I'm not sure why we're talking about artistic integrity when the article is just about the Tolkien estate getting screwed on the back-end points.

Not to mention that when it comes to staying out of the way artistically, WB is one of the BETTER ones around.

Yeah, as has been pointed out, you can't take a movie about overcoming adversity and never giving up and then in the last ten seconds go "Haha, just kidding, life is bullshit!"

I have not seen all the Bond movies (working on it), so I can't rank them. But as an action movie in its own right, QoS is pretty awful. It's one of the worst of the shake-and-cut-a-lot generation of action films we're getting from non-action directors put at the helm of action movies. I got the impression that Forster set up a lot of cameras to cover the stunts and felt like he needed to use all of them.

That is definitely a pre-Twitter aphorism.

Even in the fan film world, it's not like we pretended we came up with the shit ourselves. I mean, most fan films went so far as to credit Ben Burtt for creating the lightsaber sounds we hacked together.

EDIT: And just to be clear, I don't think Shia is a monster or whatever. But he did wrong and that needs to have consequences of SOME kind so he can't pretend not to know better next time.

I think GRAVITY is a lock for a nomination but will be the dark horse if it wins. My money based solely on buzz would be on 12 YEARS.

I managed to talk about Harry Potter for 24 hours, but I don't feel like there's enough to say about HOBBIT 1 for three.