I mean the Hurt Locker??? Seriously? What is the deal with people and this movie? It wasn’t anything that special. I have an extremely acquired taste for film and this wasn’t THAT good. There is something seriously fucked up with the voters for that thing. Crash wins over Brokeback Mountain, Dances with Wolves wins over Goodfellas AND The Silence of the Lambs.
Other than Best Picture, I’d say they got it right though.The only last thing I have to rant about is why the hell do Harry Potter movies never get nominated? I can understand the first two, but the thrid one deserved a Best Director nod, (that guy who directed Children of Men, Alfonso something) and some others.I had to post this somewhere. No one at my house really cares like I do.
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[quote]Stength4life wrote:
I mean the Hurt Locker??? Seriously? What is the deal with people and this movie? It wasn’t anything that special. I have an extremely acquired taste for film and this wasn’t THAT good.
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[quote]Stength4life wrote:
I mean the Hurt Locker??? Seriously? What is the deal with people and this movie? It wasn’t anything that special. I have an extremely acquired taste for film and this wasn’t THAT good. There is something seriously fucked up with the voters for that thing. Crash wins over Brokeback Mountain, Dances with Wolves wins over Goodfellas AND The Silence of the Lambs.
Other than Best Picture, I’d say they got it right though.The only last thing I have to rant about is why the hell do Harry Potter movies never get nominated? I can understand the first two, but the thrid one deserved a Best Director nod, (that guy who directed Children of Men, Alfonso something) and some others.I had to post this somewhere. No one at my house really cares like I do. [/quote]
Are we twins, I couldn’t agree more. And Avatar? WTF, James Cameron movies SUCK!!! Overall I think this was a weak year in movies from top to bottom. The hangover was ok but other years have had much funnier movies. What action films were there, Crapformers 2? GI Joe? And then these crappy movies up for oscars.
I mean look at 2008’s great films. Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, Milk (Sean Penn should not have beaten Mickey Rourke), Heath Ledger and TDK, Slumdog, Doubt, Frost Nixon. Well at least 2010 looks good, Shutter Island was good.
Oh and Harry Potter 3 was great, favorite book and movie in the series. I think the 1st, third, and maybe the fourth could have been nominated.
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[quote]Stength4life wrote:
I mean the Hurt Locker??? Seriously? What is the deal with people and this movie? It wasn’t anything that special. I have an extremely acquired taste for film and this wasn’t THAT good.
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I gave the OP a chance and continued reading, but then:
[quote]Stength4life wrote:
The only last thing I have to rant about is why the hell do Harry Potter movies never get nominated?[/quote]
Ever since the scent of the green papaya was nominated i decided not to ever watch an oscar award show again
its never the good films that actually wins ! it must be so easy to start you own awards. all you need to do is use common sense and not try to award some film about a daugther who help her mom make a shoe out of seaweed before she dies ! seriously i didnt think i could write a story so bad if i tried…
The Scent of Green Papaya sounds like a lame fucking movie, but it lost in the only category it was nominated in (best foreign language film). What superior foreign language film did its nomination supplant, blunt? Or am a fish you just successfully trolled for?
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Ever since the scent of the green papaya was nominated i decided not to ever watch an oscar award show again
its never the good films that actually wins ! it must be so easy to start you own awards. all you need to do is use common sense and not try to award some film about a daugther who help her mom make a shoe out of seaweed before she dies ! seriously i didnt think i could write a story so bad if i tried…[/quote]
Its the same with “At the Movies” on ABC.
The critics will hate a movie that everyone else seems to love and go see, but they’ll love some crappy foreign movie that won’t be seen by anyone. They’ll say “Shutter Island was boring, blah, blah, blah”.
But if a movie about a gay Yiddish clown who was raped by his father and has only one hand, who teams up with a Hitler look a like and travels the world to find the perfect box of cheerios. Oh, and the movie is filmed upside down and nobody talks in the whole movie.
The “elite” Hollywood critics eats that shit up so they can try and sounds smart.
[quote]bluefingas wrote:…If a movie about a gay Yiddish clown who was raped by his father and has only one hand, who teams up with a Hitler look a like and travels the world to find the perfect box of cheerios. Oh, and the movie is filmed upside down and nobody talks in the whole movie.
The “elite” Hollywood critics eats that shit up so they can try and sounds smart.[/quote]
i remember that being true with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang… its not like it was the best movie in the world but i remember that it got 1 star in every review i read before going to the cinema… and i always watches it when its on TV because i thinks its a good movie… and so does all of my friends…
but i remember the same magazine that gave it 1 star made a review of the DVD suddently it had 4 stars(out of 5) and was a good movie to !!! wtf is up with that ! a movie should only go up or down 1 star depending on content of the DVD
sometimes i even go see movies that movie critics dont like just because i useally thik those are the best !
Best picture: i hate this award most because theres always somebody who says “Avatar(insert this years romantic film) have sold the most tickets so it should win” … yea i also think its time that mcdonalds and burger king got awarded some michelin stars !!!
It’s a self serving award ceremony. It’s the academy that votes, not the box office receipts (loved the analogy about the clown picture). If it was based on popularity or if the movie goers voted, then you would see Harry Potter movies nominated. But then you would also see the Beverly Hillbillies and Taladega Nights nominated.
I only watch if Jon Stewart is hosting. All those half-starved starlets with their botox frozen faces and exposed boney shoulder blades make me very sad. It’s all so artificial and means nothing.
The last good movie I saw was Inglorious Bastards. Brad Pitt is slowly gaining my respect:
You probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-takin’ business; we in the killin’ Nazi business. And cousin, Business is a-boomin’.
But then I like Quentin Tarantino movies because he’s got the balls to not follow the recipe.
