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I honestly think the best performance in ALL the Star Wars films is Frank Oz as Yoda in Empire Strikes Back. And I thought Errol Morris' speech was just fine, too.

I think it's funny that ROTK sweeps the oscars and all we can talk about is how Titanic was so undeserving ;)

I dont' think he was doing a commentary on Williams--I just thought the fact he was bombing with the joke while STILL being funnier than Williams was says something about Williams humor anymore. I dont' think he was meanspirited or anything, I think he was actually dragging it on long to at...

you're rubbing off on me, Paul ;) Nah, the wording was awkward, the statement is the same, I just made it a little more grammatically correct. I think. I didn't do well in Grammar.

I think the DiCaprio thing weighed in very heavily, too. Men on the internet seem to have an almost incomprehensible revulsion towards anything that teenage girls like. It's like Teenage girls are subhuman or something. Teenage girls liked Leonardo DiCaprio at the time. Didn't make him a bad...

"they're half brothers." Jesus, the Coppola influence covers EVERYTHING in hollywood, doesn't it ;) Although if they're half brothers, they probably don't have the same mom, not unless Talia Shire married two different Schwartzmans. Still though, I don't think John looks THAT much like...

I COMPLETELY forgot about Michael Moore's cameo. That was inspired.

I think there's a kind of new rule going on: Make a billion, win a buncha Oscars.

okay, the impressions this thing left on me: Billy Crystal really isn't funny anymore. He was alright last night, and you could tell he was a little rusty, and there were a couple times the flop sweat was beading up on his forehead. Jack Nicholson as Gandalf was way disconcerting, and...

I thought it was cool that he made a joke and mention of Meet the Feebles and Braindead. That was cool.

Patrick: depends on if you count the EE's. Wow. went 16-8. I TOTALLY thought editing and cinematography were locks, and then LOTR takes Editing (NICE) and Master and Commander took Cinematography. Wow Destino not winning animated short was a surprise, too. I would have NEVER...

WHERE THE HELL IS ERNEST!!! WHERE IS HE?? You know I'm only playin, buddy, but MAN! Wow.

I know this isn't as eloquent or uplifting as Paul's quote about you, Ernest, but after reading that last one, I gotta say it: Ernest Rister is the shit ;) Thanks for that post, man, and thanks for all the others, the analyses and the informational ones, too. I know I appreciated it...

I scanned the article and knew I wasn't going to agree with much when there wasn't a single mention of Julia Roberts getting Best Actress over Ellen Burstyn. One of the greatest misfires in recent memory and he's busy bitching about NETWORK? Naaaah. Seth, thanks for the updated formula...

Great news. I called this movie as my "want to win" (I think Mystic River is going to take adaptation at the oscars) in the oscar predict thread, but it's great to see this thing get some recognition.

Actually, I think it's less that he has an axe to grind with ROTK, but with the Academy itself. He simply uses ROTK as his example of how the Academy is unfair and overrun by hollywood politics. ROTK is simply the tool he's using to make his point. I don't think he's actually come out and said...

I'm pretty sure the beacon scene is real. They probably filmed it at the same time they filmed the flyover for TTT. No reason not to. As a matter of fact, one of the shots looked like a simple reverse of that TTT opening.

This piss-drinking thing is taking on a life of it's own, aint it? ;) I'd love to see that as a blurb on a poster. "MYSTIC RIVER II: UNDERTOW" If this doesn't snag Oscar Gold--I'LL DRINK MY PISS! --Ernest Rister, HOLLYWOOD SCAT A movie so stunning--YOU'LL SHIT YOUR PANTS! --Tom...

I don't think his words were incoherent or irrational. I understand that people might disagree with them, but the point and the intent and meaning of his words weren't, I don't think, largely misunderstood or incomprehensible. People wouldn't have been so pissed if they hadn't understood him.

That was a contractual obligation, right? I'd heard he tried like hell to get out of that flick and he had no way around it.

I don't know if I'd want him to. As a matter of fact I'd prefer he didn't hold back.

No sweat, man. :) almost any or all of the comments regarding the debating styles going in post 220 are very specifically directly at Ernest's posts, not the HTF's in general. I apologize if it looked like I was railing on the HTF in general, as opposed to just Ernest specifically. that wasn't...

" We are discussing the films, openly and honestly. 99% of us, and that's a far better batting average than any other film forum. I'll take it." Chuck, I'm not quite sure why you're directing that one post at me, but I DO agree with pretty much everything you're saying, completely. Sorry if I...

I dunno, Kevin, I think City of God has a SMALL chance. Just the fact that it's surprised so many with it's 4 nominations means more voters are probably going to be inclined to check it out, if they haven't already. If it SERIOUSLY impresses, that impression is still going to be VERY fresh when...

did his breath smell like pee?

"Fact is, there's a lot of hooey in Return of the King, but SW Dork/Trekkie/Tolkien fanboys won't admit it, because they're "rooting for the home Geek team". No fantasy film has ever won Best Picture, and so, this is the geeks' last, best shot at receiving validation and recognition from the...

Walter: I think it's more HOW the opinion was expressed than the opinion itself. I've seen PLENTY of negative opinions expressed WITHIN the LOTR threads on this board, and they're all pretty much discussed rationally and civilly--but no one ever said "I'll drink my own urine" or anything along...

Yeah, Deus Ex Machina is getting way overused (Hell, it's a CHARACTER NAME in "Matrix Revolutions") but the one that was really getting to me was "Denouement." I could make it 3 posts through ANY ROTK thread a month before its release that had that word in it.

I like how he "welcomes" CLINT EASTWOOD, of all people, to Academy Politics. Like ANYTHING in Hollywood is new to Clint Eastwood. Also bemoaning large "thick-headed" blockbusters while signing every post "Save Disney" looks funky, too ;)

(reads article) (burps) He is SO full of crap. I really REALLY do not like that man. I'm glad he's spreading this thing out wider (It's been playing for awhile out here in Portland, actually) but his "I was ALWAYS behind this film" crap just stinks.