Oscar Ideas?

[Obi Kwan]

Just curious for some of you movie enthusiasts; who are you rooting for this sunday for the 2002 Oscars?

 

Im sure many people here are looking for a Best Picture award for The Lord of the Rings; I have not seen A Beautiful mind but it seems that it is gonna win from the reviews I have read.

 

The one award that I am positive should win is Momento for best original screen play. I was so confused by that movie!!!

 

Anyway; what do you guys think?

[Chanke4252]

I hope its Lord of the Rings personally. Im going to see A Beautiful Mind today, but I still dont see it being better than Lord of the Rings. I think that the Lord of the Rings will do better next time around with the Two Towers. The first one had to set a lot of the story up in the first few minutes, so I think people who havent read the books dont realize how well done it actually was.

[Rogue Nine]

Russell Crowe's a stuck-up, arrogant snob. I don't like him.

 

There's a reason I went to see LotR eight times and A Beautiful Mind only once.

 

Sir Ian McKellen all the way!

[Chanke4252]

I think Russell Crowe is a good actor, but his head got huge after Gladiator. Also, A Beautiful Mind was sort of exagerated from the book it was taken from. LotR and ABM are two very different movies. I still think you really have to read the LotR books before you can truly appreciate the first movie. Maybe the people who didnt read the books will appreciate the movies more once theyve seen them all.

[Frumpus]

LOTR was . . . . . MUCH better than I had expected. I had been dreading that they would NOT stay true to the books, and was very delighted to see otherwise.

 

Although "some" artistic license was taken (i.e. too much Arwen), Jackson did an unbelievable job at recreating the feel and vision that Tolkien created.

 

I remember being STUNNED at Rivendell, at Hobbiton, at Mordor, at Orthanc, at Moria,. .. again and AGAIN . .. . !!! What I had pictured in my head YEARS ago while reading these books .. . . I was actually seeing before my eyes on screen, EXACTLY!! And I'm an artist!!!. . . It was almost surreal.

 

I guess that is also a tribute to the detail and extent to which Tolkien described the settings in the first place!

[HBK]

Originally posted by Rogue Nine

Russell Crowe's a stuck-up, arrogant snob. I don't like him.

 

I don't like him either. Oh, you forgot to mention how he breaks up marraiges/ is an adulterer.

 

And Gladiator was great because of just about everything else in the flick, not Crowe. He was decent, but wasn't even the best actor in the movie. Jaquoin (sp?) Pheonix owned him.

 

I did like LOTR as the best movie of the year. I too had the highest hopes and was not disappointed. For the record I did not see Beautiful mind so I can't really compare.

 

HBK

[C-3PTroll]

didn't this happen already???

[Schizophrenic]

Originally posted by C-3PTroll

didn't this happen already???

 

 

Look at the dates of all the posts before yours. They were posted before the Oscars happened.

[JaWaz]

Originally posted by Schizophrenic

 

 

Look at the dates of all the posts before yours. They were posted before the Oscars happened.

 

Yeah and the time says 6:00 AM, which I know not to be true as I'm still awake. So how do we know the dates aren't wrong MR. Timex.

[SPY_jmr1]

did you set your time zone in the user cp?

 

for some reason i need to set my TZ to pst even though i am in cst.... admins a bug pehaps? its either two hours fast or slow for me, i will edit and tell you wich(sp?)

 

 

edit: my time zone reads 2 hours fast. so i just reset it to one thats 2 hours slower....

[Schizophrenic]

Originally posted by JaWaz

Yeah and the time says 6:00 AM, which I know not to be true as I'm still awake. So how do we know the dates aren't wrong MR. Timex.

 

 

I said DATES, not TIMES. The last DATE before C-3PTroll's post is March 27. Your settings only affect the time, not the date.