Yes, yes, the Oscars are largely meaningless, and often celebrate mediocrity (Looking at you, Crash). But they are still handy as a jumping off point for movie discussion. So let's talk Oscar.
A list of nominees can be found
here.
This year's nominations are actually pretty good, for the most part. There are some that irk me (Lars and the Real Girl under best original screenplay?
Seriously?), but I can see why most stuff is up there.
That said, maaaaaan did Atonement get nominated for way more than it should have. Cinematography, sound design, and soundtrack - those are all great. By all means, nominate away. But nominating its screenplay is a fucking joke, and I would personally come nowhere near considering it Top 5 material.
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That'd be the SAG awards.
Even ones like "Best Animated Short, Foreign".
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FAG is more of a circlejerk but the Oscars are a bigger circlejerk. Ignoring the FAG awards is much easier.
I can totally support that.
AVN awards
Oh, thanks for giving us the 411, Angie. I didn't know Iraq was a cluster fuck until you went there, and did interviews about what you saw.
It is a strong contender for my favorite movie ever.
But in the spirit of full disclosure, my previous favorite movie ever was Punch-Drunk Love.
I'd basically suck P.T. Anderson's dick, is what I'm saying here.
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I never saw that but that's quite astonishing, Poor.
I guess we all have our guilty pleasures.
I'LL DRINK IT
I'LL DRINK IT RIGHT UP
best supporting actor ever
But "supporting actor" will forever be a very muddy field.
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I love you, but sometimes you will post a truly enormous shitpile of wrongness.
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the montages are pretty well put together
shut up
What? Why is it astonishing?
Yeah, the movie has Adam Sandler, but it is in absolutely no way an Adam Sandler movie. It's a P.T. Anderson, through and trough.
no, you shut up
Hopefully, they will have a montage dedicated to Heath Ledger. Don't they do that whenever someone major dies? It'll be weird to see hwo they splice it, scenes from Ten Things I Hate About You right next to Brokeback and all.
This is very convenient for me when I wish to reconcile things internally when we disagree on something.
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What is your opinion on Magnolia?
not my fault if the academy doesn't have the balls to nominate an animated film anymore
man
ratatouille best picture
dang what
He ain't always, but denying his talent is kinda silly. Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, Se7en - the dude has some chops, with a good enough director backing him.
no way man that shit's for kids
but wasn't the best movie i saw all year
I didn't say it should win
I said it should be nominated
Occassionally overwrought, but it's such an ambitious, sprawling movie that I find it endearing. I have a lot of respect for any movie that ballsy, so I cut it a little more slack than I might otherwise.
That said, I fucking hate Julianne Moore's character, and Melora Walters' character bugged me too. The script got a little sloppy in places.
Overall, though, I really like it. Flawed, and not on the same level as Boogie Nights, PDL, or TWBB, but still enjoyable.
Also, in this fantastic dimension where critical reception is the only determinant of cinematic superlatives, fucking Enchanted is a better movie than both The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and This is England, not to mention There Will Be Blood, The Savages, and several other masterworks of film.
Basically what I'm saying is that I hope you're not actually that fucking thick.
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