OT: Oscars Open Thread

Submitted by M-Wolverine on
Sorry, someone else is going to have to pick up the 2-24 Walking Dead thread tonight; that will have to wait for tomorrow for me. Because it's Academy Awards night, and it should be a pretty good one. Some movies people actually have seen, and enough races that are truly up in the air. If you love movies, this is the place to be.
MGoBoard
Recruiting

Ty Butterfield

February 24th, 2013 at 11:46 PM ^

Yes!! It was that great run on The Bill Engvall Show that got Jennifer Lawrence here. But seriously, Silver Linings Playbook is awesome.

Joined: 09/07/2009

MGoPoints: -81685

Perkis-Size Me

February 24th, 2013 at 11:56 PM ^

Here's my view of the Academy: Dark Knight Rises was easily one of the most popular, successful, and just all-around best movies of the year, and gets zero nominations. Zero.

I don't need them to tell me what a good movie consists of.

Joined: 11/30/2011

MGoPoints: 105477

MGoBender

February 25th, 2013 at 12:02 AM ^

What other Sci-Fis have been overlooked in your opinion?

I saw Looper in theaters. The other two Best Picture noms I saw in theatres were Zero Dark Thirty and Django.

I can't say Looper was a better film than either of them, though I really did enjoy Looper.  I thought it had some great, subtle cinematography.

Joined: 03/26/2010

MGoPoints: 15128

MGoBender

February 25th, 2013 at 12:14 AM ^

I can't disagree with any of that.

I need to watch it again. I definitely came out of the theatres thinking "That was a cool movie" from an entertaining and artistic perspective. But at the time I never gave it too much award thought. Maybe just b/c it was a summer/late fall movie I wasn't thinking of awards at the time.

Joined: 03/26/2010

MGoPoints: 15128

Perkis-Size Me

February 25th, 2013 at 12:07 AM ^

I'm not saying it should have been nominated for Best Picture or Director, but I was pretty shocked it didn't receive a nomination for some of the technical stuff, like sound or cinematography.

Got to give a tip of the cap to Daniel Day Lewis, though. That man's ability to act sets the ultimate standard.

Joined: 11/30/2011

MGoPoints: 105477

exmtroj

February 25th, 2013 at 12:06 AM ^

The characters and their interaction in Django kept me glued to the screen. In Argo, the only characters that were entertaining were Goodman and that old guy. Affleck only has one emotion/face that he's capable of expressing and the whole movie felt rushed, not to mention the fact that the end was just blatantly made-up. This is like when Shakespeare In Love won Best Pic. Affleck slept with the right person/people in Hollywood this year, that's for sure

Joined: 10/24/2008

MGoPoints: 3318

Ty Butterfield

February 25th, 2013 at 12:09 AM ^

I won't argue that the academy seems to have an agenda and that there is politics involved. But comparing this to "Shakespeare in Love"? Come on! I would argue that the Shakespeare in Love win was more due to the Weinstein publicity machine.

Joined: 09/07/2009

MGoPoints: -81685

Needs

February 25th, 2013 at 12:12 AM ^

I'd argue that Shakespeare in Love was about a lot of people figuring out that after the earth shattering first 20 minutes, which has pretty much changed the way warfare is filmed, Saving Private Ryan was schmaltz.

Joined: 08/05/2008

MGoPoints: 11636