I woke up an hour ago, just saw this, and am now angered.

[AnonymouZero]

i just can't believe avatar didn't get as many... that damn hurt locker better be good... hell, it wasn't on that many theaters around here... i'm pissed off more about that that s bullock


i mean... really? c'mon... avatar had a mess of sounds and hurt locker musta been more dialogue than anything.... right?... right?

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

She was actually quite good in The Blindside. She is a good actress.

What pisses me off is Hurt Locker winning over Avatar for best picture. I mean movies about war are made every year and it was an awesome flick but a film like Avatar you just don't see every day. It just had to be Cameron's ex-wife that beat him out. The academy are not fans of Cameron at all.

Are not fans of Cameron at all?
Umm, what about the fucking Titanic?
I haven't seen Hurt Locker yet but I'm betting that it was better than Avatar.
Anything on that list must be better than Avatar.
Just my opinion, sure, but, damn, do I hate that movie.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

wow somebodys got sand in thier snatch. Seriously I mean while the Blindside wasn't great(I liked it but I didn't love it) Bullock is a talented actress, who like everyone occasionally has a bad movie(ie All about Steve)
On a different note Im glad to see that Christoph Waltz won for his role in Basterds, he was an incredible villain. I just hope to high heaven Hurt Locker is good because Im gonna watch it On Demand with my old man this afternoon

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Onyx, I'm ashamed.

You actually believed for even a second that the Oscars are in any way a judge of quality or excellence in film making and should be taken as any barometer of how good a film or actress is?

Well, sadly, they aren't. Don't trust whatever noxious shit they spew on the film industry, it's all meaningless. Have some hot chocolate.

Here's a nice little rant on them.

[sub]Seriously though, Sandra Bullock? Fuck me.[/sub]

EDIT: WAIT JUST ONE FUCKING SECOND HERE.

She won it for The Blind Side?! That mind meltingly bland turd of a film?! Jesus Christ, from this I conclude that not only are the Academy Awards selection committee stupid, they are also actually dangerous. Shoot on sight.

Now hold on there Furburt, what didn't you like about it? It didn't give you a warm fuzzy feeling on the inside? It didn't make you cry at the sad parts? (or almost cry)

 

[Cerrax]

District 9 was an excellent movie, but the Oscars don't really have a category for it to belong to. District 9 was amazingly different from any other movie I've ever seen. The story was inventive and fresh, the CGI was not abused to high hell, the cinematography mixed traditional Hollywood with Cloverfield/Blair Witch amateur shooting, the entire cast and crew (except Peter Jackson) were completely unknown and exceptionally good. But unfortunately, there were other movies that nailed the traditional Oscar categories head on.

District 9 was probably the best movie of the year, but the reason it was so good was because it defied or ignored all of the things the Oscars hold so dear, and thus was dismissed as a sub-par fluke. But I have seen some of Neill Blomkamp's other work. THIS WAS NO FLUKE. Hopefully he will continue to make some excellent movies and with the number of nominations District 9 got, it seems likely he will.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Now hold on there Furburt, what didn't you like about it? It didn't give you a warm fuzzy feeling on the inside? It didn't make you cry at the sad parts? (or almost cry)

Please, please tell me you're being sarcastic. I wouldn't want our friendship to end over this.

I just found it so....bland. There's no other way to put it. It was terribly written, totally unfaithful to the source material, dumbed down so much as to be simplistic even to a moron like me, and to paraphrase Moviebob, any film with the lines

"You're changing that boys life!"

"No, he's changing mine"

is instantly stripped of any potential of being good. Plus, Sandra Bullock is just...annoying.

Okay I do have to admit that part was cheesy writing, but you're talking to a guy who loves movies like these (Radio....I cant think of any others) AND the movies proves that nice white ladies can save the world

EDIT: Oh, and that one movie where the teacher helps a bunch of kids in a school thats bad...I dont remember the name

 

[Falseprophet]

You actually believed for even a second that the Oscars are in any way a judge of quality or excellence in film making and should be taken as any barometer of how good a film or actress is?

Well, sadly, they aren't. Don't trust whatever noxious shit they spew on the film industry, it's all meaningless. Have some hot chocolate.

Here's a nice little rant on them.

That Cracked article neatly summed up every problem I have with the Oscars. The Oscars have nothing to do with recognizing works that captured the imaginations of millions, nor with acknowledging works that revolutionized the industry or culture, nor with rewarding works of art or genius. They are industry politics, plain and simple.

I didn't like District 9 much...it plodded along slowly, and turned into "Military=Bad!", just like Avatar, after showing such serious political implications of aliens arriving.

It was actually "corporations = evil", not the military. Those guys were not military, they were mercenaries, private armed forces hired by the MNU (which I believe was very important to the plot).

Avatar was more of a "colonizers are evil" film, which we are all tired of watching; the novelty was having nice effects in 3D, nothing else. The story wasn't even close to District, it was predictable and silly (at least to me, of course there's no accounting for taste).

Avatar was also "corporations = evil"; the security forces were working for the RDA corporation, not any human government. So both movies are "corporate military = bad/national military = no comment".

So you thought the remake of a film made in the 70's shoulda won Writing for Original Screenplay ?

The 1978 film's actual Italian title translates roughly into "That damned armoured train"; Inglorious Bastards was the name the American distributor gave it. It was an inspiration to Tarantino, and he gave the director of the '78 film a cameo in his Inglourious Basterds, but it is not a remake.

 

[Soushi]

*sigh*
Why do people care? Please tell me that we have moved past needing other people who just like to think they are more sauve and socially relevatn than we are, to tell us what we should like. The oscars are much like a class president election, absolutly useless as something other than a popularity contest. And for those of you about to ask, yes, i am saying htis partly becasue Avatar didn't win best picture like it should have!
It just cracks me up to see all these people saying "poor Cameron" or "Bet cameron feels bad" when his movie (which i still think should have won best picture, but there you go) is still running in theaters and has made more money than the GDP of most of the worlds nations.

 

[w-Jinksy]

i thought the awards were a disgrace this year just damn.

 

[JackyJack]

Sandra is a heck of alot more better than most actresses these days.

 

[JEBWrench]

Was Basterds even nominated for that? How can a remake get a nod for "Original Screenplay"?

It's not a remake.

*googles up on the 2009 movie*

Interesting. You are correct. I just figured the spaghetti-western-style movie was a remake of the spaghetti-western movie from 1978 called Inglorious Bastards.

 

[Jaranja]

no district 9... nomination is not enough for me... brings a tear to my eye ='(

You said what I'm thinking.

No district 9= bullshit.

Sharlto Copley did an amazing job.

 

[Angerwing]

Was Basterds even nominated for that? How can a remake get a nod for "Original Screenplay"?

It's not a remake.

*googles up on the 2009 movie*

Interesting. You are correct. I just figured the spaghetti-western-style movie was a remake of the spaghetti-western movie from 1978 called Inglorious Bastards.

Tarantino is fond of 'homages'. The obvious name rip-off is one of them (seeing as it has the same intentional mis-spelling), and the same theme, but surprisingly it isn't the same movie. I put those little dealys around homages because it's less in the line of an homage, and more in the line of rip-off.

Still a good movie though.

 

[JEBWrench]

Tarantino is fond of 'homages'. The obvious name rip-off is one of them (seeing as it has the same intentional mis-spelling), and the same theme, but surprisingly it isn't the same movie. I put those little dealys around homages because it's less in the line of an homage, and more in the line of rip-off.

Still a good movie though.

I knew about his homages - he's been making the same movie over and over since Reservoir Dogs and changing the setting.



Not that that's a bad thing, mind you.