There's some odd duping of specials. The one I got off A&E Breakfast With The Arts was the same one I got off of the Biography Channel earlier.
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2004 7:53:41 pm PST #1390 of 3902
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nilly - Jan 11, 2004 10:24:06 pm PST #1391 of 3902
Swouncing
This is my brain right now: Sam's face, Pippin's face, the beacons, Sam's gestures, Pippin singing, Faramir's face, Eowyn's face, Theoden riding, Sam's tears, Pippin's expressions, Merry's face, Frodo's eyes, Gollum's poorness, Aragorn's movements, Legolas' movements, Sam's face, Pippin's face, the ring, New-Zealand, Sam, Pippin.
Some light on a screen accompanied by sounds shouldn't be able to do that to me.
sumi - Jan 12, 2004 7:22:23 am PST #1392 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
It wasn't on NBC -- it was on ABC (on Primetime) -- but the Breakfast with the Arts thing was different.
Here is the TORN report on the Lincoln Center event. (It spoils the gags.)
sumi - Jan 12, 2004 7:55:02 am PST #1393 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
From the e! online article on the Critics Choice Awards:
Unlike most other awards-show voters, members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association offer up an open accounting of their balloting.
Oscar watchers then might be interested to know that Return of the King didn't just win Best Picture; it destroyed the competition--no small feat considering it was up against nine other films. King received 43 critics' votes, more than double its nearest competitor, Mystic River, with 18.
Jackson's Best Director win was even more impressive. He captured 80 votes, far outdistancing Mystic River captain Clint Eastwood (news), who earned 17.
tina f. - Jan 12, 2004 7:58:32 am PST #1394 of 3902
WOW!!
I watched the CC awards and the Mystic River love in that room was strong. That's surprising.
Katie M - Jan 12, 2004 8:01:46 am PST #1395 of 3902
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Reward for the whole trilogy, I wonder? I mean, not that RotK wasn't a very impressive movie, because it was.
(FotR is by far my favorite of the three, though.)
Una - Jan 12, 2004 12:32:42 pm PST #1396 of 3902
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
I would really, really love to see the Academy give PJ a special original award for not only making three movies *at the same time*, but also doing a damn fine job at it.
Of course, since I would love to see that, it won't happen...
quester - Jan 12, 2004 3:06:26 pm PST #1397 of 3902
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Oh, ABC! NBC owns Bravo. my bad
MechaKrelboyne - Jan 12, 2004 8:59:32 pm PST #1398 of 3902
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious
Hee. Christian Rivers is my new TTTEE commentary hero. Re: the 'Meat's back on the menu, boys!' line:
"My only issue is that it implies the Uruks a) Come from a society that has menus, and b) those menus are selective enough to have things taken off and put back on again."
That line always made me squint a little, and that's exactly why.
Nutty - Jan 13, 2004 4:42:56 am PST #1399 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I'm a similar squinter -- NSM on that line but on, e.g., the elf-surfing later in the movie that he also mentions. I think Rivers is sort of a book-purist (not "it must be like this because it's in the book", but "it mustn't be like that because it's not the same mood as the book"). The difference between him and me is that he seems ultimately to agree with Jackson about crowd-pleasing moments, whereas I still sort of tolerate those moments, rather than like them.
Also, I realized recently, the reason why Rivers always looked sort of lopsided to me (in his interviews) is that he has one brown eye and one green eye. I did the same "Oh! That's why your face is uneven!" double-take when I got a good look at Jane Seymour.