Johnny's a full-on geek today

Lord of the Rings trilogy on all day on TNT, later the Hobbit Unexpected Journey will be on still after the finale of Game of Thrones. Johnny badly needs to decompress and fantasy action it is!

See ya back here tonight to discuss someone on Game of Thrones who's gonna 'Come back to life, back to reality'...

Forgive Johnny for being a giant geek

But walking by a construction site off of Marin Blvd. this morning he thought the worksite looked a whole lot like an industrial-age Isengard from Lord of the Rings, which is the very thing Tolkien was warning against as a subtext throughout the entire trilogy.

Introducing the pile driver as Orthanc.

Let's actually discuss movies and films you think got pimped on the Best Picture Award

OK, there are two GLARING mistakes the Academy has made in Johnny's eyes (Actually three but we'll get to that).

Which movies do YOU think got the shaft? Anything you're still mad about?

Here's Johnny's short list; In 1979 the Academy must have gone on a three day bender and the male voters must have had a bad case of Meryl Streep love when they somehow managed to give the Best Picture award to Kramer vs. Kramer over the Hollywood epic Apocalypse Now. How did this happen? Anyone? Anyone? Apocalypse Now has become so iconic people quote it, you can't hear Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkries' without thinking about it. It's battle scenes are almost unmatched. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Laurence Fishburne and Harrison Ford lost to Kramer vs Kramer. Uh huh.

Johnny's other peeve is 1996 when The English Patient beat the Coen Brothers classic Fargo. Just think about that for a minute. Heinous.

Johnny's third and lesser complaint is that the Lord of the Rings trilogy didn't win more awards. The Academy seemed to still hold fantasy films at arms length until they realized if Return of the King didn't win they stood to lose all credibility. Tonight the favorite again is a fantasy film, James Cameron's Avatar. The Rings trilogy made getting backing for these other fantasy films so much easier.

More Academy Awards magic, this time from Middle Earth

Anyone who knows Johnny knows how much he reveres the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Absolutely phenomenal work by director Peter Jackson. Slavish attention to detail in the look and feel of the costumes, to the buildings to the languages that exist throughout Middle Earth. An epic work of spectacular filmmaking. But, Johnny's difficulty is choosing a clip to represent the almost 13 hours of the three films. He's going to choose one that was deleted from the original version of Return of the King, The Mouth of Sauron. When the Fellowship approached the Black Gate before the final battle in the extended version of the movie, they were met by Sauron's intermediary and treater. He had something for them they were not expecting. Johnny's selecting this clip because many may not have seen this scene.

If one takes all three movies as one large piece of work, a case could be made this to be Hollywood's best 'film' ever.