[OT] Lotr:FotR is now an Oscar winner

[Green Knight]

11 down, 2 to go.

Lord of the Rings just lost Best Adapted Screenplay to A Beautiful Mind! Can you believe this crap?!??!

Won 4 of 11

 

[Nightfall]

I know this is probably the worst place in the world to post this, but it's what I believe in.

To each his own. I still felt though I got my money's worth EVEN if they cut out things that I liked (like the Barrow Downs and Tom to name a few). So maybe it's NOT the truest adaptation, BUT it's certainly closer than the feuding going down with John Nash and movie itself.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Yeah, well I kinda expected LotR to get the shaft. It's that whole anti-fantasy stigmata I think. The only other genre that gets shafted more is sci-fi.

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[Tsyr]

If you had tried to use enough fades to do that, bronze, in the early parts at least it would be like watching a strobelight... and I fear it would still come in much too long. And I still don't think it would pace right on a screen, too much of the book (the early parts, again, moreso) is too... reflective, I guess.

 

[Skywalker]

Screeplay award - being eternally optimistic it may be a good sign for best picture. Let's hope the academy is in a sharing mood

 

[Squire James]

Heck, I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna beat the first announcement... I think LoTR just lost TWO Oscars, because I'd hardly think someone would pick a movie for Best Picture that lost to it in Best Adapted Screenplay!

Then again, maybe "Moulin Rouge" will steal enough votes from "Mind" to let it happen, but I'm not holding my breath...

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

....the fly grudingly coughs up the tasty ale, praying to the god of flies that the dwarf has mercy on him.....

 

[Nightfall]

Figures! They couldn't just let LotR SLIDE on this ONE award that I thought they deserved. Stupid Academy.

I don't mind people disagreeing about whether it SHOULD win, but I still don't see how a Beautiful Mind should win.

 

[Green Knight]

I agree. Lord of the Rings is getting the shaft, BIG TIME! A Beautiful Mind is the Best Adapted Screenplay? WHAT A FRIGGIN' CROCK! Shouldn't the winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay be a screen play that DIDN'T totally re-write its original subject matter?!?

 

[LightPhoenix]

I wanted Gwyneth to start swearing when Tenenbaums didn't get anything, especially after they showed her clip

[EDIT] I wonder if Randy got a sympathy award...

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