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Mahler Is A Little Slow - LOTR
I just saw the DVD today (ROTK) and I have always disliked the fact the parting shot is on a door or a closing door if you like. I finally hit me that the entire story begins with Gandalf (or even the dwarves) knocking on Bilbo's door. A smarter, more intelligent man would have picked up on this sooner.......like the first time they saw the movie. Oh well, I guess I am a little slow on the uptake.
P.S. To reiterate my protest: The LOTR did not receive a single acting award. Granted I think many of the performance were extremely inconsistent and varied (Frodo in TT, Aragorn in ROTK, etc.) but there was one performance that was phenomenal throughout and was rarely noticed: Sean Austin as Samwise. The fact that he did not receive any type of award or notice is absolutely criminal. Here endth the bitching and moaning except to say one more thing. (Sorry). I am really quite put out that the series is now over with. There is nothing to look forward to, at least on this scale and magnitude, anymore. Seeing it every Christmas vacation was a family/friend tradition. I will miss the anticipatition and the conversations over casting, storylines, etc. Now I am really done. Honest.
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"But a work of art is a conscious human effort that has to do with communication. It is that or its nothing. When an accident is applauded as a work of art, when a cult grows up around the deliciousness of inadvertent beauty, we are in the presence of the greatest decadence the West has known in its history."
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