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THE OSCARS ARE FUCKING BULLSHIT (EXCUSE MY FRENCH)
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Closeauthor=Orig link=topic=3211.msg63350#msg63350 date=1235511614author=Max McGee link=topic=3211.msg63310#msg63310 date=1235495405
Is Torino really a 2009 release? I don't see how. If it is, that would make a lot of sense. But I'm pretty sure I saw it last year.
It's kinda tricky... it received a teeny tiny limited release on Christmas, but was released everywhere sometime in January.
And that affects our Misaos, too. A game could've been out in November or December at Gaming World but released here in January. That, in fact, happened to Muse.
Back on topic, it's really too bad about Clint Eastwood. Was In Bruges released in 2007 in its home country? It might have become ineligible for 2008's awards due to that, even if it was released here in March (I think?)
AznChipmunk
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author=VideoWizard link=topic=3211.msg63439#msg63439 date=1235536351author=Orig link=topic=3211.msg63350#msg63350 date=1235511614author=Max McGee link=topic=3211.msg63310#msg63310 date=1235495405
Is Torino really a 2009 release? I don't see how. If it is, that would make a lot of sense. But I'm pretty sure I saw it last year.
It's kinda tricky... it received a teeny tiny limited release on Christmas, but was released everywhere sometime in January.
And that affects our Misaos, too. A game could've been out in November or December at Gaming World but released here in January. That, in fact, happened to Muse.
Back on topic, it's really too bad about Clint Eastwood. Was In Bruges released in 2007 in its home country? It might have become ineligible for 2008's awards due to that, even if it was released here in March (I think?)
Gran Torino should've been eligible because I'm pretty sure Revolutionary Road had practically the same release. (Limited at end of december, wide late January.)
Shinan
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Gran Torino had a limited release in December just so it'd get Oscar nominated. The film had Oscar bait written all over it. (Like a lot of Eastwood movies have)
author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=3211.msg63313#msg63313 date=1235496502author=Fallen-Griever link=topic=3211.msg63311#msg63311 date=1235496054
Wall-E, as a movie, is extremely mediocre, but maybe I just think that because Wall-E, the character, plain pisses me off.
In the entire time of you being here, I've never seen you state anything as being more than mediocre.
i LOVE all anime! ~ fallen griever
Blind
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author=AznChipmunk link=topic=3211.msg63429#msg63429 date=1235533053Pretty much this. That film is the most mindlessly overrated thing to come from Hollywood in a laughably long time.
That is hardly any reason for Slumdog to win everything. The story was good, but the characters were so-so and the acting was nothing special. (Not that I think Slumdog shouldn't have won anything...)
Also, I really pity Thomas Newman, whose masterfully composed many of the greatest film soundtracks of all time (both Revolutionary Road and Wall-E this year), but has apparently never received a single Oscar.
yamata no orochi
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author=Blindmind link=topic=3211.msg63879#msg63879 date=1235757130author=AznChipmunk link=topic=3211.msg63429#msg63429 date=1235533053Pretty much this. That film is the most mindlessly overrated thing to come from Hollywood in a laughably long time.
That is hardly any reason for Slumdog to win everything. The story was good, but the characters were so-so and the acting was nothing special. (Not that I think Slumdog shouldn't have won anything...)
Also, I really pity Thomas Newman, whose masterfully composed many of the greatest film soundtracks of all time (both Revolutionary Road and Wall-E this year), but has apparently never received a single Oscar.
I think people are cutting Slumdog Millionaire too much flak. Between one third of the movie being in Hindi and Warner Independent Pictures dropping it from their production list, we're lucky that we got to see it in theatres at all!
What I really liked about Slumdog Millionaire is that it managed to be incredibly brutal while at the same time being one of the most optimistic movies to come out in ages. The theatres had been drowning in The Readers and The Dark Knights and No Country for Old Mens for so long that it was nice to see a film that was relentlessly positive and entergetic instead of pessimistic and pretentious (I haven't seen Happy-Go-Lucky). Also I've spent some significant time in the tropics and I can report that the slums overseas are about as crazy and screwed up as they are in the movie.
But I do think that Wall-E should have gotten Best Soundtrack instead of Slumdog Millionaire, even though Wall-E's music wasn't quite as distinctive.
I thought that Slumdog was a great movie that probably deserved to win oscars, for shizzle. I was just (and still am) super incensed at the snubbing of Clint Eastwood.
AznChipmunk
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author=yamata no orochi link=topic=3211.msg63893#msg63893 date=1235764958
I think people are cutting Slumdog Millionaire too much flak. Between one third of the movie being in Hindi and Warner Independent Pictures dropping it from their production list, we're lucky that we got to see it in theatres at all!
I would've seen it anyways.
author=Blindmind link=topic=3211.msg63879#msg63879 date=1235757130
Pretty much this. That film is the most mindlessly overrated thing to come from Hollywood in a laughably long time.
If by a long time you mean 5 months. (The Dark Knight. So incredibly overrrated, more overrated than anything I have ever seen.)
S. F. LaValle
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author=Max McGee link=topic=3211.msg63249#msg63249 date=1235450399
Never has it been more clear than this year what a stupid popularity contest it is. It makes me really angry all the poltiics involved.
Instead, THAT GUY was nominated for some movie I've never heard of. Could the snubbing be any more clear cut and obvious?
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