The first two lotr movies are pretty great overall, come on.

OZ is 2hip2care

It gets all my love for having Michael j. Fox and one of the Busey Brothers.. I've been in love with him ever since I saw Back to the Future

last good.

I thought the first one was fun in the theater and they did a really good job on the Shire parts at the beginning, they capture the feel of the book and Tolkin's original art really well; once they leave the shire it feels more and more like a generic Hollywood blockbuster to me, but it's still solid. It's no Dead-Alive or Heavenly Creatures or anything, but it's probably as good as The Frighteners. I tried to watch it on DVD once and tapped out an hour in out of boredom. I think I finished the second one but it was kind of boring even in the theater. I never saw the third one.

I'm glad Peter JAckson's still out there doing his thing though, even if a lot of it is kind of embarrassing lately. I'd put him more in the category of Sam Raimi than Tim Burton, as far as directors who did a few really interesting, unique movies in the late 80s and early 90s and then kind of outgrew their own directorial voices.

I wouldn't call any of the later Peter Jackson movies I've seen BAD but they're a little on the bland side (and to be fair I haven't seen The Lovely Bones, the most recent one I've sat down and watched was the first 45 minutes or so of the first Hobbit movie, which was.. technically competent.

You could always administer the Peter Jackson hipster test:

Was Bad Taste Jackson's best movie?

What do you think of Meet the Feebles

You just made me extra sad sir

My grandfather died with Parkinson's. It's heartbreaking to watch what it does to a person, and to see MJF with the early onset symptoms of it was tragic. I remember watching him talk on some live show and when he went to take a drink of his water he had tremors like crazy, his hand was shaking so bad he could barely keep the water in the glass.

I also just realized that every role he's had for the last 20 years has either been interviews as himself in documentaries or voice acting animated characters.

:(