Lord of the Rings got 13 Oscar nominations. I don't think it'll get more than 3 or 4 myself. It's up against Moulin Rouge in a lot of categories, and the latter is much more of an Academy-type film. At least Memento got 2 noms, hopefully it wins Best Orig

[New and Improved Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/324487p1.html">Oscar nominations</a>

Lord of the Rings got 13 Oscar nominations. I don't think it'll get more than 3 or 4 myself. It's up against Moulin Rouge in a lot of categories, and the latter is much more of an Academy-type film. At least Memento got 2 noms, hopefully it wins Best Original Screenplay...</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Fuck, if LotR got nominated, why not nominate Rollerball also? How the fuck that beat out Memento is beyond me.</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>That better be a sarcastic comment Barret =\. Rollerball's best selling point was that it had a guy who did a some of the writing for Fast and the Furious, and that's a pretty piss-poor selling point if you ask me.</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>Heh, and dissing LotR on an RPG board isn't the smartest idea either.</div>

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Don't forget Paul Heyman.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Especially a board hosted on theonering.net. ;)</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Check it, I'm the Rush Limbaugh of the boards yo.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Ridley Scott was a surprise to this guy? He's an amazing director.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>LotR is a classic story. Tolkein started the whole contemporary fantasy genre with it (with an appropriate shout-out to C.S. Lewis of course).</div>

[New and Improved Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>In the past, yes. But now he's become Hollywood's bitch.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I didn't see Blackhawk Down, yet, but I watched a making-of special and he did some pretty fucking amazing stuff to get that movie to look the way it did. Bitch or no.</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Come on. I like Ridley just as much as the next guy, but his resume after Thelma and Louise up until Blackhawk Down is pretty much a long line of stinkers. White Squall was Dead Poets' Society on a boat, and GI Jane was... well, GI Jane.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Don't make me bring up "Gladiator", whore! You know I will!</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Hannibal was good, I thought</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>It's okay. Hopkins made Hannibal seem campy as all hell, though. The brain supper bit has to go down as one of the most unintentionally hilarious scenes in film history.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>G.I. Jane was a good movie.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>The film had no point. I won't blame the director for that, however.</div>

[New and Improved Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>OMG. Man, I thought you had good taste in movies. That was EASILY one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It was brutal in every sense of the word. I couldn't bring myself to watching more than the first half hour</div>

[New and Improved Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The first hour was pretty slow, the last hour was pretty good. But I kinda agree with Kupek, it didn't really have a point, especially in the beginning. Should have been much shorter</div>

[New and Improved Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I never doubted his potential as an excellent director. But he does Hollywood big-shot films, the easy blockbusters. He doesn't take any chances anymore as a director. I like Gladiator, but man, it ain't genre-defining filmmaking, like Blade Runner or Alien</div>

[Lee]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>So you're fat and deaf?</div>

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I know I liked it.</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Ehhh? Speak up! :)</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I agree for the most part, but I think Scott actually made it better than the book in some regards.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, well, both of those were sci-fis, so of course they were "genre-defining" films. And he took a big risk to make Gladiator a 3 hour movie.</div>

[New and Improved Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Soldier was a sci-fi film as well, but I wouldn't exactly call that "genre-defining"</div>

[Stephen]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>No great accomplishment there. The book was garbage.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>He tried. It was a neat idea that just didn't work out well, and ended up being too cheesy. Might have been a bad book to begin with.</div>