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keanerie said:
Guess it's finally time to check out In Bruges...this better make up for SWAT.
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Ehhh... I found I didn't really enjoy it. It was half of a comedy and half of a serious drama and they never really blended. Plus, well, the plot didn't really interest me at all and I disagreed with a lot of the moral choices made by the characters so it really killed my ability to appreciate it the way it was intended.

But ultimately I don't think it successfully mixed comedy and drama and that ended up leaving me very cold.

I certainly don't think it deserves an Oscar for writing. Then again, I gave up on the awards years ago when I realized, finally, that they never represent real quality and if you go back through their entire history they never really have. The few occasions where they do tend to be the anomalies. Film Threat did a thing on this a few years ago and I believe it came up with less than half of the Best Picture winners really being deserving of it compared to other films released that year or particularly memorable.

Ignatz Mouse said:
Titanic, Gladiator, ROTK... huh?
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The first two were terrible (though, in all fairness, Titanic was a special degree of terrible, Gladiator was merely not good) and ROTK was the weakest of the trilogy (and the most divergent from the books which, oddly for a fantasy fan, I don't really care for).

It didn't win, but I'm still a bit amazed that The Fugitive was nominated.

beelzebozo said:
:(

he's joseph gordon-levitt, not samuel l.-jackson
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So leasing a new apartment?
 
7Th said:
It's a 2006 film. I'm pretty sure Ponyo won't be electable in 2009, either.
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I'm surprised Disney didn't get it out quicker like Howl and Spirited Away. If anyone is curious, the only anime films that were submitted for consideration this year were The Sky Crawlers and Sword of the Stranger.
 
AlternativeUlster said:
There are so many people complaining about movies they haven't seen in this thread. It is giving me a headache.
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Only movie I haven't seen that I'm complaining about is The Reader. But I just can't see how a movie with average reviews is getting of all these accolades, whereas something like TDK or The Wrestler--both of which have been universally lauded--are getting snubbed.
 
AlternativeUlster said:
There are so many people complaining about movies they haven't seen in this thread. It is giving me a headache.
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I agree completely. It's hard to call TDK best pic when you've actually seen all the other nominated films.
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
Titanic, Gladiator, ROTK... huh?
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I'm thinking more in the last five years.
I haven't seen enough to say TDK should win. I just find it a little surprising that it wasn't nominated.
 
Blader5489 said:
Only movie I haven't seen that I'm complaining about is The Reader. But I just can't see how a movie with average reviews is getting of all these accolades, whereas something like TDK or The Wrestler--both of which have been universally lauded--are getting snubbed.
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The Reader > the rest of the nominees in my opinion.
 
Firestorm said:
I'm thinking more in the last five years.
I haven't seen enough to say TDK should win. I just find it a little surprising that it wasn't nominated.
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The Departed was rather successful box-office wise.
 
Fatalah said:
Howcome Sweden decided against it?
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They picked another film. I don't think they realized how much of a critical darling it would be over here. I am not sure when the deadlines were to pick your film for your country though.
 
I'm predicting that Benjamin Button will win this year. I mean, Forest Gump already won back in '94 so why won't it win again?.
 
Belgand said:
I'm predicting that Benjamin Button will win this year. I mean, Forest Gump already won back in '94 so why won't it win again?.
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Nah, Slumdog Cheesefest has it in the bag.
 
TheHeretic said:
Universal praise and one of the best selling movies of all time? Why shouldn't it have gotten into best picture?
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Because as a lone movie it can't stand on it's own. Batman has a universe decades old to help TDK be as popular as it is. There's nothing unique about TDK, it was a well done entertaining movie, but to be critically acclaimed? eh.
 
AluminumRod said:
Because as a lone movie it can't stand on it's own. Batman has a universe decades old to help TDK be as popular as it is. There's nothing unique about TDK, it was a well done entertaining movie, but to be critically acclaimed? eh.
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Uh...but it was critically acclaimed.
 
So has this thread now descended into the usual farce of NeoGaf-age where good movies are derided because they happen to have won an Oscar and [your favourite movie] wasn't even nominated?

I often forget that new kids join the Internet every year. :(
 
Aegus said:
So has this thread now descended into the usual farce of NeoGaf-age where good movies are derided because they happen to have won an Oscar and [your favourite movie] wasn't even nominated?

