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polyh3dron
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:lol :lol :lol :loljett said:
They're gonna give it to him now to make up for snubbing him for Cocoon :lol
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
MIMIC said:
4 Months got its first limited run in the US January 20th, I believe. All I know is that the critics that saw it last year through special screenings put on their list last year and that criticswho have seen it this year are putting it on their list this year. Four Months is note for note perfect filmmaking.
To Leo: Let the Right One In is one of the greatest coming of age films ever made and probably the best horror film made in the last 10 years if not more.
beelzebozo
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Aegus said:
elderly academy voters think very different things are "fun" than others, i think
brandonh83
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AlternativeUlster said:
I thought Benjamin Button and The Dark Knight was Oscar bait too, which is one reason why I don't like TDK as much as everyone else. I think it's a really good movie but I thought Batman Begins was much better especially since it actually focused on its main character and felt like a Batman film. TDK was like a crime drama with Batman in it and Maggie was fucking horrible, as was her character-- who I mildly cared about in Batman Begins-- where'd she ever get any good scenes like when she takes Bruce to Falconi and puts him in his place? Instead she whores around with Bruce and Harvey, barely gets any genuinely good material, and then
gets her ass blown to shit and because her character gave no reason to like her outside of her history with Bruce, it was an emotionally vacant death
Anyway, everytime I watch TDK I feel an air of pretentiousness permeating about it. I'm asking for a thrashing, as everyone considers TDK a love letter from god on celluloid and that's fine, but I don't feel as if it anywhere near deserved a best picture nomination. It's technically incredible and full of fine moments, but I thought it was sort of a mess and supremely inferior to its predecessor, which was both a FANTASTIC movie and a fantastic BATMAN movie. It never forgot that it was a Batman movie, while TDK seemed like that it was too good for Batman.
Glad to see Heath on the best supporting actor noms, knew he would be but great to see it anyway.
Oh, and since someone just mentioned Speed Racer: it, by far, I mean by fucking far, had the best music score of the year. To not see it nominated angers the Giacchino cult.
TheHeretic
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brandonh83 said:
A comic book movie will never, ever be Oscar bait. Thats just a flat out idiotic statement.
3 of the 5 nominations are historical dramas (and in fact all of them are dramas). What does that tell you?
NintendoTogepi
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Meh.
HUGE surprises.
I hope WALL-E takes hope a lot of awards.
HUGE surprises.
I hope WALL-E takes hope a lot of awards.
Dabookerman
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YYZ said:
Why? 90% of GAF seem to think its the best fucking film ever.
I never understood the Dark Knight snub. What about it makes it not Oscar Worthy?
polyh3dron
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Brandon, your problem is you brought in your "superhero movie" baggage with you when you watched TDK and you didn't accept a movie taking itself seriously that has a costumed vigilante in it. You're going to fucking HATE Watchmen.
NintendoTogepi
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MIMIC said:
Come on. WALL-E and TDK (even though I haven't seen it) are far better and not really comparable to the other 4.
brandonh83
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TheHeretic said:
Well that's what I personally felt while watching it. I didn't think it would be nominated but like I said everytime I watch it I can't help but think that the movie was just too full of itself. I didn't get that from Batman Begins at all.
Batman Begins took itself seriously, IMO, and my "superhero baggage" that you say I took in with it, I also took in with BB and had no problems there.
I know. I hated 300 and I think the Watchmen previews look like utter shit. :lol
polyh3dron
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because it's a comic book based film. that's the only reason. whenever I hear anyone dissing it this is the feeling that I get.dabookerman said:
TheHeretic
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dabookerman said:
Slumdog deserves to win. TDK deserved a nomination or at least to be out-nominated by decent films.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
MIMIC said:
The Academy loves Mike Leigh so I hope he gets it. I still haven't seen Frozen River yet too. I can't believe Sally Hawkins didn't get nominated though. That hurts my soul.
brandonh83
Banned
thanks for the heads-up on that. Really loved this one and was wondering where it was on the noms.
I like TDK. A lot. I just have problems with it.
DeathbyVolcano
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If Benjamin Button wins anything other than FX, I will shit a kitten.
Oh and if that Frank dude from Frost/Nixon wins best actor, I will shit a thousand kittens. Horrible acting.
Oh and if that Frank dude from Frost/Nixon wins best actor, I will shit a thousand kittens. Horrible acting.
Skiptastic
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DrForester said:
Great minds think alike, because this was my reasoning as to why they didn't nominate TDK.
I can't wait to see F/N, Milk, The Reader, and Ben Button so I can seriously trash the Academy for fucking this movie over. Isn't Supporting Actor one of the first Oscars given out? Once they do, I'm going to bed, those fucking assholes.
BrandNew said:
Don't remind me. It just makes me madder!
DeathbyVolcano
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RotK wasn't even deserving of the Best Picture though :/
Dabookerman
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TheHeretic said:
No it does not.. people comparing it to Forrest Gump makes me vomit all over my keyboard.
If it wins best cinematography over Dark Fucking Knight, then, then, I will shake my fucking fists at the monitor.
