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| randall |
Posted - 03/08/2010 : 05:26:24
If you liked HURT LOCKER [the Academy liked it more than I did], wait till you see RESTREPO later this year. Same deal, only this one's *for real*! |
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| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 03/12/2010 : 16:22:38
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by demonic
Well he did make a few more movies than just that one. Moonwalker and The Wiz spring to mind.
The Academy are the ones who highlighted that film as the reason, though. I'd rather see Logan's Run than any of those.
That was one of my favorite books when I was in high school. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 03/12/2010 : 13:44:28
Bigelow's achievement has obviously encouraged other female directors to aim high. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 03/11/2010 : 07:43:31
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Originally posted by demonic
No, I completely agree, it's nonsense, I was only responding to Sal's comment (via the Academy). I fancied Farrah Fawcett something rotten in "The Cannonball Run". And The Academy are fucking cretins. This we know.
Absolutely. Jackson was first and foremost a musician who did a tiny bit of acting (but mostly singing) for some mostly forgettable movies. Fawcett was an actress, period. I recall there was even Oscar buzz about her performance in the movie "The Extremities" - and if you watch "The Burning Bed" you'll know she was talented.
Therefore, Jackson did NOT deserve to be noted, Fawcett absolutely should have been.
(Perhaps at the Grammy's should remember Farrah, and leave off Jackson! That would get the Academy back!)
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| demonic |
Posted - 03/11/2010 : 00:59:17
No, I completely agree, it's nonsense, I was only responding to Sal's comment (via the Academy). I fancied Farrah Fawcett something rotten in "The Cannonball Run". And The Academy are fucking cretins. This we know. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 23:06:58
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Originally posted by demonic
Well he did make a few more movies than just that one. Moonwalker and The Wiz spring to mind.
The Academy are the ones who highlighted that film as the reason, though. I'd rather see Logan's Run than any of those. |
| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 23:04:15
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Originally posted by demonic
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Wheelz
Cut all this crap and they may have found time to fit Farrah Fawcett into the "In Memoriam" segment.
That's shocking. I hadn't heard that before. Apparently they included Michael Jackson because of This Is It!
Well he did make a few more movies than just that one. Moonwalker and The Wiz spring to mind.
And your point? They were "just there" films. Farrah was nominated for several roles, including the Golden Globe for Extremities and the Independent Spirit Award for The Apostle. I think it was shameful that she was deliberately omitted. She was good enough to trot out onstage for programs, but her very public death wasn't worth a mention? Nor that of Gene Barry! |
| demonic |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 22:38:22
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Wheelz
Cut all this crap and they may have found time to fit Farrah Fawcett into the "In Memoriam" segment.
That's shocking. I hadn't heard that before. Apparently they included Michael Jackson because of This Is It!
Well he did make a few more movies than just that one. Moonwalker and The Wiz spring to mind. |
| silly |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 16:25:14
They had time for Farrah, since the show went on for almost four hours. I'm sure that's one of those "political" things they don't like to discuss. She was a member of the Academy for 40 years or so, and all they've had to say about her exclusion was "it was not an oversight." Apparently they felt she was better known as a TV star (although by my count she has been in at least a dozen theatrical releases spanning thirty something years).
Full disclosure: I had The Farrah Poster and was once made to turn my Farrah t-shirt inside out so as to not offend anyone in the sixth grade. So I may be a little touchy about this 
I wanted to see the Blind Side, but wanted to see it with my wife, and she wasn't ready for it yet. It may be a cheesy cliche of a movie (or not, like I said, I haven't seen it), however we have adopted kids out of foster care so it's a rather personal subject for us.
I don't have any illusions that I'm Tim McGraw  |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 14:44:28
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Originally posted by Wheelz
Cut all this crap and they may have found time to fit Farrah Fawcett into the "In Memoriam" segment.
That's shocking. I hadn't heard that before. Apparently they included Michael Jackson because of This Is It! |
| Wheelz |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 13:16:39
I thought Monique's speech was rather odd. I mean, I understand the things she said and why she said them, but I didn't get her overall tone. She just won a freaking Oscar, and she seemed totally pissed off about it. Weird.
Add me as one who was happy for Sandra Bullock. I liked The Blind Side more than some people here, and though it's by no means a perfect film, she was outstanding in it. Way to go, Sandy!
There wasn't really a lot of drama or surprise to the awards themselves, so it came down to how entertaining the telecast was, and unfortunately -- it wasn't very. Every year, the producers make a grand pronouncement that this time they're going to do a faster-paced, less bloated show, and every year they utterly fail to do so. Martin and Baldwin were OK. I say, tell a few jokes, show some clips of the nominees, and get on with the business of giving out the trophies, and we'll be out of here in 2 hours.
