General Chat / Oscar Nominations

its all about foxx

It's a feminist-boxing-tear-jerker he directed. And can you spell? It's "Million", and "Dollar".

Oh, yeah, anyways: few of the nominated films look very interesting to me. "House of flying daggers" may be good, but, we'll see.

No to both of your questions.

The original post has to have the worst formatting I've ever seen.  It's unreadable.

Anyway, nothing too unexpected went on this morning, save for Mike Leigh's Best Director nomination... seeing Million Dollar Baby and Hotel Rwanda this week.

Sorry to veer terribly off topic, but vTd... your avatar fucking rules man! Where did you get it?

Baltimore who?

I was surprised that The Incredibles got nominated for best original screenplay instead of Garden State.. even though I hated Garden State.

I think this year pretty much sucked for Hollywood. The only good movie looks to be Sideways.. and I haven't even seen that yet. Alexander Payne is awesome and should already have an oscar for Election.

The original post has to have the worst formatting I've ever seen.  It's unreadable.

Anyway, nothing too unexpected went on this morning, save for Mike Leigh's Best Director nomination... seeing Million Dollar Baby and Hotel Rwanda this week.

Sorry to veer terribly off topic, but vTd... your avatar fucking rules man! Where did you get it?

Ravens messageboard.

Great stuff isn't it? Watching that game made my night.

Yeah.
And I'm sure it made Mr. Drizzle's, as well.

The original post has to have the worst formatting I've ever seen.  It's unreadable.

Anyway, nothing too unexpected went on this morning, save for Mike Leigh's Best Director nomination... seeing Million Dollar Baby and Hotel Rwanda this week.

Sorry to veer terribly off topic, but vTd... your avatar fucking rules man! Where did you get it?

Baltimore who?

You know... that team that HAS won a Superbowl since the Reagan administration.

You're not gonna win anything as long as Marty Cowherheimer is your coach.

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Wait a minute now. I may not like Marty that much either, but no need to go there.

I think the name "Cowher" is insulting enough by now, thanks.

Worst year of Cinema 'EVAR'.


This year looks to be better - go 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' - already that thing has scared the shit out of me... Johnny Depp + Teeth Caps = eeeek.


Shrek 2!

The original post has to have the worst formatting I've ever seen.  It's unreadable.

Anyway, nothing too unexpected went on this morning, save for Mike Leigh's Best Director nomination... seeing Million Dollar Baby and Hotel Rwanda this week.

Sorry to veer terribly off topic, but vTd... your avatar fucking rules man! Where did you get it?

Baltimore who?

You know... that team that HAS won a Superbowl since the Reagan administration.

You're not gonna win anything as long as Marty Cowherheimer is your coach.

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Good luck winning a division championship any time soon.


And after that Superbowl season, you guys successfully did worse than the Cleveland Browns, who are probably the worst team of all time.

Probably the worst round of nominations in my life.  There really wasn't anything good this past year.  Aviator, Neverland, and Million Dollar Baby will clean up.

Yes well, one can only hope. But based against some of it's competition, I doubt Finding Neverland will get anything...

The original post has to have the worst formatting I've ever seen.  It's unreadable.

Anyway, nothing too unexpected went on this morning, save for Mike Leigh's Best Director nomination... seeing Million Dollar Baby and Hotel Rwanda this week.

Sorry to veer terribly off topic, but vTd... your avatar fucking rules man! Where did you get it?

Baltimore who?

You know... that team that HAS won a Superbowl since the Reagan administration.

You're not gonna win anything as long as Marty Cowherheimer is your coach.

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Good luck winning a division championship any time soon.


And after that Superbowl season, you guys successfully did worse than the Cleveland Browns, who are probably the worst team of all time.

It's best not to throw around insults when you don't have your facts right. The year after winning the Superbowl, we went 10-6 without Jamal Lewis and went to the Divisional round of the playoffs.

Until New England did it this year, we were the ONLY team in the last 5 years to make the playoffs after winning the Superbowl.

I'm not even going to watch the awards this year.

I may be ignorant but what I have heard and seen most of the Best Picture nominees look like "good movies." Movies that are well done and deserve much respect but are a tier below the excellent films that usually make it to a Best Picture nomination. There were really no top-tier films this year, I guess, no achievements like Return of the King or Master and Commander. Those movies may be very well done, but it seems like there's so little cinematic achievement in them other than excellent acting. RotK and MoC were cinematic achievements, people daring to do what had never or rarely been produced before on screen.

Shrek 2 deserves no nominations. It might have done some things well but it is so many tiers below the standards of great movies that it doesn't belong in the Academy Awards. Not singling out best song, but perhaps they should just reduce the number of nominees in some categories in certain years if the movies they put in there are just filler, "it did this well but it was forgettable anyways."

This might have been a great year for acting, but it wasn't one for cinematic achievement. The Aviator seemed to be about the biggest-scale and longest (still well under three hours) mainstream movie made this year. That's just sad.

"Finding Neverland" was the best movie I saw this year and that was because it was smart, had great acting, a great script and was just enjoyable to watch. I think I know what you're getting at Panic, but for me atleast, a movie doesn't have to be grand to be enjoyable.

"Finding Neverland" was the best movie I saw this year and that was because it was smart, had great acting, a great script and was just enjoyable to watch. I think I know what you're getting at Panic, but for me atleast, a movie doesn't have to be grand to be enjoyable.

It's not my favorite of the year, but it's in my Top 10 (will probably be around 6-7 when it's all said and done)... and it's my favorite of the three BP nominees I've seen... those being The Aviator, Neverland, and Sideways.

1. Finding Neverland ****
2. Sideways ***1/2
3. The Aviator ***1/2

I'm seeing Million Dollar Baby this week (saturday?) and Ray is out on DVD next Tuesday.

I sort of agree with Panic that this year has been weaker than year's past. My #1 so far from 2004 might not have made my Top 5 last year. It seems to be that it's simply because most of the big anticipated films that were supposed to be incredibly memorable have almost uniformly disappointed most people and all the quality has been coming from smaller stuff that nobody had even heard about 12 months ago. I didn't expect ANY of the films currently in my Top 5 to make my list... I had Collateral and Finding Neverland pegged to probably make my Top 10, but not as high as either one certainly will.

1. Touching the Void
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
4. Collateral
5. Finding Neverland

There's really only three films I haven't seen that I feel have any chance of pushing any of these off (Million Dollar Baby, Hotel Rwanda, and The Motorcycle Diaries).

^Agreed on Touching the Void at number one. How could I forget about that.

And nate, I agree with you that a film doesn't have to be grand to be excellent. I totally do. Just I think that there were too many films that looked to be steering in the opposite direction on purpose this year.

^#1 (second list) remembered after my having forgotten about it (unforgivable crime).

^#1 agreed with.

That was all kind of confusing.

I just saw Finding Neverland...

Wow. What an excellent movie- Johnny Depp is superb, Kate Winslet is superb, the boy who played Peter is superb... the whole movie is just a wonder to be seen. I'm glad I spent my evening at the theater!

Sideways is showing in a town 30 minutes away... I'll probably go see it if I have the chance.

Saw Million Dollar Baby today. Best film of the year... and I don't say that lightly.