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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 811 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting scotthm: Quote:
I haven't seen any of the ten films, so I don't disagree.
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,851 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Battling Butler: Quote:
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I haven't seen any of the ten films, so I don't disagree.
Dude, you need to get out more (just kidding, take your time if you want to) Not only have I not seen any of them, I couldn't even tell you the titles of eight of them. --------------- |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | You know what is really strange about last nights awards that no one has really commented on .. is the fact that for the last time in 1944 there were ten nominations for Best Picture then 66 years later there is for the first time since 1943 is another ten nominations for Best Picture .. NOW the strange part is.. Casablanca (which won) was really released in November 1942 but was allowed to participate in the 1943 Year ., and The Hurt Locker which won last night for Best Picture was released in Oct 2008 but was allowed to participate for the 2009 Year category .. Isn't that weird?? Most movies have only got the Oscar nod If they were released between Jan 1 and Dec 31 of the previous year .. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
You know what is really strange about last nights awards that no one has really commented on .. is the fact that for the last time in 1943 there were ten nominations for Best Picture then 67 years later there is for the first time since 1943 is another ten nominations for Best Picture .. NOW the strange part is.. Casablanca (which won) was really released in November 1941 but was allowed to participate in the 1942 Year . According to Wikipedia, Casablanca was filmed between May 25 and August 3, 1942. It premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City on November 26, 1942 and went into general release on January 23, 1943. Quote:
and The Hurt Locker which won last night for Best Picture was released in Oct 2008 but was allowed to participate for the 2009 Year category .. Isn't that weird?? Most movies have only got the Oscar nod If they were released between Jan 1 and Dec 31 of the previous year .. While the first public, not film festival release, was on October 10, 2008, it was in Italy and doesn't count towards Oscar eligibility. The US release, which does, was June 26, 2009. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 101 |
| | Posted: | | | | The awards are always bogus. Has there ever been a comedy that has won best picture or even been nominated? Well a funny one that is.  No Zombieland.....boooo Oscar. | | | | Sometimes you are the bowling ball, sometimes you are the pins. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting vido: Quote:
The awards are always bogus. Has there ever been a comedy that has won best picture or even been nominated? Well a funny one that is. No Zombieland.....boooo Oscar. Plenty were nominated and of course there was: 1934 best picture winner - “It Happened One Night”, but I certainly get your point. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 844 |
| | Posted: | | | | Crash was pretty funny. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting vido: Quote:
The awards are always bogus. Has there ever been a comedy that has won best picture or even been nominated? Well a funny one that is. No Zombieland.....boooo Oscar. 1928-29: The Broadway Melody 1934: It Happened One Night (as already mentioned) 1936: The Great Ziegfeld 1938: You Can't Take It with You 1944: Going My Way 1951: An American in Paris 1952: The Greatest Show on Earth (unintentional) 1958: Gigi 1963: Tom Jones 1964: My Fair Lady 1965: The Sound of Music 1968: Oliver! 1973: The Sting 1977: Annie Hall 1994: Forrest Gump 1998: Shakespeare in Love 2002: Chicago Not exactly the best list of comedies from 1927 to the present, but I sincerely doubt anyone would ever call the complete list of best pictures as the best of American cinema, anyway. Not the best actors or best actresses the best ever ... you get my drift .... the Oscars are not about lasting greatness... they're about honoring what the insiders want to honor that year, history be damned. | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: September 30, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,805 |
| | Posted: | | | | Totally agree with their choice for Best Picture... and Best Director, and Best Actress, and Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress and to a lesser extent Best Supporting Actor (I'd rank Woody Harrelson slightly ahead of Christoph Waltz, but only slightly).
