[Imladris]

First off, Sam was never one of my favourite characters when I was younger and first read the books. And when I first saw Astin in the movies I wasn't, say, thrilled with his performance. However, after reading the books a couple more times and seeing the movies a zillion more times, I have to agree with you all. He's great as Sam and he made me like Sam. I say that when an actor can do that to you, he is the character that he is playing.<P>Knight of Gondor, that depends upon your definiton of a junky movie. He was in the Goonies when he was younger and I thought that that was a junky movie. He was also in another movie (forgive me, I don't remember the title and I only saw the last half of it or so) where he was trying to start a rebellion against a government that banned art and music. It was kind of...odd and the ending wasn't the exactly the best, in my opinion.