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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 1397970" data-attributes="member: 6791">I am so glad LotR won all those Oscars. Like many of you I'm sure, being a big fan of the fantasy genre and seeing it disregarded and treated poorly, I'm so glad to see a fantasy film get recognition. And positive publicity.However, I do admit....and this is going to sound disloyal, but I don't agree with the "best editing" win. Although the editing was pretty good....but in RotK, I thought it was the poorest of the three editing jobs. IMHO.I am happy to say that "Best Picture" is one of the most important nods, but I'm also really glad LotR won for "Best Costume" too. Sci-Fi/Fantasy hardly wins in this category as well. If they didn't win best costume I was really going to be upset. If something less creative won like they did in the last two years.....for instance. I was almost sure "Cold Mountain" was going to win.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The care, creativity, craftmanship, etc...that went into those costumes for LotR was monumental. I'm so happy for the costume/art department.Normally I'll moan about traffic being the worst in L.A. and all that. But thankfully I live in this town so I didn't have far to travel to go see the nominees on display downtown at the FIDM building. Got to see the LotR costumes up close. Man 'o man.......they do look awesome on screen. However, they look friggin amazing in real life! I can't even begin to discribe how gorgeous these things were.Eowyn's dress at the ending of the film (only seen for a mere second or two) is amazingly beautiful. As is Galadriel's outfit that she wore at the Grayhavens scene. The King of the undead had a sweet get-up too. You saw it in transparent green...but it was really cool in regular light too. Okay, it'll take to long to describe how cool everything was....but damn, I'm glad they won!Now I hope Hollywood knows that fantasy movies are worth putting talented people on. They don't have to be cheap and crappy b-movies. And I hope they greenlight more fantasy films. Although I get this feeling they may think things like Bruckheimer's "historically realistic" King Arthur count as contributing to that genre. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  Ugh.No, no, no......we know what we want. We want fantasy movies that gives more inspiration to play even more D&D!</blockquote>

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