So I think they did pretty damn well last night! | | | | The night is calling. And it whispers to me soflty come and play. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | I thoroughly enjoyed Avatar and the desgn and imagery was incredible to behold but the story was predictable (and pretty derivative) to get the obvious message across to the lowest common denominator and the scripted dialogue fell well short of a film that deserves to win Best Picture IMO | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | My ranking, of the 2 I have seen, would be:
1. Avatar
2. Inglourious Basterds | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Alien Redrum: Quote:
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Maybe Cameron getting owned by his ex wife might get him off his high horse and start putting his talent towards something more credible and down to earth.
This is the guy that made T1 and T2 ppl.
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You realize they were married for like 2 years 20 years ago, right? And they are still good friends, so "owned" is an irrelevant term.
Either way, do you honestly think Cameron cares? The dude is probably a gajillioniare by now, and Avatar will probably bust a billion dollars. Pretty sure he doesn't care what the naysayers are saying. 
I'm glad she won the Oscar, as well as Hurt Locker. Both were deserving. It wasn't trying to make a serious statement on the subject. Just to point out the fact that he once upon a time he made great films and now he's kind of sold out in big way and it's good the academy is not kissing his butt for it. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 844 |
| | Posted: | | | | You think spending 10 years making a single film is selling out? Cameron does not churn out a film a year like so many of the schlock directors out there. He finds something that interests him and works at it until he is happy with the end result. You cannot condemn him because that end result is wildly sucessful fiscally. You didn't like Avatar, fine, that is your opinion and you have a right to it. But accusing a man you do not know of 'selling out' is presumptuous in the extreme.
One thing I did notice in the broadcast, is that when they announced Best Director, Cameron was the first person to leap to his feet applauding. He seemed thrilled for his ex-wife. And whether or that was a genuine reaction (and I happen to think it was), it was a class move on his part. Almost as good as Bullock referring to Meryl Streep as "her lover". | | | | Last edited: by bob9000 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting FilmAlba: Quote:
Maybe Cameron getting owned by his ex wife might get him off his high horse and start putting his talent towards something more credible and down to earth.
This is the guy that made T1 and T2 ppl. what do you mean by 'getting owned by his wife'? I have no idea what this is upposed to mean.. and I really liked Avatar - so just because you didn't that doesn't mean he has to make a 'down to earth' film - do you have examples of what you mean by this kind of film? | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
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You know what is really strange about last nights awards that no one has really commented on .. is the fact that for the last time in 1943 there were ten nominations for Best Picture then 67 years later there is for the first time since 1943 is another ten nominations for Best Picture .. NOW the strange part is.. Casablanca (which won) was really released in November 1941 but was allowed to participate in the 1942 Year .
According to Wikipedia, Casablanca was filmed between May 25 and August 3, 1942. It premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City on November 26, 1942 and went into general release on January 23, 1943.Quote:
agghh I screwed up.  (was relying on my memory) .. Here is the actual quote: "The Allies invaded Casablanca in real life on 8 November 1942. As the film was not due for release until spring, studio executives suggested it be changed to incorporate the invasion. Warner Bros. chief Jack L. Warner objected, as he thought that an invasion was a subject worth a whole film, not just an epilogue, and that the main story of this film demanded a pre-invasion setting. Eventually he gave in, though, and producer Hal B. Wallis prepared to shoot an epilogue where Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains hear about the invasion. However, before Rains could travel to the studio for this, David O. Selznick (whose studio owned Bergman's contract) previewed the film and urged Warner to release it unaltered and as fast as possible. Warner agreed and the premiered in New York on November 26 1942. It did not play in Los Angeles until its general release the following January, and hence competed against 1943 films for the Oscars. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | I spoke with the Ken Cole from the future on this year's winners. He's usually truculent on these things (something about the continuity of the quantum space-time matrix, yada yada yada). He must have been in a good mood because he let me know that with History's perspective, Up has stood the test of time and is (still, in the 26th century) widely considered an artistic masterwork. Avatar is also remembered and credited with a brief spike in the popularity of flat-window 3D. It seems the others have faded into the blur of time.
Fans of the other films shouldn't fret - the perspective of 26th century humans is a bit suspect - after all, our century is colloquially referred to as the "Numa Numa" period. | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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