The LotR EE, I’d like to mention, since they’re brought up, do very different things in the three movies, if you ask me. With FotR, it makes it more nuanced and in-depth and brings the movie even closer to the book, and makes an excellent movie pretty damned close to perfect. With tTT, instead, it makes a rather heavy movie a little lighter, giving us more character-moments and breathing-air between the major scenes, which makes for a vast improvement over the somewhat less than excellent (though still very good) cinematic version. And with RoK, the EE disappointed me. Adding to the immense stupidity of the skull-avalanche and its ilk, I mostly felt like the RotK-extended cut just added scenes to the movie, making it longer but not necessarily better or worse. Which is too bad. If it had been a refinement like FotR’s or an improvement like tTT’s, it would have med RoK EE the best movie of them all. As it was, I felt like I got more or less the same out of watching the cinematic release, sadly. Of course, the cinematic release was superb, but still.

“BSG re-watch? Now THERE’S a thought. Maybe so it coincided it’s ending with the last episode of season 4? Yes…”
The man’s a genious. I’d like to do that. Ohyes. Probably won’t, but man would I like to.

(And Amras, if he’s more up to date on reading magazines about tv-shows than he is on the shows themselves, then he is a bloody buffoon and asking for it.)

“Platoon, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, and Catch 22 I haven’t seen/read.”

I envy you.

As for LotR, well, I have trouble grading much between them because they’re actually one gigantic film cut into three pieces. Yeah, I could probably say that FotR > RotK > tTT, but in my mind their worth a combined 10/10, which is easier anyhow. I don’t grade the book for each individual book, even though I easily could, because they weren’t meant to be read like that by Tolkien, and it feels unnatural to do so.

Not everyone likes Blade Runner - and it IS too slow - but I have a hard time understanding such freakish sentiments. I watched it three times in a row (granted though that I was actually writing an analysis of it at the time), and it got better by each viewing.

BSG re-watch? Now THERE’S a thought. Maybe so it coincided it’s ending with the last episode of season 4? Yes…

Btw, Terje - I really hope you got around to the last episode of season 3 before you read the last SFX magazine. They had printed an epic spoiler in gigantic letters on the interview with Tigh.

Platoon, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, and Catch 22 I haven’t seen/read.

LotR extended editions…. I’ll give a six on the dice to all three sure. As well as to the cinematic editions of FotR and probably RoK. But I’d not give all three 10/10. I’d probably end up with 10, 9.5 and 9.5 for the EE’s and 10, 8.5 and 9.5 for the cinematic versions.

Blade Runner I’ve no idea what’s up with. Everybody seems to see some form of brilliance in it that just passes me by somehow. I feel like I’m losing out on something - I’d give that movie 7/10 at most, and even that’d feel generous.

BSG season 1, if I’d be able to grade tv-shows like that, I think I’d have given 9 or 9.5 , but not 10. Season 2, however, might have gotten there. I’d have to do a rewatch to be sure, though, seasons 1 and 2 blend a lot together in my head.

It does appear to be a rather exclusive club of awesomeness, which is exactly how I prefer it.

But yeah, it’s an extremely Terje movie.

I hope I’m wrong, though.