Slumdog Millionaire is a predictable, charmless, cheesy, insanely cliched pile of shit, and all it seems to do is remind people of how much better City of God was. The ending is awful, all the actors sub 2 kids are all shit. I am guessing most people love Danny Boyle so much hence all the love.
I want to see The Reader win because at least we see tits. Even though that shouldn't win either. In fact, Wall-E and Dark Knight should be nominees, because those are genuine entertaining movies. One can't though because its animation and the other one can't because a dude in a costume can't be a serious movie about a slum or some shit.
2004 oscars was truly the best oscar year ever.
AndresON777
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DeathbyVolcano
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I don't know, last years Oscars were pretty good, even if There Will BE Blood didn't win Best Picture.
Ignatz Mouse
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OK, so it was despised by critics, but how does Speed Racer not get a Visual Effects nomination? Didn't they invent a new camera (or at least a new technique) for all the deep focus stuff?
I'd say it has pretty good Art Direction as well, but that could be influenced by whether or not you "got" what they were going for.
I'd say it has pretty good Art Direction as well, but that could be influenced by whether or not you "got" what they were going for.
beelzebozo
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BrandNew said:
there were at least four movies last year that were just incredible by most critical standards: zodiac, there will be blood, no country for old men, and assassination of jesse james. i'm probably overlooking something, but that group of movies alone is enough to trump 2008 for me, as far as domestic u.s. film is concerned.
DeathbyVolcano
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beelzebozo said:
Definitely. There Will Be Blood is my favorite film of the decade, god I'm gonna watch that shit tonight.
Ignatz Mouse
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dabookerman said:
It's a superhero flick that elevates itself to crime drama, but compared to other crime dramas it's just average. Ledger's performance stands out, but look at the hokey and simplistic ("comic book" if you will) world-view it paints, and it's easy to see how it wouldn't get nominated. It's loaded with black-and-white views of the world.
The pacing of The Dark Knight wasn't that great to be fair. I remember Nolan saying that he "put everything he could into the film" and I'd say that's to the detriment of the film. It's over long and the generally there's load of high points, but they happen way before the end. Which means that the audience is generally starting to get bored as nothing on screen is matching what came earlier.
DeathbyVolcano
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Yeah if there's one thing I'm not sure I understand, it's...why is Dark Knight nominated for editing?
megashock5
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I'd love to see Presto win for best animated short film. That was one of the funniest things I've seen in years, and my new favorite of Pixars shorts.
beelzebozo
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megashock5 said:
yeah! definitely. it had a very classic "looney tunes" vibe to it. made the experience of watching wall-e all the more special front to back.
kick ass at wall-e's 6 nominations including screenplay and score (both well deserved). Best Animated Feature is a shoe-in although I actually greatly enjoyed all three movies in the category for the first time ever. definitely the 3 animated features that should be in there.
dark knight I am not surprised by anything. It is deserving of all the nominations it received, and is NOT deserving of the nominations it didn't receive. Yeah, I said it. I hope Heath wins, out of spite for the sympathy vote backlash. Bottom line IMHO is that he definitely underwent the largest character transformation of the nominees in best supporting actor. His performance is downright epic. I would go so far to say (and I LOVED TDK) that without Heath's performance as the Joker, the movie would never have been anywhere near as successful as it was, and if he had lived to see the movie premiere, it still would have been every bit as successful. He owned that movie through and through.
everything else is pretty predictable. I do agree that frost/nixon is far from Howard's best work (who I do enjoy greatly as a director), but have a feeling it is a "scorcese" style nom.. i.e. respected director with a popular dramatic movie etc. do not see it winning much though.
dark knight I am not surprised by anything. It is deserving of all the nominations it received, and is NOT deserving of the nominations it didn't receive. Yeah, I said it. I hope Heath wins, out of spite for the sympathy vote backlash. Bottom line IMHO is that he definitely underwent the largest character transformation of the nominees in best supporting actor. His performance is downright epic. I would go so far to say (and I LOVED TDK) that without Heath's performance as the Joker, the movie would never have been anywhere near as successful as it was, and if he had lived to see the movie premiere, it still would have been every bit as successful. He owned that movie through and through.
everything else is pretty predictable. I do agree that frost/nixon is far from Howard's best work (who I do enjoy greatly as a director), but have a feeling it is a "scorcese" style nom.. i.e. respected director with a popular dramatic movie etc. do not see it winning much though.
as good as pixar's animated feature run is, their animated short run is even better. I will be SHOCKED if it doesn't win.megashock5 said:
The movie is considered by the film-goers at large and critics to be horrible. I really doubt they'd nominate a movie so despised by the public a and critics even for that type of award. They rarely do so for "bad" movies, even technical awards. It would be like if Batman & Robin had a fantastic soundtrack, they still wouldn't nominate it because it was Batman & Robin a embarrising movie. Same logic applies to Speed Racer. And before the Speed Racer brigade goes crazy about the B&R comparison, yes I realize you loved it but gaf isnt the oscars the movie had some of the worst legs of any blockbuster EVER and near universally terrible reviews so it is a fair comparison for this situation. Hold somesort of GAF year end movie awards instead I guess lol.Ignatz Mouse said:
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