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Exactly, and out of that trilogy, The Fellowship was far and away the best of the three, and the one that was most deserving of best picture. ROTK winning was a cumulative nod to Peter Jackson and the films, but it doesn't change the fact that the first movie deserved it, and the last movie...

Mel Gibson won best director for "Braveheart" and it won best picture as well. So, even if it is rare for actors to win a directing Oscar when starring in the movie, it can happen.

I agree with you that ROTK did not in any way deserve best picture. It won because they slighted "The Fellowship of the Ring" and the critics knew it. Had The Fellowship won best picture, and Jackson won best director that year, I doubt ROTK would have even been nominated for best picture, let...

Agreed. ROTK was a make up Oscar because The Fellowship didn't win it and should have, and Peter Jackson got his Oscar, basically for the work he did on all three. I hope MM:FR wins best picture. I'm probably in the minority, but I'm one of the people that thinks the critics do get it right most...

I'm hoping for a Mad Max sweep at the Oscars, but I'll play it safe and practical and go with "Spotlight" for best picture, Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu for best director, Leo for best actor, Blanchett for best actress, Bale for supporting actor, McAdams for supporting actress, MM:FR best...

That would be awesome. Unfortunately, movies like Fury Road rarely win oscars, but I think it would be great for the industry if this did win best picture and best director. It would be proof that you don't need to make a green screen/CGI shit fest in order to make a good modern movie. I saw...

No Academy Award nominations for Star Wars in any major category. At least the critics didn't have the wool pulled over their eyes.

Finished this last night. Thoroughly disappointing. Didn't make any sense, and the finale was totally anticlimactic. The first few episodes had some funny lines, but it got progressively worse. I can see why IFC just ran this season out in only two weeks. It's a shame, cause the first two...

A. Finn is the new Han Solo in that he's supposed to be the the new lovable rogue with the suave one liners. The problem is Harrison Ford was extremely good in that role, and John Boyega is fucking horrible (although it was more the script than him in general). Harrison Ford's role in this new...

Nah, it's way more than that. The first two movies are two of the greatest movies of all time (especially Empire). Was it mostly by accident? Probably. Did Harrison Ford have a lot to do with how good the originals were? Absolutely. But the original trilogy deserves its rightful accolades. They...

Or, more likely, the script was written over a single weekend without any rewrites and no real thought was given to any of that whatsoever.

It takes you over 900 years to wipe your asshole?

Yet you continue to flap your cock sucker every time someone posts.

The main thing that every MMO gets wrong nowadays is the risk vs. the reward. The risks are meaningless and the rewards are a joke.

Anyone watch this tonight? It was strange that they did three episodes back, to back, to back, and it concludes already next Thursday night. I liked it better when Todd Margaret was the incompetent, bumbling idiot, but it's still pretty damn funny.

"It took a forgery to get him called an artist." I fucking love that last line, cause that's all this movie is: a forgery. It's a remake of the original trilogy that most people are just too stupid to notice.

Vanguard was actually an awesome game when compared to what we've gotten from the MMO industry since...

Kylo Ren is a fucking whiny, sandy vagina, and there is no way anyone could possibly take him seriously as a villain going forward. You can show conflict and depth in a character through great acting, dialogue, and directing. Unfortunately, this movie had none of those things. So instead, we get...

I lost all interest in this game years ago when we got the video with the hideously stylized graphics and the news that there would be no levels (ok, horizontal leveling. whatever) and interchangeable classes. Unless they're completely rebooting the game for the third (fourth?) time, not interested.

You emo, bro?

That whole storybricks thing always sounded way too good to be true, unfortunately.

?The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.? ~Mary Heaton Vorse Someone needs to sit his fat ass down to a chair and make sure he's writing, and not just talking about writing.

The senate chamber. This was what made the prequels so fucking awful. Was like CNN had a baby with the Syfy channel.

If we're including TV documentaries, definitely Montague of Heck is up there, but #1 in that category would be Going Clear, the documentary about Scientology. Also, #2 would be Prince of Pennsylvania, about the John Dupont murder of wrestler Dave Schultz. That ESPN documentary is actually way...

I think the best thing would have been if George Lucas never would have made any prequels or sequels to the original trilogy. There was no more story left to tell. He did it perfectly with three movies. Homer never wrote The Odyssey part 2, Melville never wrote Moby Dick 2: The Revenge...

George Lucas sold his soul for the almighty dollar. If he doesn't like the direction the franchise is going, fuck him, next time don't sell it.

Same, as far as what I saw in the theaters. Nothing came close to Mad Max. In fact, that was probably the only good movie I saw in the theaters all year. ***EDIT*** Forgot about Spotlight. That was amazing. Do yourself a favor, if you haven't seen Spotlight yet and it's still out where you...

Bingo. If they remade Norrath up to SOV with beefed up graphics and maybe a few extra dungeons/zones, I'd be in heaven.

That's a bold statement right there. Fury Road was badass (Anything is better than Star Wars: Disney Princess so that isn't saying much).

Jesus, don't tell me the second movie could actually be worse than this one!

But the problem is THERE WAS AN ORIGINAL STAR WARS MOVIE! If I did a shot for shot remake of "The Godfather", but with all new actors and set in 2015 and called it "Godfather 4" you're telling me you'd think it was as good as the original? Of course you wouldn't because that would be retarded.

Yet, even with all of these obvious ripoffs of the original movie, people are saying that it's every bit as good as the originals. People who are lauding over this movie are the same people who gushed all over "The Phantom Menace" when it came out, refusing to accept that it wasn't very good. I...

What, a whiny pussy? I thought both characters did a great job of portraying that.

You're so fucking wrong it's unbelievable. The first Star Wars movie was nominated for 11 Academy awards including best picture, best supporting actor, best director, and best screenplay. It also won 6 Academy awards for art direction, sound, film editing, costume design, visual effects, and...

Exactly how I felt. In all honesty, it's almost a shot for shot remake of the original movie (only not nearly as good). Everyone bashes on the prequels (deservedly so), but at least they were original. I was leery when I heard that Abrams was going to do these movies, and my reservations were...

Kylo and Rey are siblings, or cousins (one of them Luke's kid, the other Han's/Leia's kid).

In other words, if you're willing to settle for a mediocre movie, it was pretty good.

Based on this movie, VIII will have ultra mega Death Star, and IX will have super mega ultra Death Star. People will rave that they're every bit as good as the originals, for another three or four years, then realize that they're not that good at all and never admit to anyone how much they...

Yeah, don't get that at all. Why the fuck is he wearing a helmet at all if he doesn't need to? Is he Daft Punk?

I concur. Although ROTJ was the weakest of the original trilogy, it's still a fucking awesome conclusion to the story (except for the ewoks). Luke's final confrontation with Vader and the emperor is awesome. The rescue of Han from Jabba's palace is also epic (except for the shitty way that Boba...