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andymcc said:
man I just saw slumdog last night, what a mess. I don't know why the critics are eating it up so much. it was heavy-handed fairytale fate and destiny garbage. if the movie was set in the us they'd disown it.
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A man who knows what he's talking about.
 
andymcc said:
man I just saw slumdog last night, what a mess. I don't know why the critics are eating it up so much. it was heavy-handed fairytale fate and destiny garbage. if the movie was set in the us they'd disown it.
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same here. saw it last night too. feel the same way about it.
 
Music was great though. That was the reason why I watched it and it didn't disappoint. Anybody have the lyrics and translation for O Saya? Oh yeah, just realised that they get to perform it live at the Oscars :D Will MIA still be pregnant then?
 
Slumdog will hopefully win it all, one of the most deserving films in years. So glad that benjamin button hype imploded.
 
To settle the argument as to why there's only three songs up in that category, let's see what the rules say:

AMPAS rules on voting for Song in the Best Music Category said:
# In the Original Song category, Music Branch members shall meet to screen clips of the eligible songs and vote on the achievements. A DVD copy of the song clips will be made available to those Branch members who are unable to attend the screening and who request it for home viewing. Voting shall be conducted as follows:

Nominations will be determined by an averaged point system of voting using 10, 9.5, 9, 8.5, 8, 7.5, 7, 6.5 or 6. Only those songs receiving an average score of 8.25 or more shall be eligible for nomination. There may not be more than five nor fewer than three nominations.

Members who attend the song nomination screening will vote at that time. Those who receive the DVD will vote by mail ballot. Those members who have a song in contention for the nomination are not eligible to participate.

# Only two songs may be nominated from any one film. If more than two songs from one film are in contention, the two songs with the most votes will be the nominees.

# If there are 25 or fewer qualified works submitted in any category, the Music Branch Executive Committee may recommend to the Board of Governors that nominations be limited to three. If there are nine or fewer qualifying works submitted in any category, the Executive Committee may recommend to the Board of Governors that no award be given in that category for the current year.
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The whole process is right here for your perusal. Also, 49 songs were submitted for nominations.
 
Charred Greyface said:
Music was great though. That was the reason why I watched it and it didn't disappoint. Anybody have the lyrics and translation for O Saya? Oh yeah, just realised that they get to perform it live at the Oscars :D Will MIA still be pregnant then?
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it was okay. it felt really out of place at times. the music video esque "paper planes" scene was kind of embarrassing.
 
Cheebs said:
Slumdog will hopefully win it all, one of the most deserving films in years. So glad that benjamin button hype imploded.
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Imploded? It has the most nominations of any film at the Oscars.

Anyway, I liked Benjamin Button, but didn't think it was deserving of a Best Picture nomination.
 
Do people honestly believe that Ron Howard is a "shitty" director? He might not be up there with the best, but he is CLEARLY a competent and talented filmmaker who has made some good movies. WTF is wrong with GAF?
 
Love To Love You Baby said:
Spielberg is capable of tackling multiple genres, I'll give him that. And he's made a few films I've really liked.

But he hasn't made some of the best movies of all time, as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't put any of his films in a list of 100 or 200 of my favorite movies.
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I suppose it's okay to feel this way, but I just can't comprehend Raiders not being on somebody's top 200 list. Hell, it's probably in my top 20 or even 10.
 
JB1981 said:
Do people honestly believe that Ron Howard is a "shitty" director? He might not be up there with the best, but he is CLEARLY a competent and talented filmmaker who has made some good movies. WTF is wrong with GAF?
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Like Da Vinci Code and Edtv... who am I kidding? The guy is directing the Arrested fucking Development movie.


Scullibundo said:
Give me a break you fucking armchair piece of shit cuntface.
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:lol
 
Love To Love You Baby said:
Spielberg is capable of tackling multiple genres, I'll give him that. And he's made a few films I've really liked.

