LOTR reviews
December 28, 2012 | 12:49 PM

OSC, what happened between the time the LOTR movies came out and now? You loved them then. Youo had a few quibbles (which I didn't include, but here are paragraphs from your previous reviews:
One quick review. "Fellowship of the Ring" isn't just a good adaptation of the first volume of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." It's an excellent film, moving and thrilling, scary and magical and full of nobility and comedy and tragedy and brilliant acting and gorgeous settings. The trickery that gives us half-size hobbits is so effective you have to force yourself to remember that Elijah Wood and Sean Astin are actually full-size adults. But you won't be thinking about that, because the filmmakers concentrated on what really matters: They put storytelling first.

The Two Towers isn't in serious contention for awards -- and shouldn't be. It's a very good film, but as the middle of a trilogy, it neither begins nor ends. I loved it, though, and appreciated most of the changes.

But all of this is moot. This is the last chance for Lord of the Rings to receive an Oscar, and if it doesn't, that will be a worse stain on the Academy's history than the Best Picture award forThe English Patient.

Karla