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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."
ROTK was nominated for, and won, 11 Oscars. This allowed the film to tie with Ben Hur and Titanic for the most Oscars.
However, they should have been nominated for Best Foreign Film a well. I mean, if a Canadian film can win Best Foreign Film this year, surely ROTK could have been nominated for it as well (and, ultimately, win it).
ROTK should have broken the record. Robbed! Robbed, I tell ya!
Nasty voting panelses.
I will NEVER forgive Jackson for raping Faramir's character. He turned a noble man into a sniveling, cowardly weakling. I am sorry I ever paid money to see these movies.
I understand that there needed to be changes made to the story in adapting it to film, but this change was not a necessary one. I can forgive turning the hobbits and Gimli into comic relief. I can forgive him for expanding Arwen's role. I can forgive the omission of Bombadil.
But when I read (re-read, but it's been a decade or two since the first reading) RotK, and read Faramir's parts of the story, I wondered what Jackson was thinking. Then when I reached the section where Aragorn revives Faramir...I was in tears. I already knew Faramir's character had been altered for the film, but this...this will not do. I pray that one day someone else makes these stories into films and does not brutalise such a beautiful character so mercilessly and senselessly.
Oh yes, Bill Murray should have one for best actor. No doubt.
Yeah? I was too busy sleeping through Lost In Translation to notice his acting.
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In terms of cinematography, the footage of the fires calling Rohan to Gondor's aid was fantastic.
It was fantastic if you are willing to ignore the fact that Rohan is apparently 5000+ km away from Gondor, the fact that some of the posts were located above the clouds, where even professional climbers with modern equipment would have difficulties climbing to and where the fires would not be visible anyway, as well as the fact that Pip's role is a blatant copy of Gimli's with Horn of Hornburg. Not to mention that fact that flying on the helicopter and shooting some random mountains and later slapping some CGI fires there does not qualify as fantastic cinematography.
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I haven't read the books but as a film its pretty flakey. the ending was an absolute joke, most people in the cinema were getting on thier coats half an hour before the end, I thought we were going to see him cash his pension book! And what was with that all come into the bedroom and laugh part, that was just wierd, reminded me of a curtain call and dull as hell. Good special effects, reasonable acting and not a lot else.
ROTK deserved to do brilliantly and it acomplished exactly that. Classic Hollywood at it's best and deservedly honoured in a time old tradition. It was a sensational crowd pleaser, aimed at the masses. Plenty of bangs and loud noises, a simplistic dumbed down dialog that was easily understandable and moments of forumlaic but effective humour. But did it capture the power of the original text? In my opinion - nowhere close. I would suggest that these other texts might be more suitable for PJ to adapt - Dragonlance - The Belgariad - David Gemell series - The Crystal Shard series