OT: Oscar Nominations
by Natto on Feb 3, 2010 11:38 AM PST
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PrintYesterday the list of Oscar nominees was released. I don't really put much weight on them, but hey, we could use some more pointless discussions while we wait for pitchers and catchers to report. Here is the list.
Best Picture
'Avatar'
'The Blind Side'
'District 9'
'An Education'
'The Hurt Locker'
'Inglourious Basterds'
'Precious
'A Serious Man'
'Up'
'Up in the Air'
Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow 'The Hurt Locker'
James Cameron 'Avatar'
Lee Daniels 'Precious'
ason Reitman 'Up in the Air'
Quentin Tarantino 'Inglourious Basterds'
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges 'Crazy Heart'
George Clooney 'Up in the Air'
Colin Firth 'A Single Man'
Morgan Freeman 'Invictus'
Jeremy Renner 'The Hurt Locker'
Best Actress
Sandra Bullock 'The Blind Side'
Helen Mirren 'The Last Station'
Carey Mulligan 'An Education'
Gabourey Sidibe 'Precious'
Meryl Streep 'Julie and Julia'
Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon 'Invictus'
Woody Harrelson 'The Messenger'
Christopher Plummer 'The Last Station'
Stanley Tucci 'The Lovely Bones'
Christoph Waltz 'Inglourious Basterds'
Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz 'Nine'
Vera Farmiga 'Up in the Air'
Maggie Gyllenhaal 'Crazy Heart'
Anna Kendrick 'Up in the Air'
Mo'nique 'Precious'
Best Animated Feature Film
'Coraline'
'Fantastic Mr. Fox'
'The Princess and the Frog'
'The Secret of Kells'
'Up'
Best Original Screenplay
Mark Boal 'The Hurt Locker' Quentin Tarantino 'Inglourious Basterds' Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman 'The Messenger' Joel Coen and Ethan Coen 'A Serious Man' Peter Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy 'Up'
Best Adapted Screenplay
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell 'District 9' Nick Hornby 'An Education' Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche 'In the Loop' Geoffrey Fletcher 'Precious' Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner 'Up in the Air'
Best Documentary Feature
'Burma VJ' 'The Cove' 'Food, Inc.' 'The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers' 'Which Way Home'
Best Original Score
'Avatar' 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' 'The Hurt Locker' 'Sherlock Holmes' 'Up'
Best Original Song
'Almost There' from 'The Princess and the Frog' Music and Lyric by Randy Newman 'Down in New Orleans' from 'The Princess and the Frog' Music and Lyric by Randy Newman 'Loin de Paname' from 'Paris 36' Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas 'Take It All' from 'Nine' Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston 'The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)' from 'Crazy Heart' Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Best Film Editing
'Avatar' 'District 9' 'The Hurt Locker' 'Inglourious Basterds' 'Precious'
Best Cinematography
'Avatar' 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' 'The Hurt Locker' 'Inglourious Basterds' 'The White Ribbon'
Best Visual Effects
'Avatar' Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones 'District 9' Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken 'Star Trek' Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Best Sound Editing
'Avatar' Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle 'The Hurt Locker' Paul N.J. Ottosson 'Inglourious Basterds' Wylie Stateman 'Star Trek' Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin 'Up' Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Best Sound Mixing
'Avatar' Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson 'The Hurt Locker' Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett 'Inglourious Basterds' Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano 'Star Trek' Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Best Short Film (Live Action)
'The Door' Juanita Wilson and James Flynn 'Instead of Abracadabra' Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström 'Kavi' Gregg Helvey 'Miracle Fish' Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey 'The New Tenants' Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Best Short Film (Animated)
'French Roast' Fabrice O. Joubert 'Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty' Nicky Phelan and Darragh O?Connell 'The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)' Javier Recio Gracia 'Logorama' Nicolas Schmerkin 'A Matter of Loaf and Death' Nick Park
I'll post my thoughts below, but what do y'all think? Your picks? Anyone get robbed of a nomination? TELL US NOW!!
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Wow, Coraline is in teh Animation section? I thought that was claymation.
AVATAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAven’t seen it, but its one of those movies you knew would be nominated for everything, just because.
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Coraline is stop-motion animation which is still… animation.
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I C NOW.
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by say hey nation on Feb 3, 2010 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
My sister’s boyfriend didn’t like Coraline because it looked too much like stop-motion and stop-motion freaks him out.
It was only later that anyone told him it wasn’t a CG film.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
That's awesome...
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by The Montana Giant on Feb 3, 2010 5:39 PM PST up reply actions
Hahaha amazing
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2010 7:58 PM PST up reply actions
Of the Best Picture noms, I’ve only seen Avatar, Inglourious Basterds, District 9, and Up. Up is only the second animated flick to be nominated for Best Picture (the other is Beauty and the Beast), so it’s nice to see an animated movie get some love for a change. Of course, I’m a bit biased in my opinion of who should be the winner here, but there are some decent candidates.
Pixar actually has some competition this time in the Best Animated Feature category. The Fantastic Mr. Fox could be a dark horse since it seems to have a lot of ingredients the committee would like: Wes Anderson, George Clooney, and non-traditional animation. I think Up should get it, but unlike previous years, you can’t go wrong with some of the other ones.
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I haven’t seen Up, but Coraline was a damn good movie.
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by say hey nation on Feb 3, 2010 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
Coraline scared the crap out of my 7 year old. So much for my idea of making her favorite dinner and putting two black buttons in front of her plate.
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This was actually a fantastic year for animation, and I didn’t even care for FMF much. I loved Coraline, Up, and even Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was a ton of fun.
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It seems like a relatively weak year for the non-animated American stuff, though.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
I forgot about that one! Another good one.
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You’ll notice, though, that Ponyo is exactly the opposite of a “non-animated American” movie.
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I need to see that still. It’ll be on DVD soon, I think.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:40 PM PST up reply actions
It might be one of Miyazaki’s weakest films, but that’s only relative to his other work. It’s still very fun.
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Ponyo was cute.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 2:37 PM PST up reply actions
I just watched ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ a couple weeks ago with my son. We were both cracking up histerically.
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It’s from the creators of Clone High, if there are any fans of that here.
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Actually the other two guys: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
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This is a good way of putting it.
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Addendum
I haven’t seen any of the other movies in the Supporting Actor category, but Christoph Waltz in IB was amazing. His character was probably my favorite villain of the year.
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I was more than slightly annoyed.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
OK it was more than slightly.
Up being nominated is great but for some reason I feel like it’s probably not being given any serious consideration by the voters.
Especially since there are 100 other nominees on the board.
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Also, they might accidentally vote for Up in the Air instead of Up.
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I really want to see Fantastic Mr. Fox. But Up was really great.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 1:39 PM PST up reply actions
since they have a best animated category now, no animated film will ever win best picture.
by microwave donut on Feb 3, 2010 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
Up deserves best picture. Avatar shouldn’t have been nominated (I guess nobody cares about plot anymore). That is my opinion as concise as can be.
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I agree
Actually, I think I’m ok with it being nominated (just because it is “important”), but there’s no way in hell it should win.
Clarification
I’m ok with it being nominated in this stupid “TEN NOMINEEZ” system. With only 5, no way.
I loved Coraline, I hope it wins something. I really want to see The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
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I haven’t seen Coraline, but I know I’ll like it, judging from the behind the scenes stuff I’ve watched. FMF is really good.
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I wasn’t a big fan, though I seem to be a very small minority. I just thought that a lot of the quirkiness of Wes Anderson’s characters is lost in stop-motion puppets for some reason. Something about the range of expression. I also just found it slow.
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That was exactly my mindset going into Avatar, though. And it was awful!