I know they cut the Best Song performances for time and because, as one source put it, they "stop the show in its tracks." Okay, fine, but then they did that ridiculous dance thing to the Original Score nominees that seemed to go on forever and, yes, stopped the show in its tracks. there was SO much bloat to this show. The John Hughes tribute seemed sincere, but it was unnecessary and far too long. The tribute to horror films seemed out of place and had nothing more to say than "here's a bunch of clips from horror films." Five people making five speeches about each of the Acting nominees was just interminable. Cut all this crap and they may have found time to fit Farrah Fawcett into the "In Memoriam" segment. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 03:07:45
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Originally posted by wildheartlivie
I wondered a couple times if the cameraman just had a huge crush on him.
Well, he or she is only human! |
| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 03:02:52
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by demonic
Why did Mo'Nique say she was pleased that talent won out over political gameplaying when she won Best Supporting Actress?
There was no obvious political slant to any of her fellow nominees or their films. In anything, the political gameplaying would actually best describe her win as a minority actress were it not for the fact that she did actually give the best performance of the five.
Hhmmm, that doesn't sound very gracious of her. I wonder what she meant.
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Sandra Bullock said "did I wear you all down?" when she picked up her award. That's a little presumptious of her - somehow suggesting she'd been producing award worthy work her whole career and had been neglected all this time.
No, I'm sure she didn't mean that. She meant having worn them down as opposed to being award-worthy, i.e. that she had been been kicking around making films for so long that she just happened to get an Oscar eventually.
I did understand Mo'Nique's comments as an allusion to the kiss em up game playing she was expected to and refused to do.
I'm like Salopian - I thought Bullock's comment was about having churned out both good and bad films for years and being repeatedly considered a "nice little romantic film star but no great actress", although there were certainly films she has made that I thought were a good showing for her. I'm delighted she won. I thought her acceptance speech was genuine and heartfelt. She wouldn't have shed a tear if she hadn't spoken to her mother.
As for Clooney, he seemed pissed off at several things, including the tendency of the cameramen to stick the camera in his face for *every* reaction he had. I wondered a couple times if the cameraman just had a huge crush on him. Or maybe he was hungover. And I thought it was decidedly a tell when Barbra Streisand gave the director award. |
| demonic |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 01:03:29
That makes me think of the way that increasingly the presenters seem to be chosen as a veiled, and sometimes barely concealed, reference point to the winner in the unopened envelope. Why would Barbra Streisand ever be asked to present Best Director if it wasn't going to go to the first ever female winner of the award? It reminded me of the year Scorsese finally won Best Director for The Departed... and who walked out to present but his long time friend and colleague Steven Spielberg. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 03/09/2010 : 17:24:51
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Originally posted by demonic
Why did Mo'Nique say she was pleased that talent won out over political gameplaying when she won Best Supporting Actress?
There was no obvious political slant to any of her fellow nominees or their films. In anything, the political gameplaying would actually best describe her win as a minority actress were it not for the fact that she did actually give the best performance of the five.
She meant - and made it clear in some of her pre-award interviews - that she declined to participate in the shameful [my word] media-political lobbying which the distributors force stars into. It's a political move, highly orchestrated, and shameful in that Academy voters allow their preferences to be swayed by such ploys over the actual quality of films and people. I'm afraid it's yet another example of b.o. quantity registers over quality. And explains why really small indie films rarely get a look in. The Academy's decision to expand the Best Film category to 10 was publicized as a direct response to that criticism. But that's really disingenuous. More nominees means more money at the b.o. And, my Droogies, that's what Oscar's all about.
My other bugbear is the way the media tries [too often succeeds] to whip up Oscar fever, giving the impression that the public, or they themselves, or reporting bookie odds, can make ANY difference to the results. The voting has been over LONG beforehand.
Suckers! 
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 03/09/2010 : 17:15:16
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
I'm in agreement that Hurt Locker wasn't particularly deserving. I did enjoy it but wasn't blown away (ironic, considering the subject matter). Avatar, on the other hand, I found absolutely astounding. Yes, the script was pretty awful and yes, it was a bit flabby and could have been trimmed by a good 20-30 mins, but I was transfixed from beginning to end. That said, I wouldn't have thought it as a contender for Best Film - Best Entertainment, yes, but hardly a perfect offering.
I watched Inglorious Basterds on the Sunday evening having avoided it when it came out due to the depressing slide in quality that Tarantino films seem to have been on for the last decade. Loved it and thought Christopher Waltz fully deserved his award. I wouldn't have liked to see this win the big award either though.
Up was one of my favourite films of the year and I'm an advocate of the decision to start letting animated movies into the big prize - but not for this one, despite it now being probably my favourite Pixar film.
Up in the Air - great, glib, acidicly comic. Essentially flimsy though.
Precious, Blind Side, An Eucation, A Serious Man - Not seen
Disrtict 9 - Thoroughly enjoyable but just a daft sci-fi when it comes down to it, and any allegorical significance is just a coincidence as far as I'm concerned.
So I'm in agreement with Demonic - just not a particularly good year for film.
Well, it's a shame you didn't see Precious. Not immediately obvious as a "large canvas" film. But -- especially considering this is only the director's 2nd feature -- it's a little gem of film, which deserves the cinema. It's definitely NOT telly. At least The Indie Spirit Awards saw sense.
Anyway - hope you get to see it. If and when -let us know what you reckon.
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