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Academy Awards, Any Film Awards

This is where you can discuss your homework, family, just about anything, make strange sounds and otherwise discuss things which are really not related to the Lancer-series. Yes that means you can discuss other games.

Post Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:14 pm

I am so happy that LOTR won all of their nominated awards thus equalling Ben-Hur and *shudder* Titanic. They really deserved it (although Titanic didn't) .

Grom - Who said I was joking? Those Illuminati are around here somewhere...

Post Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:57 pm

Uhhhh. Didn't RoTK do one better? Didn't it sweep all nominated categories. I don't think Titanic did that nor did Ben Hur.

Anyway, my sense of the Oscars, and other awards, including Cannes and other European ones, is that it is an insiders game. The rest of us don't really matter (except to shell out the shekels to see the flicks). Don't know if that makes it a sham but the politicking and lobbying that goes on for the Oscars, at least, is rather shameless. And the only reason why they are not pumping out digital copies of the movies to impress the Academy's voters this year is because of all the bootlegging that happened with those "free" copies in previous few years.

Excellence is part of it, otherwise I would imagine RoTK didn't have a prayer but I think studio lobbying is a big part of it too.

Edited by - Indy11 on 3/1/2004 5:01:02 PM

Post Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:34 pm

Indy - LOTR may have one all of its 11 nominations, however Titanic and Ben-Hur won the same amount (11), making them even.

Post Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:46 pm

Titanic had 14 Oscar nominations, and won 11. Ben Hur was nominated for 12 awards and won 11. ROTK was nominated for 11 and won 11.

Post Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:15 pm

Thanks Huff. See, Indy? Told ya.

Post Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:37 pm

I bow to the correction of my original comment. I guess my point is that RoTK didn't LOSE a single nomination so it sort of makes it one of a kind so far.

Elsewhere, I put up a thread about Jury Duty, which I am on. Here, though I thought would post a question that was asked of us to consider. It was posited by the prosecution by referring to the tv show. We were asked whether we watched the show and whether we remember who the MC was for it. I thought that was a silly question because, although I did not watch it, I'd read the following day's paper (while sitting around waiting to be called) and it reported.... on the front page () who won the biggies, commented on RoTK and evaluated Billy Crystal's performance.

Anyway, I was amazed at how pervasive this Award show permeates into real life.

Edited by - Indy11 on 3/2/2004 7:52:54 PM

Post Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:52 pm

I don't understand. Indy. What do the AA's have to do with the court case? Besides, I never watch the AA, but the MC is ALWAYS Billy Crystal. I'm not sure why;. maybe he's a member of the Illuminati.

Post Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:05 am

Oh.

The question was put to us whether we remembered everything we saw that night. I didn't remember anything because I didn't watch.

BUT, the prosecutor was angling to see whether we would disbelieve someone who didn't remember every detail of what he saw the night of the crime .... as it happened almost a year ago. I thought the prosecutor was a real dingleberry for even
trying to develop that line of jury questioning but... I guess it is all part of watching the "tools" of justice at work.

Post Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:09 pm

<Attempted American humour>
The prosecutor sounds like a "tool" to me!

Post Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:17 am

@Esqy:

I think you're getting the "hang" of it.

Post Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:53 am

by your humour, i would "judge" you are american alright. Personally i would "dismiss" this as not amusing.



*edit* - would hate to spell humour as homoer

Edited by - Chips on 3/4/2004 7:53:07 AM

Post Thu Mar 04, 2004 12:58 pm

Indy - Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

Chips - Fair enough . What can you expect from an Australian attempting to use Americanisms?

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