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walbourn"Gondor has no actors. Gondor needs no actors."
I decided to entertain myself Sunday by watching my newly purchased Children of Dune DVD, a six-hour Sci-Fi mini-series, so I completely missed Oscar night, for which I'm reasonably grateful. One of my roomies in college was a Radio-Television-Film major, and his obsession with the Oscars got on my nerves. Well, more accurately his bitching about *having* to watch a movie for his class when I was spending several hours a day in the computer lab got on my nerves, but still.
So rather than spend 3+ hours enduring endless commercials, lame attempts by actors to 'improvise', Billy Crystal's musical numbers, or overly-repeated film segments, I just checked their website this morning and found out all I really needed to know. I'm quite happy to see Return of the King swept the awards... The Academy has always had a serious bias against fantasy films unless they were animated. It is irritating that they didn't nominate a single one of the actors for their performances, but Peter Jackson did thank them a number of times in his speeches I hear.
It was also cool to read on CNN that ROTK broke the $1 billion mark. Maybe we'll see more high-quality, well-done fantasy movies in the future. I would love to see Jackson do The Hobbit, although acquiring the rights is likely to be a huge mess.
I actually found the link from Sashdot and sure enough there were people bitching about Jackson getting so many awards. It seems that protectivist attitudes can be found everywhere now that the economy has tanked, and the main complaint about LOTR was that they didn't film it in Hollywood to keep American film makers employed. Maybe if California wasn't ridiculously expensive, American talent overly priced, there had been any big studio willing to support the project, or New Line was willing to spend more than $100 million a movie, then *maybe* they'd have a point... Hollywood doesn't seem to be hurting for projects--vacuous and idiotic many of them may be. Besides, everytime Hollywood gets a hold of fantasy, the make it campy, soft-porn, star-centric crap.
I decided to entertain myself Sunday by watching my newly purchased Children of Dune DVD, a six-hour Sci-Fi mini-series, so I completely missed Oscar night, for which I'm reasonably grateful. One of my roomies in college was a Radio-Television-Film major, and his obsession with the Oscars got on my nerves. Well, more accurately his bitching about *having* to watch a movie for his class when I was spending several hours a day in the computer lab got on my nerves, but still.
So rather than spend 3+ hours enduring endless commercials, lame attempts by actors to 'improvise', Billy Crystal's musical numbers, or overly-repeated film segments, I just checked their website this morning and found out all I really needed to know. I'm quite happy to see Return of the King swept the awards... The Academy has always had a serious bias against fantasy films unless they were animated. It is irritating that they didn't nominate a single one of the actors for their performances, but Peter Jackson did thank them a number of times in his speeches I hear.
It was also cool to read on CNN that ROTK broke the $1 billion mark. Maybe we'll see more high-quality, well-done fantasy movies in the future. I would love to see Jackson do The Hobbit, although acquiring the rights is likely to be a huge mess.
I actually found the link from Sashdot and sure enough there were people bitching about Jackson getting so many awards. It seems that protectivist attitudes can be found everywhere now that the economy has tanked, and the main complaint about LOTR was that they didn't film it in Hollywood to keep American film makers employed. Maybe if California wasn't ridiculously expensive, American talent overly priced, there had been any big studio willing to support the project, or New Line was willing to spend more than $100 million a movie, then *maybe* they'd have a point... Hollywood doesn't seem to be hurting for projects--vacuous and idiotic many of them may be. Besides, everytime Hollywood gets a hold of fantasy, the make it campy, soft-porn, star-centric crap.