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I turned off the rational part of my brain and had a good time. I forgot about most of the movie afterwards though.
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by say hey nation on Feb 3, 2010 12:04 PM PST up reply actions
I even really like Titanic, and I still couldn’t get into Avatar.
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I thought it was a fun movie. I’m not sure it’s the 500 billion dollar earning movie, or whatever it’s up to, but it was fun. A little stupid. But fun. And pretty!
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IT was pretty and there’s no doubt it should win all the effects awards, etc, but it’ll be a joke if it wins Best Picture.
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It was The Last Samurai in Space.
I loved watching it, but I thought basically everything else about it was kind of sucky.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:28 PM PST up reply actions
the suckiest part
they fucking called that shit “unobtanium”
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I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:15 PM PST up reply actions
I KEPT WONDERING IF THEY WERE GOING TO BE ABLE TO OBTAIN IT!
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:16 PM PST up reply actions
That’s where they lost my dad. I was explaining the plot to him, and he was with it (realizing the plot was stupid and unoriginal), and when I told him they were looking for ‘unobtainium’ he just went “No. Really? That’s ridiculous. This is stupid”.
Some friends said that there was some Hollywood inside joke that made them call it that, but I still don’t think that’s an excuse. Inside jokes are fine when they make everyone else go “What?” but they’re not okay when they make everyone else point and laugh at you in your idiocy, or cause them to not take you seriously anymore.
Well, “unobtainium” is honest to goodness real-life jargon. But that doesn’t make it unridiculous.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
Its what scientists call an element that is too good to be true or is impossible to get so it makes sense that some sort of amazing element would be called unobtanium in the movie. Its a real term
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Yeah, real stupid.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:35 PM PST up reply actions
That was fun.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:36 PM PST up reply actions
It’s just too bad the movie wasn’t a comedy.
They’re fighting a BLOODY WAR over this stuff. They’re MURDERING INNOCENT PEOPLE to get this stuff. It shouldn’t be funny.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
I enjoyed Avatar more after I dismissed the idea that it was science fiction and did my best to ignore the cultural bullshit.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:29 PM PST up reply actions
I didn’t like it even after that. I could see each plot point 2 minutes before it occurred on-screen. And the characters were awful and 1-dimensional.
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I think the only character I liked was the lanky scientist dude. For all of the sociological problems with the movie, at least he put hi real like on the line to fight in the battle after his Avatar fucked out.
I absolutely despised the “big red dragon riding” thing. It was a terrible, super-easy way to avoid actually dealing with the fact that Jake wasn’t even remotely integrated into the Na’Vi culture.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:36 PM PST up reply actions
ahem. like = life.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:36 PM PST up reply actions
I kinda liked Sigourney Weaver, but that might just be because I like Sigourney Weaver in general.
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I think she’s pretty damn hot. Of course, in my mind she’ll always be Ripley. I’ll see almost anything she’s in.
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In some ways, I almost wish they had made the story of that movie alone into two films or something, just because I didn’t buy at all that Jake was suddenly so in touch with his Na’vi side or that he had fallen in love with Neytiri or anything.
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I’m pretty sure that he was just really turned on by the idea of gettin’ with a giant sexy naked alien, and he might have mistaken that for love.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:42 PM PST up reply actions
I wish they did more with the scientist dude. He deserved some more development.
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Seriously. I mean, he never even had alien sex.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:12 PM PST up reply actions
WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE SCIENTIST DUDE
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I liked him too!
The big red dragon thingy was the point where it totally lost me. What a way to demean the whole culture you’d been trying to build up for half the movie. “Ooh, he can ride the big red dragon thingy! HE IS OUR SAVIOR!” Please. Jesus Christ himself got nearly thrown off a hill in Nazareth for less grandiose shit.
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by shanghaijim on Feb 3, 2010 2:39 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I adored Coraline, but I must admit that Up actually made me tear up at one point and at several others made me laugh out loud, and both of those experiences are pretty rare. I think the animated category’s the hardest call for me between those two.
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Up was really good, too. Very nice story. I saw it in theaters and the person behind me was a blubbering mess at points during the movie.
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I cried at the beginning and at the end of Up.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 6, 2010 9:39 AM PST up reply actions
I watched that with my parents, my sisters (8 and 14), and my uncle. None of us understood why everyone said they cried. I mean, yeah, the wife dying was sad, but it’s not like it hasn’t happened in a million other movies or in real life or anything…
By that logic, nothing should ever be sad to anybody.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 6, 2010 8:36 PM PST up reply actions
Sad and crying are not the same thing. It was definitely sad, but I didn’t think it was especially sad, to the point where people would start crying about it. It typically takes a lot for people to start crying, but not too much for them to be sad. And it typically takes a lot more for them to be crying at a movie because of the emotional separation; when your mom dies, you cry, but when the mom of the main character in a movie dies, you probably don’t.
It typically takes a lot for people to start crying
I don’t actually think that’s true. I think it’s true for you. But the evidence seems pretty overwhelming that it’s not true in a larger sense.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 6, 2010 9:32 PM PST up reply actions
Well it wasn’t just, or maybe even particularly the death of his wife. For me anyway it had more to do with the way they handled the nature of dreams deferred and life’s sidetracks and compromises.
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This. Sure, people die and it’s sad. But what touched me was that they couldn’t make it to their dreams, having children, going to Venezuela, and that life kept getting in the way. I could always feel Carl’s regret for not giving Ellie the wild dreams she envisioned, and I cried at the end when he found her dreams book and she said that her love with Carl was her greatest adventure. The good tears.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 8, 2010 11:10 AM PST up reply actions
Avatar being nominated for anything other than its special effects is ridiculous. Of the ones I’ve seen Hurt Locker seems like it should be the obvious choice for picture, director, and actor…. but I think it only really stands a chance at director. Up also seems like a no-brainer, but I haven’t seen Mr. Fox.
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I think if a movie makes $600 trillion domestically, it’s going to get nominated for best picture.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
The whole point in going to 10 films was to get more popular films nominated for Best Picture so that they can get an audience to watch the awards ceremony. By that logic it would seem Avatar would have the edge to win if the industry is really invested in getting those audience shares numbers back up.
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its only for best picture…
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I was gonna buy the DVD to add to my W&G collection, but the US version on DVD is full screen pan and scan instead of widescreen (as it is in the UK). I was going to wait until the US distributor pulled its head out of its ass and did it right; or, I may buy the BD compilation of that and the other shorts (which I already own in two forms on DVD, plus on VHS) to get it in widescreen.
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My God, they’re still making W&G shorts? That’s fucking awesome; I thought they stopped after the first three (the ones in Three Amazing Adventures) and the movie.
Yeah
Aardman has been doing really some short shorts and finished A Matter of Loaf and Death last year. They prefer shorter stuff since they can put more attention into them. Also they didn’t have to de-emphasize the Britishness of the characters like they had to with the movie.
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has anyone here actually seen The Blind Side? When I saw the preview I thought it was one of those joke movie previews you see in a movie. I know Oher’s story is nice and all, but it sure looked like it was gonna be a terrible movie.
Thing A
It looks terrible to me.
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I also think it looks awful.
Oh, it’s an uplifting movie about a black athlete a white family. Yay.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
MCC was featured on DailyKos way back when. I don’t think you’ll find Blind Side fans in this sample group.
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Hurt Locker’s been sitting on my iPhone for the last two weeks waiting for the moment when I decide I want to watch something that might disturb me. These moments are few and far between. But from what I’ve heard from people who’ve seen it, it’s brilliant. And with all the guild awards and critic’s awards, it actually is in the same position Brokeback Mountain was going into the Oscars. … and that’s how that turned out.
