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[SlowRevolution]

Her "What's going on? Where am I?" attitude sometimes straddles the line between charming and annoying.

by next year it'll be annoying. for now just embrace it

 

[thecouncil]

ha. that dude is great. you could see it coming from a mile away. how unfortunate.

 

[HerbertFish]

My local news reading tweets:

"Kristen Stewart seems like she's always two aspirins away from needing her stomach pumped"

LMAO

She looked horrible. Definitely looked on some drugs.

 

[Wilbur]

Departed wasn't that great.

I loved it. Nowhere near Scorsese's best but great acting across the board, and just massively entertaining.

Slumdog is not shit man.
Wtf is wrong with you.

It was like if you took the message from Life of Pi and clubbed everyone round the head with it

 

[JABEE]

Basterds too.

I don't know how QT keeps winning for Writing, if everyone hates him too much to give him BP.

 

[Akahige]

Priceless

Can the Onion survive the onslaught that is coming?

Yes

 

[Future Foundation]

Can the Onion survive the onslaught that is coming?

Well the tweet is still up, so I don't think they really mind/care.

 

[zychi]

The real winner tonight? WALTER WHITE HAS AN OSCAR!

 

[MidnightCowboy]

I love DDL as much as the next guy, but he should have won god dammit

 

[THRILLH0]

The Academy really wanted to capitalize on Lawrence's popularity. Gotta reach those demographics somehow.

This. I'll bet they all discussed it in the last big meeting they all had together right?

 

[speedline]

Watch "There Will Be Blood" as well. Would have won in any other year.

hell yeah

 

[Axiology]

I haven't seen Argo yet, but really? His worst film?

The Town was pretty mediocre (and overrated)

 

[Wilbur]

I genuinely think Slumdog Millionaire is one of the worst Best Picture winners ever.

Gonna go look at Wiki and confirm

 

[jtb]

The real winner tonight? WALTER WHITE HAS AN OSCAR!

No he doesn't?

 

[Oersted]

So awesome.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Has anyone seen The Onion's tweet on Wallis?

:lol

 

[SlowRevolution]

She looked horrible. Definitely looked on some drugs.

Apparently she stepped on glass and almost didn't present but didn't want to drop out. Probably on painkillers.

 

[bomma_man]

The King's Speech was so predictable. It won for its script too didn't it? That's an awful decision, Geoffrey Rush is like some antipodean magical negro.

 

[Alucard]

a pretty wonky and MURICA version, when in reality Canada did more than half the work

a wrong history lesson aint really "something right"

That was really my only major gripe with it. I didn't like it downplaying Canada at the end, but I still thought it showed enough of Canada's role for me not to jump on the re-writing history hate train. Was it patriotically American? Yeah. And I typically hate that living in Canada myself. However, I thought the editing was REALLY fucking good, the music was excellent, the acting was on point, the costumes were perfect, the images were memorable, and the pacing was nearly flawless.

Anyway, if it gets people to actually research the Iranian hostage crisis, I'd say it's win-win. People can find out the true story themselves with a quick google search and learn something more about the world.

 

[iuxion]

I haven't even seen any of the other nominees, but even I know Brave shouldn't have won.

 

[Gahiggidy]

Jesus Christ, I just realized I'm two months older than Jennifer Lawrence. Fuck.

My God, I just realized I'm fourteen years older than t-ramp. Shit.

 

[Gorillaz]

I don't know how QT keeps winning for Writing, if everyone hates him too much to give him BP.

Because it's almost like "hey your good but we still aint trying to give you that BP...BUT HEY TAKE THIS BEST SCREENPLAY or whatever"

 

[odiin]

If I was a director I'd hate to see my film win best picture knowing that, upon winning, it will instantly become a piece of shit that not only shouldn't have been nominated, but never should have been made in the first place.

 

[jtb]

I haven't seen Argo yet, but really? His worst film?

The Town was pretty mediocre (and overrated)

Gone Baby Gone is a legitimately great movie. One of the best of 2007 (and that was a great year), maybe even one of the best of the 2000s. Go watch that instead of Argo.

If I was a director I'd hate to see my film win best picture knowing that, upon winning, it will instantly become a piece of shit that not only shouldn't have been nominated, but never should have been made in the first place.

I'd feel like shit if I made crash too, man.

 

[JABEE]

Pulp Fiction didn't win, so I'm afraid he never will

Scorsesse never won until The Departed. Let's hope Tarantino's BP isn't of the same quality. Even though The Departed was a good movie.

 

[Thug Waffle]

I don't know how QT keeps winning for Writing, if everyone hates him too much to give him BP.

Because if they snubbed him entirely, it'd be too obvious.

