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Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them
Suhas writes "The New Zealand Herald and many others such as Yahoo/AP are reporting that Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has swept the Oscars by winning in all the 11 categories it was nominated in. Good to see Peter Jackson finally got the Best Director award! The official Oscar site has a full list of the winners."
Good for you and all, mate. But exactly how have you contributed to the movie? You're proud because the director is from your country? Whoopee!
Sorry to be so harsh, but it's really ridiculous when you get your panties all in a bunch just because a bunch of your countrymen and women made it good.
What the hell else has your pathetic little island done lately?
Dude, I love Slashdot; I love the postings, the commentary, the banter, and even the flamebait.
But I HATE the Lord of the Rings. I hate the stupid 'LOTR' abbreviation. I hate how everyone in our geek culture is obsessed with the trilogy, both in book and movie form, and I ultimately fail to understand just what the hell you people like about those stupid movies!
I'm pretty sure I'm alone in my feelings, but honestly: those movies sucked. They did not move me emotionally one bit, and I didn't find one redeeming aspect about the whole series. I saw over 300 movies last year and LOTR definitely scraped the bottom of the barrel. Somebody please enlighten me as to what is so great about LOTR.
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Oh, thank you for blessing us trolls good karma whore.
If you don't agree with me, then Ask Peter jackson himself is it makes a difference to him or not.
This might be a bit confusing and upsetting, but you're not Peter Jackson. You're not an actor in the movie. You didn't write the script. You didn't compose the soundtrack.
Ten year old boy spends a few days with teenage girl, with no intimacy during that whole time, and has obsessed about her for years afterwards? :) And honestly, he really starts obsessing about her ONLY AFTER seeing her again. What is unrealistic about that? I was just as obsessed about my gf when I was in love (not that I liked that afterwards). That's how teenagers act. :)
A young impressionable slave spends a few days with the Queen from a different planet and has obsessed about her for years afterwards. Well, what do you want him to obsess about?
As for truly/deeply, you have a point here, but then he was a Jedi Knight, may be that was how he really felt/knew how to express the feelings. And when they kissed, it didn't look as idiotic as Viggo kissing Liv. Sorry, but PJ should film slapstick comedy, not lofty epic sagas. He lowers almost every significant episode he can find, and the coronation is just another example. Just look how tastefully Lucas handled the wedding of Anakin and Padme. Compare it with everyone in ROTK smiling idiotically (Aragorn, Legolas, Elrond) and those stupid dirty peasants applauding like Aragorn is a chieftain of some small village.
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