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Hooked up by the component cable to my HDTV. Changed my whole dynamic of entertainment. Sure, it’s only 576p, but that ain’t too shabby on anything under 50 inches, and the portability, man …
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I mean, by the composite cable. I have the component cable too, for the old-fashioned TVs, but I think that outputs 480i.
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Okay, whew. I mean, I kind of stopped listening after “hooked up,” but I gather you’re not watching movies on a teeny tiny screen.
I really liked it…. but I’m not sure what you mean byt “when you want to watch something that will disturb you.” Disturbing isn’t a word I’d use to describe it.
Thing A
Seems like the impact would be severely lessened that way. Being subjected (in the best sense) to that movie in a theatre was incredibly impactful. I literally felt a little beat up afterwards from two hours of clinching and flinching and grinding teeth, etc..
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A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
If Avatar wins best picture that will be the final nail in the coffin of the importance of the Oscars in my opinion.
The best picture category was only expanded to 10 because the academy was for the longest time suppressing animated films that probably deserved to be in the nominations.
Now they can put them in the nominations but still ignore them.
I would love for Up to win Best Picture, but it won’t happen. It should win best animated, and a close second in my opinion should be The Princess and the Frog.
I really want to see the Hurt Locker.
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the importance of the Oscars
I give you… Titanic! Also, Gladiator. And Crash.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2010 8:00 PM PST up reply actions
What would you have preferred over Gladiator? Was it 1999? Fight Club, Matrix?
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 9:57 PM PST up reply actions
wiki says 2000
and I’ll take Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, although mostly I just didn’t like Gladiator much.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2010 10:41 PM PST up reply actions
Gladiator is actually one of the few movies that I don’t mind watching Russel Crowe in. So that’s a pretty big accomplishment.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 11:49 PM PST up reply actions
OY YAM GLADIATUR
MOY NAME IS GLADIATUR
No thanks.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2010 6:52 AM PST up reply actions
The academy expanded the best picture category to 10
because more movies can slap that seal of “nominated for best picture” on the dvd case. i think it’s pathetic that the blind side gets this free publicity tool.
I swear to god, if i see another 'DOYERS' license plate, I'm gonna scream.
by Classy_Argonaut on Feb 6, 2010 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t think I can take a list of nominations that includes Sandra Bullock among the best actresses seriously.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
If she couldn’t win for her as yet unsurpassed work in Practical Magic, she shouldn’t be allowed to win for anything.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:30 PM PST up reply actions
Need to see The Hurt Locker.
Loved Up.
Loved District 9.
Liked Inglorious Basterds.
I think Up In The Air was over rated, but Clooney (swoones) was great in it.
I don’t like actors/actresses who act the same no matter what character they’re playing. Clooney fits that description
Wayne Rooney, 1/27/09: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man
Also: Sandra Bullock.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 6:22 PM PST up reply actions
Keanu sez
WOAH
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2010 6:42 PM PST up reply actions
I think Clooney is a very good actor and he gives some pretty wide ranging performances see Syriana, O’ Brother Where Out Thou, From Dusk till Dawn, or Burn After Reading. I see all of those as pretty diverse
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
I’ve only seen Up in the Air, which I really liked. It’s kind of a light film, but if the field is so-so, I don’t see why it shouldn’t have a nomination for best picture.
I want to see Inglorious Basterds but there’s a long wait for it on Netflix.
The Hurt Locker sounds intense. aahhhhh I don’t know if I’m in a mood for intense these days.
I think it’s going to be a good long time before I see Inglorious whatever. I’m just so freaking sick of Quentin Tarantino.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 12:47 PM PST up reply actions
I haven’t seen anything of his since Pulp Fiction. I skipped Kill Bill.
by non sequitur on Feb 3, 2010 12:50 PM PST up reply actions
Ah, Kill Bill’s his best movies!
My Bucardo is better than yours.
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Yes!
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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That doesn’t make them good!
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...-----RIP, MY SON
Ah, paradox, how you goad me!
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Kill Bill is brilliant
I love Pulp Fiction, but both KB movies blow it away.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
you are insane
seriously
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Feb 3, 2010 4:14 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I’m in this line, Pulp Fiction created a whole genre by drawing on nearly every type of film and wave of film and is landmark in movie making, independent film, and todays action movies. And it totally kicks ass!
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
I liked Pulp Fiction and that’s about it.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...-----RIP, MY SON
I really enjoyed it, but I’m still sick of Quentin Tarantino (some of the stuff I read that he said about a certain relationship in the movie really pissed me off)
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
The key to enjoying Tarantino’s movies is never reading or listening to anything he says.
by Evan on Feb 3, 2010 12:59 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Same with Grant’s work!
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by Natto on Feb 3, 2010 1:15 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
It’s so true! I was just shocked because the quote in question was about Shosanna and Zoller and I felt like the movie was pretty clear on what was going on there (he = creepy, she = not interested in him) and then I read something with Tarantino saying, “THEY’RE STAR-CROSSED! ROMEO AND JULIET! IN ANOTHER TIME, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN A PERFECT COUPLE!” and I was like, “DID YOU EVEN WATCH YOUR OWN MOVIE??”
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I subscribe to Mayor’s theory that Romeo and Juliet weren’t star-crossed. They were just morons.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:25 PM PST up reply actions
Moronic overdramatic teenagers!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
And in Juliet’s case, BARELY a teenager.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
redundant
The Giants Way™"If anybody deserves credit for this year’s turnaround it’s these two people, Brian and Bruce," Neukom said. "The encouraging thing is we think we’re back to playing baseball the way it ought to be played."
Sorry all teenagers on MCC. I’m sure you’re the exceptions.
The Giants Way™"If anybody deserves credit for this year’s turnaround it’s these two people, Brian and Bruce," Neukom said. "The encouraging thing is we think we’re back to playing baseball the way it ought to be played."
WHY DOES EVERYONE CATEGORIZE ME! YOU THINK YOU KNOW ME BUT YOU DONT, YOU DONT UNDERSTAND ME! I HATE YOU
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 6:53 PM PST up reply actions
Whatever. Give me a brother with a French accent any day.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
That’s the OTHER thing that makes me angry about that because… dude! She already has an awesome boyfriend! WTF?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
IKR? There aren’t many men who would help you burn the motherfucker down.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 1:44 PM PST up reply actions
Saw Up in the Air new years eve with family
My grandmother wouldnt shut up about the ending thoroughly enjoyed the film however.
I think Inglorious Basterds was QT’s best writing, and his best movie behind Kill Bill. Christoph Walz was flat out amazing in his role and should win Best Supporting Actor.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 1:40 PM PST up reply actions
SPOILERS: Things I hated about Inglourious Basterds
I had the exact opposite opinion, one for which I have been regularly excoriated by my friends for holding: I thought IB was an astonishingly lazy and self-indulgent piece of filmmaking. The Basterds plotline skips straight from “we’re gonna set up this team” to “mein gott! Das Bear Jew ist das terror of Europe!” The other story was just Kill Bill, again. You already made this movie, Quentin; it was four hours long, too. And it too skipped massive portions of character advancement; how exactly does she go from terrorized French Jewish farmgirl to badass cosmopolitan public-living movie-theatre owner again? Oh, right, there’s that one line that kinda explains it, sorta.
I thought the switching between languages was, for the most part, awkward and forced.
