[Amarinth]

i don't know, malin, i just don't like the idea that lotr has to be seen in its entirety for one piece of the trilogy to be adjudged the best this year. the work stands and must stand for itself. just as nominees for "best song" for example should be judged for the <I>work</I> rather than the personalities attending them (yeah i'm complaining about that too). sometimes the individual merits of different films do size up pretty much closely together and i guess there are times you think they don't. maybe i'm being argumentative and a trueblue fanatic but i feel this was the case for 'no closure' lotr with these films, much the way i did with the english patient which, btw, was in the <I>proper</I> genre. abm, i and many of my "cinematic" friends felt was a finished but very abbreviated film. and again, except for the part were nash visualized his equilibrium theory, there was nothing <I>groundbreaking</I> that could be observed with the direction of that film! whereas for lotr...noticed how on earth that descending zigzagging shot of the uruk-hai running through the woods of amon hen was conceptualized AND shot? and that's just to begin (or end) with...<P>--------------------------------------------<BR><I>every man's life is a path to the truth -- hesse</I>