11 Golden Dudes
"Lord of the Rings: They Wept Until They Passed Out from Dehydration" got a record-sharing 11 Oscars. I read it on the Internet this morning. Wow.
I have never been an Oscars fan, although I can see how many people might be and fault no one for it. It's a bit like being a NASCAR fan. Something about it just grabs you ... or not. The Academy Awards just don't hold my attention is all. (I am not interested in the subjective whims of a bunch of insiders.) I admit that I do pay attention (vaguely) to where the nominations go and which ones win in the top categories (like "Best Motion Picture Product Placement in an Animated Documentary(tm)") and I checked to see who got what this morning. I was hoping for Johhny Depp to get something for his exquisite turn in "Pirates," and I was curious about "LOTR."
So, my all-time favorite flick now has TWO co-record holders. I am slightly depressed by that, but just slightly. When "Titannic" matched the score of "Ben-Hur" I almost decided to mail month-old lettuce spores to the Academy as a terroristic threat. (I can't get my hands on "Ricin" and have no idea how a truck driver from Tennessee might ... although I met a Tennessee redneck at a truck stop who had the mental (in-) capacity to be the "Fallen Angel.") Regardless of how much a person might "like" "Titannic" it is just not that excellent of a film.
I am actually pleased that a non-mainstream film (mainstream being anything OTHER than fantasy/science fiction) got such broad recognition. I continue to submit that what was dorky geekhood 5 or 10 years ago is increasingly "mainstream" as post-boomers swell the rosters of consumerism, and this light-dozen awards for LOTR seems to confirm my opinion. And it was a marvelous film (if it was 45 minutes too long, and required WAY too many Kleenex(tm) for the sniveling, slobbering, snot-slinging characters).
But I wonder how many people will claim LOTR as their all-time fave film, own it on DVD and memorize lines from it ... and never seriously regard the FIRST 11-statue film, and arguably the best ... "Ben-Hur."
Oh. And the book was better (Ben-Hur).
I have never been an Oscars fan, although I can see how many people might be and fault no one for it. It's a bit like being a NASCAR fan. Something about it just grabs you ... or not. The Academy Awards just don't hold my attention is all. (I am not interested in the subjective whims of a bunch of insiders.) I admit that I do pay attention (vaguely) to where the nominations go and which ones win in the top categories (like "Best Motion Picture Product Placement in an Animated Documentary(tm)") and I checked to see who got what this morning. I was hoping for Johhny Depp to get something for his exquisite turn in "Pirates," and I was curious about "LOTR."
So, my all-time favorite flick now has TWO co-record holders. I am slightly depressed by that, but just slightly. When "Titannic" matched the score of "Ben-Hur" I almost decided to mail month-old lettuce spores to the Academy as a terroristic threat. (I can't get my hands on "Ricin" and have no idea how a truck driver from Tennessee might ... although I met a Tennessee redneck at a truck stop who had the mental (in-) capacity to be the "Fallen Angel.") Regardless of how much a person might "like" "Titannic" it is just not that excellent of a film.
I am actually pleased that a non-mainstream film (mainstream being anything OTHER than fantasy/science fiction) got such broad recognition. I continue to submit that what was dorky geekhood 5 or 10 years ago is increasingly "mainstream" as post-boomers swell the rosters of consumerism, and this light-dozen awards for LOTR seems to confirm my opinion. And it was a marvelous film (if it was 45 minutes too long, and required WAY too many Kleenex(tm) for the sniveling, slobbering, snot-slinging characters).
But I wonder how many people will claim LOTR as their all-time fave film, own it on DVD and memorize lines from it ... and never seriously regard the FIRST 11-statue film, and arguably the best ... "Ben-Hur."
Oh. And the book was better (Ben-Hur).
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