The Samuel L Jackson voiceover that appears, apropos of nothing, halfway through the film felt like nothing more than QT not wanting to take the time to tell the story properly. It’s like in Dusk Till Dawn, when QT painted his pretty good hostage drama plot into a corner and threw a dart that hit Vampires (which was, of course, awesome). So did the bits near the end where hand-lettered signifiers appeared onscreen pointing out members of the Nazi High Command that we had yet to meet in the film. I get that QT’s schtick is genre-mixing of the highest order, but this didn’t get there for me. The ingredients never came together into a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but rather remained distinct and jarring, bumping up against each other seemingly at random.
Finally, the violence. I don’t get it. I don’t see the need for loving and intimate close-ups of scalps coming off of skulls, or knives carving shit into flesh. Over and over and over. And I think QT knew that. Was this supposed to be some kind of anti-torture-porn screed? The Nazis in the movie theatre laughing uproariously at the carnage they were watching were a none-too-subtle dig at the audience watching them. So what’s your point, Quentin? That I’m an asshole for liking your film and deserve to be burned to death myself? Well, too bad. I thought your movie was meh. Em-Ee-Aich. So there.
All that said, Walz was amazing and most certainly deserves to at the very least be in the conversation for Best Supporting. Too bad he was by leaps and bounds the most likable character in the movie.
Sorry for the incoherent ranting. I actually didn’t hate this film as much as I’ve just made it sound; defending my I-didn’t-really-care-for-it position over the last couple months has made me more hardline about it. I just think that… that… dammit, Quentin, you’re better than this drivel!
PS: Fun fact that you already know if you watched Conan’s final week on the Tonight Show: Those are QT’s hands choking whatshername (y’know, that other forgettable character) to death, the same way that those were Mel Gibson’s hands nailing Jim Caviezel to the cross in PotC.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 3, 2010 4:49 PM PST up reply actions
Wow.
Long rant is long. Good thing I got that out of my system.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 3, 2010 4:50 PM PST up reply actions
Wow. I agree with a lot of that. I still enjoyed it though, which is what it comes down to for me.
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 4:52 PM PST up reply actions
That I’m an asshole for liking your film and deserve to be burned to death myself?
No, but that revenge films are a mixed bag of morality. Kill Bill was all style; it was a love letter to amoral revenge films. Ing. Basterds was style and navel-gazing in the best way possible. It used Nazis to set up a trap. If you’re going to do the ultimate, go-get-‘em revenge film, you use Nazis. Duh. "Who cares if they die? Why, I’d like to kill a few myself…" But Tarantino puts humanity in more of the Nazis than he does with the Basterds. He sets up the ultimate revenge movie, but then goes somewhere a little different. Not much, but a little.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of the glorified violence, just as I wasn’t with Kill Bill, but I loooooved Inglorious Basterds. I think it was the riskiest, smartest film he’s done.
by Grant Brisbee on Feb 3, 2010 6:32 PM PST up reply actions
That’s something I’ve been considering, though you express it better (shocking!). Unfortunately, I just feel no urge whatsoever to go back and rewatch it.
It was light-years better than Death Proof, though. I’ll give it that.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 3, 2010 8:09 PM PST up reply actions
Omitting the completely pointless opening 20 minutes, I really enjoyed the film.
I would have to say that the car scene in Death Proof takes the cake for best action sequence of last decade. I can’t think of another sequence (maybe the Le Parkour scene from Casino Royale, and the hallway hammer from Old Boy) that was so enthralling. I just really thought of the movie as an excuse for Tarantino to make that chase scene, so you have to put up with his bullshit “character development.”
+1
The chase scene was kickass. No doubt. But that dialogue… ouch. It was like QT was doing a bad parody of himself.
I have a similar opinion to the freeway scene in Matrix 2. If they’d found some way to get that 20-minute sequence into the first one, they could’ve avoided making 2 and 3 altogether.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 4, 2010 12:01 PM PST up reply actions
I did know the thing about QT’s hands during the choking scene.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 7:13 PM PST up reply actions
Like I said, my source for this insider knowledge was not the most secret ever. ;-)
But did you know the part about about Mel Gibson in Passion of the Christthatwasaterriblemovie? How about that Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning TWICE while shooting the Sermon on the Mount (a scene that wound up lasting all of twelve seconds or so)?
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 3, 2010 8:05 PM PST up reply actions
I agree
with everything Baron says here. (Although I believe it’s his best movie since Jackie Brown, which is his most underrated movie.)
"Those that drink the Kool-Aid, please leave the room."
Jackie Brown is incredible.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 4, 2010 12:03 PM PST up reply actions
You know I love Jackie Brown, but I have to say I’ve always been thrown by the opening credit sequence’s aping of the beginning of The Graduate. It’s too directly similar to be coincidental (plus its Tarantino) and yet I can’t figure out any point to it at all since it’s completely outside the frame of genre reference of the movie; it just seems so non-Tarantino.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I can get behind that sentiment.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 4, 2010 12:05 PM PST up reply actions
It’s kind of a light film
Joke, right?
If not, we watched two different films.
/auto-defenestrates
Dear Internet,
Please fire Brian Sabean.
Signed,
Me
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Feb 3, 2010 4:38 PM PST up reply actions
… Yes, I suppose that’s an odd way to describe the movie. I wonder what that says about me.
This film more than the other serious contenders seems to be going through the backlash cycle. The one where critics generally like it, then get slightly uncomfortable about appearing to like it so much so begin to dislike it, then get slightly uncomfortable about their having gotten slightly uncomfortable and so swing back to the liking it side, etc. Among baseball players Garrett Anderson comes to mind.
Of the best picture noms I’ve only seen Inglourious Basterds and District 9 (how did that get nominated anyway?) And the only other I plan to see is Up in the Air, probably. It looks interesting. Also, Anna Kendrick.
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
Anna Kendrick. Born 1985. Age 24.
I’m 31, divide in half, plus 7, round up = 23.
Okay, I can comment. She’s a hottie.
The Giants Way™"If anybody deserves credit for this year’s turnaround it’s these two people, Brian and Bruce," Neukom said. "The encouraging thing is we think we’re back to playing baseball the way it ought to be played."
By that formula I can get with 17 1/2 year olds! You sir, are a wonderful man.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 5, 2010 11:15 PM PST up reply actions
Speaking of Up, man were Murph and Mac going OFF on it this morning. Mac especially hated with, with a real passion. I found the whole thing to be pretty painful to listen to. “OMG GUYS ITS A CARTOON WHY IS ABOUT SERIUS THINGS?”
I don't know about that, to the groin.
I have a coworker that hates shows like The Simpsons because CARTOONS SHOULD BE FOR KIDS. I hate her.
My grandma doesn’t understand why any adult would be interested in cartoons. Luckily, she accepts it. She just doesn’t understand it.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:03 PM PST up reply actions
Can we kick him in the balls?
When I saw Up the first time, I was emotionally fragile after going through a breakup. So I was prone to cry. Cried during the first half hour of the movie, when Ellie died especially. Cried at the end. The second time I saw it, I still cried when Ellie died.
It’s a great film, funny, emotional, touching, and really dark in places. Classic Pixar greatness.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 1:43 PM PST up reply actions
Also, one of the things that I have ALWAYS respected about Pixar is that they do make complex movies that children can enjoy. I hate the idea that a children’s movie can’t deal with real life issues because “the kids won’t get it.” I’m always amazed at people’s ability to underestimate the capacity of children to process and empathize with complex emotional data. And I’ve always loved Pixar for always refusing to do that.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:49 PM PST up reply actions
+1
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 1:53 PM PST up reply actions
One of the reasons that I like the Incredibles so much is because its message is messy, which is what real life is, and also because it actually – and very directly – confronts the fact that the world these characters are living in has life and death consequences. That last one is an extremely important part of what I like so much about that movie.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:54 PM PST up reply actions
I love that they address the challenges in relationships, too. Parents and kids don’t get along because of their differing views on superpowers, and the decision to walk away from being “super” places strains on the marriage of Bob and Helen. The writing is very layered in the Incredibles. If it wasn’t for Ratatouille, I’d say The Incredibles is my favorite Pixar film. Sorry—cuisine often trumps anything else in my heart and mind.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
Basically, anything directed by Brad Bird is incredible. I am anxiously awaiting his upcoming film about the 1906 earthquake.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
lol at no pun intended
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
WalrusMan will love it.
