HOW COULD THEY!?!?!

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Registered: 04-09-2003
HOW COULD THEY!?!?!
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Mon, 03-01-2004 - 12:34am
OK, I'm quite happy that Lord of the Rings won for so many things. Visual effects, Director, best adapted screenplay, sound effects, make-up, art direction, costume design, best song, blah, blah, blah. All well deserved.

BUT EDITING?!?!?!?!?!

Geez Louise! Every shot of that movie was four times longer than it needed to be. I've never wanted to commit Hari Kari in a movie before. It just kept CRAWLING along. It was like some kind of nightmarish torture.

My legs had gone so numb so I couldn't even crawl out of the theater to escape the endless tide of fade-outs that made us THINK the movie was over, only to open on some other pointless additional scene continue the excruciating agony!

Flipping editing.

Good night. After the first two hours, I kept thinking, "who edited this? Did anyone edit it? Did they forget to edit it? HOW could they forget to edit it? Doesn't someone look at it before they send it out? OMG, I've lost all feeling below the waist. I wonder if they'd let ME edit it?"

(wanders away muttering)

"Suntin Muntin editing. Might as well give Arnold Schwartzenager an award for pronunciation. Fleempin, meempin editing. That's ridiculous!"

(Looks back)

And another thing! LACK OF editing ruined this movie!!! Hello! You aren't supposed to include every piece of footage shot! Geez! EDITING IS ABOUT CHOICES!!!

Don't even get me started on Best Picture, dag nabbit.

(wanders off again.)

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-30-2003
In reply to: cal70
Mon, 03-01-2004 - 8:03pm
you are too cute. i didn't even see the trilogy because i heard they were so long, and i don't have that kind of patience :) at least that 13 year old didn't win best actress! and i know that catherine zeta jones thinks she is queen of the world, but can someone please explain her royal attitude to me? at least there were some gorgeous dresses- charlize theron looked amazing and her speech was so sweet- i was totally teary! then again, i cried at the finale for my big fat obnoxious fiance. ah, pms. :)