But he hasn't made some of the best movies of all time, as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't put any of his films in a list of 100 or 200 of my favorite movies.
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You've made the list of people with shitty taste. Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Empire of the Sun, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Catch Me If You Can? None of these will make your top 200 list? Give me a break you fucking armchair piece of shit cuntface.







:D
 
JB1981 said:
Do people honestly believe that Ron Howard is a "shitty" director? He might not be up there with the best, but he is CLEARLY a competent and talented filmmaker who has made some good movies. WTF is wrong with GAF?
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I really love some of Howard's movies (Apollo 13 probably being my favorite), but he has no real discernible style as a director; there's nothing unique about his filmmaking. It's very paint-by-the-numbers, which, imo, really isn't Oscar-worthy.
 
Nobody is saying Howard is a shitty director, he's clearly a very capable director, but he shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as Spielberg (where this all started).
 
Evlar said:
I just watched Slumdog Millionaire and I thought it was great.
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It was great, glad you liked it.
Watched The Visitor and Frozen River last night. Both are low-energy, indie films that are FANTASTIC. Particularly the performances by Richard Jenkins and Melissa Leo, respectively.
 
Evlar said:
I just watched Slumdog Millionaire and I thought it was great.
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I really enjoyed it too. I felt the love story was very cheesy and semi-psychotic to be honest though. Otherwise, the music, direction, cinematography, and performances were all top notch. Loved how vibrant and visceral the film was.
 
Just watched Dark Knight. It had it's moments but even in this fairly down year for movies...Best Picture? How could people think this was going to get best picture?

Gonna check out Gran Torino tonight, hopefully.
 
DevelopmentArrested said:
It was great, glad you liked it.
Watched The Visitor and Frozen River last night. Both are low-energy, indie films that are FANTASTIC. Particularly the performances by Richard Jenkins and Melissa Leo, respectively.
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Right on. The Visitor is wonderful. Need to finally watch Frozen River sometime soon.
 
eznark said:
Just watched Dark Knight. It had it's moments but even in this fairly down year for movies...Best Picture? How could people think this was going to get best picture?

Gonna check out Gran Torino tonight, hopefully.
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Because of the claim and praise it received when it came out? And not just from summer movie fans or comic book fans but pretty much all sorts of critics across the board?

If its a good movie, its well acted, well directed, well received, and critically acclaimed then it should have a chance. And you just know that this movie had no chance simply because when it comes down to it its about a man who dresses like a bat.
 
In the last 15 years, Spielberg has directed 2 movies that I thought were good: Schindler's List (very good) and Munich (just good)

I know lots of people love Saving Private Ryan, but I have found it to lose a lot of its luster after multiple viewings.
 
Slurmer said:
I know lots of people love Saving Private Ryan, but I have found it to lose a lot of its luster after multiple viewings.
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Just the first twenty minutes, then I follow that up with Band of Brothers.
 
Slurmer said:
In the last 15 years, Spielberg has directed 2 movies that I thought were good: Schindler's List (very good) and Munich (just good)

I know lots of people love Saving Private Ryan, but I have found it to lose a lot of its luster after multiple viewings.
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So to you A.I, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, WotW and Munich aren't good? None of them?
 
eznark said:
Just watched Dark Knight. It had it's moments but even in this fairly down year for movies...Best Picture? How could people think this was going to get best picture?

Gonna check out Gran Torino tonight, hopefully.
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Nobody. The argument isn't if it deserved best picture, but if it deserved to be nominated.

Scullibundo said:
So to you A.I, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, WotW and Munich aren't good? None of them?
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Aside from Munich (which I haven't seen), none of those are very good.
 
Blader5489 said:
Nobody. The argument isn't if it deserved best picture, but if it deserved to be nominated.



Aside from Munich (which I haven't seen), none of those are very good.
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Munich is Spielberg's best film since Schindler. And to call none of those mentioned films 'good' is very cynical.
 
