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Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them

Posted by simoniker on from the we-loves-them-we-do dept.

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."

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  1. I've yet to see this film by (1337)+God · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (Probably one of the few around here who hasn't.)

    Anyway, I figure I'll get the 3-set DVD when (if) it comes out.

    Is it worth the $50? I'm not a huge sci-fi fan really, and never read the books, and I don't collect movies. Still, it seems to be a favorite among geeks and moviegoers alike.

    Thoughts?

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  2. Re:What's with all the Bush bashing? by ebbomega · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    See, now that everybody sees how pointless it was, the same point that got Michael Moore booed off the stage got applause from this year's documentary winner.

    WELL 20/20 HINDSIGHT AFTER A BUNCH OF PEOPLE DIED NOW, ISN'T IT!

    Go America.

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  3. I'm still bitter by n0nsensical · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pulp Fiction was robbed in '94.

  4. Re:A great day for fantasy by afidel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    As is Rendezvous with Rama! Rama is so light on hard science that it's more like fantasy than sci-fi. I imagine Enders Game if done even decently will fall more into sci-fi than fantasy.

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  5. And the winner is... by dupper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Annie Hall!

  6. Re:Yay! by NiceGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >But that's not fantasy, that's FACT.
    Aw...c'mon mods this deserves a +1 funny

  7. Re:Well deserved by LittleBigLui · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Moderators: Insightful? I laughed my ass off reading this, and you mod it INSIGHTFUL.

    I only hope, AKnightCowboy really was joking, otherwise he might get mad at me for my rofling and loling.

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  8. Re:A great day for fantasy by ComputerSlicer23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'm not arguing against Ender's Game having bad physics (it does later in the series). However, involving "Rama" appeared to be incredible accurate. In fact, it's accurace was the primary plot conflict (overcoming, and dealing with the majority problems due to the phyics of the spinning cylinder seemed to be the largest of the plot conflicts).

    I'd really rather have someone explain why Rama is "wrong". As opposed to why Ender's Game isn't that bad on a relative sense in comparison to other bad Sci-Fi.

    Kirby

  9. Re:A great day for fantasy by anaplasmosis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Ender's Game" was garbage. A "suprise ending" that was obvious from light years away.

  10. Re:And one naked gold man by lewp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or, to put it more simply, "Don't be a little bitch."

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  11. What a bunch of... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    pretentious assholes. Yeah, mod me down, that's why I'm posting AC. Looking over these comments reminds me of just why geeks are such social outcasts. Most of the comments are pedantic and graceless...perfect images of the stereotypical "I-know-oh-so-much-more-than-you", egomaniacal, lives-in-mom's-basement troll of a geek. Most of you wouldn't recognize a great cinematic performance if it didn't involve digital effects, spaceships and/or orcs and languages that exist solely in the minds of their authors. Yeah, the Lord of the Rings trilogy was a great set of movies, but nearly all of the comments written here might as well have come from the Comic Book Guy in the Simpsons. It's like a competition to see who can post the most pretentious, irrelevent, most narrowly-focused bit of arcana in order to demonstrate some bizarre mastery of geekiness.


    By the way, chicks don't dig that.