The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>If you haven't seen Big Fish, go.....now. It's an amazing film and it's a travesty it wasn't nominated for best picture</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>That's coz it's for the NEXT Academy Awards.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>see, Zeus, we're in 2004 now, hope you can join us sometime soon :)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Actually, Zeus is right. It was released in selected theatres in Dec '03 to get in under the academy deadline.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>But it wasn't the Official release date, was it?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Official date was Jan 12th. I think it was considered, but the movies that were nominated definately deserved it. While I liked Big Fish, I don't think it was as good as others that were nominated, like Lost in Translation.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Good movie. Defnitely one to get on DVD.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Are you kidding me? Fucking SEABISCUIT is nominated! If a movie like that is setting the standards I'm surprised not to see the latest Girls Gone Wild video on the list.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Pretty awesome movie...You can definitely see that it's a Tim Burton movie, although it's not as blatantly obvious (weird) as in his other movies.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Is it? It looks completely silly in the preview.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Why? because you didn't like it?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Because one of the more obvious heaps of sappy, pretentious, over the top, trite, cliche, Hollywood horseshit (pun intended) that I've seen come out in quite a while. A real "Triumph of the Human Spirit" as it were, because, as we all know, that has NEVER before been attempted!</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Also I've been reading too much Mr. Cranky as of late.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>AND ANOTHER THING! If you're implying that there are no objective standards with which we can judge the artistic quality of a film, then the entire Oscar/Academy premise is devoid of meaning anyway.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Can I finish? PLEASE! CAN I FINISH??? .....Ok, I'm finished.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Well, it's Tim Burton. That's part of his greatness</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Well, I don't think that anyone is under the delusion that the Academy is objective. I mean, they can't be, by the mere fact it's comprised of people in the industry. It's just their way of saying "I like your work."</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>If you have a good imagination and know someone who loves to tell stories (or do yourself), you should enjoy it very much.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It had limited release, should be up unless they refused it</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I loved Lost in Transaltion, too. But man, MASTER AND COMMANDER WAS FREAKIN' NOMINATED!</div>

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>If its anything like Nightmare before Christmas, Ill like it...it just looks kooky. heh</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I don't know about Oscar worthy, but I thought it was a good movie.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>And the travesty of all is 90% of the movie actually happened in real life! We need 100% fiction! =8^)</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Out of all the movies in the list, that was probably my fave...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Well, certainly not. But Derithian seemed to be claiming that I don't think Seabiscuit should be nominated just because I "didn't like it." Which is ridiculous. I mean, I didn't even SEE the movie! : )</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>exactly but it was a suprisingly good movie. I was amazed because I had thought it was goi9ng to suck too</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Burton was actually just the producer on NBC. Think more Edward Scissorhands</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>that movie was in there just because of Russel Crowe. The script for that movie was freakin hooribly filled with holes</div>

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>ahhh...nifty.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I thought Paul Bettany, the surgeon, had the best performance.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>good point. but I mean the movie script was so full of holes they were bailing water the whole time. I commend them on a good job but in the end the ship still sunk. At least wiht Pirates of the Carribean Johnny Depp was able to keep the boat afloat long enough to make it to the dock.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Full of holes? I thought it was a great script. It actually made me want to read the books. What holes did you find?</div>