how do you like the portrayal of frodo?

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Originally Posted by Sauron the White

It must be one of the greatest mysteries of the 21st century how a series of films which is so terribly bad by some estimates here could actually take in a combined $4 billion US dollars in combined revenue, crack the All Time Box Office Top Ten List including only the second film to earn over a billion dollars, win 17 Academy Awards including Best Film, and recieve an extremely high level of critical acclaim.

Oh, dear. The McDonald's argument. Other boffo boxoffice performers: Transformers, Spiderman 3, Pearl Harbor. Whoopie. The public loves brainless action-adventure flicks, and that's what PJ gave 'em.

As for the Oscars: as if the silly, bribe- and politics-heavy Academy voting were a measure of anything (aside from the technical awards, which were deserved- and voted on by the tech professionals, not Lindsay Lohan (or her personal assistant)).