporionate power, it depends on which side of the fence you sit on. Clinton stole thousands of square miles of revenue-generating land from Utah public school systems (Grand Staircase Escalante Monument) to please green-loving city folk. I choose to live by standards established since the dawn of recorded history as set down in the Ten Commandments. That I vote for legislators who think the same way simply reflects my belief that it is my obligation to support the self-interest of my self and family, the same as you do when you elect foul-mouthed womanizers with a drinking problem.
"The poorer, more religious, people seem to eschew personal responsability in favor of a "smaller government" that's big enough to make sure that everyone isn't thinking impure thoughts."
More pure hogwash. I take this personally simply because you are insulting my people and culture -- that of the mid-western religious family. I don't work to restrict your rights. That some do is within *their* rights, and it is your obligation to see that they do not succeed. I wrestle with civic and moral questions daily, examining each decision in light of what will help my family, community, and nation continue to function. That I choose to eliminate R rated movies from my patronage is simply an expression of my belief that most movies are crap, and I'm glad to have a large portion of them ruled out from the get-go from wasting my valuable time deciding whether to see them or not. I take personal responsibility that I am educated on views I deem important, particularly regarding Constitutional rights and technology issues. If I were to take the time to also view every twisted rated R movie made by a director who simply likes to watch women writhe around naked I would have no time for anything else.
I take personal responsibility for helping ensure that I and my family make wholesome viewing decisions. I couldn't care less about enforcing your viewing habits, but I am grateful for the rating system simply because it means someone else is doing an unpleasant job. I am not the one cleaning latrines at the campground, picking up poop after elephants at the circus, or doing every single job at my place of employment. Others do it so I don't have to, and by simplifying and specializing in my life I am able to contribute a larger amount to my pocketbook and the welfare of the nation.
"Personally, I think God doesn't like hypocrisy so he sends tornados to destroy their trailers."
That's like saying "I think God doesn't like hypocrisy so makes people crazy enough to fly airplanes into large buildings".
I sure hope that in real life you aren't as much of a bigot as your post portrays. There are decent, hard-working people who take their religious, civic, and family obligations seriously in all walks of life, and in every city, town, and rural area of the planet. That you deride them, and the efforts of the ratings boards to help people simplify their choices of entertainment, does both an injustice.
Sure, call me and my neighbors sheeple if you want. But what I care about, I care about passionately, and I'm glad to delegate here and there so I don't go crazy from trying to be everything for everybody at once. All of life is choices. That I and others choose to use our time wisely by avoiding the worst of the filth Hollywood has to offer does not impugn your choices, nor deprive you of any essential liberties.
As an aside, I *do* choose to view rated R movies from time to time. I decide whether or not to view them based upon reviews by my peers and whether I am interested in the subject matter. I've discovered that, in general, the ratings board seems to be right: most rated R movies have foul language, excessive violence, and strong sexual content which I would rather not see. I also do not allow my children to see these until they are of an age (17) where I won't have to wake up repeatedly in the middle of the night to deal with their terrible nightmares from the filth they have viewed.
Matthew P. Barnson
I learn what I think when I read what I write
Who thought this movie sucked a fat cock? God damn that was just horrid. My $6 would have been better spent on a hammer to bang on my head. It was like 3 hours of the same relentless shit over and over. Run, hide, run, fight, hide, run, run fight, run, hide. God damn.. oooh neat-o special effects.. that must be what I paid $6 to see...
I watched about a whole 2 hours or so of this shit and just said fuck it.. my ass hurts, the bastard in front of me gets up every 10 minutes to go smoke and comes back smelling like asshole, and this movie blows hard cock. So I left.
But hey if you all like it, more power to you. I like a story with a little more to it.