Movies: February 2004 Archives

NitPickers Guide to LOTR.

Pretty interesting read showing deviations between the text and the movie. I have purposely stayed away from re-reading the books while waiting for the movies, so it was nice to see a concise summary.

I agree with the author's assertion that having Frodo send Sam home was a major mistake. The other items I can forgive Jackson for, but that one, I just can't fathom.

Miracle. What an enjoyable feel good kind of movie. The movie really captured for me the feeling of 1979/1980. The cars, the hair, and the news all seemed so real to me.

One of the characters in the movie Buzzy Schneider, a FOAR (Friend Of A Relative), is played by his son in the movie. How cool is that?

Even though I knew how it would end, I still felt a lot of the edge-of-your-seat excitement about the game with the Russians. I was worried the movie would be a rehash of the "Bad News Bears" but it wasn't, thankfully. O.K. so the movie won't provoke a lot of intellectual discussion, and it isn't a life changing ... but it was a lot of fun to watch.

Kurt Russell also nailed a Minnesota accent. What a great performance. You wouldn't know it was the same guy as in Overboard.

One song that stuck out for me on the soundtrack was (Don't Fear) The Reaper, by Blue Oyster Cult. I didn't realize this song was released in 1976, for some reason I thought it was a song from the early 80's. Learn something new every day.