I use the Tron OST as work out music. Easy way to make a work out feel epic.
I like my movies and books with a touch of subtlety, which is why I didn’t like Crash. Ludacris was the best part of that movie.
[quote]sardines12 wrote:
And Crash did suck, the dumbest race movie I’ve ever seen. [/quote]
Thank you - I thought I was the only one that thought this. The Oscars became 100% meaningless to me after Crash won best picture.
Sorry if that contributes to a thread derailment.
I went to see TKS a couple of weeks ago, without any expectations and really enjoyed it.
The only other movie I saw was ‘Inception’ and ejoyed it as well.
I’m ok with TKS being MOTY.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
I’m curious to know what you think a good race movie is?
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Going by his previous attempts to one-up me on movie criticism without reading my posts properly, I’d say his fave race movie is Days of Thunder[/quote]
nope I liked do the right thing way more than crash.
[quote]sardines12 wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
I’m curious to know what you think a good race movie is?
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Going by his previous attempts to one-up me on movie criticism without reading my posts properly, I’d say his fave race movie is Days of Thunder[/quote]
nope I liked do the right thing way more than crash.[/quote]
My comment was meant as a joke. Days of Thunder is a race movie after all.
so about The King’s Speech…Oscar worthy?
^^ I still think your avatar is Oscar worthy.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
so about The King’s Speech…Oscar worthy?[/quote]
Oscar worthy? Hmmm… It was probably the most ‘Oscar-friendly’ of all the nominated movies this year. As Caveman said, it ticked all the right boxes:
Underdog story? Check.
Based on true events? Check.
British royalty? Check.
Physical tick for the main actor? Check.
Most importantly, Colin Firth didn’t go full retard. Was George VI a stammerer? Sure. Lacking in self-confidence? Maybe. But he wasn’t retarded: he became King of England after his bro abdicated the throne. That’s not retarded.
The Kings Speech
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[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
so about The King’s Speech…Oscar worthy?[/quote]
Oscar worthy? Hmmm… It was probably the most ‘Oscar-friendly’ of all the nominated movies this year. As Caveman said, it ticked all the right boxes:
Underdog story? Check.
Based on true events? Check.
British royalty? Check.
Physical tick for the main actor? Check.
Most importantly, Colin Firth didn’t go full retard. Was George VI a stammerer? Sure. Lacking in self-confidence? Maybe. But he wasn’t retarded: he became King of England after his bro abdicated the throne. That’s not retarded.[/quote]
I’d have to say, though, that if he had any other wife, he would never have been able to become king. Elizabeth (aka the Queen Mother) provided him the spine he needed before he found his own.
It also deals with a very common problem that hundreds of thousands of people deal with for their entire lives and that makes the movie that much more relatable to the common people.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
The real bummer is that True Grit got no love. Was it because it was a remake? Was it because the Cohen bro’s have won so much in the past? Same goes for J. Bardem. That dude rules, but did he not get further consideration because he got a trophy two years ago?[/quote]
I’m inclined to agree. I admit I haven’t seen TKS but it must be damned good to have beaten True Grit. I suspect academy politics to have played a major part here though.
Hailee Steinfeld was really robbed though. AFAIK she was nominated in ‘Best Supporting Actress’ because she had a better chance of winning there(even though she was the main character in TG) but was robbed there as well.
Stellar performance from a promising young actress.
Also, why is there an award for ‘Best Actor in a leading role’ and ‘Best Actress in a leading role’ based off certain movies and not one for ‘Best Performance’?
Just seems odd is all…