Apart from my not having seen Casablanca, I couldn't agree more.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 23/02/2012 06:23:51 PM
Don't get me wrong I like ROTK, but let's be honest, it is the weakest of the LotR films and only won best picture because the academy felt the need to honour the LotR films and failed to give the oscar to FotR, which was the LotR film which deserved it.
Thank you. You would think this would be blindingly obvious, but apparently it bears repeating. I can see a half-hearted case for TTT being as good as FotR on account of it being based on such a hard book to make a movie out of, but RotK was the weakest of the three by a mile.
Return of the King doesn't even come close to the brilliance of Casablanca. In terms of story, dialogue, acting Casablanca is better. Return of the King doesn't even make sense as a standalone film and since we are not comparing all of the Lord of the Rings films against Casablanca, we must judge Return of the King as a standalone film. In which case it is over long (particularly the endings) is a mess structurally and has poor character development.
I actually liked the endings better than much of the rest, and as I said still haven't seen Casablanca, but yes.
Return of the King beat Casablanca?
23/02/2012 10:49:32 AM
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Anyone claiming to have more fun with Casablanca than with ROTK is just crazy
23/02/2012 11:03:14 AM
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Calm down, buddy.
23/02/2012 11:10:35 AM
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*barks* Never!
23/02/2012 11:32:59 AM
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*bites*
23/02/2012 09:18:37 PM
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I think it's fair to vote if you love one entry enough to wish for it to win *shrugs*
23/02/2012 10:08:33 PM
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Technically, that's just cheering for the home team.
23/02/2012 11:09:44 PM
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Have you seen Casablanca?
24/02/2012 12:55:30 PM
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No
24/02/2012 02:21:16 PM
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Well, I have seen both
24/02/2012 02:30:34 PM
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He doesn't know yet.
24/02/2012 05:22:11 PM
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Clearly.
24/02/2012 05:32:40 PM
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Movies about romance and love that make female audiences cry = chick flick *NM*
24/02/2012 05:35:30 PM
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In that case
24/02/2012 05:52:37 PM
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LOL
24/02/2012 09:05:59 PM
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Re: LOL
24/02/2012 09:10:58 PM
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Re: LOL
24/02/2012 09:23:47 PM
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Re: LOL
24/02/2012 09:41:44 PM
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Well there goes having a fun movie discussion without someone taking it personally
24/02/2012 10:19:40 PM
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Actually I'd say Casablanca is one of the most masculine films in existence
24/02/2012 07:37:02 PM
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In the words of W.B. Yeats You have disgraced yourselves again
23/02/2012 04:04:56 PM
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Apart from my not having seen Casablanca, I couldn't agree more.
23/02/2012 06:23:51 PM
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What's much worse, it beat Gone with the Wind. Sacrilege.
23/02/2012 06:25:47 PM
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Hmm, no Hitchcock?
23/02/2012 10:04:25 PM
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Godfather won, you can all rest easy now
24/02/2012 09:30:02 PM
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THAT CHICK FLICK??!!!?!
25/02/2012 12:24:28 AM
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It feels like "let's be mean to Jens" day.
25/02/2012 12:49:03 AM
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Hey, at least we had around 50 decent replies and a nice discussion until things got unpleasant
25/02/2012 01:24:48 AM
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