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Return of the King Wins Four Golden Globes
stubear writes "According to MSNBC, 'Lord of the Rings: Return of the King' won 4 Golden Globes, for Best Picture - Drama, Best Director (Peter Jackson), Best Original Score (Howard Shore), and Best Original Song ("Into the West" by Howard Shore, Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox). LotR: RotK was the big winner for the night, at least for movies. Hopefully LotR: RotK will fare just as well, or better, at the Oscars."
The second movie was called "THE TWO TOWERS", he predicted WTC bombing 47 years before the fact, and the third movie is RETURN OF THE KING. JESUS IS COMING BACK YOU HAD BETTER RECOGNIZE
In the wake of September 11th, I think that the "Lord of the Rings" creators were pretty insensitive and callous to be releasing a film called "The Two Towers." The title was obviously a reference to the destruction of the World Trade Center, and I find it even more suspicious that many characters in this "Lord of the Rings" series have beards, just like the Muslim enemy. I wouldn't be surprised if the phrase "Lord of the Rings" is a reference to the terrorist "rings" and their false heathen "lord," Allah. The governments of both America and Britain should investigate exactly who this "Tolkien" fellow is, and where the revenue from the film are going. I will certainly not see a film is its profits will help Osama bin Laden buy a nuclear missile.
I know that the creators are British, and thus aren't expected to be as sensitive to such issues as Americans, but it's pretty awful all the same. Maybe they hoped to gain publicity through notoriety -- worldwide news agencies would be sure to capture the American reaction when the film were released, and "all news is good news," right?
But I thought that Slashdot was above that. This site has a reputation of journalistic integrity that should be upheld.
Except for Ian Mckellen, the acting in the whole LoTR trilogy was awful.
The real moral is that if Hollywood is determined to love a movie, they will ignore its plot holes, poor dialogue ("Let's hunt some Orc." "What does your heart tell you?"), and mediocre acting.
I feel this is an affront to myself, and all members of the commonwealth. We have a queen, and are proud of her! The Return of the King would involve eliminating our Queen.
Ignorant Americans like Mr. Jackson obviously have no concept of what it is to be ruled over by such a gracious monarch, and feel that we should dispense wit them willly nilly purely to satisfy his sexist royalist views.
50% of the Oscar voting body is women, who have historically voted for whatever the most romance-based movie is of the bunch (Cold Mountain in this case.) Put another way, 50% of the voting body is interested in movies about relationships as opposed to epic cinema - unless of course it's about romance; think "Titanic."
Remember when "Shakespeare in Love" beat "Saving Private Ryan"; "Forrest Gump" beat "Pulp Fiction", etc.?
While there certainly can be exceptions to this rule, and hopefully this year will be one, past history suggests that the Oscar will go to something like Cold Mountain or Big Fish.
"It isn't necessary to completely suppress the news; it is sufficient to delay the news until it no longer matters." - N
All the film awards are the (evil) industry stroking themselves.
To them, you're still just a pair of eyeballs with a wallet. You do what they want or they'll sue you.
My wife watches Extra! and Access Hollywood, and all those shows, and my reactions is, "who gives a fuck about what some overpaid actor does?"
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