I feel I should support at least some of what WitchitaBoy wrote. After all, toward the end of a spirited e-mail movie debate on 1/1/02, I wrote:

I’m attaching a Microsoft Word list culled from the IMDb All-Time Top 250 tonight. It is the Top 100+ movies of the past 20 years as they would be ranked were such a list to be present on the Web site. Bold text titles are movies released within the last five years (IMDb has been in business for at least the past five years) and italicized titles are movies realeased more than ten years ago (they’d be eligible for my own all-time list.) Why am I sending this? No particular reason except that 1.) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has headed the full list since its release and 2.) it’s not, for the most part, a bad list.

The Trilogy made it to the screen. The adaptation, in my opinion, was botched, but The Trilogy made it to the screen. Later in 2002 the Angels (owned at the time by Disney) won the World Series.

WichitaBoy is right: It’s a great time to be alive.