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/quietly puzzles over this comment…
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 2:17 PM PST up reply actions
Ooh!
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 2:16 PM PST up reply actions
I heard that film may have been put on the backburner?
"It appears that Sabean is playing a game of chicken with Neukom wherein he elucidates the most outrageous things he could do as ML GM without getting fired." - cornball
#2 in Fanshots
I just saw that! WTH? This was posted a few days ago.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Brad-Bird-s-1906-Isn-t-Incredible-Enough-For-Warner-Bros-16754.html
Although, I’m quietly puzzling over this quote:
"Several Bothans that I talked to are starting to express doubt that it’ll ever come to pass."
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
troubling and strange
especially considering that they all died to bring us the 1906 earthquake. or the movie about it. or something. I dont understand.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 2:25 PM PST up reply actions
Here is the info I had
Time has kept ticking and it seems no closer to being made than before. There is no official start date. There is no studio approval from Warner or its Disney-Pixar partnership. Yes, the Mouse is involved, but Warner is the active partner in this. The budget and length of the script are said to be problems for the Suits that weld power over Brad’s fate.
BlueSky Disney – The Quake That Never Was
"It appears that Sabean is playing a game of chicken with Neukom wherein he elucidates the most outrageous things he could do as ML GM without getting fired." - cornball
#2 in Fanshots
Parents and kids don’t get along because of their differing views on superpowers
I stopped reading here, and tried to think what the the hell did the Cold War have to do with the film.
I was promised lasagna.
You have any idea what it was like for the Greatest Generation to raise commies? It takes its toll.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 6:22 PM PST up reply actions
My wife has a circle of casual friends that she likes to do the girls night out party thing with, and last year we went and stayed at one of their beach houses for New Years. On New Year’s Day they had a movie marathon and I kept trying to get Wall-E into the play list but was shouted down, because… and I kid you not… there was no talking for the first 20 minutes. “It’s like a SILENT MOOOOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!”
It’s a testament to the awesomenesss of Heidi is that she was as horrified by this as I was and has really sort of distance herself from that crowd since then (Vegas trip excepted).
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
lol
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 2:18 PM PST up reply actions
The thing that impresses me most about Pixar is that they keep making different movies. They don’t recycle anything, really; each offering is subtly familiar, but it’s the same three directors with completely original offerings each go-round. The not being stupid factor helps as well; there are too many animated shows and movies that play down to their young audience.
I’ve only seen 3 of the movies nominated: Up, Avatar & Inglorious Basterds.
Avatar = I’m sorry, what was so special about this story? It was on the same level as some kids movies that go straight to DVD.
Basterds = Loved it. I love Tarantino, but…
Up = Was incredible and imo deserves the award (at least from the 3 I’ve seen)
The Giants Way™"If anybody deserves credit for this year’s turnaround it’s these two people, Brian and Bruce," Neukom said. "The encouraging thing is we think we’re back to playing baseball the way it ought to be played."
BP: Inglorious Basterds
BD: James Cameron, “Avatar”
Best Animated Film: “Up”
Best Original Screenplay: “Inglorious Basterds”
Best Original Score: “Sherlock Holmes”
Best Cinematography: “Avatar”
Best Visual Effects: “Avatar”
Those are all the picks I feel comfortable making considering what I’ve seen this year. I do think that Ponyo got robbed in Best Animated Film and Best Visual Effects; it wouldn’t have won, but it was a very impressive film.
Side note: I finally saw Slumdog Millionaire last summer, and I was wondering why the hell it won Best Picture. I mean, it was great, and I really enjoyed it, but Dark Knight…is it just the comic book stigma? Anyone actually think Millionaire was the best picture of 2008?
I thought the first “half” of Millionaire was absolutely deserving. But the second “half” was very upsetting in its vanillaness.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
I couldn’t get over how much Millionaire seemed like the anti-City of God (the Brazilian slum-kids, druglord movie). It used all the same kinds of narrative and production techniques, set itself in the same milieu, all to promote the anti-thetical Gump-esque conclusion that no environment can’t affect you if your heart is true.
In its own way it was like when they remade Wings of Desire into that Nick Cage/Meg Ryan monstrosity.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
As usual, I misread Nick Cage as Nick Cave which makes even more sense in this case since Nick Cave was in Wings of Desire.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Nick Cage is Nick Cave. I saw it on a website.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:37 PM PST up reply actions
From Mark Prindle's brand new Nick Cave reviews page
In the words of Roger Ebert, “Nicolas Cave is daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air. No one else can project inner trembling so effectively…. However improbable his character, he never winks at the audience. He is committed to the character with every atom and plays him as if he were him…. Leaving Las Vegas is one of the best films of the year, deserving many Academy Award nominations.”
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I was rooting for Milk last year but I thought Slumdog Millionaire was deserving as well. Btw, I hated Dark Knight.
/waits to get banned.
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Feb 3, 2010 1:30 PM PST up reply actions
No need to wait. I banned you months ago.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:32 PM PST up reply actions
I banned him 35 minutes ago.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Wow, it’s amazing how one little typo can cause so many people to misspell the word banged.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:38 PM PST up reply actions
No, I knew what you meant. I just didn’t know what THAT was. I think I was asleep, possibly drugged.
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Feb 3, 2010 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
Possibly might be an understatement.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:42 PM PST up reply actions
Sorry, I only have the hard copies.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:50 PM PST up reply actions
(except in your case, seeing as how you were drugged and all)
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 1:51 PM PST up reply actions
didn't hate Dark Knight
but it’s the most overrated film in recent history
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
I actually thought it was really good.
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 4:47 PM PST up reply actions
I think you spelled best wrong
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 6:09 PM PST up reply actions
Since that’s obviously the case, your grammar could use some help as well
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 6:10 PM PST up reply actions
I understand that position, because it probably is a little overrated. A lot of people put it on the pedestal as an example of perfect filmmaking, and it’s not perfect. But it is the first comic book film to really take the country by storm, and kind of prove how impressive these movies can be. Spiderman and Spiderman 2 sort of did that as well, but I don’t think people were ready to consider how good a comic book movie could be back when they were released; comics were still considered too nerdy to provide widespread appeal. But with Dark Knight, you get a visually and intellectually brilliant film that is finally released to a receptive public, and that’s why I think it gets so much acclaim and made so much money.
Visually, yeah. Intellectually? Mm. On the one hand, it’s got some interesting musings about the power of symbols and a balls-out performance by Ledger. On the other, here’s some pretty severe plot holes that become more egregious with each subsequent viewing.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 3, 2010 7:58 PM PST up reply actions
SPOILERS
How did Joker know which cell the dude with the bomb would be placed in? How did he know which streets to turn down? How does he blow up a jail and walk out unscathed? These sound minor, but they bug me more and more each time. Joker, for the plot to work, has to be essentially omniscient (or in the case of the unscathed part, omnipotent).
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 3, 2010 8:14 PM PST up reply actions
It’s a movie about a man who dresses up like a bat and fight’s crime
Wayne Rooney, 1/27/09: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man
fight is crime!
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Fight are crime.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 6:23 PM PST up reply actions
Linguo...
