The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Fifteen years before The Lord of the Rings, there was... Bad Taste.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>And fifteen years before the Internet, there was... no links. But, since we have the Internet, we have links. EXCEPT YOOOOOOOU!</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I was fishing to see who had already seen it.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>fishing? who the hell is supposed to know what the hell you're talking about? I doubt even if they saw the movie in question we wouldn't know</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Oh, they'd know.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>It makes you wonder what the people at New Line Cinema were smoking when they picked him to direct the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Producer A: So, there's this Peter Jackson fellow...

Producer B: What's he done?

Producer A: Bad Taste, Dead Alive, Heavenly Creatures, and The Frighteners.

Producer B: I don't have any fucking clue what those are.

Producer A: Well, Bad Taste and Dead Alive are revered among camp horror fans and gore hounds, while Heavenly Creatures is about these two lesbian teenagers who kill their parents. In their minds.

Producer B: Holy shit. He'd be the perfect guy to direct Lord of the Rings.

Don't get me wrong, Jackson's a great director, and I love the fact that they chose him to handle such a massive project like LotR. But there must be an interesting story behind how and why he was chosen.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Those were my thoughts - except I have not seen The Frightners and Heavenly Creatures. He must have been damn presistent.</div>