{"id":1771,"date":"2012-02-12T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T06:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2013-11-19T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:09:41","slug":"academy-voters-ashamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/02\/academy-voters-ashamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LOTR Sucks: The Academy Voters Should Be Ashamed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Return of the King won the best picture award at the 2003 Academy Awards? Yes it&#8217;s true. I know, after watching that scene where Denethor tries to burn Faramir and Gandalf rescues him, that it must seem impossible that this movie would even have a 25% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it&#8217;s true. Go ahead and look it up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/76th_Academy_Awards\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The Return of the King won 11 Oscars. Not just technical ones either. It actually was voted the best movie of 2003.<\/p>\n<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking. 2003 must have been a shit year for movies. But these are films that were also released in 2003: Lost in Translation, Mystic River, Big Fish, 21 Grams, City Of God, American Splendor, and Thirteen. I know. It doesn&#8217;t make any sense.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the critic rating for Return of the King is 94%. The Audience rating is only 83%. The so-called critics liked this piece of crap even more than the general public. Even more curious, the top critics rating is 98%. I bet every one of those critics would like to rethink their review now.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes Watched: 3.2:38.54<\/p>\n<p>Number of Montages: 17<\/p>\n<p>Number of slow motion close-ups of people crying: 67<\/p>\n<p>Start at the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/fun\/\">beginning<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Return of the King won the best picture award at the 2003 Academy Awards? Yes it&#8217;s true. I know, after watching that scene where Denethor tries to burn Faramir and Gandalf rescues him, that it must seem impossible that this movie would even have a 25% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1862,1859,1864,1155,1863,1833,120,1860,1861,789,1170,1842,1865],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-21-grams","tag-academy-awards","tag-american-splendor","tag-big-fish","tag-city-of-god","tag-denethor","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-lost-in-translation","tag-mystic-river","tag-oscars","tag-rotten-tomatoes","tag-the-return-of-the-king","tag-thirteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}