…dead?
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 5, 2010 8:34 AM PST up reply actions
I hate this defense. It still has a plot. The plot should make sense (especially when people are talking about how it should win the Oscar and shit).
I was promised lasagna.
It does make sense
You just have to trust the filmmakers, in a sense. Just because the movie doesn’t flat out tell you how the Joker knew which streets to turn down or which cell the guy was in, doesn’t mean it can’t make sense. The movie never tells you how the Joker became a madman, or how Bruce Wayne found his warehouse batcave, but it doesn’t have to.
Wayne Rooney, 1/27/09: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man
I wasn’t necessarily talking about this film. I just don’t like the “It’s a movie about a man who dresses up like a bat and fights crime” defnse, also known as “this is science fiction/fantasy/whatever, therefore we can be lazy with the plot, and no one will care”.
But, regrading The Dark Knight – that’s not the same as not telling you how the Joker became a mad man. That’s backstory. It’s part of the point that you don’t know it (mystique or whatever). But “trusting the filmmakers” when it comes to plot holes isn’t interesting. It’s like making a Sherlock Holmes movie and skipping the part where he explains how he solved everything. Obviously it’s not as important in the DK, but still – a big part of the Joker’s character is his ability to plan everything, and if parts of his planning seems impossible, it just looks like they got lazy.
Still enjoyed the movie, but it was definitely flawed.
I was promised lasagna.
This actually touches on a major pet peeve of mine — the omnipotent villain meme, in which villains by means of their supreme villainness are able to be anywhere, manipulate anybody or anything, plan out and thoroughly prepare for the most spontaneous or coincidental ramifications of their acts, and of course, for 9/10ths of the movie be incapable of harm.
I think only movies named after pop songs for no apparent reason (which I have long since embargoed) lists higher on my list of movie peeves than that one.
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plot holes really only bug me if it’s a character’s motivation that doesn’t make sense. Like in most of the Star Wars prequels.
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I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 5, 2010 10:25 AM PST up reply actions
HI MOM
IM HOME FROM MY SLAVE JOB AT THE JUNK YARD. BY THE WAY I WAS FREED BY ALL POWERFUL JEDI KNIGHTS. THEY CAN’T TAKE YOU THOUGH BECAUSE THE FLYING JEWISH BUG SAID YOU CANT GO OK BYE.
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Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2010 12:46 PM PST up reply actions
Every movie has plot holes. I think that unless the film hinges on a big plot hole, you kind of just have to ignore them and chalk them up to coincidence.
And I found Dark Knight to be very impressive intellectually. Not just the power of symbols in the Dark Knight/White Knight contrast, but also in the nature of good and evil and how to encourage one side or the other, like the convict tossing the detonator out the window; actually, pretty much the whole boat scene where they don’t blow each other up (which says that people have enormous capacity for self-sacrifice in the face of dire consequences). Or the Joker encouraging people to kill that one guy by threatening to blow up a hospital. It would have been even better if they could make a 4-5 hour movie that showed how people eventually went from unwilling to do bad things because they didn’t believe in the consequences to very willing to do bad things because they were terrified. And there (and with Two-Face) you have to ask the question: are the people evil for doing X, or is the Joker responsible for forcing them into a situation where the best choice is X, or is the Joker’s past responsible for turning him into a crazed lunatic (and IS he a crazed lunatic, or a genius)? Is Two-Face evil, or is he merely the instrument of chance, and thus at least somewhat (if not entirely) exculpated since he abides by the decision of the coin flip (and what role does chance play in our everyday lives; to what extent can we blame people and to what extent can we blame luck)? Is Bruce Wayne the mask of Batman or is Batman the mask of Bruce Wayne; to what extent can he separate the identities and not allow the problems of one bleed into the life of the other? These things weren’t explicitly stated, but I think the subtle point was made. Maybe it’s because I’m a philosophy major, but I see a lot of very big questions posed, some of which are answered and some of which are left up to the audience’s discretion.
by quincy0191 on Feb 3, 2010 9:04 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great flick. It would be cool if they could’ve done it as a miniseries, to really explore those themes. As it was, I thought Two-Face was kinda wasted. Maybe he’s too black-and-white for the gray areas they want to describe. Maybe Tommy Lee Jones gave the be-all end-all performance of the character.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 3, 2010 11:51 PM PST up reply actions
It was decent and overrated.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...-----RIP, MY SON
Michael Keaton
was great in that!
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2010 8:02 PM PST up reply actions
I greatly disliked Slumdog
But I though “The Visitor” was the best film of last year, so what do I know?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Feb 3, 2010 4:40 PM PST up reply actions
Among other historic potential for The Hurt Locker (first female to win Best Director oscar), it should also become I believe the first movie to win an Oscar the year AFTER winning an Independent Spirit award.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Hurt Locker could win in any of its 9 categories and still accomplish the feat, was my meanin’.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Ah, okay.
I still haven’t seen either movie, but Cameron losing to his ex would be great fun for everyone.
Lulz for everyone!
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 1:44 PM PST up reply actions
The one that really flabbergasted me was the nomination for A Serious Man. Critics panned it; audiences ignored it. I thought it was a very weak Coen Bros effort even by their recent standard — who the hell got behind this thing?
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I really liked it! And it’s got an 87% on RT so it doesn’t seem like critics panned it.
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"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Huh — I guess by critics I’m overly relying on my two monthly subscriptions, EW and New Yorker and I’m pretty sure they both panned it. Maybe just I panned it. Hmm, gotta work this one out in the memory bank.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
no way
i LOVED Serious Man. Total return to form for the Coens.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Huh. Clearly I’m going to need to see this again and see if I was missing something.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Hey are you by any chance playing at the 9:30 Club on 3/24?
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
There’s an opening band there that night named “Delorean” so I just had to ask.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
TWHS
My career path, have you seen it?
by say hey nation on Feb 4, 2010 10:47 AM PST up reply actions
District 9 was the best movie I saw in 2009, but I was high when I watched it so I can’t say with certainty that it deserves best picture.
I also watched Inglorious Bastards in the same sitting and wasn’t impressed. I guess I’m not really a fan of Tarantino films. It’s taken me about ten years to realize that.
I like cats. Wings is the greatest show of all time.
Tyler Graham is my favorite San Jose Giant because he has smart balls.
Side discussion: Favorite movies of 2009
Mine are:
Up
Star Trek
Zombieland
District 9
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I saw only five ’09 films in total: Star Trek, Chi Bi/Red Cliff (released in ’08 in China, I think, but only migrated over here in ’09), The Young Victoria, Up in the Air, and Sherlock Holmes. I thought they were all at least pretty OK. Up in the Air was by far my favorite.
I waited for Star Trek to come out on DVD and found myself skipping through the Eric Bana scenes even the first time around. But I enjoyed the movie overall.
I liked the first half of D9 but then it descended into just another shoot em up alien rampage movie, but the start of it was amazing
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
Yes. I usually hate shoot em up alien rampage movies, but that was the best 1/2 of an action movie I’ve ever seen.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 6:14 PM PST up reply actions
Ranking everything I saw in 2009
Watchmen
The Hangover
Inglorious Basterds
Sherlock Holmes
Star Trek
Up
Avatar
Funny People
State of Play
Invictus
The Informant!
District 9
The Soloist
The Invention of Lying
Observe and Report
Crank: High Voltage
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
The International
Push
Duplicity
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Terminator: Salvation
Race to Witch Mountain
9
Monsters vs. Aliens
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Notorious
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Bruno
The Pink Panther 2
Knowing
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Dragonball: Evolution
Wow. I don’t even remember most of the movies I watched in 2009. You’re list does remind me of a few movies I still need to check out though.