Scullibundo said:
Munich is Spielberg's best film since Schindler. And to call none of those mentioned films 'good' is very cynical.
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cynical because they don't like some of spielberg's movies? :lol
 
andymcc said:
cynical because they don't like some of spielberg's movies? :lol
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Cynical because I have faith that his taste isn't as bad as he's making it out to be and that he's hating for same reasons everybody likes to hate on Spielberg - it makes him think he has a differing opinion to the masses/makes him appear unique. The truth is that here on GAF the masses hate on Spielberg for the same reason. Bunch of cynical critic wannabes.
 
I guess you can argue that a lot of what made The Dark Knight great was borrowed from other films (from Michael Mann, The Godfather etc.). So maybe it didn't get nominated because it was a Batman film, but on the other hand if it wasn't a Batman film, how good would it be compared with Heat or all the other crime dramas? And to put this in perspective, Mann was only nominated by the Academy when he did The Insider. Although i'd say that's his best film, the Oscar obviously doesn't like too much violence.
 
Slurmer said:
Read my post again. I said Schindler's List and Munich.
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Sorry didn't see Munich there. Still, to say that none of those other films mentioned qualify as 'good' films in your eyes is hard to believe. Imagine if you had learnt that Michael Bay/Uwe Boll/Oliver Stone (:D ) had directed any of those movies. Would you still be judging them as harshly? Would you consider them good films? Pleasantly surprised? I want to determine whether or not your measure of a good film is relative to all films or to Spielberg films.
 
Scullibundo said:
Munich is Spielberg's best film since Schindler. And to call none of those mentioned films 'good' is very cynical.
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Or, it's just because I didn't like them.

I would have said War of the Worlds was good, but the ending really ruined it for me.
 
Scullibundo said:
Sorry didn't see Munich there. Still, to say that none of those other films mentioned qualify as 'good' films in your eyes is hard to believe. Imagine if you had learnt that Michael Bay/Uwe Boll/Oliver Stone (:D ) had directed any of those movies. Would you still be judging them as harshly? Would you consider them good films? Pleasantly surprised? I want to determine whether or not your measure of a good film is relative to all films or to Spielberg films.
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I was actually going to mention that it could've been a case of higher expectations for Spielberg films.

My opinion was definitely more in regard to Spielberg's overall body of work than films in general. Still, I really didn't enjoy those films you were mentioning. I simply feel his 1975-1993 films are much better on average than those sense.


Also, for the record, I find Oliver Stone's films incredibly obnoxious. So, whenever I see something by him that I end up enjoying (Nixon and JFK) I am really caught off guard.

And "The Rock" is actually one of my biggest guilty pleasures. I have the Criterion edition!

Uwe Boll is just awful.
 
Blader5489 said:
I really love some of Howard's movies (Apollo 13 probably being my favorite), but he has no real discernible style as a director; there's nothing unique about his filmmaking. It's very paint-by-the-numbers, which, imo, really isn't Oscar-worthy.
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You don't have to be an auteur to be a good filmmaker. In fact, sometimes it's desirable not to have the director's style influence a movie. Some director's overdirect their films and can't help their own self-indulgence.
 
Snowman Prophet of Doom said:
I suppose it's okay to feel this way, but I just can't comprehend Raiders not being on somebody's top 200 list. Hell, it's probably in my top 20 or even 10.
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I really like Raiders, actually. It just isn't even the best film released that year.

Scullibundo said:
You've made the list of people with shitty taste. Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Empire of the Sun, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Catch Me If You Can? None of these will make your top 200 list? Give me a break you fucking armchair piece of shit cuntface.

:D
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So be it. :D

I do want to see Munich - I think it's the only Spielberg film I haven't seen, besides The Terminal.
 
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b80497_oscar_watch_write_off_write_in_dark.html

Batman Lives?! After The Dark Knight was shut out of the Best Picture race yesterday, we emailed an Academy voter for reaction. "The fact it and Chris Nolan weren't nominated is a shame," the voter replied. "And I plan on casting a write-in vote for it on the final ballot."
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HELL NO, WE WONT GO!!