I often forget that new kids join the Internet every year. :(
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this kind of talk has happened since the first movie was given the first reward for anything ever
 
I couldn't care less about The Dark Knight getting snubbed, I just care that it was snubbed in favor of The Reader. I mean, stop encouraging Stephen Daldry to make more movies, people!

Sally Hawkins' snub is Actress sucks, though.

I'm happy Milk did well - hopefully more people will see it now.

Slumdog Millionaire is winning, though - they should just announce that right now and get it over with.
 
I'm really sick of the fucking Oscar bait stealing the noms all the time. I don't know what's worse, Juno getting in last year or both WallE and DK getting snubbed this year.

Fuck all those Best Picture noms besides Milk.
 
Son of Godzilla said:
I'm really sick of the fucking Oscar bait stealing the noms all the time. I don't know what's worse, Juno getting in last year or both WallE and DK getting snubbed this year.

Fuck all those Best Picture noms besides Milk.
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I Am Milk.
 
I hate Oscar threads because they always end with so many great movies being bashed to death and called terrible.

How you can hate on movies like Forrest Gump and Gladiator while saying that TDK and Wall-E deserves a Best Picture nomination is beyond my understanding..

(note: I love all of the above mentioned movies)
 
I just came in to say... In Bruges FUCK YEAH

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Martin McDonagh :bow :bow
 
Love To Love You Baby said:
I couldn't care less about The Dark Knight getting snubbed, I just care that it was snubbed in favor of The Reader. I mean, stop encouraging Stephen Daldry to make more movies, people!
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Ugh, what? THE HOURS was fantastic(ally gloomy).
 
DevelopmentArrested said:
WHERE's THE WRESTLER NOMS?
No director, screenplay, best song or best pic!

The Reader has 59% on RT and MC!! That's sickening.
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YES! That's the real outrage hear.

BTW: wanted has as many nominations as the Wrestler. Oh in what a world we live in.... :(
 
I am just on shock that Kate winslet was nominated for The reader and not revolutionary road :lol :lol :lol

there is NO way she will win for that film! NO WAY!


I hate it that the dark knight didnt get a nom for best Original score!

best picture

Slumdog!!! :)

Milk was hmm OKEJ but nothing more, sean aint taking the best actor either

MICKEY ROURKE is the king
 
No "The Wrestler" for Best Picture is acceptable, but not The Reader in it's spot.
Very annoying. Grrr.

But what is the real tragedy is no Aranofsky for Best Director.

I pray Rourke wins for Best Actor. The rest of the performances are average at best.
 
Buckethead said:
No "The Wrestler" for Best Picture is acceptable, but not The Reader in it's spot.
Very annoying. Grrr.

But what is the real tragedy is no Aranofsky for Best Director.

I pray Rourke wins for Best Actor. The rest of the performances are average at best.
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Sean Penns Performance was not average. No way.

He WAS Milk.
 
Calamachino said:
Sean Penns Performance was not average. No way.

He WAS Milk.
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Penn's is the only one I'm willing to see as competition.

But at the same time it's relatively easy to act flamboyant and charismatic rather than restrained and subtle. There was some "emotional" stuff in Penn's performance as well, but on the whole, it was more flashy than not, yes?

Also Harvey Milk was a real person, he had source material to emulate, whereas Rourke brought his life experiences coupled with his extensive acting background into this new character, so I'd give it to Mickey easily for a handful of reasons.
 
I haven't seen either movie, but I heard a film industry guy on the radio this morning talking about the nominations and he said that Sean Penn will win because he actually plays a character, versus Mickey Rourke who basically just plays himself.
 
Beaulieu said:
M.I.A nominated for an oscar hehehe thats cool.

But slumdog is an average movie at best, way too many nominations... wth.
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What are you talking about?

Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
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Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film.
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This does not mean the soundtrack that features a bunch of random band songs counts under either of these categories.
 
Ceres said:
What are you talking about?





This does not mean the soundtrack that features a bunch of random band songs counts under either of these categories.
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M.I.A was featured in one of the songs nominated for best song - o saya, so I believe that's what he was talking about.
 
AlternativeUlster said:
There are so many people complaining about movies they haven't seen in this thread. It is giving me a headache.
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I agree, but as someone who has seen every best picture nominee (and most of the others), it is preposterous that Frost/Nixon, Ben Button, and The Reader would get nominations over Doubt or The Wrestler.
 
Can't believe Winslet gets nominated for The Reader over Revolutionary Road, not sure what the hell the Academy's obsession with The Reader is.
 
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