I could be proven wrong, of course, but I don't think this is going to happen again in my project. The top-grossing movie of the year, Finding Nemo, also received the Oscar for Best Animated Picture, while Return of the King took home the classic Best Picture, I guess you'd call it? So, I get an Oscar two-fer.
Finding Nemo felt like the culmination of that incredible first run of Pixar movies, and while Monsters Inc. is my personal favourite, I recognize Finding Nemo as Pixar at its peak. It's beautiful, funny, and a heart-killer like only Pixar stuff can be.
It was also the last Pixar movie my wife and I watched before our son arrived in late summer, so we considered it our final primer for parenting.
Now, to continue the story, the final installment of The Lord of the Rings arrived in theatres after our son was born, and we weren't quite up for a three and a half hour-ish trip out of the house yet, so my mom helped us out by babysitting for us twice. We watched the movie until a point near halfway, went home, and came back late for another showing to pick up where we'd left off. It turns out that the scene with Grond, that's the giant, flaming battering ram up above, was our marker.
Anyway, what to say? It's a tremendous final chapter to the trilogy, but then, it's not really a sequel, just like the books aren't either; they're just sectioned parts of one long book. The point is that it was going to take a monumental screw-up to not finish the run of movies on the same level of quality as the rest.
I haven't actually watched the theatrical version in a while, and as much as I love the extra bloating in each of the extended editions, I'd forgotten (or shrugged off) how lean and effective the actual Oscar winning is.
And I'd better share my favourite LOTR meme here:
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