Write-In?! In the early days of the Oscars, write-in campaigns were common, the Academy's Teni Melidonian tells E! News. In 1936, a successful write-in campaign brought an award to the unnominated Hal Mohr for his cinematography on A Midsummer's Night Dream.

So, Maybe There's a Chance for The Dark Knight, After All?! Yes. In one of the eight categories it drew a nomination.

Best Picture, however, is a lost cause.

After Mohr's win, Melidonian says, the Academy nixed future write-in votes on the final ballot. So, if someone this month were to, say, ignore the bubbles beside the five Best Picture nominees and scribble in "The Dark Knight" instead? "It does not count," she says.
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Ok we'll go :(
 
These are my picks for who I WANT to win. I'll leave some out if I don't really care or if the category includes a lot of movies I haven't seen.

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
"Slumdog Millionaire"
("Milk" is a close runner-up. I give Van Sant a lot of credit for sacrificing his arthouse tendencies to make a character-driven biopic.)

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Sean Penn in "Milk" (Focus Features)
(I won't be upset if Rourke wins, but I feel Penn gave the performance of the year.)

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)
(I think just about everyone wants Heath to win this. Brolin would've had a serious shot if they had just given him more screen time.)


PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Meryl Streep in "Doubt" (Miramax)
(The film is classic Oscar-bait, which I usually find nauseating, but Streep was excellent. I haven't seen Frozen River though.)


PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Penélope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company)


ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Screenplay by Peter Morgan


ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"Milk" (Focus Features); Written by Dustin Lance Black

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Andrew Stanton

ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo



ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
"The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films) Michael O'Connor


ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) David Fincher


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"Man on Wire" (Magnolia Pictures) A Wall to Wall Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn


ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Lee Smith


ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"


ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (ORIGINAL SCORE)
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman


ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Richard King


ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
 
Wow I just watched Slumdog Millionaire. What an excellent film deserving of Oscar nomination. I hope it wins plenty at Oscar.
 
I watched the wrestler last night.

I thought it was a much better film than CCoBB. Much better. Shame it's not nominated for Best Picture.
 
I haven't yet seen all the nominees... and this is my first exposure to some of the online angst.

Can't get over the Benjamin Button/Gump comparisons... really?

Anyhow, of the two best picture nominees I've seen (Button and Slumdog), I preferred Button. I think Slumdog will win, however.

I guess I won't have a fully qualified opinion, though... before I ever see The Reader or Frost/Nixon (frankly not that interested in either), I plan on seeing the Wrestler, which I expect will be a much realer snub than the Dark Knight (which, BTW, I thought was great).

Not sure Pitt deserves an actor nom. He was fine, I suppose.

Also, happy to see Robert Downey Jr. as a surprise supporting actor nomination. He deserves it. I wouldn't even be upset if he got the win, but I think it's clear as day it's going to Ledger (and if not, still probably not Downey).
 
Slumdog/Wall-E/Man on Wire won the Producer's Guild of America last night, by the way.

SAG Sunday night. It will be the toughest major guild for Slumdog to win (Best Ensemble), but if it does it will end up being one of the biggest locks in recent memory. Brokeback was probably just as big, but we all know how that turned out, and No Country was the Globe away from being this locked.
 
just saw Slumdog and what a disappointment... it begins like a modern, strong and original movie, escaping all genre, and it becomes a boring, unoriginal and weak crap in the second part :(
 
Just saw "In Bruges" and while I'm not sure it's Best Pic worthy, I thought it was a better movie that TDK and Slumdog. Great little piece, and the marketing kinda missed out by only playing up the comedy.
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
Just saw "In Bruges" and while I'm not sure it's Best Pic worthy, I thought it was a better movie that TDK and Slumdog. Great little piece, and the marketing kinda missed out by only playing up the comedy.
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hey do you remember the joke about belgians and chocolate?
 
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