The Hangover was for sure my favorite comedy of the year.
Me neither. I keep a list at IMDB; when I watch a movie, I add it to the “My Movies” over there to keep track of what I’ve seen.
I didn’t like Bruno very much. Borat was hilarious, but Bruno just seemed to be one long “HA! HE’S GAY AND BEING VERY GAY AROUND PEOPLE WHO ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH HOMOSEXUALS! HOW FUNNY!”
I get the message of gay rights, and I support it, and I agree that all those anti-gay idiots were…idiots, but it just wasn’t funny.
I think I liked it more than Borat. I haven’t seen Borat since it came out on DVD though. You did pretty much sum up most of the humor but I still loved it. I can see why other people don’t like it though.
The Hangover was very funny.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 7:32 PM PST up reply actions
You actually watched Dragonball: Evolution?
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Yes I did. I enjoyed Dragon Ball Z when I was 12 or so, and I wanted to see how badly they’d rape my childhood. It was pretty painful (though mildly entertaining).
That’s the reason why I avoided it.
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I thought it did some things surprisingly well – and was particularly pleased to discover that it wasn’t the sexist romp I thought it was going to be – but I also thought completely failed to create a unified tone, occasionally laughed openly at the audience for trying to enjoy it (which made me mad), and missed the point of the original without adapting a point to call its own.
I stand by Rorschach as being done very well. Too much of it was just silly, though. Or overblown. Or uneven. And the soundtrack was used very poorly. Very poorly.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 9:24 AM PST up reply actions
And Oh God The Makeup. Richard Nixon’s nose….
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 9:25 AM PST up reply actions
I just assumed they were purposely caricaturing him
Wayne Rooney, 1/27/09: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man
Yeah, they definitely were. I didn’t really have a problem with the caricature. But then when everybody else’s makeup was just as ridiculous, it just accentuated how ridiculous his was to me.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 6:24 PM PST up reply actions
Rorschach’s the easiest part, though. How can you screw up Rorschach? If anything, the movie took him more seriously than he deserves.
That’s probably fair. However, considering how little the movie too seriously to begin with, I probably wouldn’t have been able to watch it if Rorschach was one big joke as well. My biggest criticism of the movie was really that it took the whole “Comedian life is a joke” thing way too far into the metalevel. I’m happy with a prevailing theme, but the actual movie doesn’t have to be a punch line to itself.
Taking Rorschach seriously at the very least pulled whole segments of the movie out of that insufferable mire.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 10:06 AM PST up reply actions
You may be right about that. Honestly, I can’t remember much about the movie, other than that I spent a lot of time facepalming. I do recall being honestly confused as to whether the filmmakers realized how campy and silly they were being.
/flamethrower ejaculate
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 10:12 AM PST up reply actions
You know, I tried watching it on HBO last night, and I couldn’t do it. Like Spiderman, the movie does not stand up to repeated viewings.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 6, 2010 9:39 AM PST up reply actions
I’ve never read any of the comics, and I thought it was an entertaining movie, despite being very bloated and having a lousy soundtrack. It left me wanting to learn a lot more about the characters.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...-----RIP, MY SON
Oh, it was definitely entertaining. I just think it did a few things right and a bunch of stuff wrong. And looking back at it, some of that stuff doesn’t sit well with me. But it was still very sit-through-able.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 10:42 AM PST up reply actions
I thought Adrian was FABLISS, just fabliss! bitch was FIERCE! three snaps in Veidt method! /snap snap snap
… actually it was scary how much I could divide my philosophies of life to either be Rorschach or Ozymandias.
My cousin’s soon-to-be-ex-husband wanted to be Dr. Manhattan. In retrospect, we should have heeded this warning.
JUST A CITY BOY
In Living Color?
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 11:33 AM PST up reply actions
Awesome
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I really, really liked it (yes, I read the comic before I saw the movie, and I loved that too, probably more). The “unfilmable” title is quite apt; there’s really no way you can make Watchmen…correctly? I don’t know what word I’m looking for, but the graphic novel has so many layers that’d it probably be impossible to make a three hour movie that encompassed the whole thing. So I cut it some slack considering that, and I think Zack Snyder did a brilliant job; he got all the most important scenes, he was faithful to the source material until the end (to the extent that he literally re-created exact panels, and I think the ending worked fine for the film; I preferred the book’s, but it wasn’t wrong), and he generally made a film that was simultaneously entertaining and intelligent. I think a lot of the people who hated Watchmen and are rabid fans of the novel really weren’t going to be pleased no matter what.
I actually don’t care much for the graphic novel. I understand its place in comics history and I appreciate its scope completely, but by the time I read it it just felt dated. Good, but not quite well-aged… just outside my sphere of interest.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 4, 2010 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
I loved Boondock Saints II.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 7:15 PM PST up reply actions
And Whip It! was really fun, as was Julie and Julia.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 3, 2010 7:15 PM PST up reply actions
I thought I would hate Julie and Julia
and it was actually enjoyable; obviously the Julia parts are fantastic but even the shrill Amy Adams stuff was decent although the “struggling with self-centeredness as a blogger” thing seemed pretty dated, which I suppose is par for the course.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2010 8:05 PM PST up reply actions
Up in the Air
Is likely one of the most timely films in cinema history. For the fact that it is a damn fine film and gives a face the Great Recession, it should wind Best Picture.
I saw District 9 after seeing Avatar, and I must say, I am glad I saw them in order. I enjoyed Avatar, but it faded quickly in my mind. D9 is Avatar for grown-ups, and is a better film.
I missed a bunch of stuff this year (got married and was super busy for a few months there), but The Hurt Locker is sitting at home waiting for me.
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Please fire Brian Sabean.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Feb 3, 2010 4:32 PM PST reply actions
I read the last sentence as “got busy for a few months”. Brown chicken brown cow.
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What else could I have I meant?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Feb 3, 2010 4:35 PM PST up reply actions
I’m gonna steal ‘brown chicken brown cow’ from you, if you don’t mind
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 6:15 PM PST up reply actions
It was very timely. But overall I think it was pretty much just alright. By the end of the movie my friend and I were just openly mocking it. (There was no one else in the theater.)
Serious question: how old are you?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Feb 3, 2010 4:41 PM PST up reply actions
judging by your profile pic I always thought you were like 50
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 6:16 PM PST up reply actions
Hmm...
I thought your reaction might have been that of a young person (god, I sound so old – only 33).
Ok, to each his/her own.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Feb 3, 2010 4:43 PM PST up reply actions
I really thought D9 was dumb. Is that because I am young? Was there some kind of hidden theme that I missed?
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 4:48 PM PST up reply actions
Firefly references
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I have no idea what FireFly is.
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 4:53 PM PST up reply actions
for shame! SHAME
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
Im assuming you are not talking about the type of insect.
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
No its a Sci Fi western show/ movie that was amazing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
Well, that’s why you missed on the themes.
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Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) did a western set in space. It’s pretty much awesome, and got cancelled too soon.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 3, 2010 5:15 PM PST up reply actions
Yes
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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Oh. I feel all grown up now.
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 5:31 PM PST up reply actions
Grasshopper:
You will only take out of a movie what you take in.
/auto-defenestrates
Dear Internet,
Please fire Brian Sabean.
Signed,
Me
FREE KEVIN FRANDSEN!!! Member of the Frandsen 5% Club.
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Feb 3, 2010 5:06 PM PST up reply actions
Take in to where? Blockbuster?
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 5:09 PM PST up reply actions
LOL
Brick-and-mortar movie rentin’.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 3, 2010 5:16 PM PST up reply actions
Hey, it’s fun to go to the store and look at cheesy/stupid box covers with friends.
