Best Movie Relationships Series - Faramir/Denethor

Faramir/Denethor from Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Ian Mckellen, Vig go Mortensen, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Dominic Monaghan, Bernard Hill, David Wenham, John Noble.

Faramir (Wenham) pops up in the second installment of Lord of the Rings as Boromir's gentler, less war-inclined brother who helps Frodo and Sam find the road to Mount Doom. In the third installment, though, he returns to his home city of Gondor as armies are bearing down on the place and faces his father (Noble) who has been driven crazy by the proximity of the evil Mount Doom and grieving over the death of Boromir, the so he loved. Faramir is obviously the unwanted son and Denethor wastes no time telling Faramir about how pathetic and weak he is in comparison to his brother. Faramir remains attached to his father, though, and strives to make him proud. After losing the citadel to the enemy and coming back into the gates of the city, Denethor rebukes him for giving up the small defense so 'easily', even though Faramir and his men were clearly outnumbered and would only have died if they stayed. But Denethor is unreasonable and pushes Faramir to admit that he failed.

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Best Movie Relationships Series - Eowyn/Theoden

Eowyn/Theoden from Lord of the Rings
Ian Mckellen, Vig go Mortensen, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Dominic Monaghan, Bernard Hill, David Wenham.



Eowyn (Otto) is one of the most rounded female characters in Jackson's movie version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. She loses her parents and her brother very early on, and then gets her heart broken by Aragorn (Mortensen). Her one bright spot in life is her uncle and surrogate father Theoden (Hill), King of Rohan. They have a subtle but deeply sympathetic relationship. At the core, they're both very sad characters who are watching the world around them fall apart and are deeply affected by it.

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Top Five Most Overrated Movies Of All Time

1. Gone With The Wind

Starring: Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh

Touted as a civil war epic that closely follows history but in reality it is a four hour soap opera. There are some parts that are true to history although it's hard not to notice how much they have romanticized the south. For a film about the civil war it is odd that their aren't any scenes depicting slavery in the fields. All the slaves depicted simply adore Ms. Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) and treat her as if they were her mother. I guess you could say that this is a product a when this movie was made but still it's a bit much. 

Then we have the romance between Scarlett and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) if you could call it that. She spends most of her time finding people to use and he treats her like a stupid little kid. Honestly, the melodrama of their on again off again relationship gets very tiresome after four hours. We're supposed to rooting for these two dysfunctional people? Ms. Scarlett is not a likable heroine at all and Rhett is only slightly more tolerable. By the time Clark Gable utters his famous line at the end modern audiences will have the same thought about this film.

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