bob_barron Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Posted January 23, 2009 No, CBright. Annie Hall is much better than Star Wars. Someone ranked The Reader #3? Really? REALLY?
Epic Reine Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 The Reader is this year's Atonement.
RHR Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 1. This is two years in a row the Best Song from the Golden Globes DID NOT EVEN GET NOMINATED: "Guaranteed" Eddie Vedder, "The Wrestler" Bruce Springsteen I am a HUGE FAN of both artists, but, even objectively I cannot fathom how neither got NOMINATED. Especially Springsteen, since a)brings in viewers; and b) the song is the perfect companion to the movie. 2. Also on the songs, "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" was eligible? Man...they should have had fun with it and done both the "Sarah Marshall" song and "Rock Me Sexy Jesus". I would have watched the Oscars for both of those alone. 3. On that Top Ten link, how did two critics put "Twilight" in their list? What? What? I feel bad for anyone subjected to those reviews. 4. Fuck The Reader. I saw it. "Yawn". Although, Kate naked was a great thing.
The Niggardly King Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 So according to the LA Times and I'm taking this very lightly due to the horrendous amount... Curious Case of Benjamin Button's total cost is damn near 300 million. 150 million to make it 135 in marketing and distributing the movie all over the world 8-10 million so far spent for the Oscar Campaign ...
Lord of The Curry Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 All this buildup leading to Brad Pitt not winning? Kinda lame.
godthedog Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 that's what david fincher gets for turning into a pussy.
PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! Posted January 25, 2009 Report Posted January 25, 2009 Yeah but it still got nominated for like 10x as many awards as all his other, better movies combined. It's gonna be a real bummer if he just sticks to making treacly middlebrow trash from here on out. Zodiac was so good
The Ghost of bps21 Posted February 18, 2009 Report Posted February 18, 2009 We should have an Oscar prediction contest. Other than making my selections though...that's pretty much all the effort I'm putting into it.
Youth N Asia Posted February 18, 2009 Report Posted February 18, 2009 The Reader is this year's Atonement. Meaning this year's movie that critics will go boners over but no one else really will see? And Star Wars is better than Annie Hall
The Ghost of bps21 Posted February 18, 2009 Report Posted February 18, 2009 Actually that's pretty much most of the movies they nominated this year.
bob_barron Posted February 18, 2009 Author Report Posted February 18, 2009 Start a seperate thread, bps. I love predicting the Oscars
The Ghost of bps21 Posted February 18, 2009 Report Posted February 18, 2009 Alright, fine. Someone see if we can get JHawk to give the winner some of his money.
bob_barron Posted February 18, 2009 Author Report Posted February 18, 2009 I figure we can also use that thread for Oscar talk during the show
PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! Posted February 18, 2009 Report Posted February 18, 2009 And Star Wars is better than Annie Hall Nope.
Epic Reine Posted February 18, 2009 Report Posted February 18, 2009 I still can't get over the Heath Ledger ass kissing. As awesome as Ledger was as The Joker, I think we can all agree that the Academy or any other award ceremony wouldn't give two shits about the role had he not died. The performance was excellent, it's just sad that it took Heath dying for the Academy to finally realize it. Now we get all these awards shows milking his death and it's just plain sad. Just think, had he still been alive today, there wouldn't be any of this.
The Ghost of bps21 Posted February 18, 2009 Report Posted February 18, 2009 When Downey Jr. gets nominated for Tropic Thunder...I'd like to think that Ledger would have been nominated for the Dark Knight anyway.
The Niggardly King Posted February 21, 2009 Report Posted February 21, 2009 Is Slumdog really that good of a film or did it get all this love because of the shit ton of money to be made in Bollywood?
Ravenbomb Posted February 21, 2009 Report Posted February 21, 2009 It's the best of the Best Picture nominees and I can understand people liking it as much as they seem to.
Jingus Posted February 21, 2009 Report Posted February 21, 2009 Yeah. It definitely kicks the shit out of The Reader and Benjamin Button, and while I haven't seen the other two Best Pic noms I have a hard time imagining they'd be better. Hell, I actually liked Slumdog better overall than Dark Knight, not in pure fanboy fun but in terms of cinematic artistic achievement and other big words. Although I still wouldn't say it was the best movie I've seen this year, that was Wall-E, which really deserved more than the Best Animated and Best Sound Something that it's gonna get.
The Ghost of bps21 Posted February 21, 2009 Report Posted February 21, 2009 I fucking hated Wall E and thought that after the first half hour the movie got so bad that everyone liking it is some massive prank being pulled on me.
Kahran Ramsus Posted February 21, 2009 Report Posted February 21, 2009 I'm a Frost/Nixon man myself, but it definitely doesn't surprise me that Slumdog Millionaire has a much broader appeal. The timing for Slumdog Millionaire, with the economy going down the tubes, couldn't be better.
Jingus Posted February 21, 2009 Report Posted February 21, 2009 I fucking hated Wall E and thought that after the first half hour the movie got so bad that everyone liking it is some massive prank being pulled on me. Everyone has a movie like that. You can't say a nice word about Natural Born Killers anywhere near me without getting a lot of inarticulate screaming in return.
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