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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I dont have NetFlix :(
I never watch movies though.
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 5:24 PM PST up reply actions
Those stores are getting desperate. I saw a sign on Hollywood Video today that said “Free Kids”.
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 5:32 PM PST up reply actions
If he wasnt already, he will be soon.
GrahamCrakalaka
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 3, 2010 6:03 PM PST up reply actions
Avatar was amazing if you saw it in 3D only, the colors, the graphics and the over all movie was outstanding, but I would have to say if I saw it in 2D, it would not have been impressive at all. 3D made that movie what it is.
Chick's dig the long ball.
by The Montana Giant on Feb 3, 2010 5:41 PM PST reply actions
And I wont be buying or renting because even if its 3D at home it'll suck.
Chick's dig the long ball.
by The Montana Giant on Feb 3, 2010 5:42 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah the only reason I wanted to see it was 3-D, I had zero interest seeing it just 2-D cuz I knew I would hate the cheesy story. Therefore I only wanted the spectacle
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
exactly, i don't even really remember what most of it was about
Chick's dig the long ball.
by The Montana Giant on Feb 3, 2010 5:50 PM PST up reply actions
Blue boobs are very not good in baseball. I assume you’re referring to Tommy Lasorda.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 6:19 PM PST up reply actions
I just learned
Morgan Freeman played Nelson Mandela?! Clint Eastwood? Futbol? Matt Damon?! My goodness I need to see this Invictus.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 6:26 PM PST reply actions
Rugby, not futbol. And those four names may raise your expectations a tad higher than warranted. Just a heads-up.
McSabey you're losing me
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Feb 3, 2010 8:01 PM PST up reply actions
ditto
I really like watching rugby although I’ve never done so regularly and am no expert. Unfortunately, I thought the rugby parts were really not very well done. Maybe he thought he was making a movie for Commonwealth countries, but it came across to me (via my wife and nephew who don’t know anything about rugby and were totally mystified) more like Eastwood didn’t know a ton about rugby, or maybe the film editors, or both. The scenes where the Springboks go into the townships to run clinics for kids could have been the perfect chance to explain enough about rugby so that American knuckleheads could get excited by the game more. It seemed like there were a ton of shots taken inside scrums, or of tackles, more or less independent of what was happening in the game.
And the whole “dueling field goals” aspect of the final made it a little hard to get excited. It’s like an epic retelling of the Rams exciting victory over the Buccaneers in 1978… and I actually like defensive struggles, so again I’m a sympathetic viewer. Plus, shaky camera syndrome. I’ll be glad when that fad goes away.
Fortunately, the non-rugby parts of the film were a lot better than I expected. I had a friend in SAF at the time and he was caught up in the excitement of the time. And, the actors are obviously excellent.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2010 8:21 PM PST up reply actions
lol Frank Thomas the composer
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 3, 2010 6:28 PM PST reply actions
I purposely left that tag in because I thought it’d be funny.
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Argh.
Another movie I’ve been meaning to see. Then I forget about it almost as soon as I’m reminded. Maybe I don’t really want to see it?
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Netflix is sending it to me as we speak.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 3, 2010 11:49 PM PST up reply actions
Stick with it.
It’s a slow and meticulous one.
Luckily, baseball is the same way, and we’re used to slow and meticulous stuff.
by AmorVincitOmnia on Feb 4, 2010 9:18 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t think there was any reason to stick with it. It was a fairly tight, strongly paced, short 90 minutes of a movie. I liked it a lot, minus one unbelievably minor complaint.
Although, holy shit that movie could not have been less like its marketing. I might as well have watched a trailer for All Dogs Go to Heaven, because it would have had as much to do with the actual movie as the official trailer did.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 6, 2010 8:39 PM PST up reply actions
BTW
thanks for this thread Natto, it’s been an interesting read. I hope Grant cuts you in for more of the gold doubloons and triploons this year!
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
surprised lowvely bones isn't up for some kind of visual effects award.
I heard the book was much better than the movie, but geesh at least the visual effects were done nicely probably better than before the modern computer era.
The ad server sees all
Now we have an Inglourious Basterds ad banner. I’d take a screengrab and post it, but I’m too lazy to upload to photobukkit.
JUST A CITY BOY
So we shouldn’t discuss the nominees of the adult video awards then?
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 4, 2010 2:26 AM PST up reply actions
the Ad Blocker
blocks all
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2010 6:53 AM PST up reply actions
I like when adblocker blocks the ads mid hulu, and i get to watch a message telling me to turn off my ad blocker. nope. I will strangle any revenue stream for things I choose to watch or read on the internet. Take that McCovey Chronicles and Dollhouse!
co-dad w/AfDC of
Ishikawa, the Topps Rookie All Star Team's First baseman. Does he get a chance in 2010?
I don’t think it actually matters. If they get the pageviews, their revenues go up; I doubt there’s any way to guarantee that people see the ad.
I’d still like a five-spot from kennv just to make sure.
by Grant Brisbee on Feb 4, 2010 11:57 PM PST up reply actions
just as long as you never mute the TV
when commercials loud enough to crack your teeth come on. It’s important to be fair.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2010 6:55 AM PST up reply actions
The new Oscar award balloting
I came across an interesting description of the new balloting system. Since the Academy moved to the 10 BP nominees, it also changed final voting for Best Picture. Apparently previously a voter just indicated which movie (of the 5) he thought the best.
Now, kind of like nominations, they have to rank the 10, and a movie that gets a preponderance of #2 and #3 rankings could win Best Picture over those which have #1 rankings but no other support. Kind of like if two pitchers split the #1 ranking in Cy Young balloting, allowing the one with more 2nd place votes to win the Cy Young.
JUST A CITY BOY
Interesting…
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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What are peoples thoughts on this system?
I imagine some very good divisive movies that are very avante-garde or that comment on touchy subjects may be hurt by this system.
Is this the beginning of a depoliticization of the oscars? Are award-chasers going to be less risky/ballsy?
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Feb 5, 2010 11:23 PM PST up reply actions
Well, IMO movies that look like they’re trying for an Oscar — not just costume dramas or biopics, but also faux-edgy fare like Crash — are of less esteem than a popular hit that also has excellent craft and performances.
That said, just watch as the Blind Side wins this year because of this. lol.
JUST A CITY BOY
I thought that 9 shouldve been included in best animated feature
I never saw Princess and the Frog, or the Secret of Kells. I don’t think it would’ve won with Up in the race, but it deserved to be up there in the discussion. Never have I seen a better post-apocalyptic animated feature. Now that i mention it, how many animated movies are there about the days after doomsday?
I swear to god, if i see another 'DOYERS' license plate, I'm gonna scream.
by Classy_Argonaut on Feb 6, 2010 11:10 AM PST reply actions
9 wasn’t critically received all that well. I haven’t seen it, so I can’t really say anything else about it, but I plan to see it.
Also: Wall-E.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 6, 2010 8:37 PM PST up reply actions
I think Wall-E was released last year, and won the animated award. You’re right about 9 not being accepted well by critics, as metacritic has their average at 60. Now that I think about the movie, it was really great until the intro of Elijah Woods voice.
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
-Kurt Vonnegut
by Classy_Argonaut on Feb 6, 2010 8:50 PM PST up reply actions
Well, I meant Wall-E as an answer to the question: “how many animated movies are there about the days after doomsday?” I didn’t mean to suggest that it should be in this year’s awards at all. It just came to mind when I read that question.
I don't know about that, to the groin.
by howtheyscored on Feb 6, 2010 9:33 PM PST up reply actions
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