The Hurt Locker (both the film and the screenplay) couldn't hold a damn candle to Inglourious Basterds. The Hurt Locker's good, but Jesus... We should accept that Tarantino will probably never win a BP.

 

[bndadm]

A safe film could still be much better than Brave. Brave felt like a 30-minute special they might air on the Disney Channel or something

Thematically all over the place, didn't commit to displaying a strong young girl as a hero, and like you said, safe storytelling.

It only seemed to resonate with girls young and old. Which is fine, but it's not "best animated feature" fine.

 

[I NEED SCISSORS]

Disappointed Django did not win. I know it had precisely zero chance of winning best picture, but it was the most I have enjoyed a film in the theater in years. I think the audience knew it too when it's compared to all these mega serious movies (I lol'd at how butthurt Affleck was at Seth MacFarlane's joke). Seth was also a great host since his usually smug persona is a lot like a presenter of an awards show, so he was a perfect choice.

 

[Skel1ingt0n]

I haven't seen Argo yet, but really? His worst film?

The Town was pretty mediocre (and overrated)

The Town is spectacular - my favorite movie that year. I'm slightly angry because you have a different opinion than me on the internet.

 

[HerbertFish]

Argo's going to join that list of forgettable BP winners soon too.

I don't know. I think it's at least memorable for Affleck.

 

[zychi]

No he doesn't?

Thats the joke. Look at my avatar.

 

[VeryGooster]

QT will get his Best Picture for Vega Brothers.

 

[Meier]

Loved Slumdog. Thought The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was great too. Dev is a-okay in my book -- charming and likeable.

 

[odiin]

I'd feel like shit if I made crash too, man.

Okay, you have me there.

 

[Officerrob]

Gone Baby Gone is a legitimately great movie. One of the best of 2007 (and that was a great year), maybe even one of the best of the 2000s. Go watch that instead of Argo.

Gone Baby Gone was fantastic. It almost felt like people didn't know how to deal with Affleck making a good film, so they just left it out come award time.

 

[Jimothy]

Django got robbed for Sound Editing. The gunshot effects in the shootouts were amazing.

 

[Lonestar]

Wolverine didn't save Mystique

 

[JABEE]

I think Tarantino is good at making films that are not only really smart and funny, but can also appeal to people's most basest instincts and the lowest common denominator. It's why his movies are pretty uniformly and begrudgingly enjoyed by even the harshest of critics. The only people who hate him do so out of jealousy, and the fact that he seems like an arrogant, prick who thinks he knows everything. Movie-goers revel in it, while the Academy despises him.

 

[Wilbur]

Worst picture winners out of the 60+ I've seen worse than Slumdog:

Kramer vs Kramer
Driving Miss Daisy
Crash

 

[smokeymicpot]

Reasons I'm happy to see Argo win:

-Ben Affleck has turned his career around. Complete 180. What a man.
-The film gave us some amazing tension.
-It gave today's generation a history lesson about America's past sins. Any movie that gets people to think about history and about the state of the world is doing something right.
-The soundtrack was great. I loved the 70s and 80s vibe.
-Affleck. Affleck. Affleck.

Argo fuck yourself.

Affleck is the fucking bomb.

 

[Wilbur]

Holy shit I forgot Inception was nominated for BP lol

 

[bndadm]

Losing this year just means that:

Deakins has to be cinematographer on next Bond (and win it that time)
Hugh Jackman needs to be in more everything (style & class)
Daniel Radcliffe is pretty good at things other than Harry Potter
Spielberg should go back to making non Oscar-bait films.

Of course I would be happy with all of that regardless of the reasons why.

 

[.GqueB.]

What was this in reaction to?

 

[Nesotenso]

Kirsten Stewart consistently looks like she is disinterested in life. Was she limping on stage with Radcliffe ?

 

[Ithil]

I thought the Academy was still clinging to the old actors. Plus, am I the only one that thought it was narcissistic that Lawrence wished Emanuelle a happy birthday in her acceptance speech?

Hopefully.

 

[JABEE]

What was this in reaction to?

His name being announced for a Best Actor nomination.

 

[blame space]

What was this in reaction to?

that's his reaction to being nominated for best actor

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

I want to see Joaquin win some day just to see what he says up there, but I fear he will go down the Peter O'Toole way.

 

[SlowRevolution]

Kirsten Stewart consistently looks like she is disinterested in life. Was she limping on stage with Radcliffe ?

Yeah, she was on crutches before that. She stepped on glass apparently

 

[.GqueB.]

Gone Baby Gone was fantastic. It almost felt like people didn't know how to deal with Affleck making a good film, so they just left it out come award time.

Yea it was fucking tragic. Such an amazing movie with a damn near perfect ending. Everything about it was really great.