[Marileangorifurnimaluim]

It's very strange, but I've gone out of my way to read every <I>negative</I> review of the FotR I could find. Across the board I've found that there is a certain group of people who routinely give it a bad rating. They are almost always: women. And: reference some past bias against the books. Their issue is with the "sort of person who read Tolkien" - in their experience - not the movie. They just hate Tolkien. Period. One woman called it "still a story for 13-year old boys" petulance showing, and I could see the former 13-year-old girl stamping her feet at those obnoxious 'D&D nerds'. Another said "it became popular in the '60s, in a cloud of ganga smoke" and the aging smug former-hippie looking back, and down, on the things he wasn't involved in thank goodness, was quite apparent.<P>I'm off-topic, aren't I?<P>A Beautiful Mind will take best picture, because it's Ron Howard, and because the LotR is 1/3 of a movie, not a whole movie, and they'll be thinking there are two more movies to go. But it will sweep all the costume and cinematography awards. Ian McKellen won't get best supporting actor I don't think, there have been a lot of good performances this year.